iPhone Seeking Honest Advice from anyone “In the Know”

[pollybrowne]

I’m on 11.2.1 w/my iPhone X.
I’ve been holding off on updating for months hoping there would be a JB released—and now I understand friom posts here that there was indeed an exploit found in versions pre-11.2.5 that was then patched 11.2.6.

There are some features in the latest update (well mainly when 11.3 gets out of beta) that I’d really like to take advantage of but I’m REALLY update shy bc I had previously been waiting on 11.1.2 and a week before the JB was release I updated .

I realize no one can know with any certainty but could someone give me at least an idea of whether it makes to continue waiting on this outdated OS?


Also, I’ve never been an SHSH blob saver—would that give me a safety net if I did upgrade and then an 11.2.5 JB was released?

I know JB-omg is a dying art (I’ve been a jailbreakinh since back when T-Mobile wasn’t an iPhone carrier though I never jailbroke my 7+).

It’s just that with several aspects of the iPhone X, there are a number of modifications I would really like to make.

So basically I don’t want to jump the update gun after I’ve waited this long and have what happened to me earlier this year happen again. It’s confusing though bc Redmond Pie comes out with all these ambiguous posts every week about different possibilities...I don’t know what to think, but at the same time I don’t want to stay on 11.2.1 forever if there’s no hope.

Peaople on this forum have always seemed to have a pretty firm grasp on what’s ACTUALLY going on in the JB community and given pretty straight advice in the past.

So if anyone has any insight/guidance on whether they would go ahead and update if they were me (or whether saving the blobs makes a difference) it would be massively appreciated.

PS: is REDMOND PIE considered a reliable source?

 

[evangw]

Saving the blobs does not work on the iPhone X, nor iPhone 8, and I also don't even think they work on iPhone 7.

Basically just see whether the features Apple adds in 11.3 are worth it to you versus the features that a jailbreak will add for you, should be fairly straightforward math at that point?

For me it's nice to have full-screen iPhone X apps for a couple reader apps I use daily but which never updated but otherwise the benefits are pretty small, e.g. returning the old app kill (swipe up, instead of hold and press X), removing the ugly white bar at the bottom of the iPhone X in-app GUI, etc.