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Remind me what I get for jailbreaking these days? Long ago I wanted to tether, but can’t think of what I need today.

by aklemm 6y ago

LeoNatan25 6y ago
You can enable ECG on Apple Watch in non-approved countries.
boardwaalk 6y ago
Also curious about this. The only thing I can think of emulators and other forbidden apps - you sign them with Xcode, but it only lasts a limited time (a week?)
- MaxLeiter 6y ago
  There’s now a clever tool for getting around Apples signing, AltStore, which uses a server application on your computer to periodically sign the app (and has some trick to bypass not requiring a developer account that involves an Apple Mail extension)
  - derefr 6y ago
    As it turns out, this is used as one of the listed bootstrap methods for getting the jailbreak going. It's a very different era for jailbreaking, these days. We don't actually need an ACE exploit as a bootstrap any more; we can just rely on various pseudo-officially-sanctioned methods of running arbitrary code (e.g. an XCode development provisioning profile.) A jailbreak is now just a privilege-escalation exploit. Interesting times.
    - ValentineC 6y ago
      The crazy thing is that it used to be even easier, but Apple broke some of the sideloading mechanisms. AltStore and its mods seem to be one of the few sideloading methods left for people who aren't paying $99/year for the Apple Developer Program.
valine 6y ago
For me: system wide speed up of apples obscenely slow animations and access to stored WiFi passwords. Also theming icons is lots of fun. A fresh coat of paint can make iOS feel exciting and new again.
- jtbayly 6y ago
  Wow. I've wanted both of those things so many times! I'm seriously interested now.
- ajphdiv 6y ago
  I disable the animations in accessibility. Is there a JB app that goes beyond that?
  - valine 6y ago
    Yes. Reduced motion in accessibility still leaves you with a slow cross fade. With a jailbreak you can disable the animations entirely and apps will open instantly.
- nojito 6y ago
  This just makes you see the app quicker, but it's still unusable until it loads. The animations are a clever way to hide loading delay from the enduser.
  - joshspankit 6y ago
    Not every app needs that much time. Apple has done the equivalent of setting a 30mph speed limit on all roads.
  - valine 6y ago
    The animation still plays even when the app is loaded and in the background. In that case it really does load instantly.
MaxLeiter 6y ago
I use it so I can have a full development environment natively on device. My iPad turned into a portable SSH or X server. Great for when I’m on the go and can even use my laptop to control it to avoid the bad keyboard and lack of mouse
- derefr 6y ago
  > X Server This wouldn't require a jailbreak. There's nothing stopping anyone from making a no-compromises X11 server as a fully-sandboxed iOS App Store app. > SSH server (i.e. POSIX environment) There's technically no reason that this should require a jailbreak, either, though an implementation of this that conforms to App Store policies would work a bit differently than people would intuitively expect from e.g. Linux. Rather than going in and installing packages through a package-manager, any additional executable binaries you wanted would have to ship embedded into some code-signed App Store app, (i.e. put Apple's auditors in the path those binaries take to client devices.) The obvious way to structure it would be to have one "base" app that sets up the skeleton of the POSIX environment and which also acts as a terminal emulator; and then have other apps that are installed to serve as "plugins" for the environment, adding their embedded binaries into the "base" environment (similar to how XCode.app and Server.app integrate their utilities into macOS's $PATH—but in a Shared Container rather than in the host filesystem.) Compiling things and running them doesn't seem to be restricted completely any more, either, given that Swift Playgrounds exists. (I think it's just custom runtime JITs that are disallowed. Seemingly, if you have a compiler that writes an executable to storage and then fork(2)+exec(2)s it into a new process running under your app, that's fine.)
  - MaxLeiter 6y ago
    There's nothing stopping people except the time and effort required. For fontconfig and some other nice to have programs (X itself builds fine) you need to either patch them or modify the SDK you're building against to remove the compiler attributes. Apple won't allow the latter on the app store, and the former would be a significant amount of work. There are terminal emulators and X servers on the app store now, but the problem is the limitations of the sandbox and performance. Alpine and an X server can be run on Qemu, but performance is far better with the native server. And, Swift Playgrounds is an Apple product. They don't hold themselves to the same limitations as 3rd party app developers.
