iOS 5 iPhone Jailbreak – Not Affected by OTA Updates – iPhone Dev Team

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iPhone iOS 5 Jailbreak – According to the tweet by MuscleNerd, a member of iPhone Dev Team says that iOS 5 new Automated OTA (Over-the-Air) Updates should not make iOS 5 Jailbreaking Harder.

MuscleNerd Tweet about iOS 5 Jailbreak

over-the-air delta updates of iOS should be fine for JBers (even if Apple didn’t let you disable them, the JB itself can).

According to Redmondpie -

Concerns arose, since automatic over-the-air updates, one of the flagship features of iOS 5, could possibly break jailbreaks whenever a new version of the firmware is released, essentially making a permanent and stable jailbreak unfeasible. While that might be true, a reliable jailbreak would also be able to disable automatic updating altogether.

Right now, whenever an update for iOS comes out, users need to download the whole operating system image from iTunes, then hook up the device. The new iOS 5 method would allow users to get smaller updates over the air, similarly to the way it has always been on the Android platform. Of course, the loss of that feature can be a huge letdown for jailbreakers, although many will definitely prefer a totally open device to a more efficient one.Via

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