Before we delve into iOS 10, and approach it from a jailbreak perspective, let’s first review some background information including new changes. iOS 10 is the tenth major iOS release and sports hot new features like iMessage bubble effects, Digital Touch for iDevices, an App Store for Messages, automatic emoji selection, new Siri and Maps APIs for developers, a smarthome app dubbed “Home”, new 3D Touch actions, improved notifications, redesigned Music and News apps, better contextual predictions, a brand new machine learning algorithm for Photos and more.
WILL JAILBREAK IOS 10 BE HARDER?
Furthermore iOS 10’s kernel is unencrypted, which means security researchers may be able to more easily discover exploitable vulnerabilities within iOS 10’s kernel that could lead to new jailbreaks.
Finally Pangu already demonstrated an iOS 10 jailbreak at MOSEC 2016, and although it was only the first beta installment of the firmware and the same exploits surely haven’t carried over to the public release of 10.0.1, it proves that it’s certainly doable and reaffirms Pangu’s intent on being the gods of the jailbreak realm.
Putting all of this together, and looking back at the last major firmware jailbreak (the iOS 9 – 9.0.2 tool), considering Pangu was able to release a very stable jailbreak tool for iOS 9 in spite of its Rootless security (remember iOS 10 has no such equivalent) less than a month after the firmware’s initial release, we can likely expect an iOS 10 jailbreak by the end of October.