CoolStar makes many jailbreak tweaks open source after being officially hired by Apple
Depending on how long you’ve been jailbreaking iPhones and iPads, CoolStar is a name you might remember. The talented developer was behind some of the most popular jailbreak tools for firmware spanning iOS & iPadOS 11 through 14, including Electra, Chimera, Odyssey, and Taurine. CoolStar even attempted to make an iOS & iPadOS 15 jailbreak called Cheyote, but later gave up on the project and left the community.
While we haven’t heard much from CoolStar since then, apart from a couple of unexpected updates to the Taurine jailbreak tool to fix jailbreaking A11 devices on iOS & iPadOS 14.0-14.4 and some regressions, the seasoned developer shared a life update on Monday that will leave a lot of folks feeling nostalgic.
CoolStar appears to have been hired by Apple, an achievement that a lot of jailbreak developers strive for. They didn’t disclose what they will be doing at Apple, but they did say in the official Sileo/Odyssey Team Discord server that they begin the job tomorrow (Tuesday).
As a part of the announcement, CoolStar said that the role will not allow for the continuance of working on jailbreak related projects. As such, CoolStar has removed DRM from several of their jailbreak tweaks and open-sourced the code so that someone else can pick up where they left off.
