One thing I used to JB to be able to do was move my icons anywhere on the screen and have it stay that way. I hate the way apple makes them all push Left and Up on a particular screen. Not sure why apple makes this happen and won't let us have custom icon placement.
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I wouldnt go that far. Cydia is a train wreck of an app. All these years and it still looks and works like garbage.
Having said that.. being able to actually have some control over my $1500 homescreen is really awesome and what Ive expected out of Apple for years.
Then theres than Con site juneiphone where you buy an app and then they want you to pay a subscription to use it.
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It is. That’s why I have YouTube Premium. No ads and I still support creators. And background play!
Which ones? Ive not found a single one in Cydia that works with iOS 13. They are all many many years old. You can install Delta without a jailbreak so please elaborate.
Couple of good things about jailbreaking:
- a display of the current being drawn from the battery. Allows me to see if one app is draining my battery
- MAC address spoofing. Useful to workaround time limits in airports etc. Also to fool surveillance
But the main point is just to make a stand and NOT to accept the concept that apps need to be approved by Apple.
- a display of the current being drawn from the battery. Allows me to see if one app is draining my battery
- MAC address spoofing. Useful to workaround time limits in airports etc. Also to fool surveillance
But the main point is just to make a stand and NOT to accept the concept that apps need to be approved by Apple.
Just a note on surveillance: for devices scanning for you, the MAC address already gets randomized anyway.
Please do not jailbreak just to do emulations. You can do it through official way wiht Provenance https://github.com/Provenance-Emu/Provenance You will need free Apple Developer account.
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For experimenting with jailbreaking, I would recommend separate Apple ID and separate spare device. Do not enter any credentials on jailbroken device unless you are prepared to loose them.
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There's nothing insane about jailbreaking your device. It's a fundamental right to have full access to the devices you own which Apple just chooses to deny.
I get how you may not trust jailbreak developers, but the whole community does. Hell, even our competitor developers who may hate us still trust that we would never do anything bad to people's devices. Is that all blind trust? Of course not. We've earned the trust of our community by continuously doing work for them. I'm not asking you to trust us or whatever, just refrain from commenting things when you're not informed. We're not strangers releasing jailbreaks, we're part of the jailbreak community. If you have no evidence against trusting us, don't tell that to people. Let them become part of the community and decide for themselves.
Mind if I ask, why would people trust Apple? Apple doesn't need a hack to gain literally anything from your devices. But they don't and people believe that, why? They've earned the trust of people. It's the same with us, just that our community is much smaller.
Apple is a public company, they have a lot to loose in terms of a company reputation, and reputation of individual employes. Also they have clear business model. You can't say the same about anonymous community on the internet.
We have a reputation and we've also got a lot to lose. Not just that, we'd gain nothing from putting malicious code in our jailbreaks. We already have a source of income. This jailbreak was sponsored if you didn't notice.
I last jailbroke years ago. iOS5? iOS6? Don't remember. Anyway, I did it because I was annoyed I couldn't see the wifi passwords that were on my phone, as I'd forgotten one and wanted to enter it on my laptop. Once I jailbroke I themed everything, but my favourite two were to allow me to place icons anywhere on the screen and to shrink them down so I could fit more on each row.
I now have a Macbook so can use keychain to see the passwords and I've been not-jailbroken for so long I've lost interest in theming.
It was great fun though, and I'm sure those jailbreaking today will enjoy it.
I now have a Macbook so can use keychain to see the passwords and I've been not-jailbroken for so long I've lost interest in theming.
It was great fun though, and I'm sure those jailbreaking today will enjoy it.
I am sure China and Russia would love iOS and Android OS devices out of the box to allow running unverified software without any restrictions. Seriously, jailbreaking is remains safe only because so few people do it.
I'm not saying everything should run by default without restrictions, that would obviously be horrible. I'm saying iOS should be like macOS. If users want to, they can bypass restrictions. And macOS is still considered secure, isn't it?
You just said it's a hobby, for Apple employee it's main job. Would you loose your job or hobby? It's just an anonymous online community, it only takes one bad actor, there's dozens of jailbreak communities, some go and new appear. Personally can't trust this hobbits, sorry.
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Mac OS was built at different times, it's not even nearly secure as iOS. And you can do it a lot more on Mac OS without compromising security. It's very different systems with different purposes. Mac OS needs this choices because people use it to get various development work done.
Sure fun is one of the reasons we do it, but not the only one. Isn't really just a hobby it income comes from it, is it?
By a case company? You seriously going to trust case company with the same level as richest company in the world with strong ethics and decades of history.
Why does it matter who? The jailbreak is from us, not the case company lol. (who is also owned by one of the most famous Apple YouTubers if you haven't noticed, but that doesn't matter at all).
I got into jailbreaking from the first iPhone on to make it work on T-Mo. Continued till iOS 9 or 10 or so, after that didn't see the need. I know the iPhone is primarily a phone, but have of course so many other uses. One of my biggest beefs with the current iOS's is how when you get a call, it just completely takes over your phone. It is especially annoying when you are using navigation. So, with the latest jailbreak, which is very easy to do, I installed Scorpion which makes a call into a banner. Yes, it is a paid tweak, but I am okay for paying for somebody's effort and idea. Another great tweak is Springtomize which adds so many great simple features. I have an iPhone X and probably am not going to upgrade to iOS 14 to avoid slowing down the phone, so the jailbreak tweaks will add something to my daily use of the phone that I won't get from Apple.