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Opinion: Here’s why I’m still jailbreaking my iPhone on iOS 8.4IOS OPINION

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With iOS 9 coming out later this year, there will once again be a number of articles proclaiming that jailbreaking isnow unnecessary because so many of the most popular tweaks have been added as native features. Whilejailbreaking may not be as popular as it was in the iOS 4 days, there are still a lot of great reasons to give it a try.

I recently downgraded from iOS 9 to jailbreak my phone again. Here are just a few reasons I recommend youconsider jumping off of the beta bandwagon.

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Protean – $1.99

The iPhone status bar has undergone very few changes since the first model shipped in 2007. New icons havebeen added, and they’ve all been redesigned at least once, but there hasn’t been a meaningful reexamination ofwhat actually goes in the status bar.

One example that I often use to highlight this problem is the alarm icon. I use my iPhone as my daily alarm clock.I’ve got alarms set for every day of the week. I know this, and I don’t need to see a constant reminder in mystatus bar that I have active alarms. Currently, there’s no way to get rid of that.

Bluetooth is another example. I leave mine turned on all the time. When I get in my car, it automatically connects,and I don’t have to futz around with anything. I don’t need to see an icon in my status bar reminding me thatBluetooth is running. And if you use the Apple Watch, it’s a requirement to stay connected so you’re likely neverdisabling it. I can check Control Center if I really need to know, which I never have.

On the other hand, there are icons that I would love to see in my status bar, but Apple has decided againstadding. New emails, Twitter notifications, missed calls, voicemails, unread text messages, and more are allpertinent information that I would love to be able to see at a glance, but as things are now, I have to back out tothe home screen and look for badges on app icons or use Notification Center. Neither are universally visible at aglance.

Protean is a tweak that’s designed to solve all of these problems. It’s a highly-customizable status barmodification that lets you remove, rearrange, redesign, or replace your status bar icons. The feature set is waytoo long to get into in this one post, but here’s a quick overview of what you can do:

Hide useless status bar icons like your carrier name, alarm, or others that you don’t want to seeRearrange the entire status bar to put the icons in any order and pin them to the left or right side of the bar(or even the center)Show an icon (with support for custom icons you can add yourself) in the status bar when specific appshave unread notifications; you can select a different icon for every appCustomize system icons (like Bluetooth, location, Wi-Fi, and more) and replace them with any other iconyou wantShow a custom icon in your status bar when specific Bluetooth devices are connected (like a Hyundai logowhen my Sonata connects); I find this much better than a constant Bluetooth icon

Protean supports all of the countless icon packs previously designed for a similar tweak called OpenNotifier thatno longer appears to be in development.

Polus – $.99

Polus is a Control Center customizer that lets you put just about anything in the slide-up control panel. You cancreate shortcuts to your favorite apps, toggles for system features like hotspot and vibration, and more. It alsoallows you to tweak the design of Control Center’s icons to fit your own taste.

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TypeStatus – Free

iMessage conversations currently include a typing indicator view when one of your contacts starts replying to amessage, but you can only see that when you’re actually in the thread view. TypeStatus is a free tweak that putsan icon in your status bar to show when someone is typing.

There are two different options for how this icon can be displayed. One is just a small speech bubble thatappears alongside other icons. The other (my personal choice) takes over your whole status bar for acustomizable period of time (say, five seconds) and shows you the full name of the person typing, then restoresyour regular status bar.

The tweak can also show a similar notification when you get a read receipt.

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ReachApp – Free (beta available from developer repo)

ReachApp is a clever tweak that brings split-screen multitasking to iOS 8.4, but unlike Apple’s implementation iniOS 9, it’s not limited to the iPad. With this app, triggering Reachability moves your current app halfway down thescreen, then populates the top half with a customizable list of your favorite apps, recent apps, and (optionally) alist of every app on your device.

Tapping one of these icons then puts that app on the top half of your screen. A handle between the two apps letsyou resize them to fit your needs.

