Jailbreak Apple TV 3 with iOS 8 – AppleTV 4 Jailbreak (appletv4jailbreak.com)
On January 28, 2013, over 7 years ago Apple TV 3 was released and the system was jailbreak proof. Thanks to the recent discovery by @tihmstar it is now possible to jailbreak Apple TV 3 running iOS 8. For the moment the jailbreak itself doesn’t offer any apps or features but stay tuned for updates.
There is a big chance that the jailbreak community will use this AppleTV3 Jailbreak to add customizations to the iOS 8. We can expect in near feature releases of apps like NitoTV, iOS emulators, Kodi, or Popcorn Time iOS to watch TV series and movies for free and without revokes.
@tihmstar provided a solution to jailbreak any Apple TV 3 running the latest version of Software Update 7.4 (iOS 8.4.3). Follow our guide to run the exploit and jailbreak your AppleTV 3. Remember to disable auto-updates. This is an untethered AppleTV3 jailbreak.
Step 1. Run Apple TV.
Step 2. Navigate to Settings → General → Network → Wi-Fi
Step 3. Click on your network.
Step 4. Click on Configure DNS.
Step 5. Click on Manual.
Step 6. Change the DNS to 46.166.144.59 (046.166.144.059).
Step 7. Navigate back to the General section.
Step 8. SelectSend Data to Apple and double click on the play button from the remote.
Step 9. Click Add profile and provide the link http://trailers.apple.com/trailers.cer
Step 10. Click Submit.
Step 11. Go back to the Apple TV 3 main screen.
Step 12. Open Trailers app and you should see etasonATV.
Step 13. Click the hashtag #etason to exploit iOS 8.4 and jailbreak Apple TV 3.
Step 14. After your Apple TV 3 reboots go set DNS back to normal.
Step 15. SSH into your ATV and install untether by typing command.
ssh root@192.186.0.1 password: alpine dpkg -i /var/root/untether.deb apt-get update apt-get upgrade reboot
After jailbreak, no additional app icon will appear on the main screen. This jailbreak is compatible with AppleTV3,2 (released in 2013, A1469 for Rev A) and AppleTV3,1 (released in 2012, A1427).
Install PlexConnect on Apple TV 3
PlexConnect is the only full-featured app that was created to work on iOS 8.4 (Software Update 7.4) and can be easily installed on jailbroken ATV3.
Step 1. Open terminal (on Windows use PuTTY) and login to Apple TV.
ssh root@apple-tv.local password: alpine
Step 2. Install python and git libraries on ATV3.
apt-get install python apt-get install git reboot
Step 3. Install PlexConnect on Apple TV 3.
cd /Applications/ git clone git://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect.git cd PlexConnect/support/aTV_jailbreak/ ./inst_atv3.sh reboot
Install nitoTV App Store on Apple TV 3
As mentioned before, the jailbreak itself doesn’t offer any apps or tweaks. To install 3rd party applications on your device you can install nitoTV package manager for Apple TV.
Step 1. Check the Apple TV IP from Settings → General → Network → Wi-Fi.
Step 2. Open terminal (on Windows use PuTTY) and enter the command with Apple TV IP address ex.
ssh root@192.186.0.1 password: alpine
Step 3. Add the nitoTV App Store Repo to sources.
echo “deb http://apt.awkwardtv.org ./” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list
Step 4. Update source list with command.
apt-get update
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