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iOS 8 jailbreak Pangu now comes with Cydia installer and English support for the masses (Update)

Cydia Installer Pangu

When the iOS 8 jailbreak tool Pangu was released earlier this month for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, it still had some rough edges such as no one-click solution to install Cydia or support for English. Fortunately, the Pangu tool for Windows now includes a Cydia installer and English support for the masses.

The updated jailbreak tool is available for Windows as a free download and now auto-installs Cydia. Thankfully, the jailbreak is untethered rather than tethered, meaning that you do not need to reconnect your iOS device to a Mac or PC in order to reapply the jailbreak after every reboot.

The list of compatible devices with the Pangu jailbreak include any iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models capable of running iOS 8 – iOS 8.1, including the recently released iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 alongside the iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, fifth-generation iPod touch and certain older iPad models.

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Jailbreaking an iPhone or iPad allows you to install third-party applications, tweaks, mods, themes, utilities and other useful packages from Cydia, the jailbreak equivalent of the App Store on stock iOS. In layman’s terms, jailbreaking enables you to further customize and enhance your iOS device beyond the limitations that Apple imposes.

While jailbreaking is considered legal in the United States, keep in mind that the process of modifying your device violates your End User License Agreement (EULA) with Apple and thereby voids any warranties that you may have. There are also certain risks involved with jailbreaking that could require restoring your device.

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Comments

  1. dhowe613 - 9 years ago

    Uh…. no it doesn’t… Pangu said 1.1 would be out within 24 hours. Its not out yet.

  2. Sebastian Rasch - 9 years ago

    The next build will also install Cydia automatically and the manual installer is not necessary anymore. I’d wait until tomorrow, much less hustle.

  3. Daryl Green - 9 years ago

    Uh…yeah it does come with an installer. Just click the Pangu icon. The AIO will be released within 24 hours.

  4. chrisl84 - 9 years ago

    To each their own, and while jailbreaking an iPhone 3G was all fun and games….breaking the closed system that is iOS on new devices with CC numbers, health data, and finger prints stored seems like a bad idea.

    • emailjimmyw - 9 years ago

      Remember, your CC number is NEVER stored on the iPhone – only a number that your CC company ‘relates’ to your actual CC number. So there is still no threat of your CC#’s ever being released.

    • emailjimmyw - 9 years ago

      I couldn’t wait and JB my iPad Air and 6 with their current method. Not as easy as Evad3rs or LimeRa1n JBs, but much easier than the first ones for the 2G. I just missed my hacks too much. iFile, CCControls, PandoraSkip, and NoSlowAnimations!

      • klepp0906 - 9 years ago

        Ifile released yet?

      • emailjimmyw - 9 years ago

        It can be installed, but it’s not working just yet. I installed it so I would get notified of any upgrades. I’m also seeing that CCControls is putting my phone into safe mode when selecting the toggles.

    • Edison Wrzosek - 9 years ago

      Bingo!!!

  5. klepp0906 - 9 years ago

    Go pangu team!

  6. klepp0906 - 9 years ago

    Does this fix the passcode issue?

  7. villegasep8025 - 9 years ago

    Do jailbreaking you iphone allow you to tether without paying the service provider?

  8. Fallenjt JT - 9 years ago

    I wouldn’t risk my iPhone 6/6+ with jailbreak, too much sensitive data in iPhone. Maybe my iPad Air will need it.

    • claritywindo - 9 years ago

      I have been Jailbreaking since the iPod Touch second generation and I’ve never had my identity stolen. Jailbreaking anything does make it less secure, but there are plenty of security tweaks you can get from Cydia.

  9. kevicosuave - 9 years ago

    keep in mind that the process of modifying your device violates your End User License Agreement (EULA) with Apple and thereby voids any warranties that you may have.

    That should read:
    keep in mind that the process of modifying your device violates your End User License Agreement (EULA) with Apple and thereby may void your warranty.

    • donknotts28 - 9 years ago

      All you have to do is restore. No warranty problems

      • claritywindo - 9 years ago

        Not just restore. You must hold down the home button to kick it into restore mode and then it will truly be a factory reset. If you only plug it in and press “restore” and set it up as a new phone, there are still little things left over from the Jailbreak that Apple can see. That happened to me on my 4th Gen iPod Touch that was having home button issues.

  10. Edison Wrzosek - 9 years ago

    Does anyone else not see the complete INSANITY in using this? Not because it’s jailbreaking (which I don’t support), but because it’s from a Chinese hacking team?! From the same country that was recently attacking jailbroken iPhones of Hong Kong protestors and infecting them with malware? Has no one here even considered this?!

    IMO, using and installing this is the MOST foolish thing Ine can do to their iOS device; it defeats the purpose of having a safe, secure device!!!

    • samueltlogan - 9 years ago

      Ehh.. Shut up you. We don’t take kindly to your type (in bugs bunny voice) but for real yout comment falls on deaf ears for better or worse.

    • nekomichikun - 9 years ago

      That’s a rather sweeping generalisation of the Chinese. We’ve recently learned about the NSA and their PRISM scandal yet you still trust technologies from the USA. Yet a tool from China comes out and ou assume everything from China is a dangerous piece of malware. Double standards much?

      • Jason Brown - 9 years ago

        They hack us thousands of times a day they are responsible for most of the financial hacking problems in this country!!

    • claritywindo - 9 years ago

      Saurik said it was safe. I trust him implicitly. He has no agenda.

  11. Felix Villegas - 9 years ago

    Does anybody know if MyWi will work for iPhone6 or they haven’t come out with the latest update?

  12. Dan M (@Loko_Feroz) - 9 years ago

    only for Windows? how about Mac users

  13. kyle3lias - 9 years ago

    Pangu8 1.1 is out …

  14. georgemarez - 9 years ago

    Will this allow users to install IOS8 on iPhone 4 devices?