I once worked with a woman whose grandson had jailbroken her iPhone 3GS. An Apple Tech will not help you fix a jailbreak that goes wrong. To be fair, a DFU Restore can usually remove a jailbreak from your iPhone, but that’s not always a surefire fix.įormer Apple tech David Payette informed me that Apple has a way of knowing whether an iPhone has ever been jailbroken, even after you do a DFU restore. Cons Of Jailbreaking An iPhoneįirst, you should know that when you perform a jailbreak on an iPhone, the warranty for that iPhone is invalidated. Apple is in touch with its customer base and will often take the most popular features among jailbreakers and incorporate them into the iPhone in a safe and secure way. With every major iOS update, there are fewer and fewer benefits to performing a jailbreak on an iPhone. Pro tip: You can turn on Night Shift by going to Settings -> Display & Brightness -> Night Shift and tapping to switch next to either Scheduled or Manually Enable Until Tomorrow. Prior to iOS 9.3, the only way to adjust the color filter to remove blue light was to jailbreak your iPhone and install an app called Auxo. Apple Night Shift uses the clock of your iPhone to automatically change the colors on the display to filter out blue light, which has been shown to make it more difficult to fall asleep at night. In response, the jailbreaking community found a way to make it much easier to turn on the light on the back of the iPhone by integrating it into a dropdown menu.Īpple saw the popularity of the easily accessible flashlight, so they incorporated it into Control Center when they released iOS 7.Īnother example of Apple adapting a popular Cydia app into a standard iPhone feature was when they introduced Apple Night Shift with iOS 9.3. iPhone users used to need a flashlight app in order to activate the light on the back of their iPhone, which were usually poorly-coded, drained battery life, and were full of ads. One example of Apple taking a popular Cydia app and integrating it into a regular iPhone is the flashlight in Control Center. Apple pays attention to what the jailbreak community does and adapts popular jailbroken features into new iPhone models. Here are some examples:
Ironically, Apple Pays Attention To The Jailbreak CommunityĮach time Apple releases a new version of iOS, it’s a curious phenomenon: Features that originally were only available by jailbreaking an iPhone are now built in to the iPhone operating system. Many of the restrictions that Apple builds into iOS are there to protect you and your data from hackers - not just to restrict what you can do. While these apps can be cool and can add a little bit of functionality to your iPhone, they can also be very dangerous. You’ll be able to download lots of new apps from an alternative app store known as Cydia. Many of the apps that you can download from Cydia allow you to customize your iPhone in ways only possible on a jailbroken iPhone.Ĭydia apps can change your icons, change your iPhone’s font, lock your apps, and change your default web browser to Chrome or Firefox. As I mentioned earlier, when you perform a jailbreak, your iPhone will no longer be bound to the restrictions of iOS.