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So iOS 5 will be available for download in less than 24 hours. Most people would like to try it out including me. However, there is no way I’m going to give up my untethered jailbreak. Within a week there will be millions of new iPhone 4S that all are running iOS 5 for which there will be no jailbreak. Given how long it took to get an untethered jailbreak for the iPad 2, I thought it might take just as long or longer for iOS 5 and the iPhone 4S. However, this was me being an idiot. See most the exploits that have been found to create an untethered jailbreak have been held back waiting for iOS 5. I now think there is a good chance the iOS 5 jailbreak will come rather quickly. Better yet, it should be untethered! I0n1c tweeted, “As far as I know iOS 5 untether is covered by other people already. Guess who .” Over the summer many well known jailbreakers gathered together for a conference called JailbreakCon. P0sixninja announced that five iOS 5 vulnerabilities had been found for the iPad 2. Assuming this is true an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 for the iPad 2 should come very quickly. Beta verisions of iOS 5 have been out for months so hopefully much of the work required to release the jailbreak has already been done. It is very likely the holes for the iPad 2 will also work on existing devices like the iPhone 4, iPad and more recent iPods. Whether it will work on the iPhone 4S is more questionable as it is new hardware. Hopefully so, but time will tell. The good news is an untethered jailbreak for most if not all devices running iOS 5 might not be far away. As always, if anything is released I’ll be jailbreaking away immediately and giving updates on Facebook, Twitter and here.