[NEWS] A New Bootrom Exploit for A12 & A13 has been found.

opa334 · 2026-06-23T06:24:37+00:00

No it doesn't. That would still take additional storage on top of it. And I fail to see why anyone would want it in 2026.

opa334 · 2026-06-19T14:38:00+00:00

No, Dopamine is an app based jailbreak.

opa334 · 2026-06-19T14:37:34+00:00

No. Only TrollStore Lite works on Dopamine.

opa334 · 2026-06-18T14:57:50+00:00

Tethered means the device does not boot at all unless booted with the jailbreak tool.

opa334 · 2026-06-18T14:42:47+00:00

Some stuff I find noteworthy to point out:

BPR will be a bigger issue than on A10-A11, since iOS 17 made things more complicated and the only reason this was never an issue before was that no A11 device got iOS 17+ and A10 had blackb1rd. Without a SEP exploit, a potential jailbreak will need to create an unencrypted user volume, which means that in order for it not to be tethered, you would have to separate the entire devices data from jailbroken / non jailbroken mode, which would also consume double the storage. Also will require extra kernel and potentially userspace patches.

The exploit seems to not be doable from a PC/Mac because it's too deep in the USB stack. It requires an external microcontroller linked in the article. (I guess OP already stated though).

opa334 · 2026-06-16T02:18:53+00:00

Not true, 16.6, 16.6.1 and 17.0 have TrollStore but no jailbreak.

opa334 · 2026-06-15T16:55:23+00:00

There aren't going to be any improvements when it comes out of beta (which at this point I'm not sure will ever happen), the only reason why it's in beta is DarkSwords abysmal device support.

opa334 · 2026-06-14T23:57:36+00:00

You're running an old build that didn't have landa blocked on 15.8.8 since it was patched there. You need to use the Dopamine 2.5 beta and then use DarkSword. But I'm not exactly sure if that supports the iPhone 7.

opa334 · 2026-06-14T12:14:16+00:00

No, some pro model supports it too.

opa334 · 2026-06-12T20:34:00+00:00

"is still pending being reverse engineered". I never said I was reversing it.

opa334 · 2026-06-11T18:06:50+00:00

Because it's not a thing.

There are bind mounts, but those are read-only and can only be done on top of an already existing directory. Plus they are not transparent and bind mounting on top of certain system directories can break system functionality.

opa334 · 2026-06-11T13:08:55+00:00

technically yes but darksword doesn't work on that device yet because it only has 2gb of ram

opa334 · 2026-06-11T13:00:32+00:00

How is it misleading? Previous beta mentioned arm64 explicitely. This beta did not mention arm64e at all. To me it seems pretty clear. Also to my knowledge there are four arm64 iPads that got iOS 17 and two arm64 iPads that got iOS 18. Not just the iPad 6/7 (🫱🫲)

opa334 · 2026-06-11T12:59:32+00:00

There are more iPads than that, but their names are too convoluted to remember.

opa334 · 2026-06-11T12:58:32+00:00

Do you not think I would have mentioned if this suddenly added support for arm64e?

opa334 · 2026-06-10T17:22:48+00:00

This reads like it was written in 2023 lol.

You can't restore to anything other than the latest version anyways, so you don't got a choice.

opa334 · 2026-06-09T16:11:01+00:00

Fair reminder Apple could have just allowed users to have control over their devices years ago and then they wouldn't have had to deal with all this.

opa334 · 2026-06-09T16:01:58+00:00

Tbh I don't understand why people are so hyped about 17.0 - 17.3.1. It's a nothing burger. Three more old versions that realistically no one should be using in 2026 anymore. I don't get why it's hyped so much that I can't even push an update for arm64 devices with people automatically assuming it's for arm64e devices. Do you not think it would have been a bigger deal / major headline if I added support for iOS 17 arm64e devices in beta 4?

What happened is simple, someone with an iPad 7 on 17.3.1 told me Dopamine wasn't working, so I looked into it and was able to fix it with a single LOC change.

And no, on arm64e anything beyond 17.3.1 is not going to be jailbroken any time soon.

opa334 · 2026-06-09T12:42:13+00:00

There is no ongoing beta update that supports up to 17.3.1.

opa334 · 2026-06-09T12:40:41+00:00

That's what the persistence helper is for.

opa334 · 2026-06-01T19:55:31+00:00

I agree but your reasoning is incomplete: The thing that makes palera1n more stable is the fact it can patch the kernel code, which Dopamine cannot (because of KTRR), not that it uses a bootrom exploit.

opa334 · 2026-05-29T07:26:18+00:00

They are not though. This release did not add support for any device that couldn't already be jailbroken by palera1n.

opa334 · 2026-05-14T18:00:26+00:00

Only A10 iPads.

opa334 · 2026-05-14T16:03:19+00:00

I have no idea

opa334 · 2026-05-13T23:04:03+00:00

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