Apple announced iOS 6 during WWDC 2012, and the world went into a frenzy (as it always does with any Apple offering). The 6th major iteration of the OS brought with it a lot of bells and whistles, like revamped Maps, more knowledgeable Siri, shared Photo Streams and loads more (you may want to check out the entire list of new goodies). On the same evening, iOS 6 beta became available for developers, ensuring that apps – the life and blood of iOS platform – became optimized before the operating system became available publicly. However, many, like us, just couldn’t wait to get their hands on the newest iOS for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, and many devices, despite not belonging to developers, got the new OS up and running in a matter of days. However, doing so resulted in one thing that most jailbreakers don’t like at all – breaking the jailbreak! The good news is, iOS 6 is jailbreakable, publicly, and even Cydia can be installed through some unconventional methods. We’ll get to that just after the jump.

It’s not unheard of that a developer build of iPhone’s operating system got jailbroken before a public release, and just like last year, iPhone Dev Team was kind enough to make available the tool for that, redsn0w 0.9.13dev2, to the general public (we say general public because anyone can download and use it; Dev Team strongly advises “developers only”). Of course, there are certain caveats to the whole deal, and a general recommendation from the hackers to stay away from iOS 6 until public releases are available. That said, the only purpose of this post, if you’re not a developer, is to show something that can be done, setting aside the matter of “should be done”. On a personal note, I do not find iOS 6 beta ready for every day use, and would advise sticking to 5.1.1 for now. Nevertheless, if you are on iOS 6 at the moment, you can still jailbreak and install Cydia using the method outlined hereon.