If you have used the newevasi0ntool tojailbreakyour iPhone or iPad, you’re among the millions of people that have done just that thus far. In fact, an unbelievable seven million devices have been set free in just four days following therelease of the evasi0njailbreak for iOS 6.1, making the free tool the most successful jailbreak ever, on any device, period…
According to Jay Freeman aka Saurik, and relayed byForbes, Cydia was used by more than seven million unique devices.
Freeman says that evasi0n has brought Cydia“insanely more new traffic”compared to bothAbsintheandJailbreakMetools, making Evasi0n the fastest-adopted jailbreak software of all time.
As of Thursday night, Freeman’s alternative app store had received visits from 5.15 million iPhones, 1.35 million iPads, and 400,000 iPod touches that were jailbroken with evasi0n, the first jailbreaking software for the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.1.
He tweeted out the milestone and noted that because of downtime caused by traffic spike,“we may have not counted some”iDevices.
More than four million unique devices used Cydia since the evasi0n jailbreak release. (Note: due to downtime, we may have not counted some.)
— Jay Freeman (saurik) (@saurik)June 25, 2025
It’s not just the power of numbers (Apple sold a Canalys-estimated 136 million iPhones in 2012), Saurik argues. A lot of people want to remove Apple’s restrictions to run a handful of useful tweaks that Apple doesn’t allow on the App Store.
Saurik tells Forbes:
Smart phones have become more and more popular, but they’ve maintained a closed experience that makes it difficult for people to get what they want. Therefore people have needed to turn to jailbreaking to fill the gap.
That’s what made this such a landmark jailbreak.It had been so long and we were all so hungry for it.
Evasi0n saw a cool100,000 downloadswithin the first ten minutes of Monday’s release. Wednesday morning, Saurik confirmed the software had been downloaded1.7 million times.
Jeff has put together nice step-by-step tutorials on jailbreaking your iDevices using the evasi0n tool onMacorWindowsPCs.
Even though evasi0n is a free tool, you should reallyconsider making a donationif you like it so far. Evasi0n is a result of months of hard work by some of the brightest iOS hackers out there.
After all, because of the collective talent of David Wang akaPlanetBeing, Germany-based Nikias Bassen akaPimskeks, Los Angeles-basedMuscleNerdand France-basedpod2g, you can again enjoy your favoritejailbreak tweaks.
