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Jailbreak for iOS 15 Close to Release, Claim Hackers
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Nice! I haven’t jailbroken my phone in years but I used to be addicted. Lol. I’ll spend hours customizing my phone. Now, I don’t have the patience or time. I just need my phone to work.
If someone were to write an AirPlay2 hack for the AppleTV HD, I would be so happy.
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Might have to chuck the 7 that got replaced with 4Ks if I can’t figure out what to do with them.
That and a quality POE hack and I would be set.
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Might have to chuck the 7 that got replaced with 4Ks if I can’t figure out what to do with them.
That and a quality POE hack and I would be set.
I haven't jailbroken a device in a hot minute. I miss 5 icon dock. The nextel chirp and making icons slightly smaller.
Didnt realist the JB community still existed tbh ... I dont think I have JB a handset since the days of my 3GS or possibly 4 ... feels like an age ago now
Good that its still happening since a lot the features we know and love were pioneered through JBs
Good that its still happening since a lot the features we know and love were pioneered through JBs
Being English, I always have a giggle when I see that word.
Legend has it that our use of that slang comes from a prison in Leeds/the Yorkshire area that would mark such inmates' doors with 'N.O.N.C.E.', which was acronymous for 'Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise' and ensured that they were separated from regular inmates for their own safety. Of course, only certain inmates had that mark on their door, so it became synonymous with those kinds of inmates. Hence "he's a nonce" meaning what people accused Prince Andrew of recently.
Legend has it that our use of that slang comes from a prison in Leeds/the Yorkshire area that would mark such inmates' doors with 'N.O.N.C.E.', which was acronymous for 'Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise' and ensured that they were separated from regular inmates for their own safety. Of course, only certain inmates had that mark on their door, so it became synonymous with those kinds of inmates. Hence "he's a nonce" meaning what people accused Prince Andrew of recently.
NB, there is an urban myth that nonce (child molester) came from a sign placed outside a prisoner's cell: Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise.
However, the Oxford English Dictionary, which is the arbiter of such matter, says that the origin of the word is unknown, perhaps derived from nancy-boy.
Jail breaking doesn’t “void warranty coverage” any more than installing 3rd party memory does. But, the device might need to be returned to stock condition before a warranty repair could be made.
I don’t know. Can it? I’m not aware of any way to do this but I’m all ears 👍
I would always jailbreak my early iPhones as the one thing I liked was number of rows and columns for apps..I used to have 5 on the home bar and 5 x 5 on the page.Apple doesn't have this and made phone easier to use
Not sure why there are so many here adamantly against JBing. I do not do it (for professional work reasons), but if someone wants to risk it, what harm does this do to anyone else's iPhone, and why should you be so upset about it?
There would be no reason to jailbreak if Apple would allow sideloading of apps.
That's pretty well correct at this point. I jailbroke pretty regularly from my 3g until the 4s or 5, and once on my 6, then stopped. No real point anymore.
My main concern, at this point, is opening up potential security exploits that could be used by celebrite, bad actors, etc. I haven't been pulled over in a decade, and no TSA or border guard has cared to look at my devices in the 30ish times I've crossed the US border in the same amount of time..but I'm not taking the chance.
There are still a few small UI tweaks that I like to play with. The main reason I jailbreak right now is for sideloading. I’ll tell you why. By sideloading modified or bootleg copies of social media apps I can get an ad free experience. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, they’re all a completely different experience without the ads. It’s so much better it’s ridiculous. I can even skip sponsored ads on YouTube, and have had picture in picture for a long time already. Not to mention I can download anything I want to on any of the apps, with no watermarks. 🤷🏻♂️
Is it a security risk? Sure, a little bit, but a calculated one. I’ve been in the jailbreak scene long enough that I know who I trust and who I don’t.
Not so. Jailbreaking allows the user to subvert file system and API protections, so that any manner of operations are possible. Some people (not me), look for that kind of thing. Sideloading, should it arise, is a means of obtaining software from another App Store: such software still has to play by the rules.
Wow, brings back memories of the iPhone 3GS being released in 2009 and I had to jailbreak it to get it to run on EE as the only provider offered for iPhones was O2, which was not available at all in my area.
Well good thing the Digital Markets Act is law now so Apple will have to soon.
