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iOS 26 Gets First Jailbreak Thanks to Dopamine

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dopamineAfter 326 days, iOS 26 has received its first jailbreak, thanks to the developers behind the popular Dopamine jailbreak.

Lars Fröder, better known as opa334, today released Dopamine 3.0, which adds support for a number of newer firmware versions, including iOS 26.0 and iOS 26.0.1 on devices with A12 or A13 chips.

Another major addition in today's release is support for all devices running iOS 16.5.1 through iOS 17.3.1, significantly expanding the range of devices and software versions compatible with Dopamine.

A full breakdown of supported devices and iOS versions can be found on AppleDB, a database that tracks jailbreak compatibility.

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Top Rated Comments

johannnn Avatar
5 weeks ago
are people still jailbreaking? i know it was cool like 10 years ago, but now? i haven't heard anyone last couple of years doing it
Score: 31 Votes (Like | Disagree)
goobot Avatar
5 weeks ago

yeah lets together promote hacking systems.
Hacking your own hardware is hardly unethical, to the extent where the us government had to tell Apple to get over it
Score: 24 Votes (Like | Disagree)
5 weeks ago

yeah lets together promote hacking systems.
if you consider installing something outside the ms store or apple store on your own computer hacking i guess
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JM Avatar
5 weeks ago
Does jailbreaking allow a better keyboard experience?
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
canadianreader Avatar
5 weeks ago
Very cool I hope it allows installing a real firewall, adblocker and many cool things Apple doesn’t allow. Strangley we’re in the era of trusting hackers more than corpos.
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
5 weeks ago
This... doesn't appeal to my dopamine.
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