Apple Posts Document Warning Users Against Jailbreaking

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Posted February 5, 2013 at 7:37pm by iClarified

Apple has posted a document warning users that jailbreaking their iOS devices may cause instability, security vulnerabilities, shortened battery life, and other issues.

As designed by Apple, iOS and iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch are designed to work together reliably. Unauthorized modifications to iOS ("jailbreaking") can cause numerous issues to the hacked iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

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Examples of issues caused by these unauthorized modifications to iOS have included the following:

Instability: Frequent and unexpected crashes of the device, crashes and freezes of built-in apps and third-party apps, and loss of data.

Security vulnerabilities: Security compromises have been introduced by these modifications that could allow hackers to steal personal information, damage the device, attack the wireless network, or introduce malware or viruses.

Shortened battery life: The hacked software has caused an accelerated battery drain that shortens the operation of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on a single battery charge.

Unreliable voice and data: Dropped calls, slow or unreliable data connections, and delayed or inaccurate location data.

Disruption of services: Services such as Visual Voicemail, Weather, and Stocks have been disrupted or no longer work on the device. Additionally, third-party apps that use the Apple Push Notification Service have had difficulty receiving notifications or received notifications that were intended for a different hacked device. Other push-based services such as iCloud and Exchange have experienced problems synchronizing data with their respective servers.

Inability to apply future software updates: Some unauthorized modifications have caused damage to iOS that is not repairable. This can result in the hacked iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iOS update is installed.

Apple strongly cautions against installing any software that hacks iOS. It is also important to note that unauthorized modification of iOS is a violation of iOS end-user license agreement and because of this, Apple may deny service for an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that has installed any unauthorized software.
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The document was posted on February 3rd, the same day the Evasi0n jailbreak was originally expected to drop.

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CaptainRandy - February 8, 2013 at 3:44am

My Battery is lasting better! If I didn't care about this getting posted I'd tell Apple to go get ... My iPhone is twice the device Jailbroken as opposed to how Apple delivered it! Apple almost went under once. If they continue this maternal attitude about how I use their (MY!!) phone it will happen again. Apple management wouldn't buy a car if it came with restrictions on where you could drive it, so why do they think they can tell me how to use my phone?

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Dyllon - February 7, 2013 at 9:08pm

Jailbreaking doesn't cause any of these issues these jailbreaks are made by professionals who know what they're doing me know how to stop these problems. Apple just doesn't want us jailbreaking because then we'll see all the cool tweaks and everything On the Cydia store And will wonder why Apple wants to keep us with such a dumbed down Uncustomizable iPhone will completely die to BlackBerry Z10 If Apple doesn't start allowing freedom

JamesHoyland23 - February 7, 2013 at 9:26am

Jailbreak should be banned and reported because it can damage all ios devices and the cydia app store is fake as anything all free apps. jailbreakin can ruin the battery and the operating system.

angel - February 7, 2013 at 10:37am

well. I think is up to the person who brought the iPhone choose what to do with it. no body told you what to do with youre house or car . you can put a fence and nobody tell you no to.you can put nice rims or doors opening like the ferrari and no body can tell you no to. or you can do that. remember. installing rims other then specify by factory can be dangerous and for your safety it is nt recommended.

Simon - February 6, 2013 at 6:41pm

"Shortened battery life" When I was on iOS 5 jailbroken, I had no problems with that, until I upgraded to iOS 6.0.1. If I unplug my iPhone from battery and sleep, I would get around 80% left when I wake up; For iOS 6 though, I got 20%.

Riddick - February 6, 2013 at 5:49pm

well hard to believe, everything perfeactly alright ....I guess this the best and fast jailbreak ever made so far . No bugs in the jail break

Ron Dean - February 6, 2013 at 4:48pm

I call BS. The only thing I somewhat agree with is security and malware concerns (ESP Chinese app stores like cake and vshare). My device is jail broken. I have a few nice tweaks added. I'm a happy guy now. Who really needs to steal 99c apps anyway?

skaupert - February 6, 2013 at 3:37pm

No jailbreak needed to experience those problems. Native iOS 6 does that entirely on its own.

Ilhom - February 22, 2013 at 7:23am

Glad I've finally found somtehnig I agree with!

Jay - February 6, 2013 at 1:00pm

How likely is it that Apple could make those issues? If the Kernel and baseband is modified say to gain a jailbreak. Just entertain me. I can imagine it's possible. But if there's minimal changes to the kernel, and none to the baseband, how likely can the jailbreak be causing dropped calls? If very unlikely or impossible, then why would Apple warn about it? just to scare us? Or could they even include in code, a CRC checksum (or MD5, or whatever) and run a routine that arbitrarily drops calls? The motif would be to discredit JB, and point the finger. Not so far fetched.... I wonder how likely it could be. B@st@rds.

areilly111 - February 6, 2013 at 1:14pm

Apple doesn't really have any control when it comes to dropped calls. It's more your carrier that has the ability to drop calls. If apple was purposely dropping calls they would probally have a big lawsuit on their hands.

