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That's exactly right. The hardest part is finding a phone that runs iOS 13+ and can be jailbroken still. I think I used an iPhone 7 or 8. If someone's really curious, it's probably even worth the $50-$100 for a used iPhone that can be jailbroken, it opens up A LOT of similar doors for investigating.

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FWIW, the iPhone 12 I bought 2 weeks ago came with 14.2.1 (which has 2 jailbreaks available for it, unc0ver and Taurine)

Not sure if older iPhones would come with older versions too, I assume used ones would normally be up to date - though iPhone X and earlier are jailbreakable on all versions via checkm8

You can jailbreak any non-A14 device running 14.2.1 or lower right now by following this guide to update to 14.3 and then jailbreaking with unc0ver

https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/mm0g3f/news_new_...

Jailbreaking iOS 14 with checkra1n breaks faceID because it requires an additional SepOS exploit

https://checkra.in/news/2020/09/iOS-14-announcement

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