A year ago and specifically a year and two days ago, we published an article entitled "So the jailbreak era is over?" You find it in this link In it, he talked about the causes and indicators of weakness that are emerging in the world of jailbreaking, and the developers abandoned it, and he wondered whether the era of jailbreak is over. A year later, the answer came, which is that the era of jailbreaking continues, but the popularity of the jailbreak has ended. This answer is not a guess but an actual answer from the current reality of the jailbreak.
About 3 days ago, the highly popular Electra jailbreak was released for iOS 11.3 and iOS 11.3.1, and the team later released 3 updates for the tool, the most recent of which was yesterday evening, in which the jailbreak was supported for the first, second and third beta versions of iOS 11.4, and they advised those who want to get benefits iOS 11.4 and the jailbreak together to revert to this version. But despite this, the jailbreak did not get enough popularity.
Several years ago, the jailbreak article and its publication were among the most popular articles on our site, and some of them easily exceeded 100 readers. This was happening years ago and in the Arab world. The popularity of the "jailbreak" was overwhelming, but something happened to undermine this popularity. The Electra team has added a "counter" on the jailbreak site showing who has successfully jailbroken. Now, after more than 3 days, how much does the site appear?
Only 108 thousand people around the world have jailbroken their devices, and let's assume that the number will increase to 150 or 200. Is this a number! The team and the various sites made it clear that this counter counts who did the jailbreak and not who downloaded the tool. And they mentioned a text of this
Electra would need to report every successful jailbreak to the Electra Team's web server
There is no exact number for the number of effective iOS 11 devices currently, but it will not actually be less than three quarters of a billion, meaning that the popularity of the jailbreak now is almost 1-2 devices for every 10000 devices in the market. What is the secret of this collapse?
Reasons for the end of the popularity of the jailbreak
There are many reasons, not one reason, for the jailbreak to decline, and these are the most important of them:
◉ Jailbreak for an old versionYou will always have to stay on an old iOS system to jailbreak it; A week ago, you had to continue with iOS 11.1.2 as a maximum, in order to have a jailbreak, and currently it only supports iOS 11.3.1 and the trial version of iOS 11.4, not the final one. Previously, a jailbreak was done for the latest version, and it is advised not to upgrade until the jailbreak is released to the next version, but now you should not upgrade from the beginning pending the release of the jailbreak of your system. Imagine if a jailbreaker had to stay in iOS 11.3.1 and not upgrade to iOS 11.4, which was released a month and a half ago. That is, for a month and a half, you do not have the latest version and also do not have a jailbreak.
◉ Divergent jailbreak: Completes the previous point; Despite the increase in the speed of the jailbreak and its current release, but imagine with me that the jailbreak was released for iOS 11.1.2 at the end of February at the time, there were already newer versions such as iOS 11.2, iOS 11.2.1, iOS 11.2.2, iOS 11.2.5 and iOS 11.2.6. All this will be ignored because you are waiting for the jailbreak, then Apple launched iOS 11.3, then iOS 11.3.1, and iOS 11.4 in a period of two months, and we did not see a new jailbreak. Imagine that you have to wait from the end of February and then the next, the beginning of July, i.e. 4 and a half months, and ignore 7 updates.
◉ The system has significantly evolved: Another important point is that in the past we used to jailbreak to better communicate messages, such as the BiteSMS application, to respond to messages without opening the application; We were carrying a tool like sbsettings that used to make us swipe up to turn on and off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and the network and there are those looking for a tool to record screen and other things. Some even preferred jailbreaking to steal apps. Now a lot of the features are already present in the system itself. Even theft of apps can now be done without jailbreak. The jailbreak has lost many of its strengths, although there are continuous reasons, of course, but it has lost many of its strengths.
◉ The loophole trading is very lucrativeIn the past, there was an acceptable return. In an old interview with Cydia founder Jay Freeman, he said that in 2011 he paid $ 8 million to developers. But now the situation is different as the developers abandoned the cydia, and thus the revenues decreased. Now, if a developer finds a vulnerability in iOS, if he exploits it to jailbreak, he may not be getting any returns; But he can report it to Apple and get a reward of nearly a quarter of a million dollars. And he may be more coveted if it is an important loophole, and he informs the intelligence services about it, and he gets rewarded twice as much. Check out our old article on trading vulnerabilities across this link. Incidentally, there is an Emirati security company offering rewards of up to $ 3 million for serious iOS vulnerabilities. So why does it do a free jailbreak?
By the way, do you notice in the following picture that the number of jailbreakers in 2012 was 1.5 million? Compare this to the 108 jailbreakers in 2018 even though the total number of devices is 3 times or more
Hackers are a security employee: Dozens of times we hear that a certain hacker did a jailbreak and publishes on his site that he penetrated iOS, but in the end the hackers say that he did this for technical reasons for work and that he is an employee in a specific entity such as "Ali Baba" and will not publish the jailbreak. Corporations are now hiring and hiring hackers to infiltrate their own and those of their competitors, in order to develop their defenses against the hackers.
◉ Quick updates: Because Apple has become giving hackers large rewards and appointing security researchers from them, so it decided to cancel its old philosophy, which is the large, divergent updates, and intend a new method, which is continuous and fast updates, to close the holes as soon as they are revealed. Previously, the jailbreak used to last for weeks until Apple shut it down in the next major update, but now Apple can release a quick update to close the loopholes. This is if Apple did not update the system and close the vulnerability before the hackers discovered it in the first place and launched the jailbreak, and this is the secret that we often find that the latest iOS version does not jailbreak it.
Of course, all of the above are various reasons, each of which contributed to weakening the jailbreak and its popularity. But we never say that it does not exist nor that no one is looking for it but that it is not as popular as before.
Why do you think the popularity of jailbreak collapsed? And if you are a fan and quit, then tell us why did you stay away from the jailbreak?
Sources:
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The main reason behind the lack of popularity of the jailbreak is of course multiple, like what I have previously mentioned, but from my simple point of view the main reason is the entry of the Chinese hacker and perhaps others, or even the famous hacker that we knew previously and their malicious programs associated with the jailbreak or without the jailbreak, and what led to the collapse of security in devices and due to the development Banking authorities and government departments, which made them more electronic than before, so everyone has become dependent on them in all their transactions. It is self-evident that I dispense with what may cause my financial loss and my personal data, which I absolutely make sure that you are safe from falling into the hands of thieves and messengers .. This is not the stability of the device. Its speed and ease of use .. That is why, thank God, everything that might bother thinking about it has been dispensed with
Peace, mercy and blessings of God
I used to love jailbreaking, but now I no longer need it because Apple provided the tools I needed. My tools were not, and I find the ones from the jailbreak
1- The one who moves the writing cursor with my finger without the Apple lens
2- Voicemail scanning program
3- Pull it from under the control panel
I couldn't remember the rest, but they were counting with fingers, but now Apple has provided things that are better than the jailbreak and its problems.
The jailbreak plugins were not of much importance
Peace be upon you, please help. I have the wallet note on the iPhone that has become white, and if you open it, there is no information in it. I hope for help.
The jailbreak was considered to have ended due to the weakness of the jailbreak tools, the instability of the system, and the users' awareness of the great stages of its risks
The most important reason is the pressures and problems of daily life for many people we do not work on our devices for hours as before.
Previously, you used to explain the method in detail every time a new jailbreak was released.
Is there an article explaining the complete jailbreak method?
For me, the jailbreak has ended. One of its features is to reduce notifications in the upper bar so that it does not cause you to exit from one application to another
Sincere, I swear by God
The real reason is Apple's fight against the user and making the jailbreak very difficult to download and download, and the frequent updates to overcome the jailbreak
The reason is Apple did not respect the user.
What caught my attention in the article was the sentence of rapid development in the system
The raw Android system and the iOS system are not rapidly developing, Google and Apple are adding features to the dropper
For example, features in the raw Google Android system that Samsung has added since 2011
The raw Android system from Google Hua is also a little feature-rich. Companies are the ones who modify their own versions
My view is different, first teams like Black Ra! N and others like them see vulnerabilities for current and future releases + people are enthusiastic about them and most of them are stable.
My point, Haya, was the first to focus on one jailbreak team, their enthusiasm and their style
Currently every team period
Thank you and I hope you understand what I mean
May God bestow you with this special topic,
One of the reasons for the decline of the jailbreak, in my opinion, is from two sides: the first is that Apple has significantly and rapidly developed its system, and the second is the difficulty of providing the jailbreak around the time of the system’s release, after how much jailbreak is available? Almost XNUMX months later
I am a fan of jailbreaking, but after the continuous development of iOS, I no longer care about it completely. …Greetings to all of you.
I respect your point of view
But if it weren't for God and then Android, the iPhone would have been without copying and pasting
If it weren't for God, then iOS, I wouldn't know the meaning of a software store, and many things would not be able to be mentioned
About myself, I last entrusted with the iPhone 5 jailbreak, and the main reason for leaving the jailbreak is to cover all the features
The software store existed years before the appearance of the iPhone and Android in Windows phones ,,,
Still, many of the features cannot be mentioned in Android that are not present on the iPhone.
Greetings
IPhone Android and in the past Microsoft
I myself have stopped the jailbreak one day, I started to run Uber 😂 because the program wouldn’t work if it was in the jailbreak on the device.
I did not read the article .. For me at the moment, most of the features I needed during the jailbreak are available, and now I no longer need it.
