iPhone Jailbreak Gets Past Lockdown Mode and Survives an Update

Hacker team Calif has demonstrated a new iPhone jailbreak that bypasses Lockdown Mode and persists across an iOS system update. The demonstration used an iPhone 18 Pro running Lockdown Mode and showed the jailbreak surviving the installation of iOS 27.2 after a malicious PDF was sent via AirDrop. Calif has stated it is disclosing vulnerabilities to Apple and does not plan to release a public jailbreak tool. Open article →