Sign up for our iPhoneHacks Daily newsletter to get the top Apple news stories delivered to your inbox. The latest jailbreaking tool for iOS 13, Checkra1n jailbreakhowever, does not require that as it is a semi-tethered jailbreak and requires one to have access to a PC. Most people primarily used Cydia Impactor for sideloading a jailbreaking app on their iPhone or iPad. He is under no obligation to work on Cydia Impactor under his free time or keep it in a working state. The other option is to use online signing services like Ignition which works if you want to sideload popular apps like Unc0ver or Chimera. This way, you can start using Cydia Impactor again without any issues. So, if you rely on Cydia Impactor to sideload apps, you are out of luck until then. Whatever the case might be, the bad news is that Saurik does not have time until at least mid-December to work on Cydia Impactor and fix this issue. Cydia Impactor unlike, say, ReProvision is intended to run on stock desktop platforms macOS, Windows, and Linux to support this new authentication scheme will require spending some time-I'd guess well over a week? He could drop support for Linux and only support macOS and Windows which should make things slightly easier, but he is not inclined to do that.Ībout two weeks ago, Apple made a change to their provisioning service to require a different authentication scheme for "free" Apple accounts they return an error that mentions upgrading to "Xcode 7.
Saurik explained the issue in-depth and the time it would require to fix the problem on Twitter.
This led to users getting an error while trying to use Cydia Impactor and prompting them to update to Xcode 7. Cydia founder Saurik took to Twitter to talk about a new Cydia Impactor issue that has been plaguing many users due to a server-side change from Apple a couple of weeks ago.