iOS 8 Release Date Confirmed on Sept 17 while iPhone 6, iPad Jailbreak Rollout Likely on Dec 2014

Apple has confirmed that global rollout of the official iOS 8 version will commence on September 17, setting the stage for jailbreakers to soon finalise the next iPhones and iPad untethered jailbreak and announced a release date soon.

If history will repeat, the earliest to expect the next iOS unlocking tool is late December, which is around the same time that the famed group of underground developers, the Evad3rs, had released its Evasi0n7 iOS 7 jailbreak. The exact date was Dec 22.

However, there is no solid assurance that @pod2g, @MuscleNerd, @pimskeks and @planetbeing are already working on the next Evasi0n version. The devs have been silent for quite some time now and a check in Evasi0n.com would show that the last jailbreak build available for download to the public is 1.0.7.

Team Evad3rs' guns have been silent since Apple has successfully patched the iOS 7 exploits with the release of build 7.1.2 in May 2014.

Surprisingly, the jailbreak to that iOS 7 version came from China a month after, courtesy of the PanguTeam that in the jailbreak community was came to be known as a group of Chinese hackers that build the iOS 7 Pangu liberator.

So it is safe to assume that two teams will be generous enough to race in providing the iOS 8 jailbreak, which could take the name Evasi0n8 - that is if the jailbreak would originate from Team Evad3rs.

Or simply iOS 8 Pangu, if again the Chinese hackers will beat Evad3rs to the race.

But first, any of these hackers need to answer the question: Is iOS 8 jail-breakable?

Prior to the iOS 7.1.2 release, experts have been saying that a jailbreak could a long time to surface or it may not come at all as Apple apparently shut out any future attempts to tinker with the mobile operating system.

Partly, the prediction proved correct, which explains prevailing pessimism.

Fortunately, however, a breakthrough was pointed out by iPhoneHacks.com, which is actually a form of reverse engineering for the Pangu jailbreak tool that allegedly works perfectly for the latest iOS 8 beta build.

"A user by the name of w0rldello on Reddit claims to have patched the Pangu binary to add the capability to jailbreak iOS 8," said the same report, adding that screenshots showing the modified iOS 8 Control Centre were even furnished to prove the claim.

Still, there was no assurance from the Redditor that the workaround will work with the final iOS 8 build that Apple will unleash Wednesday next week.

In the same way that an iOS 8 jailbreak release date will serve as Christmas gift to jailbreak fans on December 2014 is yet to be written on stone.