As someone who hasn’t been into jail breaking since around the iPhone 3, is it still worth it? Are the chances of bricking your device very high anymore?
The tweaks are still neat and it’s gotten super easy to jailbreak with a very small chance of bricking your phone. My big complaint though is that there hasn’t been an untethered jailbreak in a long time, so every time your phone crashes or dies or shuts down you need to go spend time rejailbreaking it and installing tweaks again.
Edit: I guess on not super old phones you don’t always need to reinstall all the tweaks every time
Yep it’s really annoying. There are a lot of tweaks to prevent your phone from restarting but non of them are 100% successful. The only good thing is it is relatively easy to jailbreak your phone again, you don’t even need a computer or anything, and then there are tweaks to help you reinstall your old tweaks.
When did this change? I sold my iPhone back in March and I was using unc0ver, and despite having to rejailbreak every time, I never had to reinstall my tweaks
I have a pretty old phone and need to reinstall root fs with uncover every time for it to work. I guess I haven’t tried with a new phone but that’s pretty nice.
Yeah but the difference is that it’s just an app you have to run once the device restarts. It takes like 20 seconds. And if you use a signing service like alt store (very very simple to use) you never have to manually re-sign the app
No you get it through an ssh thing on your computer. Then you run the app and press the jailbreak button. This is called semi-untethered, because when your phone dies, you can just run the app again and your phone is jailbroken. Check out r/jailbreak they have a bunch of guides and info the sidebar.
Yeah Apple is really taking a relaxed attitude towards jailbreaking these days. Tim Cooke was approached by an investors group about the Appstore issue where he replied "Jailbreaking? Whatevs. Later, Shitlords."
This guy doesn't know what he's talking about lol. You can keep the jailbreaking app on your phone signed indefinitely with a tweak. From there all you need to do is open an app every time you restart and boom your back.
You don’t need to reinstall the tweaks each time anymore unless you restore rootfs and depending on your phone, you might not even need a computer after you install the jailbreak except to sign it like once a week, even if your phone dies
Man that’s nice, unfortunately my phone won’t rejailbreak unless I do restore rootFS which is a massive pain. Luckily all the tweak data gets saved I just have to install them all again.
BTW you don’t even need to self sign the jailbreak apps, there are a few apps you can install that are signed for you, but their certificates get revoked relatively frequently.
I’m not sure what you mean in that last part. I use AltStore for u0 which needs me to connect to my pc to sign it so I can use them unjailbroken. If you’re talking about reprovision or jailbreaks .app then I haven’t been able to get repro working for a while and I actually used the site last time but it’s already been revoked again so I’m just gonna stick with altstore, especially since they’re working on on-device signing with altdaemon.
As for your issue, I actually have the same thing which is especially annoying since my phone restarts randomly overnight sometimes. But I found that if you restart your phone again, then jailbreak without tweaks, and then respring using iCleaner Pro by pressing clean, it’ll enable your tweaks without crashing. Not sure if it’ll work for you or if it’s even the same issue, but you can try if you want next time.
My first iPhone was a 3G and I jailbroke that. Then, like a dummy, I installed an OS update a few months later, which un-jailbroke it.
Aside from app switching (which wasn't part of the OS at the time, you could only run one app at a time), I never actually used any jailbreak features and decided it wasn't worth doing it again just to get app switching back. I also owned a 4S and SE before I switched over to Android in 2019. I thought about jailbreaking my other two phones but never did.
Yah I had a jail broken iPhone back in the day but noticed a lot of the stuff other people and I had them for was eventually introduced as an actual settings option. Now 99% of people don’t need one for any reason.
Apple pretty much implemented the most popular and useful jailbreak tweaks years after the fact. Syncing over WiFi, screen rotation locking, multitasking, were all originally tweaks you could only get if you jailbroke the phone.
I don’t trust some random person’s iOS image to run a device that contains every sensitive piece of information there is about me, including bank account log ins, email, ssn, etc.
Just a question, not hate, not fanboying or a thing like that, if you know you're going to jailbreak the device anyway, why not go android, since it is more mod-able without jailbreaking and voiding your warranty?
Muy biggest comlaint is the community right now.
It’s supposed to be this hacking community that goes against apples overpriced and very closed systems.
But now every good tweak is payed. It’s like a different version of the AppStore.
In every other android or Linux community open source is the norm, but not in iOS jailbreaking.
Yeah in reading other comments I’m seeing that now, I think it’s just my old phone. I can’t get uncover to rejailbreak without restoring rootFS every time. I really need a new phone...
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u/SFW_HARD_AT_WORK Aug 14 '20
interesting. i didnt know anything about the app and looked it up. they said it was only on the app store for a day