unityByFreedom 6y ago
I just switched from android to iphone, and there are a couple things I miss. I wonder if they are possible with a jailbreak: - one-click open a goo.gl/maps link in google maps (right now I need to click the link, then click open) - copying text auto-opens a google translate bubble on the side I can use to view the translation (does not appear to be possible on iphone) - change the default browser that opens from safari to chrome (right now I need to open it in safari, click share, select chrome, then hit "open in chrome". Those 4 clicks could be reduced to 1)
- vmception 6y ago
  - goo.gl/maps I don't think I ever encounter those in my world, and always end up in google maps exclusively. I'm not saying you should change your behavior, but I bet the conveniences you look for exist in a different funnel that you might find just as fun. - copying text auto-opens a google translate bubble thats kind of cool, there might be an additional keyboard you can install that gets you the same result? But yes to translate I typically just have the google translate app open in the background and quick swap over to it.
  - unityByFreedom 6y ago
    I get maps.app.goo.gl shares from friends about where to meet up. For the translate bubble, maybe there's a shortcut, I don't know. If anyone knows of a way to do this, please let me know.
- myrandomcomment 6y ago
  For any one click look at shortcuts. You can also add web links to the home screen. That is how the ft.com “app” worked for awhile. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208309 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208309
  - unityByFreedom 6y ago
    > You can also add web links to the home screen Bookmarks, great, I was wondering how to do that. A bit strange that it needs to visibly flick open the shortcuts app first before proceeding to Chrome..
ValentineC 6y ago
For me: I just want to be able to downgrade apps, if the app developer decides to break newer versions with "premium" features.
- AnonC 6y ago
  The removal of apps syncing and the removal of apps from iTunes have made this worse in the last few years. I get so frustrated by this often enough. There’s a paid app called iMazing (look for sales before buying) that allows downloading apps from the App Store to a computer and also installing apps from the IPA files to the device. There may be some other paid apps too for this.
Lammy 6y ago
This turned into way, way too big of a comment, but I'm on jailbroken iOS 13.3 right now and love it. It's not like the Old Days where tweaks often added huge new pieces of functionality, and that seems to make many people say jailbreaking is no longer worth it. For me it's more like a bunch of very small usability improvements that add up to make my phone much much more pleasant, polishing its usability to perfection. My favorite iOS 13 tweaks are, in no particular order: - "powerlogHelperdFix": Listing this first because it's the only workaround I needed for a bug in the jailbreak, to fix the Battery stats Settings pane. - "AlarmVolume": Custom (read: very loud) volume for my wake-up alarm, separate from the normal volume setting that I like to leave low or muted. Similar to how Android allows separate volume settings for calls / notifs / alarms: https://i.imgur.com/dV4URQT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/dV4URQT.jpg - "Mega-Untrusted-Hosts-Blocker IPv4+IPv6": Adblocking hosts file for web content in all apps that works on mobile data or any random Wi-Fi network where you don't have an adblocking DNS server. - "TwitterNoAds" + "AlwaysLatestTimelineTwitter": Blocking promoted tweets and forcing reverse-chronological feed (as opposed to algorithmically-sorted-feed) in the Twitter app. - "AlwaysLow": Make my phone willing to always stay in Low Power Mode instead of turning LPM off once charged past 80%: https://i.imgur.com/wgn7Lj9.jpg https://i.imgur.com/wgn7Lj9.jpg - "A-Font", "Noctis Neo", "ColorBadges", "iPadStatusBar13", "Cuboid": System UI customization. No real need; just to keep things fresh by changing up every once in a while. https://i.imgur.com/7Iy0gUs.jpg https://i.imgur.com/7Iy0gUs.jpg Currently: https://i.imgur.com/1lbe3I2.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1lbe3I2.jpg - "Jellyfish": Customizable replacement for the standard lock screen. https://i.imgur.com/oQSaSl9.