I jailbroke my iPhone a while back on iOS 9.3.3 and after having gone without a jailbreak prior to that since losing it after 9.0.2, well... I don't know how I went without it for so long!
The features that jailbreaking your iOS device provide are pretty spectacular if you're a geek like me.
User interface customization is pretty fun. I shrunk my icons to 75% of their original size and made them semi transparent. You're also able to change your carrier string to anything you want so I made it look like the space invaders guy. I also removed the background bar from the dock and added an icon, increasing the dock to 5 icons. I enabled embedded folders as well. Also, I removed the labels from the dock icons. Check it out:
Jailbreaking also allows you to have full root access to the file system. Most people are probably unaware that iOS actually has a very robust UNIX backbone. I am also able to SSH into my iPhone and manipulate files that way if I'd like. I installed a really handy terminal application that lets me do all the UNIX good stuff:
For when I'm lazy or just want to poke around, I use iFile... iFile is an app similar to OS X's Finder or Windows Explorer. I prefer terminal but iFile gets it done:
There are so many other tweaks and such that I've installed and would really miss if I didn't have the device jailbroken. I can download YouTube videos. I can add/remove music and other media without iTunes. I can plug my iPhone directly into a computer and it shows up as a USB drive, so I'm basically carrying around a 64GB USB drive with me all the time. I've got a really awesome voice recorder program that allows me to record incoming/outgoing calls and even let's me disguise my voice.
If you're still on iOS 9.3.3, I highly recommend jailbreaking. It's free and safe as long as you stay away from shady Cydia repositories. Cydia is basically the third party AppStore with thousands of apps and tweaks that Apple would never approve.
The features that jailbreaking your iOS device provide are pretty spectacular if you're a geek like me.
User interface customization is pretty fun. I shrunk my icons to 75% of their original size and made them semi transparent. You're also able to change your carrier string to anything you want so I made it look like the space invaders guy. I also removed the background bar from the dock and added an icon, increasing the dock to 5 icons. I enabled embedded folders as well. Also, I removed the labels from the dock icons. Check it out:
Jailbreaking also allows you to have full root access to the file system. Most people are probably unaware that iOS actually has a very robust UNIX backbone. I am also able to SSH into my iPhone and manipulate files that way if I'd like. I installed a really handy terminal application that lets me do all the UNIX good stuff:
For when I'm lazy or just want to poke around, I use iFile... iFile is an app similar to OS X's Finder or Windows Explorer. I prefer terminal but iFile gets it done:
There are so many other tweaks and such that I've installed and would really miss if I didn't have the device jailbroken. I can download YouTube videos. I can add/remove music and other media without iTunes. I can plug my iPhone directly into a computer and it shows up as a USB drive, so I'm basically carrying around a 64GB USB drive with me all the time. I've got a really awesome voice recorder program that allows me to record incoming/outgoing calls and even let's me disguise my voice.
If you're still on iOS 9.3.3, I highly recommend jailbreaking. It's free and safe as long as you stay away from shady Cydia repositories. Cydia is basically the third party AppStore with thousands of apps and tweaks that Apple would never approve.
