I support the liberty of others to do it, also. I just have never felt oppressed by the App Store or the "walled garden".More power to you. I’ve never jailbroken my phone, but support the liberty of others to do as they choose.
I support the liberty of others to do it, also. I just have never felt oppressed by the App Store or the "walled garden".More power to you. I’ve never jailbroken my phone, but support the liberty of others to do as they choose.
What a nice write-up. Thank you for that.Back in the day it was the only way to add functionality Apple itself refused to impliment in iOS. App switching, control center, fast toggling of airplane mode and wireless radios. Heck even app folders on the home screen and notifications on the lock screen were originally introduced via Jailbreaking years before Apple finally adopted them. I started Jailbreaking around iOS 5, back when AT&T refused to allow hotspot functionality to those of us on grandfathered unlimited plans. Right up until iOS 9, my phones always had custom font, layouts, carrier text and sounds. I even had blinking Christmas lights wrapped around my lock screen during the holidays. The freedom and flexibility Jailbreaking allowed made the best hardware on the market that much more powerful. Eventually, Apple pulled its head out of its butt, realized users were resorting to Jailbreaking for a valid reason, and started to adopt the best parts of Jailbreaking such as F.Lux which they renamed Night Shift, instead of ostracizing users for wanting to Jailbreak.
Because of that, nowadays there just really isn’t a reason to Jailbreak anymore, which is why it’s fallen out of favor.
The security holes don’t exist unless you have OpenSSH installed and didn’t change the root password once you installed OpenSSH.No, it's not. Jailbreaking has been mostly pointless for quite some time now. The upsides of it are minuscule, and downsides are huge - major one being a massive security hole of keeping your personal data on what's basically is an insecure hacked device.
I used to jailbreak religiously since the original iPhone 2G.. But would not even consider jailbreaking now, even if JB was readily available.
Jailbreaking is what helps breed innovation for iOS. Some of the most common/basic features have been made because of the jailbreak community. Apple has even hired jailbreakers to work for them.
They just should leave a backdoor open for jailbreak crackers to find so iOS can continue to evolve.
Tired of the constant reboots and freezes.
Not clear how one anecdotal experience could be a blanket statement to cover all jailbreaks.FUD
I get none of that with my 10.2 JB - none of it, seriously, never.
Jailbreaking allows you to do whatever the heck you want with iOS. It wasn’t just apps, it was tweaks and themes to make the experience better, and oh man iOS needs it right now. iOS 11 is one of the worst iOS versions I’ve ever seen.
Well I guess that you were never aware of the patches that devs released for iOS to fix bugs and glitches in older versions in the Cydia store. Being able to fix bugs without updating is wonderful. Ignorance like that annoys me.iOS 11 has been critiqued for stability and reliability issues, not that of missing features.
You’re insinuating that Jailbreaking makes iOS inherently more reliable/stable?! LOL
Obey. Comply. Remain in the walled App Store.
I used to jailbreak so I could play music while I was in another app and for folders. Apple added both a long time ago.I think you may be oversimplifying. The reasons for jailbreaking are far less than they were. On an early iPhone you couldn't do video recording, copy/paste, tethering... these were fundamental features that Apple didn't implement. Current iOS features that are still lacking and therefore warrants a jailbreak caters more to niche users than it did before.
The need for most people to jailbreak has definitely lessened as a large majority of things they need to do already exists.
I used to have an iPhone 5 running iOS 6. Best phone ever, best music app ever. And my experience has been downgraded ever since.recently jailbroke a 4S so I could downgrade it back to iOS6. Wasnt being used for anything else and I wanted to have the best (IMO) version of Apple's basic music player app, to use as a dedicated mp3 player.
i was surprised at how easy it was. much easier than it was back in the day. but that might have to do more with the specific exploit used on the 4S to downgrade.
but man am I happy to have that music app again.
Yes, seamless integration amongst my devices, no viruses, software designed for humans, security. Why give up that for a half assed, virus prone, fragmented and non integrated OS?Obey. Comply. Remain in the walled App Store.