What is jailbreak? Why do you need a jailbreak on the iPhone?
Many iPhone users heard about jailbreak, but still do not know what it is. Let's wonder this question.
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Jailbreak allows you to access the iOS files. She confesses the most protected. The high level of security is ensured due to the fact that it is closed:
- The programs are allowed to install only through the AppStore
- Applications can work with files only in their folders.
- Do not edit the desired system files
In general, jailbreak sounds like a "prison escape", which makes it possible to bypass Apple's restrictions and work with any files inside the device. So what is jailbreak and why do he need?
How to install jailbreak?
What is jailbreak?
This is achieved only thanks to the available IOS vulnerabilities. To use the exploit data, special utilities are being developed, for example, RedSn0W, Sn0wbreeze, Pwnage Tool and so on. Usually the participation of the user itself is minimal. It is only necessary to activate the correct mode on the device and wait until the jailbreak is performed for the desired utility.
Advantages of jailbreak
First of all, it allows you to download programs not only from the AppStore, but also other sources. Alternative to AppStore has long been Cidya. It contains several thousand applications, various superstructures and tweaks. Moreover, most of them are free. This store hosts those due to restrictions not included in the AppStore. For example:
- ifile, which is an excellent file manager. On devices with jailbreak, it performs Finder or Explorer, and also makes it possible to make simple actions with files and archives.
- SBSettings is a utility that allows you to work with different switches. They allow you to turn on the Internet for a couple of clicks, location, brightness adjustment, perform memory cleaning and so on
- SpringTomize 2 is a managerial center for tweaks where you can change the number of icons in the dock, add columns and lines to the main display, adjust the speed of the animation, increase the size of the folders and a lot of other
- Bitesms is an analogue of an SMS client for the iPhone, which is embedded in OS a much deeper built-in messenger, and has many additional features
Among other things, the jailbreak allows you to do the IOS setting to your needs. For example, remove the processes running in the background to significantly save the battery consumption or download dictionaries so that the translation in the applications is carried out faster. In other words, you will get great ability to reconfigure the system.
Jailbreak also provides opportunities for changing the interface. For example, the Winterboard Manager allows you to select a convenient design style - starting with the replacement of the dock until all folders, switches and screens are modified.
Jailbreak allows you to install hacked applications. For this, several system files will be swapped and the code signature check is turned off. As a result, paid applications from the AppStore can be downloaded for free.
What dangers carries jailbreak?
Why do you need jailbreak?
- After installation, the risk of failure in the IOS system is significantly increased. Since the user can work with system files, and during rapid actions, the device will stop working. In this case, you will have to put a new firmware
- Jailbreak carries high risks for the safety of the gadget. Although IOS has not yet come up with viruses, eliminate the possibility that they will not appear
- Formally, the jailbreak installation immediately deprives the device warranty. Therefore, when contacting the service, you may refuse it. To great joy, rearrange the firmware removes any traces of this utility
Is the jailbreak installation legal?
Disputes on this topic could not subscribe for a long time. As a result, the victory won the opinion that this is a conscious intervention in the work of the OS, which is carried out by the user. Therefore, it is unacceptable to prohibit it. In other words, with your phone you can do whatever you want.
Is jailbreak often updated?
Programmers constantly improve the system and cover all loopholes in it, so with the release of the new version of the jailbreak system, it becomes more complicated. By the way, it is another opinion that if no one created him, then no one would know about vulnerabilities in the system.