The tweak is still very much in beta right now, and a lot of apps have trouble running in this mode, but it’s veryinteresting to play around with and will certainly be a compelling tweak when it’s finished.

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MusicMod – Free

MusicMod’s name pretty much gives away what it does. With this tweak, you can make a number of changes tothe stock Music application on iOS 8.4. The changes include disabling certain parts of the interface (like the“Recently Added” section in the playlist tab), disabling parts of Apple Music (like Connect, or Radio) while stillkeeping the ability to use search to find any music through the service.

You can also tweak the Now Playing screen to remove the status bar (which is poorly placed directly on top ofthe album artwork), get rid of the blurred artwork that appears behind the music controls, and more.

One feature that’s still marked as being in beta also adds support for turning the Music app into landscape mode.

Asphaleia 2 – $1.99

While a lot of apps have been updated with support for Touch ID, some people may be looking to lock others(such as stock apps) behind their fingerprint. Asphaleia lets you do just that, along with protecting functions likepowering down the phone with a Touch ID lock. You can also lock down Spotlight, multitasking, Control Center,and more.

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Flex 2 – $3.99

Flex 2 doesn’t actually do anything on its own. Instead, it serves as a platform for creating, sharing, anddownloading patches created by other users. It’s not quite like Cydia in that there are no standalone tweaks here.Flex just lets you make changes to apps currently installed on your device by changing values and settings thatare normally inaccessible to users.

For example, you can add contact photos to the Messages app on devices other than the iPhone 6 Plus. You canget rid of the nearly useless search bar in the Messages app as well. A whole collection of patches for Facebooklet you hide annoying parts of the UI, disable video autoplay, use the app in landscape, and much more.

Patches like this exist for just about every popular app that’s available. The Flex app automatically sorts patchesby application so you can quickly find what you’re looking for.

Apps like Flex are where jailbreaking really has a chance to shine by enabling users to more directly customizeindividual apps. These patches may not make any huge changes to the system or add big new functionality, butby fixing annoyances in the apps you use every day, you can make your phone much more enjoyable.

RecentFacebook – Free

This makes Facebook default to the Most Recent feed rather than the curated news feed the app currently uses.That feed gets moved to the More tab. This is another one of those little things that make using Facebook thatmuch easier.

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CallBar – $3.99

When you get an incoming phone or FaceTime call, the Phone app takes over your entire screen and makes youdecide whether you want to take the call or not before allowing you to continue with whatever you were doing.

CallBar changes the incoming call behavior and shows a notification banner for incoming calls. It’s not just aregular banner, though. The CallBar is larger than your usual notification to accommodate buttons for acceptingand declining. Once you’ve picked up a call, you can access all of the same features that the regular call screenpresents (mute, merge calls, keypad, and so on), but without losing your place in your current app.

CallBar can also act as a full Phone app replacement. You can use a customizable gesture (or, optionally, tap thePhone app icon) to pull up a similar banner that contains all of the phone app’s functions: favorite contacts,recent calls, contacts, a full keypad, and voicemail access. My only qualm with this part of the tweak is that it

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doesn’t provide visual voicemail access, and the developers have said they have no intention of adding that.

Regardless, CallBar is a pretty solid tweak with some great functionality.

Cask – Free (available from developer repo)

Cask is a tweak from famed developer Ryan Petrich that brings Google Plus-inspired scrolling animations totable views throughout iOS. It’s a bit buggy on iOS 8.4 right now (the info page specifically says it hasn’t beenupdated for that OS yet), but it works well enough that you shouldn’t have any major problems.

You can choose from a small selection of effects, including fading, growing, and sliding in from the right, for thecells of each table as you scroll. You can also customize the timing to decide how long the animation should taketo complete.

NoSlowAnimations – Free

While Apple has greatly improved animation speeds in iOS since version 7 was first released in beta, there’salways more room for improvement. NoSlowAnimations lets users change the duration of most systemanimations to speed things up a bit.

