“The Pangu hacking team, best known as the team that delivered the first public jailbreak for iOS 9 devices, has done it again: this time, the hackers have released a jailbreak for the 4th generation Apple TV,” Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch. “This jailbreak was promised last week by way of a tweet.”
“However, it’s more aimed at developers looking to port their apps and tweaks to the Apple TV than at end users, for the time being,” Perez reports. “An interface like Cydia, which makes jailbroken devices more accessible to the mainstream, is not yet available.”
Perez reports, “Still, the jailbreak itself is a notable feat – there had not yet been a way to hack the newest Apple TV model, the Apple TV 4, and it had been quite some time since an Apple TV jailbreak had been possible at all.”
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MacDailyNews Note: This jailbreak reportedly only works on Apple TVs running tvOS 9.0 and 9.0.1.