i've said this before even as an Android user there's no denying that iOS has got
a lot going for it the issue for me is that no matter how many times i try to
switch to it though i always find a couple of tiny things that apple refuses
to allow for whatever convoluted reason and it kind of ruins the experience for
me like in the control center a menu meant to give you quick access to common
settings you see the wi-fi and bluetooth toggles they don't even turn off their
respective radios anymore the toggle just closes any active connections until
apple deems that they should be turned back on and then how about the
unremovable notification shade on the lock screen that requires you to swipe
up every time you unlock the phone with face id instead of just dropping you on
the home screen which is probably where you want to be it's little things like this that drive
me up the wall so when i saw the epic
new jailbreak released for iOS 13.5 with
support for every iphone model that supports that version of iOS
i figured it was finally time after all these years to take jailbreaking out for
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going from now all the way back to the early days of iOS jailbreaking the main
reason people did it was to add or modify functionality that either wasn't
present in iOS or that apple didn't allow or want for example features like
the control center touch gestures and dark mode already existed as jailbreak
tweaks long before apple ever implemented them officially then there's
the people who jailbroke their devices to remove carrier restrictions remember
when you had to pay for mobile data tethering or to unlock a device so it
could be used with a different carrier another huge reason people jailbreak are
aesthetics and these kinds of mods are all over the place ranging from themes
like viola which reskins your menus and icons to a beautified control center
with tweaks like prism or even apple watch style status icons on the lock
screen with a tweet called complications if you're like me and you prefer less
rather than more there's simple ls which can remove all the clutter from your
lock screen and then there's the taboo side of jailbreaking piracy many people
jailbreak their devices to get paid apps or services for free or to cheat in
mobile games now all this is super cool but
jailbreaking has been on the decline for many years due to slow jailbreak
releases for new os's instability and apple simply implementing many of the
features that people originally jailbroke their devices to get however
maybe because apple has been kind of sitting on their thumbs when it comes to iOS features for the last couple of
years things have been picking up again with speedy stable and easy jailbreaks
from the team behind the latest exploit uncover so how do you do it
first you'll need a compatible device you can see the full list of tested
devices over on uncover site but essentially every modern iphone is
supported all the way from iOS 11 to 13.5 please note by the way guys as of
the day we filmed this video apple released iOS 13.5.1
which patches this jailbreak if you're not already on 13.5 and you want to be
you can still update by downloading the update file from the link in the description and then shift-clicking the
update button in itunes note though that apple may stop signing
this version at any time making it impossible to update to it later if
you're already on iOS 13.5 do not update
to 13.5.1 or you will lose your ability to
jailbreak all right with that out of the way we're going to assume that you're
jailbreaking from a Windows computer but if you're on mac the process is
essentially the same so with the guidance from the uncover website and
the links below you should be able to jailbreak without issue start by
downloading itunes and icloud from apple's website if you have the
microsoft store versions of them you're going to have to uninstall those grab
the win32 versions and then give yourself one of these
forever touching the microsoft store in the first place next head over to the
uncover site and download and install alt server we're going to use this
software to self sign and then side load both the alt store and the uncover
jailbreak apps once it's installed plug in your iphone
trust the pc that you're plugged into and select your device under install alt
store in the alt server menu in your taskbar enter your apple id to authorize
the install and within a few seconds you should see it on your iOS home screen
now because this is what apple deems a self-signed app you'll need to navigate
into the device settings and authorize the app before you can run it
once it's running head over to the uncover jailbreak site on your phone and
click the open an alt store button if you're prompted re-enter your apple id
then alt store will install the uncover jailbreak app now you might notice
there's an expiry date on the apps this is because you self-signed the apps
with your own apple id and without an apple developer subscription the longest
you can sign an app is for seven days don't worry though because the alt store
guys thought of this so if you keep alt server running on your pc or mac the
store app will actually phone home to your system when you're on the same
network to renew those certifications if you do end up away from home for a while
though it's possible you might not get the automatic renewal meaning that if
your phone dies or is hard rebooted after that seven day period you might
have to reflash the apps or go without a jailbreak for a few days all right
disclaimer over now it's time to open up the uncover app and hit jailbreak
it'll do some stuff and then prompt you for a reboot click ok and then once the
device is booted again open uncover hit jailbreak again and it will reboot in a
jailbroken state with a brand new app called cydia that's it your jailbroken
cydia is what's known as a package manager
kind of like the underwear on ltteststore.com it handles installing
and updating any tweaks and themes that you want to install and it's kind of
like the app store but for jailbreak stuff
let's start with modding our device and fixing some of those issues that i've
been having with iOS it's worth noting that while cydia ships with lots of
default repositories many of the popular tweaks and themes are hosted on
third-party repos like packx or spark dev so we're going to add those first as
those hold the downloads for the tweaks that i wanted to add first i installed
snowboard which is a theming engine which allows you to actually apply the
viola theme that i mentioned earlier i then proceeded to install a bunch of
other tweaks namely swipe selection which re-adds that keyboard swiping to
navigate text thing that was removed when 3d touch died auto unlock x which
allows us to skip the notification shade on unlock digital battery 13 to show the
battery percentage in the status bar and prism to beautify and add haptic
feedback to the iOS control center oh and since apple maps sucks the big one
we changed the default to google maps with a tweet called maps opener and the
crazy part is that that is just the tip
of the iceberg if you have a grievance with iOS there is probably one of the
hundreds of other super useful quality of life improving tweaks that are out
there that is going to help you so we've included a link to a reddit post that
lists a ton of them for your tinkering pleasure if you guys are looking for
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