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oQSaSl9.jpg Currently: https://i.imgur.com/kQ0ITWC.jpg https://i.imgur.com/kQ0ITWC.jpg - "Clean Home Screen" + "FDots": Hide tiny UI annoyances like the blue Recently-updated-app dots, the text reminding me that I have to unlock my phone to use it, the text reminding me of what the Notification Center is, etc: https://i.imgur.com/x34If3d.jpg https://i.imgur.com/x34If3d.jpg - "StopPlayin12'": Stops the Apple Music app from auto-playing any time a bluetooth device (like my car) reconnects to my phone. I usually use a third-party music app, but iOS only ever wants to start the built in player. I still have to go manually start the app I want, but at least I get to do it in silence: https://i.imgur.com/90JPuqa.jpg https://i.imgur.com/90JPuqa.jpg - "System Sound Disabler": Truly disable excessive UI sound effects so I can leave my volume up and not have to hear them: https://i.imgur.com/nTOrgH1.jpg https://i.imgur.com/nTOrgH1.jpg - "AskBeforeCalling Too 13": Prevent accidental pocket-dials by adding a confirmation dialog to any action that would initiate a call/text/whatever: https://i.imgur.com/3vw5fkw.jpg https://i.imgur.com/3vw5fkw.jpg - "NoAutoStraighten", "NoDNDBanner", "NoLowPowerAlert", "NoMoreSuggestions", "NoMoreSkinToneSuggestions", "NoNCHeaderView", "NoYellowBattery", "AppStoreUpdatesTab13", "Ultrasound", etc: Lots of small single-purpose UI tweaks that often don't even need settings panes. - "NoYTNo" + "Youtube Tools": Automatically dismiss the constant Youtube Premium upsells when you open the app, re-enable background playback support, block ads in Youtube videos, etc. - "NXBoot": Jailbreak my exploitable Nintendo Switch with any boot code using Apple's USB3 Lightning Camera Adapter: https://i.imgur.com/pySTOVO.jpg https://i.imgur.com/pySTOVO.jpg - "RealCC": Reverts the Control Center Wi-Fi/BT toggles to their pre-iOS-11 functionality of fully disabling the associated radios instead of merely disconnecting your WiFi until 3AM the next morning like it does now. - "DNDMyRecording": Automatically enables Do Not Disturb mode when taking a screen recording so unwanted notifications don't end up in your video. - "GoodWifi": Display saved passwords for known Wi-Fi networks, display base station MAC, display true signal values, etc: https://i.imgur.com/xSVLhFU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xSVLhFU.jpg - "DLEasy": Video downloader for all social media apps, including Reddit-style DASH/HLS segmented videos: https://i.imgur.com/IU1ZFWf.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IU1ZFWf.jpg - "CopyLyrics" + "YTCopyDescription": Allows you to copy the plain text from the lyrics pane in Apple Music or the description of a video in the YouTube app. - "Keyboard Accio": Makes the 'Globe' button on the keyboard only switch between the first two keyboards in my list of enabled keyboards, so I can leave several enabled without making it a tedious process to get through them all back to QWERTY. The full list is still available via a long press. - "iKeyWi 4": Total layout customization for the standard keyboard without having to replace it with a third-party keyboard. I keep the layout pretty much the same aside from adding a fifth row of keys up top for a permanent number row: https://i.imgur.com/OQ0ITve.jpg https://i.imgur.com/OQ0ITve.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Nj2UMQ7.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Nj2UMQ7.jpg - "Filza" + "Safari Plus": A fully-fledged graphical file manager that makes a great pairing with a tweak that gives Safari a native download manager: https://i.imgur.com/IoWrHKn.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IoWrHKn.jpg I'm sure most (if not all) of these probably sound unnecessary to many people, but I love feeling in control of my own phone instead of the other way around :)
choward 6y ago
It's so you can treat your phone like that computer it actually is. I don't know about iPhones but on Android for example, I can edit the hosts file.
dubya 6y ago
I don't know if jailbreaking would solve this, but if iPads could have multiple users I'd have bought one by now. Since schools and now businesses have this option it's probably possible.
- AnonC 6y ago
  This is why I stopped buying new iPads. These are usually used by multiple people and there’s no good reason for Apple to withhold multiuser after introducing it to the education market some years ago. With current hardware and memory, it should be easier and quicker than before to switch users.
- christefano 6y ago
  This actually used to be possible (and may still be?) with the iUsers app in Cydia. That was maybe 10 years ago, though. I’d jailbreak my iPad Pro immediately if I could get multiuser support. I really hope the multiuser stuff from tvOS 13 or Apple’s implementation for education accounts make it into iPad OS.
ultrarunner 6y ago
A system-wide parametric equalizer (EQE) that makes music while running inspirational in a way I derive a large amount of value. I’ve also been interested to see all the spyware Apple allows in App Store apps. Very happy to have a bootrom exploit now.
pzmarzly 6y ago
Orion tweak from Packix repo restores iOS 12 3d-touch gestures for keyboard (hard-press anywhere to move cursor around, press even harder to select text). This, with RealKeys (adds haptic feedback to the keyboard) are the only tweaks I use, and they are truly a game changer when it comes to typing.

