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Jailbreak for All iOS 13.5 Devices Close to Release, Claim Hackers

I’ve been out of the jailbreak loop for a while, and suspect this is a dumb question,but....
What exactly does it mean when they say it will be compatible with “every signed version of iOS”
Isn’t there only one signed version at any given time?
I’m hesitant since I have my jailbroken iPad set up just the way I like it on 11.3, but wouldn’t mind having at least one my devices on a current OS.
 
Sirious said:
Who remembers jailbreakme from back in the day? 😂
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I remember back in 2010 when phenomenal jailbreakme was released. My phone was jailbroken when I was in hotel, far away from my home, with the risk the phone could be bricked. I tried it, success, and I run it again on few of my friends’ phone. Loved it when I ssh-ed into the iOS, changing the hosts, looking for the most consume process, network, etc.

Now... I run in jailed mode, because many tweaks have been adopted by Apple anyway, and most importantly, there is no more untethered version released to the public.
 
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The only thing worth jailbreaking over is themes. Back in the day, I jailbroke for things like SBSettings, Safari Download Manager, BiteSMS, Swype, etc. Virtually all those features are native now.
 
dannyyankou said:
The only thing worth jailbreaking over is themes. Back in the day, I jailbroke for things like SBSettings, Safari Download Manager, BiteSMS, Swype, etc. Virtually all those features are native now.
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Don't forget "Barrel" that changed the icon animations as you swiped home screens :)
 
Fahad.sul3man said:
The point is it allows Apple to ‘inspire’ new and innovative features to be integrated into next iOS
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Well, it hasn't inspired them to add a firewall feature to iOS yet. They do allow disabling some apps from using your mobile data, but doesn't come close to the functionality I need. *IF* Apple or Google ever give me a real firewall feature on my phone, I would not have any reason to root/jailbreak ever again. The only other reason is to cheat in games:oops:, but meh, that gets old real quick.:p
 
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justperry said:
Haven't jailbroken mine in years, what's the point nowadays, are there still features you really need by compromising the security on your device.

Stability was always an issue on the iPhones I had it on, so just after a short while I went back to stock iOS.
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Point? Change default browser ;)
 
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Lock4gLTE was very useful. Sometimes a weak LTE signal can get masked by say, a stronger 3G signal, but the 3G will still have unacceptably low speed (prehaps some type of interference). This tweak forces the phone to only use the LTE bands even if it’s a weaker signal, which would hence offer much better connection and speed even at a lower signal power. You could receive acceptable LTE speed even when the signal ‘bars’ were at 1 or 0. It was also an easy toggle in the control center
 
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One thing I'd really like to try is CarBridge, I think the developer is in the middle of some major rewrites (last time I checked). Everytime I check it out, it really makes me want to JB :cool:
 
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A "silly" use case for jaikbreaking would be to extend the iPad Pro 12.9" with a cheap fast battery powered Unix computer (iPhone SE 2020) for development purposes. E.g. compile and run some software, without tampering with the iPad.

Until Apple finally releases a Unix container/sandbox for iPad OS that you can your code, compilers and interpreters on.
 
I'm considering jailbreaking because I used to ROOT and install ROMS a long time ago with my android devices. I enjoyed looking at the code, working through issues without dev help and understanding more how my phone worked. These are the reasons I would do this again.
 
justperry said:
Haven't jailbroken mine in years, what's the point nowadays, are there still features you really need by compromising the security on your device.

Stability was always an issue on the iPhones I had it on, so just after a short while I went back to stock iOS.
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I see no reason, as an end user to jailbreak my phone. Not now. Apple added all the things people used to jailbreak their phones to have, and security of my device is more important than any techno geek stuff I could do with it.
 
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D.T. said:
One thing I'd really like to try is CarBridge, I think the developer is in the middle of some major rewrites (last time I checked). Everytime I check it out, it really makes me want to JB :cool:
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it was absolutely amazing on iOS 12

there isn’t an iOS 13 version yet though. And may not be unfortunately
 
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supergt said:
I love these posts and the inevitable “why even jailbreak these days”. You can turbocharge your iPhone including quick animations, even faster opening of apps, and better general performance on the home screen. My personal favorite is the ability to downgrade AppStore apps, no YouTube ads, changing the app splash screen to black, no silly swipe up to unlock on Face ID phones, and battery percent instead of an icon at all times. And up until iOS13 it was the only way to get dark mode, unobtrusive volume hud, and better control center functionality. You can thank the jailbreak scene for the improvements Apple makes painfully slowly via each yearly iOS iteration. The truth is a lot of the innovation Apple claims as their own happens by developers working behind the scenes on a jailbreak.
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Does it allow banner incoming call notifications vs the entire screen?
 
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