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Anybody giving up a jailbreak for iOS10?
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I thought I'd never give up my 6S+ jailbreak on 9.0.2, but iOS 10 tempted me too much and I'm glad I did. The UI changes are subtle, but greatly improve use. The main thing I miss is activator as I had the volume buttons set up as playback controls for skip and previous, along with double touch home to sleep.
As for a jailbreak on iOS 10, there is plenty of hope. The kernel is unencrypted, so it should be easier to find exploits and use them to jailbreak the device. Hopefully it still proves challenging, otherwise too many exploits could be found, resulting in apple blocking them all at once.
As for a jailbreak on iOS 10, there is plenty of hope. The kernel is unencrypted, so it should be easier to find exploits and use them to jailbreak the device. Hopefully it still proves challenging, otherwise too many exploits could be found, resulting in apple blocking them all at once.
Based on the comparative (say, compared to the iOS 4-> 5 jump) lack of anything interesting in iOS10, I surely won't upgtrade my JB'n iDevices.
I probably wouldn't have upgraded. No one knows when the next JB will ever come out, if ever. And no matter how Apple improves stock iOS it still wouldn't be worth the trade-offs. I probably would switch to Android if I ever had to go back to stock iOS. In fact, having a usable JB is the probably the only major reason why I haven't moved to an Android device yet.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it isn't the lack of exploits that is preventing a current JB, is it? I thought there were plenty of proof-of-concept videos floating around, but no one has bothered to package it into a proper JB for the masses. Without this widespread adoption, development for tweaks and apps will continue to slow, leading to the death of the scene. Until then they would have to pry my JB device from my cold lifeless hands before forcing me to upgrade lol.
It really is pretty sad that the jailbreak community seems to be shrinking. I've been doing it for 7 years now and would hate to see it go. Luckily there's still plenty of devs working on it, it's just that more and more tweaks are paid than free.
As for exploits, people like iH8sn0w keep posting proof of concept videos with every release. However, you'll notice he's using an iBoot exploit, which wouldn't work on newer devices. That's why he posts those videos, be wise it's an exploit that Apple can't patch since it no longer exists on newer hardware. So it still very much is an exploit issue. There are some companies that have exploits and refuse to use them for a public jailbreak (remember the whole $1 mil jailbreak prize), but jailbreaks these days come from Chinese groups because American teams refuse to break copyright laws when looking for exploits for legal issues, and because there are some semi shady companies in China that fund the jailnreaks as a way to distribute their apps outside of Apple. So don't worry, jailbreaking will continue, but 5 years from now, the amount of tweaks will decrease.
Now here's my little conspiracy theory. I think apple engineers are the ones making a lot of the tweaks these days. Take tweaks like notificationcards and selective reading. Those were ported exactly as implemented in the jailbreak tweak into iOS 10. Almost all the new features in iOS 10 (rich notifications, new lockscreen, control center changes) came from jailbreak tweaks released 3 months ago. I firmly believe Apple uses cydia as a way to distribute their changes and get feedback on them before deciding to use it in an actual release. Just my opinion and probably wrong, but the similarities between the tweaks and the new features in iOS would be easily explained this way
Only reason, would be to get watchOS 3. Apple Watch is evovling and getting better + interesting
Absolutely this. Saying that I've got iOS10 on my test work iPad and when it goes public there is a very good chance ill move my iPad and personal iPad too it. The only thing I think I'd miss is fiveicondock. I can get Kodi through xcode. I think that's all that I use the jailbreak for, so the improvements to ios10 and watchos3.0 are worth it for me.