Like nearly 4 million other iPhone users, I had been waiting for iOS 6 to be jailbroken for a long time. I’ve had my iPhone 4S for almost a year and have been “stuck” on iOS 5.1.1 since last May because I didn’t want to lose my jailbreak by upgrading to iOS 6. This past Monday, the evad3rs came through and released evasi0n, making it possible to jailbreak Apple’s newest iOS 6.1 release on just about every iDevice available, including the iPhone 5 for the first time.
It was no secret that evasi0n was coming (although initial rumors had it coming out on Super Bowl Sunday) so I was prepared to take the plunge right away: I had a current iTunes backup, used PkgBackup to backup all of my Cydia apps, took screenshots of all my springboard screens and folders, etc. I was ready!