Rather than making you choose a specific time for each animation to last, NoSlowAnimations lets you scale all ofthe animations at once using a slider in the Settings app. Setting the slider to .70, for example, will causeanimations to take only 70% of the usual time.

SearchSettings – Free (available from developer repo)

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Another great (and simple) Ryan Petrich tweak, SearchSettings puts a search bar at the top of the Settings appso you can quickly find what you’re looking for. Since this feature appears in iOS 9, downgrading your phonesolely to install this tweak doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it’s a good one to keep on hand if you go back forother tweaks.

ShowCase – Free

ShowCase has been around for years and is a feature recently built into iOS 9 as part of the new keyboard. Itshows lowercase letters on the keyboard when your shift key is off and capitals when the shift key is on. This oneis a big help to me, as my thumb is almost always hovering over the shift key and preventing me from seeingwhether it’s on or off.

Like SearchSettings, this one’s not worth downgrading and jailbreaking for by itself, but it makes a greatcompanion to many of the others on the list.

Everything Else

This is just a small sampling of what’s currently available for iOS 8.4. Many new tweaks are being released everyweek (sometimes dozens per week). As Apple continues to add new features and apps to iOS, developers willcontinue finding new ways to take advantage of them.

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Jesse Nichols says:July 21, 2015 at 1:09 pm

I actually Jailbroke my iPhone for the first time yesterday. I have not installed any tweaks though… I simplywanted to be able to install GBA4iOS… We used to be able to install without Jailbreak, but Apple patchedthat method. Sorry Apple! I want to play Pokemon on my iPhone! Lol

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Tony Wiltshire (@Loke2112) says:July 21, 2015 at 1:12 pm

Anyway you could show me how you did it? Thanks in advance!

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Mike Beasley says:July 21, 2015 at 1:33 pm

Since that app’s open source, you should actually be able to built it in Xcode from the source andinstall it on your own device using Xcode 7 and iOS 9 when they come out later this year.

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Tony Wiltshire (@Loke2112) says:July 21, 2015 at 1:12 pm

I have always wanted to try Jailbreaking my iPhone 6. I tried the beta but the bugs were deal breakers. Couldyou possibly point me in the right direction on how to do it and would it be buggy? I know how to back up

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8.4 in case I don’t like it. I just want the tweaks!

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joannbendzsas says:July 21, 2015 at 1:24 pm

There are two options right now Taig and Pangu. Both are viable options to jailbreak your phone. Youbasically plug and play! It takes no time and you are jailbroken. Keep in mind an OTA update will makejailbreak not work. Read iDownloadblog for a full article on how to jailbreak. Though it is pretty simple.

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Tony Wiltshire (@Loke2112) says:July 21, 2015 at 1:27 pm

TY Joan!

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chrisl84 says:July 21, 2015 at 1:14 pm

I do like the sound Protean and TypeStatus but I’m not jailbreaking so I’ll just be SOL on that.

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Howie Isaacks says:July 21, 2015 at 1:18 pm

Nothing you’ve mentioned is important enough to render your iPhone less secure. Have fun.

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Tony Wiltshire (@Loke2112) says:July 21, 2015 at 1:29 pm

How is it less secure?

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Mike Beasley says:July 21, 2015 at 1:34 pm

Well since I’m not an idiot who installs random packages from pirate repos and I only put trustedsoftware on my phone, I don’t think I’ll have too much trouble.

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Bruno Fernandes (@Linkb8) says:July 21, 2015 at 1:36 pm

LockInfo alone is worth the price of Jailbreaking and if Apple were to add that functionality to the OS itself, Imight not JB at all. This is THE tipping-point tweak for me, everything else is gravy.

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Nic Wise says:July 21, 2015 at 1:37 pm

I’d definitely want to jailbreak my phone. How would Hacking Team put their awesome software on it if Idon’t?

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