Apple’s newest mobile operating system has finally been jailbroken, ending a public drought that lasted nearly a year, and the tool behind it is Dopamine 3.0 from developer Lars Fröder, known as opa334.
The update shipped Friday, and the platform had gone 326 days without a public jailbreak before its arrival.
Dopamine 3.0 is the first jailbreak to support iOS 26. The release also widens support to every device running iOS 16.5.1 through iOS 17.3.1, and on iOS 26 it currently works only on handsets with A12 or A13 chips, covering the iPhone XS, XR and 11 families.
Dopamine is a semi-untethered jailbreak, so users must re-apply the exploit through a companion app after each reboot. The tool depends on a chain of vulnerabilities that get past Apple’s exploit mitigations, and researchers watch these releases closely because a public jailbreak usually means the platform’s defenses have fallen behind.
For security teams, a jailbroken iPhone is treated as compromised. Jailbreaks remove code signing enforcement, sandbox protections and other safeguards that keep malware off devices.
Fröder has not detailed the vulnerabilities behind the release, and Apple has not commented. iOS 26.6 and later appear untouched by the current tool, though the episode underscores how platform security rests on the latest patches.