Remind me what I get for jailbreaking these days? Long ago I wanted to tether, but can’t think of what I need today.

by aklemm 6y ago

Remind me what I get for jailbreaking these days? Long ago I wanted to tether, but can’t think of what I need today.

LeoNatan25 6y ago

You can enable ECG on Apple Watch in non-approved countries.

boardwaalk 6y ago

Also curious about this. The only thing I can think of emulators and other forbidden apps - you sign them with Xcode, but it only lasts a limited time (a week?)

MaxLeiter 6y ago
There’s now a clever tool for getting around Apples signing, AltStore, which uses a server application on your computer to periodically sign the app (and has some trick to bypass not requiring a developer account that involves an Apple Mail extension)
- derefr 6y ago
  As it turns out, this is used as one of the listed bootstrap methods for getting the jailbreak going. It's a very different era for jailbreaking, these days. We don't actually need an ACE exploit as a bootstrap any more; we can just rely on various pseudo-officially-sanctioned methods of running arbitrary code (e.g. an XCode development provisioning profile.) A jailbreak is now just a privilege-escalation exploit. Interesting times.
  - ValentineC 6y ago
    The crazy thing is that it used to be even easier, but Apple broke some of the sideloading mechanisms. AltStore and its mods seem to be one of the few sideloading methods left for people who aren't paying $99/year for the Apple Developer Program.

valine 6y ago

For me: system wide speed up of apples obscenely slow animations and access to stored WiFi passwords. Also theming icons is lots of fun. A fresh coat of paint can make iOS feel exciting and new again.

jtbayly 6y ago
Wow. I've wanted both of those things so many times! I'm seriously interested now.
ajphdiv 6y ago
I disable the animations in accessibility. Is there a JB app that goes beyond that?
- valine 6y ago
  Yes. Reduced motion in accessibility still leaves you with a slow cross fade. With a jailbreak you can disable the animations entirely and apps will open instantly.
nojito 6y ago
This just makes you see the app quicker, but it's still unusable until it loads. The animations are a clever way to hide loading delay from the enduser.
- joshspankit 6y ago
  Not every app needs that much time. Apple has done the equivalent of setting a 30mph speed limit on all roads.
- valine 6y ago
  The animation still plays even when the app is loaded and in the background. In that case it really does load instantly.

MaxLeiter 6y ago

I use it so I can have a full development environment natively on device. My iPad turned into a portable SSH or X server. Great for when I’m on the go and can even use my laptop to control it to avoid the bad keyboard and lack of mouse

derefr 6y ago
> X Server This wouldn't require a jailbreak. There's nothing stopping anyone from making a no-compromises X11 server as a fully-sandboxed iOS App Store app. > SSH server (i.e. POSIX environment) There's technically no reason that this should require a jailbreak, either, though an implementation of this that conforms to App Store policies would work a bit differently than people would intuitively expect from e.g. Linux. Rather than going in and installing packages through a package-manager, any additional executable binaries you wanted would have to ship embedded into some code-signed App Store app, (i.e. put Apple's auditors in the path those binaries take to client devices.) The obvious way to structure it would be to have one "base" app that sets up the skeleton of the POSIX environment and which also acts as a terminal emulator; and then have other apps that are installed to serve as "plugins" for the environment, adding their embedded binaries into the "base" environment (similar to how XCode.app and Server.app integrate their utilities into macOS's $PATH—but in a Shared Container rather than in the host filesystem.) Compiling things and running them doesn't seem to be restricted completely any more, either, given that Swift Playgrounds exists. (I think it's just custom runtime JITs that are disallowed. Seemingly, if you have a compiler that writes an executable to storage and then fork(2)+exec(2)s it into a new process running under your app, that's fine.)
- MaxLeiter 6y ago
  There's nothing stopping people except the time and effort required. For fontconfig and some other nice to have programs (X itself builds fine) you need to either patch them or modify the SDK you're building against to remove the compiler attributes. Apple won't allow the latter on the app store, and the former would be a significant amount of work. There are terminal emulators and X servers on the app store now, but the problem is the limitations of the sandbox and performance. Alpine and an X server can be run on Qemu, but performance is far better with the native server. And, Swift Playgrounds is an Apple product. They don't hold themselves to the same limitations as 3rd party app developers.

