Ahhh I remember those lockscreen widgets, they were fantastic.
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Two Major Cydia Repositories Shut Down as Jailbreaking Fades in Popularity
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Haha, love the dark mode Tinder. Those hacks that edited third-party apps were always hilarious.
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I think it's a cycle. Hackers don't release anything, people give up, hackers stop caring, etc.
Are you mad because you're being made to pay for something someone put a lot of work and time into? That must be really hard for you.
Well, i used to jailbreak to unlock the baseband, as it was locked to one carrier and that was the only carrier the iphone was available. Also, there was no Network portability that time, so i couldn't port my number to that carrier. Later as time progressed i bought factory unlocked phone. Later, phones were available on many carriers and were fact. unlocked. So now no more reason to jailbreak.
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i hate it when i have to wait for animations to complete before i can do other action. Till iOS 6 the iOS was buttery smooth and it never ever missed touch or swipe or any gesture. But after iOS 7, i have to move slow and i've not got used to till now. My fingers often move faster than the iOS can update and always miss those gesture as the pesky animations need to finish first.
I verified and if you have iphone 3GS, you can verify too. You can unlock iPhone 3gs and swipe to 2nd page much faster than on my iPhone 6S. Try it.
I don’t really think it’s fallen out of favor. If there was an untethered jailbreak tomorrow you know how many would jump on it? There is still plenty it not more things I’d rather tweek now than the last 3 iPhones I have.
Being on the x there is many more things you can change to improve everything. One small pixel led notification light because the screen is an oled now and can light up one dot on the screen a lot of people would like.
A dark mode is much needed for this phone and iOS in general imo. How many of us have wanted this for years?
Tethering is a also another one being in grandfathered and don’t have tethering on my account still.
iOS 11 has lots of little issues you can fix with jailbreaking.
Problem is $$$. We haven’t seen many jailbreaking news because I honestly think they are being paid to do other things nowadays. The money Apple could throw at hackers to give them the exploits is much higher now than it was before so people are taking the money and that’s why we haven’t seen much about it lately. Doesn’t mean people don’t want it.
Anyone who can come up with the zero day could get a lot more selling it to the NSA or the Russians or collect a prize at a hacker con instead of dealing with pimple faced kids without any money.
I remember when I first got the swipe down to reload feature via a Cydia hack. It was the best thing ever before they implemented it in iOS natively.
There is still one thing missing that I always used to get via jailbreaking: light vibration when you type. Believe it or not, it helps you make a lot less typos.
There is still one thing missing that I always used to get via jailbreaking: light vibration when you type. Believe it or not, it helps you make a lot less typos.
OEMs end up copying these developers anyway. Google copied Xiaomi with permissions and Doze. I remember having Spotlight way before Spotlight. Apple should add a location services toggle. The lockdown and snail pace in features continues.
Perhaps the greatest reason for the decline in interest in jail breaking is a combination of the growing difficulty in jail breaking subsequent versions of iOS *and* the tighter coupling/dependence on the latest version of iOS for apps and functionality.
With the growing dependence on apps and services, staying on an older version of iOS is increasingly difficult. The decision then becomes, "do I stick with an older version of iOS that is jail broken and forgo the newer functionality, or lose the unique capabilities available with a jailbreak to use the latest functionality?"
I discovered early on that the apps that I rely on always required the latest version of iOS and ended up losing the jailbreak as soon as I had it.
With the growing dependence on apps and services, staying on an older version of iOS is increasingly difficult. The decision then becomes, "do I stick with an older version of iOS that is jail broken and forgo the newer functionality, or lose the unique capabilities available with a jailbreak to use the latest functionality?"
I discovered early on that the apps that I rely on always required the latest version of iOS and ended up losing the jailbreak as soon as I had it.
I was never interested in Jailbreaking phones. I also didn’t get a smartphone for a few years after they were introduced, and my first one was a Motorola Droid. There weren’t a lot of features I felt were missing by the time I started really using a smartphone, or at least not any I could practically use. Streaming video wasn’t an option based upon my data speed reliability (3g on a very good day, 1g on average) and that was with the best service available to me.
I do think Jailbreakers pushed Apple into offering Apps and OS features that they otherwise wouldn’t have done, though
I do think Jailbreakers pushed Apple into offering Apps and OS features that they otherwise wouldn’t have done, though
I can't do anything but laugh. This is completely off the mark. The real and probably ONLY reason that jailbreaking interest is on the so called decline is because there has not been a jailbreak available to the public for a long while. There are still many things that were available from the jailbreak community that are still WAY better than anything that the current ios 11 cant do. I for one hate the look of the ios 11 I would really prefer to be able to change the theme on my iphone. I always kept my name in the carrier location instead of ATT. I loved classic dock instead of that flat generic look. I loved being able to actually block unwanted calls. (REAL UNWANTED CALLS ie BLOCKED and PRIVATE) why is there not a way to block those if ios 11 doesn't need anything else? I for one would pay a modest fee for a Jailbreak for ios 11 and would install it on every ios device I own. I love the larger faster better phones but I hate the ios 11 look, feel and broken functionally that I'm stuck with.
There’s been no Apple response on this, bs or otherwise. Not sure where you’re getting that.
Yes, over the last decade I’ve seen one or two things jailbreaking has done that I thought might be cool-ish to put on my phone ... but none of them have come even close to overcoming the risks involved with jailbreaking. Trusting anonymous people on the internet to safely modify my OS represents a set of performance, stability, and most importantly, security risks that I would never seriously consider for my mobile device that I depend on for so many things.
Yeah, this is the biggest annoyance for me. I used to disable animations systemwide in iOS 8 when I jailbroke, and that was great. Made my phone feel so much faster.
IDK what they were thinking. Maybe iOS 6 did have slow animations but let you still interact while they were going. All these new animations totally block user input.
Yeah I'm gonna need jailbreak to fix all the gesture and UI sidestepping. Hoping for a release by the time I buy the 2018 iPhone X next year.
My 6S is on 10.1.1, my 6+ is on 9.0.2 and my iPad Mini 2 is on 9.0.2. All of these versions are now way too old and I am starting to miss out on being able to update apps. Tweetbot for example is now 10.3 and above.
I think I'll keep the Mini and 6+ where they are at and give up the JB on the 6S so that I can update it and get current on the apps. It's still a very capable phone, just being held back now on old firmware.
I'll check that out right now! I will of course think this over for awhile before I do give up the JB on my 6S.
Lock screen is not broken for me. Can you be more specific?
Control center is quirky... can you be more specific? Seems to work as intended every time I pull it down.
Gigantic headers, can you be more specific? If you're on an iPhone X, you need room for gestures at the top and bottom of the screen to pull down lock center, control center, swipe up to home or swipe between apps. To me, they make a lot of sense. Can you explain yourself a bit more?
Music App - I use it on a daily basis, with a few qualms over how search is handled, specifically. Can you be more specific with why you think the music app is trash?
Folders being glitchy... again, mine work they way they're supposed to. Can you be more specific?
Widget center is laggy... yeah, I do wish that they widgets would be loaded by the time I swiped over. Thanks for bring specific on that one.
