How to Jailbreak iOS 8 - 8.1 by using Pangu untether for Mac OS X

The Pangu team has earlier promised to release Pangu 8 for Mac version, when they fixed all major bugs in Windows version. Accordingly, they have now released Mac version of the Pangu jailbreaking tool to the public. Some Mac users have long time waited until the Pangu release a Mac version of the tool. For them this is a very useful guide.

The newly released edition of Pangu tool is now compatible with all iOS 8.x series. So, iOS 8.0, iOS 8.0.1, iOS 8.0.2 and iOS 8.1 firmware versions could be jailbroken by using Pangu tool for Mac. Some have unofficially said that newly released beta version of iOS 8.1.1 patched the exploit which has been used by the Pangu team to jailbreak iOS 8.0.

Download Pangu for Mac OS  X

 Supported iOS devices for Mac version

ü  iPhones

·         6 Plus, 6, 5s, 5c, 5, 4s,

ü  iPads

·         2, 3, 4, Air, Air 2, mini 1, mini 2, mini 3

ü  iPods

·         touch 5^th gen

Prerequisites for jailbreaking with Mac version

1.      First of all your iOS device should be running iOS 8.0 or iOS 8.0.1 or iOS 8.0.2 or iOS 8.1. Preferably the latest iOS 8.1.

2.      Do not update your device using the iOS OTA system. Instead of restore via iTunes. It will prevent some adverse issues.

3.      You should take a backup of your device before go into the jailbreaking process.  

4.      “Passcode” and “Find My iPhone” should be disabled before jailbreaking. Later you can enable them. 

5.      Download iTunes 12.0.1 or latest version and install.

Here are the steps for jailbreaking using Pangu tool (Mac version).

Step 1:

Download the Pangu tool for Mac on to your PC desktop.

Step 2:

Go to the desktop, select the just downloaded Pangu tool and run as administrator. 

Step 3:

While Pangu tool is running, connect your iOS device to your Mac PC using USB cable.

Step 4:

Once your device is detected by the tool, then click on “Start Jailbreak” button and after that click on “Already did”. Your iOS device will be rebooted several times.

Step 5:

Once jailbreaking is over, it will show you the message as “Jailbreak succeeded”.   

Jailbreak iOS 8 — iOS 8.1 using Pangu v1.1.0 with Cydia and English support

The Pangu team promised to release the new version of Pangu tool within 24 hours. And they have kept their promise, by releasing Pangu 1.1.0 tool. This jailbreaking tool can be used for any iPhone, iPad and iPod touch running iOS 8 or iOS 8.1. Download link for Pangu v 1.1.0 is given below. This Pangu v 1.1.0 is arrives with features which have been mostly anticipated by the jailbreaking community. This is an untether jailbreak.

 Download Pangu 1.1.0 Windows / Mac

Latest version of Cydia for iOS8 is bundled with this. So, no need of manual installing of Cydia further. Jailbreaking process has been optimized and it is now offered in English. And “Substrate” can work without the need of “Respring”. And few bugs have been fixed such as, MobileSafari stop working on 64bit iOS devices and iMessage/SMS not succeed in sending images. Finally the Pangu App is more powerful with many multipurpose functions.

Please go through following notes before you start jailbreak your iOS device.

Ø  Pangu v 1.1.0 is an untether jailbreak, therefore you can safely reboot your iOS device. No need of re-jailbreaking the iOS device.

Ø  Put your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, which running iOS 8 / iOS 8.1 on “Airplane” mode.

Ø  You MUST backup your iOS device, to prevent data loss.

Ø  Turn off any Passcode locks and TouchID.

Ø  Right now this Pangu v 1.1.0 is for Windows only. Mac version of Pangu 1.1.0 is coming soon.

Ø  Re-jailbreak is not required for users who have jailbroken their iOS devices using Pangu 1.0. Just install the Cydia manually.

     Are you ready for jailbreak your iOS device?If so, let’s start the jailbreaking with Pangu 1.1.0.

1.   Download the latest Pangu v 1.1.0 for Windows.

2.   Kick off the Pangu tool on your Windows PC. Right click on the Pangu tool and select “Run as administrator”.

3.   Then your iOS device should connect to the PC. Then wait until the Pangu tool detects your iOS device. Then click on the Start Jailbreak button in blue color.

4.  Then you will be given a window as “Notice of Pangu 8” and there click on “Already did” button to proceed. Then jailbreaking will start.

5.   Be patient until jailbreaking is over. Do not panic, your iOS device will be rebooted. When it is rebooted you will find the Cydia icon on your Home Screen.

Hot news

The Pangu team noted that, if there are no any critical bugs in Pangu v 1.1.0., they will then start to working on Mac version of this.

Jailbreak iOS 8.1 with Pangu8 (Mac/Windows)

Many jailbreaking tool developers have tried to release an iOS 8 jailbreak during the last few weeks. Most capable teams were the Pangu and Evad3rs. Pangu has earlier announced that they were able to jailbreak some beta versions of iOS 8 and they are working on iOS 8 jailbreak. They also mentioned that they wanted a stable and properly working iOS 8 version to finalize the jailbreak. And Apple has released the latest iOS 8.1 on last Monday. It was stable version as expected by the Pangu team. It helps a lot to the Pangu team to unveil the iOS 8 – iOS 8.1 jailbreak within a very short time period. And that was the first ever iOS 8 – iOS 8.1 jailbreak tool.

So finally Pangu team has defeated everyone in the battle to develop iOS 8 jailbreaking tool. Still this supports for the Windows users only. But it is expected that the Mac OS X version will be released as soon as possible. At the moment this jailbreak supports SSH only. It is not support for Cydia yet.

This jailbreak tool is not a finalized version. It is a developing stage version, which means that, still it has to be improved further. However, it was working adequately to be released to the public. 

A list of supported iOS devices is given below.

• iPhones
• iPhone 4S,
• iPhone 5 
• iPhone 5C
• iPhone 5S
• iPhone 6
• iPhone 6 Plus
• iPads
• iPad Air
• iPad Mini
• iPad Mini 2
• iPod Touch 5
• iPad 2
• iPad 3
• iPad 4

Cydia 

Even though you are allowed to download iOS 8 – iOS 8.1 jailbreaking tool on to your iOS device, you won’t get Cydia at the moment. Still Cydia does not compatible with iOS  8 and iOS 8.1. Once it starts to support to iOS 8 and 8.1, they will let you to download Cydia via a Pangu App or SSH.

Make your attention

• Important to use appropriate USB cable.Using iTunes or iCloud, back up your iOS device.  If you have set a passcode lock of your iOS device, remove it. Then disable “Find My iPhone”, till the jailbreak is over. 
• You have to upgrade your iOS device to iOS 8.1 prior to start jailbreaking. But you    MUST NOT use the OTA method for the upgrading. OTA method cause to fail the jailbreak. 
•  In some cases, you may get a message stating that “your storage capacity is full”. It’s because of the Pangu jailbreak writes the files into your system directory. When you get the Cydia, these files can be moved.  
• Currently AFC2 plugins cannot be used. Apple has make modifications to the core iOS system.  The file named as “com.apple.mobile.softwareupdated.plist” MUST NOT delete, if not   system failure may occur.

Suppose that the iOS 8 jailbreak has failed. Then you have to turn off Wi-Fi and enable Airplane mode and try again.