Instant Jailbreak for iPhone and iPod touch

A crew of hackers (including hdm/metasploit, rezn, dinopio, drudge, kroo, pumpkin, davidc, dunham, and NerveGas) have introduced a one-touch instant jailbreak for both iPhone and iPod touch. The jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much any third party application you like.

To use it, open Safari and point your browser to jailbreakme.com (which we aren't linking to so folks won't install this by accident, but you are prompted to confirm). Once there, read the directions, scroll to the bottom, and tap Install AppSnapp. If Safari disappears and you return to the main Home screen, you're good. Just wait a minute more for your unit to restart--don't touch anything until you see the slide to unlock screen. If Safari hangs, just quit out (press and hold Home for 4-8 seconds) and try again.

Once you get to slide-to-unlock, go ahead and unlock your iPhone or iPod touch. You'll return to your home screen which will contain a new Installer.app icon. If you'll want to ssh into your unit, install the BSD subsystem, Community Sources, and then install Open SSH--you may need to upgrade Installer.app (thanks Ste). With Open SSH and sshfs (part of Mac Fuse), you can open Finder windows that offer direct drag and drop access to your phone or touch.

The jailbreak really is as easy as it sounds. I restored my iPod touch and jailbroke it just a few minutes ago and it worked great.

UPDATE: Please try to do this using WiFi rather than EDGE. Success rates are much higher!

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John

I just bought my iPhone and have already updated it to the 1.1.3 fireware how would I go about Jailbreaking this?

January 26 2008 at 2:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jkdddd

wat will happen if you sync your ipod? will it stil work? wat happens if u have an update on a new version for the itouch? will u be able to update it?

January 23 2008 at 7:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Melvin

I have an ipod touch and jailbreak worked great, but then when it installed the a new ipod version it all got deleted.
When i try to install it again it displays a blue '?' and the FAQ says to restore the ipod, I've done that 3 times.
Is there any way to get my ipod jailbreaked again?
please help. I loved the app.

January 21 2008 at 4:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

what do you do if the blue ? mark comes up and the installer hasnt shown up ? ive tried restoring it, but everytime i go to jailbreakme.com i get the question mark.

help please :)

January 20 2008 at 8:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

It's not a good idea to jailbreak your phone.

First of all, not only does jailbreakme.com have access to your iPhone, but they can get important information that could lead to identity theft. And the worst part is, you can't restore your phone, so a few months later when Apple has come out with a new update with games and all those goodies, and you will have an unrestored phone and wont be able to get the updated because you couldn't wait long enough.

So just be safe and don't risk it.

January 20 2008 at 1:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

smoof

just tried it with my ipod touch version 1.1.1
but nothing happens at all after i get back to main menu. left it untouched for 1/2 hour, did a reset and tried again but nothing works on it.... someone experienced the same? any suggestions?
thx!!

January 18 2008 at 10:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Natedawg

Wow, amazing. I'm dumbfounded by how easy that was.

January 16 2008 at 2:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

allan

everybody is making this thing seem so easy what if its not working cause mine never moves from the web page like its still loading so if i can get any help on this thinks.

January 12 2008 at 11:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

chris

hey when i click on install appsnapp it just pulls up a question mark in the top left. n e help plz?

January 12 2008 at 2:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Corey Caira

i am trying 2 jailbreak my ipod touch and its not working......any suggestions

email me @
coreycairakx85@aim.com
thx

January 11 2008 at 8:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply