The Evad3rs' jailbreak for the iOS 7 has arrived three months after the release of the operating system, Mashable reported.
The hacker team on Sunday morning announced they have released their long-awaited evasi0n iOS 7 for devices running Apple's latest mobile operating system, Mashable reported.
The untethered jailbreak tool, which is compatible with iPhone, iPod touches and iPad Mini models running iOS 7 through 7.04, lets Mac and Windows users freely modify the mobile operating system.
In order to use the jailbreak tool users will need a computer running Windows (XP minimum), Mac OS X (10.6 minimum) or Linux (x86 / x86_64), iTunes and a USB cable to connect the Apple device to a computer.
Despite the hacker team's claims that jailbreaking an iOS 7 device will only take five minutes, the release has not been without its share of criticism.
People reportedly have issues with the hacker team's involvement in a commercial partnership to bundle the Taig app store for Chinese users of the jailbreak, ZDNet reported.
After accusations that Taig was full of pirated apps, the Evad3rs responded in a blog post saying that preventing piracy is an important issue, and "that its intent is to help developers by having a piracy-free store in China," ZDNet reported.
"In our agreement with Taig, we contractually bind them to not have piracy in their store. This was an extremely important precondition of working with them," the blog post said. "We are very upset that despite our agreement and review by their team, piracy was found in the store. It was not acceptable, and they have been strenuously working to resolve the problem in good faith, and have removed all instances of it that we have brought to their attention."
Evad3rs said Taig will be pulled from the jailbreak release if the pirated apps continue to be found.
According to Lifehacker, a blog on software, many people have complained of "fishy behavior" on the part of the hacker team and their software.
"At best, it's just very buggy, and at worst, it may be sending private user data to another site," Lifehacker said they heard about the app. A lot of information currently circulating is speculation.
There are also reported issues with the Cydia package - a software application that enables a user to find and install software packages on jailbroken iOS Apple devices.
Cydia creator Jay Freeman said there might be some rough waters ahead as the Cydia build for the jailbreak software isn't official or updated. He added that more updates will be needed as things fall into place.
It's recommended that users back up their devices first using iTunes or iCloud before installing the jailbreak software just in case something goes awry in the process.
