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Independent hacker Lucas Todesco has been aggressively racing against Apple when it comes to offering the Jailbreaking community a reliable and working iOS 10 jailbreak. So far, he is credited to the Yalu iOS 10.1.1jailbreak though a Yalu iOS 10.2 jailbreak could be out soon.

As mentioned in a previous post, Todesco did bare his plans to expand the Apple devices covered by an iOS jailbreak. As most know, the Yalu iOS 10.1.1 jailbreaking tool covered only the latest models like the iPhone 7, iPhone 6s, iPhone SE and the iPad Pro. He plans to release an iOS 10.2 jailbreak for the models left out of the mix such as the iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s. As of writing, there is no target date to expect the Yalu iOS 10.2 jailbreak.

When Todescco’s iOS 10.1.1 jailbreak came out, another hacker (Stefan Esser) did mention the coming of an iOS 10.2 jailbreak as previously reported by Forbes. But similar to the revelation of the Italian hacker, no release date was mentioned. Also, Todesco does warn folks who have applied the Yalu iOS 10.1.1 Jailbreak to stay away from the iOS 10.2.1 update of Apple. The update obviously carries patches that would address the bugs discovered by him, rendering the iOS 10.1.1 crack useless.

My fix for the issues in the 10.1 jailbreak will be to add support to 10.2. It will however not work on iPhone 7 on 10.2, just 10 and 10.1.

— qwertyoruiop (@qwertyoruiopz) January 7, 2017

Among the issues of Todesco’s Yalu iOS 10.1.1 jailbreak was that it a semi-tethered crack and technically still in the beta phase. The latest beta version does carry improvement like Cydia Impactor. This means folks no longer have to sideload with Xcode with more improvements expected to follow.

While most are still waiting for an official public release of an iOS 10 jailbreak, it would be best to stay away from unknown hackers claiming to have cracked the Apple code. Most are likely to include malware or phishing apps, notorious ways that could leave users with compromised mobile devices.