If you own an iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air 2 or any other iOS device running iOS 8 and are interested in jailbreaking it, here's a guide on how to achieve it.
When the original iPhone went on sale in June 2007, there was no App Store on board. Apple sold the iPhone for $599 for the 8-GB model and $499 for the 4-GB variant, and these high prices also required customers to sign a new 2-year contract with Apple's exclusive carrier, AT&T.
The iPhone had impressive built-in applications like Safari, Mail, iPod, Text, Calendar, Photos, You Tube and a few others, but unlike other smartphones at the time, including Palm's Treo series, BlackBerry's handsets, and devices running Microsoft's Windows Mobile smartphone OS, Apple did not make it possible to install third-party applications. What you saw was what you got with the smartphone that would go on to turn the tech industry upside down in the wake of its success.
A group of developers decided that iPhone owners shouldn't be restricted to Apple's walled garden approach and came up with a way to add applications to the device, tweak aspects of its UI, and more. Developers put together a guide on Jailbreaking iPhone OS 1.1.1 and it consisted of 74 steps that were geared to serious techies and not everyday users. It required such advanced steps as running an SSH server and changing hex values while connecting remotely to the iPhone.
Thankfully, jailbreaking has gotten much easier over the years and if you're an iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, or iPad Air 2 owner, or own any iOS device that can run iOS 8, you'll be happy to know that you can jailbreak these gadgets.
The Pangu Team has released a jailbreak tool that will jailbreak any iOS 8 device. It also installs Cydia, which is the repository of tons of apps, tweaks and other packages available to download. Redmond Pie has created an iOS 8.1 jailbreak guide using Pangu 8 and walks you through the complete process.
You'll want to make a backup of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch using iCloud or plugging into your computer and making a backup via iTunes before you run Pangu 8.