This palera1n rewrite has noticeably different arguments compared to the shell version of palera1n.
- Highly recommended that you take a look at how to use palera1n-c here.
This does NOT support tethered creation or booting. You must use the older shell version of palera1n (clone with -b legacy).
We are NOT responsible for any data loss, or the result of a device being bricked. The user of this program accepts responsibility should something happen to their device. While nothing should happen, jailbreaking has risks in itself.
- If your device is stuck in recovery, please run futurerestore --exit-recovery, or use irecovery -n.
palera1n will never work in VirtualBox, VMware or any virtual machine that doesn't support PCI passthrough.

Requirements

A checkm8 vulnerable iOS device on iOS 15.x or 16.x (A8 - A11)
- If using rootful, you will need 5-10GB of space for the fakefs. This means 16GB devices cannot use the full fakefs creation. However, you can change the arguments to -Bf to create a fakefs with bind mounts, so it uses a smaller size, at the expense having unwritable parts in rarely-written paths, and then boot it
- On A11, you must disable your passcode while in the jailbroken state (on iOS 16, you need to reset your device before proceeding with palera1n).
USB-A cables are recommended to use, USB-C may have issues with palera1n and getting into DFU mode.
Technical explanation
The BootROM will only enter DFU if it detects USB voltage, which boils down to checking whether a certain pin is asserted from the Tristar chip. The Tristar does this based on the cable's accessory ID, and apparently USB-A and USB-C cables have different accessory IDs, and the one of the USB-C cables makes the Tristar not assert the USB voltage pin.
A Linux or macOS computer
- AMD CPUs (not AMD Mobile) have an issue [with (likely) their USB controllers] that causes them to have a very low success rate with checkm8. It is not recommended that you use them with palera1n.
  - If your device does not successfully jailbreak, try a computer with an Intel or other CPU

Need help?

Make sure you provide full details on your device, such as:

Using -V and -v would help with debugging.

Join the Support Discord, and create a thread in #support or ask in #general.

palera1n-c Contributors and Credits

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