Jay - February 7, 2013 at 1:32am

Agreed. But what stops them? Their code is so tight, who can tell if the dialler is not doing it? Who could prove it? Not many, so not impossible. At least not far fetched. The result for discouraging the owners to JB their devices. Won't stop me....

Ken - February 6, 2013 at 12:47pm

Forgot to take your medication I see.

Ent - February 6, 2013 at 12:41pm

Ok lets look at this logically. And this is just the US no idea worldwide sales. Apple, has sold a total of 85 million iPhones in the U.S. since 2007 launch and 34 million iPads since 2010. 1.7 Million have Jailbroken 6.xx according to Saurik. Do you think Apple is going to open up IOS for the less than 1% that Jailbreak. I don't think so.

areilly111 - February 6, 2013 at 1:11pm

Yeah but if they did new costumers will come and buy their product just because they can customize it. If their worried about stability then release a separate open firmware just for that reason Customizing.

Ent - February 6, 2013 at 1:24pm

Let's be honest and I have seen it here on the forums, the majority of people are only jailbreaking to pirate apps. I bet that on 10% of people who jailbreak are using it for legitimate purposes. Look at all the comments in the evasi0n threads that are asking for repos with pirate apps in them. I don't blame apple at all in that regards

Noman - February 6, 2013 at 4:03pm

I think Apple is to blaim here - would be fair to provide little trial before you buy, eh?

Dodgerking - February 6, 2013 at 4:35pm

I would say it is the other way around. A vocal minority of JBers are doing so to pirate APPs; the majority of JBers do not JB to pirate

Viktoria - February 24, 2013 at 1:39pm

Nun ja, vielleicht hat er ja nicht nur kein Hobby, Freundin etc., sodrenn auch keine Wohnung, in der er ein Bfccherregal platzieren kann, um die Bfccher dort zu lagern, die er sich gekauft hat.Abgesehen davon kann man, so glaube ich, heut zu Tage mit der Lupe nach Personen suchen gehen, die noch nie irgend etwas kopiert haben, was wohl daran liegt, dass man Originale nicht mehr so sche4tzt und ste4ndig alles zu teuer findet. Wenn ich mir aber fcberlege, was die Technik kostet, die ich dazu benf6tige um solche Fotos oder sonstige Dinge zu kopieren , dann kaufe ich mir doch lieber das Original, egal um was es sich handelt.Und nur so neben bei erwe4hnt, der letzte Harry Potter Band besteht nicht aus zigtausend Seiten!

967e022 - February 6, 2013 at 10:18am

Nerds alert! :O

Serio - February 6, 2013 at 5:12am

Burn you apple

NoGoodNick - February 6, 2013 at 4:27am

It'll also cause warts, hair on your palms, premature aging and incontinence.

Samniks - February 6, 2013 at 4:01am

Iphone is Junk without jailbreak. you must provide jailbroken iphone .......

kuropanke - February 6, 2013 at 3:54am

Steven J. didn't articulate any problems with jailbreakers . You cannot give us all we want,so just tolerate us and help the hackers to help them give us what we need. You make an excellent machine because we can mold it our way. The day we dislike you, we'll move on in droves. You will notice it when the share price tanks and your billion dollar bonuses dry up...Hope that never happens because we love Apple. But now we love Android too and we are flirting with BlackBerry and.....

Culua - February 6, 2013 at 3:41am

Never have any problems jailbreaking iphones. The only way you can mess up your phone is by installing third apps that isn't compatible with your phone. Even if your phone does crashes there is safe mode just in case tou install the bad program you can still go back and remove it.

NoGoodNick - February 6, 2013 at 4:31am

Actually, while it not as bad as they make it out to be, I had serious issues with my previous JB (v5.1) continually rebooting, and the new jailbreak breaks the iOS Weather app.

Jimmy Crack Corn - February 6, 2013 at 5:07am

Simply not true. While it is rare, jailbreaking can seriously f*ck your phone up. And it almost always causes a fair amount of instability; Mobile Substrate is still not ready for prime time.

Adcpolo - February 6, 2013 at 3:41am

"Inaccurate location data" can it actually get any worse than your maps? Hahaha!

Ken - February 6, 2013 at 8:49am

Probably just as well for the Yanks that it works, most couldn't find the US on a map, let alone any other country.

calo - February 6, 2013 at 1:43am

isn't apple the one that causes DROPPED CALLS, SHORTENED BATTERY, CRASHING, ETC.. lol we might as well jailbreak.

areilly111 - February 6, 2013 at 1:25am

Well if apple would open iOS and allow us to install what we want to we wouldn't need to go behind their back and "Jailbreak". If apple would only make iOS open they would probably get more sales then android and they know that. Lets just see where iOS 7 brings us.

Apple squish - February 6, 2013 at 12:24am

We jailbreak our devices in order to apply basic features, while apple drip feed new features only when they wish to make an older product obsolete.

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