They were able to jailbreak the iPhone with a rooted Android

The jaibreak story has lost its prominence for a few years, after security upgrades and obstacles posed by iOS behind the version to prevent this process from being easily performed where it could be done. However, there are always developers that can be approved by any phone and on Reddit.

You've earned jailbreak the iPhone by using a rooted mobile phone, thanks to Checkra1n, The current tool, or programmed for use on computers, can work with Android thanks to the development of the operating system.

This is how jailbreakea is an iPhone with Android

Jailbreak is the root-equivalent solution on Android: purpose disable some system protection and get permissions that we do not have by default. IOS is a much more closed system than Android and has, in recent years, made it more difficult with the issue of jailbreak. However, with Checkra1n you can do the process on compatible devices (from iPhone X down), to promise that Apple will not be able to install this, as the vulnerability is detected on the chip itself.

Checkra1n, originally developed for macOS, has recently received support for Linux, which allows jailbreak on Linux devices. And yes Android is Linux, at least for the good part. Because of this, the process can be done with an Android mobile phone. Specifically, you are required to have the latest version of the Linux kernel. In the case of XDA, they've been running the process with the Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact with Android 10 and version 4.14 of Linux Kernel. The device was rooted in Magisk, which is a well-known method.

How funny only certain ADB commands are required to perform the procedure, because what we do is we use the mobile phone as a command console where commands are given to the iPhone to process.

You can check out the whole process on Reddit, either We warn that doing Jairilak has a negative impact on the security level and that, in the worst case, it can make the iPhone work perfectly.

Via | Reddit