In January it was reported that the team of independent developers preparing jailbreak for TV set-top box Apple TV. Last week, one of the creators of the tool Jonathan Levine said that work was almost finished. And now the official release of tool – utilities LiberTV to jailbreak Apple TV 4.
LiberTV is based on exploit the exactly defined exported Yalu from Luke Todesco and works on the same principle and those same characteristics. First of all, on a jailbroken device at the moment the Cydia store. While the creators of the exploit indicated support 64-bit Mobile Substrate framework. In other words, the Apple TV jailbreak you can install most tweaks and themes. Later, as expected, Jay Freeman porting Cydia to tvOS.
The jailbreak is semi-tethered LiberTV, that is, each time you restart your Apple TV will need to connect to computer and transfer mode jailbreak. You can hack any version tvOS tvOS starting from 9.1 to 10.1 and inclusive. Current at the moment firmware 10.1.1 is not supported, so update your Apple TV is not worth it.
LiberTV after installation blocks the auto-update OS on Apple TV that the user accidentally installed a fresh release. And to work with the file system on the set-top box provided by SSH-Dropbear utility.
Previously, developers were warned that the upcoming jailbreak in the first place aimed at the creators of the tweaks, so normal users should not rush with the installation – there is a risk of a broken device.
To install LiberTV need to download the IPA file from this link and upload it to your Apple TV using Cydia Impactor. About how to do it MacDigger told here.