unityByFreedom 6y ago

I just switched from android to iphone, and there are a couple things I miss. I wonder if they are possible with a jailbreak: - one-click open a goo.gl/maps link in google maps (right now I need to click the link, then click open) - copying text auto-opens a google translate bubble on the side I can use to view the translation (does not appear to be possible on iphone) - change the default browser that opens from safari to chrome (right now I need to open it in safari, click share, select chrome, then hit "open in chrome". Those 4 clicks could be reduced to 1)

vmception 6y ago
- goo.gl/maps I don't think I ever encounter those in my world, and always end up in google maps exclusively. I'm not saying you should change your behavior, but I bet the conveniences you look for exist in a different funnel that you might find just as fun. - copying text auto-opens a google translate bubble thats kind of cool, there might be an additional keyboard you can install that gets you the same result? But yes to translate I typically just have the google translate app open in the background and quick swap over to it.
- unityByFreedom 6y ago
  I get maps.app.goo.gl shares from friends about where to meet up. For the translate bubble, maybe there's a shortcut, I don't know. If anyone knows of a way to do this, please let me know.
myrandomcomment 6y ago
For any one click look at shortcuts. You can also add web links to the home screen. That is how the ft.com “app” worked for awhile. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208309 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208309
- unityByFreedom 6y ago
  > You can also add web links to the home screen Bookmarks, great, I was wondering how to do that. A bit strange that it needs to visibly flick open the shortcuts app first before proceeding to Chrome..

ValentineC 6y ago

For me: I just want to be able to downgrade apps, if the app developer decides to break newer versions with "premium" features.

AnonC 6y ago
The removal of apps syncing and the removal of apps from iTunes have made this worse in the last few years. I get so frustrated by this often enough. There’s a paid app called iMazing (look for sales before buying) that allows downloading apps from the App Store to a computer and also installing apps from the IPA files to the device. There may be some other paid apps too for this.

