In early 2020, several bloggers and reputable publications started sharing allegedly “leaks” from iOS 14. This happened earlier, but this time half a year before the official release on the Web too real screenshots and general information about the new version of the mobile operating system appeared Apple It immediately became clear that this is not some kind of renderings or design sketches, as was the case with iOS 12, iOS 13 and other versions. Earlier, we already suggested that, apparently, someone managed to get early access to the not yet released iOS 14. And now this version is becoming more believable.
This time the new iOS first hit the Web
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As reported Motherboard Edition, security researchers and some hackers gained access to the early version of iOS 14 at least in February 2020, and maybe even earlier. This is almost eight months before the expected official release of iOS 14, given that Apple usually publishes the release version of iOS in September with the announcement of new phones. Sometimes screenshots and descriptions of new features leak out before the official presentation. However, this time the whole version of the operating system “leaked”.
What will iOS 14 look like
The publication failed to find out exactly how the leak occurred. But five sources in the jailbreak community familiar with the leak said someone got a copy iPhone 11 running version iOS 14 in December 2019. Although it was created for use only by Apple developers. According to these sources, someone bought this iPhone from Chinese suppliers for thousands of dollars, and then removed the build of iOS 14 and distributed it to the iPhone cracker community.
В течение последних нескольких месяцев информация об iOS 14 широко распространялась в блоге 9to5Mac, который, судя по всему, тоже получил копию операционной системы.
Some screenshots appeared in our Telegram chat. At the same time, according to the publication, hackers distributed this early version of iOS 14 among several security experts so that they could take a look at the new code in advance and find new ways to crack it.
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Estimated wallpapers from iOS 14
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This version gives an idea of the iOS 14 file system a few months before its release, so it can be very useful. This is a preliminary version, a lot can change, but it’s a lot of useful information, says Ryan Duff, an information security specialist. – I can’t say that this will make it easy to hack iOS or something like that, but in any case, information about the operating system this time is much more than usual.
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This is the part of the iOS 14 code that leaked to the Web
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An iOS release will almost certainly look and function differently from this earlier version, but iPhone hackers and researchers now have the opportunity to research iOS 14 to find vulnerabilities in it.
Apple declined to comment on the leak. However, one of the employees told Motherboard that there was a leak. A source in the cybersecurity industry said his team has an early version of iOS 14 and they are studying it. Others said they had heard that iOS 14 could already be bought on the black market of operating systems, but they did not do this for fear of consequences from Apple. Nevertheless, iOS is the property of the Cupertino corporation, and the use of such data may be the reason for further litigation.
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Possible search screen in iOS 14
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When iOS 14 Releases
Other hackers in an interview with reporters said that “for the first time in their life” the upcoming version of iOS leaked many months before its release and was widely distributed among jailbreak creators. Even the public beta version of iOS 14 has not yet been released; The first legal version for developers is reported to be released on June 22. The early version is dated December 10, 2019 and has been on sale since February.
Last year, the Motherboard investigation revealed the existence of a gray market in which smugglers steal early prototypes or “merged” iPhones from factories in China. Then they sell them to hackers and simply collectors around the world. In the past, Apple harshly suppressed such things, including dealt with the journalist of a major publication Gizmodo, who found a prototype iPhone 4 at the bar in San Francisco. It is not clear what measures the company will take in this case. But the “heads” are likely to fly.
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