Purely a personal opinion but, as someone who has jailbroken every iPhone they've owned, I think iOS9 is the first one I don't feel the need to do it on. Mainly because most of the great ideas in iOS have been pinched from great jailbreak tweaks.
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iOS 9 Untethered Jailbreak Released for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
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You hand it over to Google/Facebook and/or the NSA anyway, don't kid yourself.
El Capitan is light years ahead of Yosemite in stability and performance. Comparing them is insulting to say the least.
This jailbreak has already been patched in the 9.1 betas which is why they released it now. It'll be useless in a week or two.
I remember the days on Macforums that posting anything that violated Apple's EULA would get you a warning and/or banned. I guess not so much these days?
You didn't mention what phone you were on.. On my 6S+ 9.0.2 JB is smooth as butter. Best first release since 5.1.1. Totally smooth - no lag and no diminished battery power detectable yet. I wish I had 9.1beta3 back - because it was even better than 9.0.2. But zero problems with 9.0.2JB on the newer phones.
Can you side-load tweaks that let you customize the Control Center, like FlipControlCenter? Can you side-load Activator, a system tweak that lets you use custom gestures to control almost anything? Can you side-load Apple File Conduit 2, which brings back the old "use as a hard drive" functionality Apple used to offer on the old iPods but doesn't allow anymore?
Basically, for many jailbreakers this has nothing to do with installing non-approved apps - it's about adding functionality that iOS proper won't have for several more years, if at all.
This may come as a shock to you, but amongst developers, more knowledgable mobile users and devices users (contrary to what you and a lot of MacRumors thinks, being an "expert" on one eco system makes you very far from an actual expert), iOS is actually quite far behind its competitors.
They barely added split view and limited it to recently released devices (forcing upgrades on those who are content with previous devices).
They barely added third party keyboards in the last release. I could think of a lot of reasons why third party keyboards would be good for people. Handicapped people, blind people, other types of disabilities that render the use of a traditional iOS keyboard near zero.
This is more about text input than it is about actual keyboards.
They still don't have on screen non-icon UI elements (widgets, gadgets, what have you).
Apple News? Flipboard has had that void filled for almost THREE years.
Apple Pay? Google Wallet, PayPal, Square and other services have had that also for years.
Still no themes (partially blind, color blind people have a need for colored themes).
Siri is still the dumber girl compared to Cortana and Now.
Don't get me wrong, iOS is more stable, reliable, safer?(for the most part, every OS has vulnerabilities)
And yes, iOS has a much better app Store gaming and otherwise overall library than the Play Store. However, for the device OS itself, almost all mobile developers, including myself, believe that Android is leaps and bounds better than iOS, feature wise.
Jailbreaking alleviates a LOT of those issues by allowing us to run non Apple internal code for the actual device OS itself. If those features didn't suddenly show up in iOS in official builds over the next 2 or 3 years after those tweaks were released, maybe people wouldn't see the reason for it.
But every "cool feature" that you called "innovative" in comments and enjoy today? Thank people who jailbreak for those features because Apple absolutely watches jailbreak tweak community for inspiration.
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Could you reply here please? I am pen-testing and wanted clarification on that comment as well. Cheers.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/clarification-do-we-need-to-jb-for-pen-testing-ios-9.1928702/
I stop feeling the "need" to jailbreak with ios8.
I'm around a laptop enough to do "real work" so much that I'm fine with my phone being a phone/browser.
That being said with the ios9 update and adding a Bluetooth keyboard to my iPad Air 1 the iPad has been filling that gap between phone usage and at least lite word/data processing related tasks that don't require desktop class applications.
Side by side applications would help out even more along with peek and pop.
I'm around a laptop enough to do "real work" so much that I'm fine with my phone being a phone/browser.
That being said with the ios9 update and adding a Bluetooth keyboard to my iPad Air 1 the iPad has been filling that gap between phone usage and at least lite word/data processing related tasks that don't require desktop class applications.
Side by side applications would help out even more along with peek and pop.
Anyone know if there is a JB tweak for multi windows on a plus yet? With 2gb RAM I'm hoping that becomes a tweak as I miss it from my Note 4.
It would also be great to fix the useless one hand mode to be more like that on the Note series.
It would also be great to fix the useless one hand mode to be more like that on the Note series.
Well you do the same thing on your Mac or pc
The funny thing is that most people don't realize that when the MAC address is looked at for large data usage by the carriers, the tethering "hack" may cost you.
http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...-companies-detect-tethering-incl-wifi-hotspot
I do for mywi. I'm grandfathered in with AT&Ts unlimited plan so I can't tether my data without jailbreaking. I use my phone for uber and I take my iPad with me to watch Netflix between rides. I used 40GB+ last month
Trouble is, they won't 'normally' clear your bank accounts. Some of these rogue developers might or your information to someone who will
Well I have AT&T and I can't tether at all with my unlimited plan so this is my only option
Hell yes. Until Apex (hiding apps under apps, basically like a folder to keep the Springboard clean) is offered stock, I'll always jailbreak.