Lammy 6y ago

This turned into way, way too big of a comment, but I'm on jailbroken iOS 13.3 right now and love it. It's not like the Old Days where tweaks often added huge new pieces of functionality, and that seems to make many people say jailbreaking is no longer worth it. For me it's more like a bunch of very small usability improvements that add up to make my phone much much more pleasant, polishing its usability to perfection. My favorite iOS 13 tweaks are, in no particular order: - "powerlogHelperdFix": Listing this first because it's the only workaround I needed for a bug in the jailbreak, to fix the Battery stats Settings pane. - "AlarmVolume": Custom (read: very loud) volume for my wake-up alarm, separate from the normal volume setting that I like to leave low or muted. Similar to how Android allows separate volume settings for calls / notifs / alarms: https://i.imgur.com/dV4URQT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/dV4URQT.jpg - "Mega-Untrusted-Hosts-Blocker IPv4+IPv6": Adblocking hosts file for web content in all apps that works on mobile data or any random Wi-Fi network where you don't have an adblocking DNS server. - "TwitterNoAds" + "AlwaysLatestTimelineTwitter": Blocking promoted tweets and forcing reverse-chronological feed (as opposed to algorithmically-sorted-feed) in the Twitter app. - "AlwaysLow": Make my phone willing to always stay in Low Power Mode instead of turning LPM off once charged past 80%: https://i.imgur.com/wgn7Lj9.jpg https://i.imgur.com/wgn7Lj9.jpg - "A-Font", "Noctis Neo", "ColorBadges", "iPadStatusBar13", "Cuboid": System UI customization. No real need; just to keep things fresh by changing up every once in a while. https://i.imgur.com/7Iy0gUs.jpg https://i.imgur.com/7Iy0gUs.jpg Currently: https://i.imgur.com/1lbe3I2.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1lbe3I2.jpg - "Jellyfish": Customizable replacement for the standard lock screen. https://i.imgur.com/oQSaSl9.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oQSaSl9.jpg Currently: https://i.imgur.com/kQ0ITWC.jpg https://i.imgur.com/kQ0ITWC.jpg - "Clean Home Screen" + "FDots": Hide tiny UI annoyances like the blue Recently-updated-app dots, the text reminding me that I have to unlock my phone to use it, the text reminding me of what the Notification Center is, etc: https://i.imgur.com/x34If3d.jpg https://i.imgur.com/x34If3d.jpg - "StopPlayin12'": Stops the Apple Music app from auto-playing any time a bluetooth device (like my car) reconnects to my phone. I usually use a third-party music app, but iOS only ever wants to start the built in player. I still have to go manually start the app I want, but at least I get to do it in silence: https://i.imgur.com/90JPuqa.jpg https://i.imgur.com/90JPuqa.jpg - "System Sound Disabler": Truly disable excessive UI sound effects so I can leave my volume up and not have to hear them: https://i.imgur.com/nTOrgH1.jpg https://i.imgur.com/nTOrgH1.jpg - "AskBeforeCalling Too 13": Prevent accidental pocket-dials by adding a confirmation dialog to any action that would initiate a call/text/whatever: https://i.imgur.com/3vw5fkw.jpg https://i.imgur.com/3vw5fkw.jpg - "NoAutoStraighten", "NoDNDBanner", "NoLowPowerAlert", "NoMoreSuggestions", "NoMoreSkinToneSuggestions", "NoNCHeaderView", "NoYellowBattery", "AppStoreUpdatesTab13", "Ultrasound", etc: Lots of small single-purpose UI tweaks that often don't even need settings panes. - "NoYTNo" + "Youtube Tools": Automatically dismiss the constant Youtube Premium upsells when you open the app, re-enable background playback support, block ads in Youtube videos, etc. - "NXBoot": Jailbreak my exploitable Nintendo Switch with any boot code using Apple's USB3 Lightning Camera Adapter: https://i.imgur.com/pySTOVO.jpg https://i.imgur.com/pySTOVO.jpg - "RealCC": Reverts the Control Center Wi-Fi/BT toggles to their pre-iOS-11 functionality of fully disabling the associated radios instead of merely disconnecting your WiFi until 3AM the next morning like it does now. - "DNDMyRecording": Automatically enables Do Not Disturb mode when taking a screen recording so unwanted notifications don't end up in your video. - "GoodWifi": Display saved passwords for known Wi-Fi networks, display base station MAC, display true signal values, etc: https://i.imgur.com/xSVLhFU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xSVLhFU.jpg - "DLEasy": Video downloader for all social media apps, including Reddit-style DASH/HLS segmented videos: https://i.imgur.com/IU1ZFWf.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IU1ZFWf.jpg - "CopyLyrics" + "YTCopyDescription": Allows you to copy the plain text from the lyrics pane in Apple Music or the description of a video in the YouTube app. - "Keyboard Accio": Makes the 'Globe' button on the keyboard only switch between the first two keyboards in my list of enabled keyboards, so I can leave several enabled without making it a tedious process to get through them all back to QWERTY. The full list is still available via a long press. - "iKeyWi 4": Total layout customization for the standard keyboard without having to replace it with a third-party keyboard. I keep the layout pretty much the same aside from adding a fifth row of keys up top for a permanent number row: https://i.imgur.com/OQ0ITve.jpg https://i.imgur.com/OQ0ITve.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Nj2UMQ7.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Nj2UMQ7.jpg - "Filza" + "Safari Plus": A fully-fledged graphical file manager that makes a great pairing with a tweak that gives Safari a native download manager: https://i.imgur.com/IoWrHKn.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IoWrHKn.jpg I'm sure most (if not all) of these probably sound unnecessary to many people, but I love feeling in control of my own phone instead of the other way around :)

choward 6y ago

It's so you can treat your phone like that computer it actually is. I don't know about iPhones but on Android for example, I can edit the hosts file.

dubya 6y ago

I don't know if jailbreaking would solve this, but if iPads could have multiple users I'd have bought one by now. Since schools and now businesses have this option it's probably possible.

AnonC 6y ago
This is why I stopped buying new iPads. These are usually used by multiple people and there’s no good reason for Apple to withhold multiuser after introducing it to the education market some years ago. With current hardware and memory, it should be easier and quicker than before to switch users.
christefano 6y ago
This actually used to be possible (and may still be?) with the iUsers app in Cydia. That was maybe 10 years ago, though. I’d jailbreak my iPad Pro immediately if I could get multiuser support. I really hope the multiuser stuff from tvOS 13 or Apple’s implementation for education accounts make it into iPad OS.

ultrarunner 6y ago

A system-wide parametric equalizer (EQE) that makes music while running inspirational in a way I derive a large amount of value. I’ve also been interested to see all the spyware Apple allows in App Store apps. Very happy to have a bootrom exploit now.

pzmarzly 6y ago

Orion tweak from Packix repo restores iOS 12 3d-touch gestures for keyboard (hard-press anywhere to move cursor around, press even harder to select text). This, with RealKeys (adds haptic feedback to the keyboard) are the only tweaks I use, and they are truly a game changer when it comes to typing.