iOS 4.0.2 & 3.2.2 Jailbreak: There Won’t Be One [iPhone Dev Team Says No Jailbreak for iOS 4.0.2 & 3.2.2 Coming; iOS 4.1 a Different Story]

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Those of you that purchased an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with iOS 4.0.2 or iOS 3.2.2 on board, can forget all about jailbreaking them, at least for now. That news comes straight from the iPhone Dev Team, so get used to the thought of having a jailed device, at least for the time being.

In a more than thorough blog post, the iPhone Dev Team has explained why they don’t want to play cat and mouse with Apple when it comes to jailbreaking iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone and iPod touch or iOS 3.2.2 for iPad.

These two software updates have been recently rolled out by Apple in order to address that PDF exploit that, among other things, allowed the jailbreak of the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. In order to still be able to use JailbreakMe 2.0 you absolutely need to save your SHSH blobs for your device in order to always be able to downgrade to iOS 4.0.1 and thus perform the jailbreak.

Of course that doesn’t mean that if you have recently purchased an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with iOS 4.0.2/3.2.2 on board you should be worried about not being able to jailbreak. iOS 4.1 is just around the corner. In fact it might be released as soon as September 1. Once iOS 4.1 is out in the wild we can only expect the iPhone Dev Team to tear it apart and look for jailbreak and unlock holes.

That’s probably the best road to take for the iPhone Dev Team, as there’s no point looking to release a jailbreak for a temporary firmware version. iOS 4.0.2/3.2.2 was just a quick fix meant to solve that security issue, whereas iOS 4.1 will have plenty of new features and thus be the real firmware to break. And the new firmware is coming soon as it has to enable FaceTime via email on the iPod touch 4G and multitasking for the iPad.