I think that the reason for the breakdown of the jailbreak is the new features that Apple recently added to the system, and also the offer of large sums to hackers to inform them of the vulnerabilities, if any, in addition to the many updates, especially security
Jailbreak 😡
No, uncle Sheikh
I expect the reason behind the great reluctance to jailbreak is to determine the tasks of smartphones. In the past, there was an interest in applications, which prompted people to unlock Apple's registration to get the best features, but now our use of phones for the purpose of social networking sites is no longer interested in what Apple and Google add to the systems even if When in 2012 people complained about the traditional ios design, and almost now the application interface and settings menus are similar to the new ios7 only Control Center and no one asked Apple to change the shape of the system and this means that the majority of users are interested in updates to Instagram and Snap applications, and if I were in Apple's place, I would return the ios For a size of 500 MB as it was with the ios 5 because the ios system functioned to run Instagram, Snap, and Twitter applications only and I hope that Apple makes options to make the system strongly with the hardware, for example, I do not like games and I like photography, so the system works with the support of the camera application strongly and it is true that we hear about this thing It works on its own and perhaps with artificial intelligence, but we want more achievement from Apple, and now it is not required to find something new. phone 8 plus in terms of when will Apple reduce the performance of the phone precisely and I wonder when I put the same image on the iPhone 6s Plus, the clarity difference is very large, as if the iPhone 6s Plus with a fake screen is a poor picture to the most limits, and this is not the technical commitment until now and I recommend replacing the iPhone every 3 years Getting used to slowing down Apple and reducing Apple to perform the iPhone and weakening the image for me leaves Apple this habit
My first jailbreak process was on version 5.1.1, and after that I did not jailbreak until version 9.3.3 I worked the jailbreak and after that I cleared the jailbreak and updated to version 10, and now here I am returning to the jailbreak, version 11.3 means almost like I love the jailbreak and thank you 💙
From which site I downloaded the jailbreak, you can show me an article explaining it
I still prefer staying on iOS 8.4 and getting jailbroken
Instead of updating to the latest version
I am a fan of apple jailbreak
Jailbreaking or escaping from the system prison is a station that Apple and the developers benefited from as well, but this was previously when the ideas were tetra, and the jailbreak was a fertile ground for development and testing, and we noticed that the apple was ignored for several reasons.
But now Steve Jobs’s prophecy has been fulfilled by eliminating the jailbreak, but due to the dilemma of ideas, these days you do not find a new application in terms of the idea at least, but rather an improvement here and there, let alone operating systems.
Even System XNUMX appears to be an improvement and not a new system, as happened in XNUMX and XNUMX versions
This predicts that the era of application or its operational system is in decline, so do not blame a fugitive from a prison that has already been destroyed.
And we must enter the world of the future again in the manner of Steve and other true creators on a journey to search for a new prison with specifications that we do not know at least now ...
Talk XNUMX% . Wonderful ..
The system does not need the jailbreak because it added a lot of its tools and added a lot of Android
No, the Android doesn’t have benefited from the ideas of the jailbreak a lot and included them in his system ..
disagree with you
Does any of you have an experience with dr.fone to recover deleted data ??
Does anyone know about another application or program that retrieves deleted data from the iPhone ??
Thank you very much for this article.
About me… I have not used the jailbreak since iPhone XNUMX, and the reason for that is that what I get from the features in the jailbreak is not worth losing for the security and smoothness of the system.
As for the jailbreak, it really lost its popularity for many reasons, most of which you mentioned, and I add that some features have become in the system more smoothly and more practical.
This is not because Apple loves users and wants to please them. Rather, the intensity of competition with other companies pushed Apple to expand the features that the user wants, including what is in the jailbreak, and I think you referred to that in a previous article.
Correct
All your words are true
Before each jailbreak, you were the first Arab site to explain that
As for you, you are the first to stop logos and special news in the jailbreak
This causes a lot to reduce the work of jailbreak in the Arab world. I am 100% sure of my words
And long ago, you are fine, the site of the iPhone Islam
I'm XNUMX/XNUMX with you
Indeed, this is his observation with Yvon Aslam. The race was in announcing the news of Gilbrick and his explanations, but now it is not
About myself, the jailbreak is amazing without it, iPhone, and nothing with jailbreak. It is better that iPhone actually surpasses all devices in terms of technology
What has become a technology present in Chinese devices and Apple's sense of return
Believe me, the most important point in the minority of Arab jailbreakers is the availability of a Chinese website to download programs and games for free without the need for a jailbreak.
Most of the Arabs used to do this only to download the hacked programs. As for it is available without jailbreak, they did not have any interest in that. This is my opinion from an Arab view.
Peace be upon you, the iPhone team, Islam, since the emergence of the iPhone, and you have been keen on the useful and the legitimate, but a synchronized app is not sufficiently monitored, and I mean the ads, not the content.
I strongly agree, and as I mentioned in the article, the system has evolved a lot and the jailbreak has lost most of its strengths, with no incentive for hackers to jailbreak, except for the latest version issued for devices that have discontinued support