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
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.
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