unc0ver

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unc0ver
Developer(s) pwn20wnd
sbingner
Initial release 13 Oct 2018 (2018-10-13)
Stable release v2.0.1 / 3 December 2018; 5 years ago
Operating system iOS
Available in English
Type Jailbreaking
Website The Reddit thread
The GitHub repo

unc0ver is a semi-untethered jailbreak for all devices running iOS 11.0 - 11.3.1. It also includes support for iOS 11.4 betas 1-3.

It uses the same exploits as Electra whilst providing more stability and features.

In order to download the latest IPA, download links from the README section has been moved to the releases section of the repository (you can find this by looking under the colored bars where you can find the releases page which is in the middle, alongside branches and contributors).

Release History

Version Date Changes
RC1 October 13, 2018
  • Initial release
RC2 October 14, 2018
  • Add the Dynastic repo by default
  • Fix a bug in firmware checker
RC3 October 14, 2018
  • Add a switch to manually enable restoring RootFS
  • Stop erasing user preferences when restoring RootFS
  • Fix bugs
RC4 October 14, 2018
  • Add a label to display the uptime
  • Add a label to display the app's version number
  • Spawn to the PATH
  • Stop bundling system fonts
RC5 October 14, 2018
  • Run videosubscriptionsd in the jailed state
  • Fix a bug in firmware and update checker
RC6 October 14, 2018
  • Start logging again
  • Improve update checker
  • Fix multi_path
RC7 October 17, 2018
  • Fix a bug in RootFS Restore and multi_path
RC8 October 18, 2018
  • Fix a bug in RootFS Remount
  • Add a work in progress warning for some firmwares
RC9 October 19, 2018
  • Fix a bug in RootFS Remount
  • Add even more detailed error messages
  • Add a switch to increase the memory limit to improve the stability
  • Improve the compatibility layer to work correctly with some tweaks that were specifically made for the other jailbreaks
v1 October 20, 2018
  • Fix a bug in RootFS Restore and Remount
  • Make the settings tab match with the rest of the UI
  • Fix bugs
v1.0.1 October 21, 2018
  • Disable the RootFS Restore for the unstable versions
v1.0.2 October 22, 2018
  • Enable and fix the RootFS Restore for all versions
v1.0.3 October 23, 2018
  • Fix the beta firmwares
v1.1 October 27, 2018
  • Automatically select the best exploit
  • Rewrite the versions checker
  • Improve assertion
  • Show the code which has failed in the error messages
  • Improve memory management
  • Optimize and clean up the code
  • Fix the Storage settings
  • Switch to a new technique to disable auto updates
  • Remove so much useless logging
  • Only set the boot-nonce if the switch is on without checking if it exists or not
  • Log offsets
  • Remove static sleeps to improve the speed
  • Fix series of bugs and leave no known bug
v1.1.1 November 3, 2018
  • Add a label to show the ECID
  • Add a button to open the source code
  • Improve auto layout
  • Fix various bugs within RootFS interaction, Icon cache refresher, Version checker, Exploit selector, jailbreak state detector and others
v1.1.2 November 3, 2018
  • Improve auto layout and code
  • Significantly improve Empty_List (VFS) exploit
  • Slightly improve Multi_Path (MPTCP)
v1.1.3 November 6, 2018
  • Fix a bug in starting jailbreakd
v1.1.4 November 6, 2018
  • Fix a bug in finding offsets
v2.0 November 29, 2018
  • Initial Cydia Substrate support
  • OTA upgrades for the jailbreak patches from Cydia without rebooting
  • A new button to restart SpringBoard from the jailed state
  • A switch to (re)install OpenSSH
  • A switch to reinstall Cydia
  • A switch to restart backboardd only so that you can jailbreak with broken tweaks
  • Fix and update bootstrap
  • Fix for the jailbreakd error
  • Battery life fixes
  • ELOD (Electra Loop Of Death) mitigations
  • Improve the speed of system reload
  • Fixes for countless bugs
  • Enable Restart and Restart SpringBoard buttons on iOS 11.4 - 11.4.1 (Jailbreak itself doesn't work on iOS 11.4 - 11.4.1)
  • Improve the reliability of the Restart button
  • Fix the broken multi_path entitlement check
  • Add the compatibility layer for the other jailbreaks back to fix the apps like iCleaner
  • Fix the famous snapshot creation bug
  • Add a button to manually reset the logs instead of automatically resetting them when the diagnostics button is tapped
  • Fix the trust cache injection bug
v2.0.1 December 3, 2018
  • The official release of v2.0 with a version number bump to make tracking versions easier