iPhone is just incredible just as it is for its millions of users around the world. It’s stunning and elegant user-friendly capability packed with the most innovative features and applications making it one of the best smartphones in the world.
Despite its innovative features and usability, there are people who not entirely happy with what they have. These people who want to break free from the restrictions they believe Apple has forced upon everyone – from its default applications which come with the iOS to the fact that it is an underlying structure which cannot be customized by individual programmers also from third-party developers and the users themselves compared to Android operating system.
These unhappy people are called the jailbreakers, and since 2007, Apple has been chasing these people since they introduced the iPhone to the world. It is completely easy to understand the frustration of jailbreakers because, on the Mac, you can pretty do whatever you want in customizing your daily user experience with this computer from its software and hardware, and if you do not want to use your mail or email or the Safari for browsing, you can always download Firefox and Sparrow as alternatives.
In fact, you can even set these applications as default if you wish to by enabling you to ignore your emails, your browsers, and other applications altogether.
However, this is not the case when it comes to iPhone while there are a lot of great alternatives to the iOS’s default applications, you can find that the iOS always reverts to the default for some reasons.
If you try to click on your email address or a URL in an application, a document or a webpage and even your apps Mail and Safari will open up first regardless which other alternatives you are using which is totally frustrating because you are stripped off of your freedom of using your preferences.
There are some third-party applications which offer you the ability in opening up addresses that appear in Google Maps instead of Apple maps, however, the support has to be manually added and it is not also available for all of the iOS’s system.
The Jailbreakers are very frustrated from the fact that they cannot do simple things such as changing their iPhone’s default look and feel in installing applications that are not in the iOS application store.
Technically, what is jailbreaking? This is the act of changing your iPhone or your iPad software by removing the restrictions and the limitations that are imposed by Apple itself. The principal limitation of the iOS can only be installed from the App Store, but with a jailbroken phone, you can install software from a rival App Store and you can also manually use the files downloaded from the internet freely.
It is completely different from unlocking phones because Jailbreaking iPhones just like all smartphones that are sold as part of a contract which is often locked to a particular network subscription. This means that if you purchase an iPhone from a network provider, you should always use the sim that is locked from the network provider.
To help you decide if it is good or bad to jailbreak your iPhone, here are some five reasons why should.
- It is your phone-Your personal belonging that is why you should be able to do what you want and what you like with it. Spending more than a thousand dollars for an iPhone where you have limitations in using it is a waste of money if you do not jailbreak it.
- Limitless usability- You can freely download your applications from anywhere you want regardless if it is not from the App Store itself, and you can also enjoy a lot of applications which are not designed for iOS which makes you have limitless control over your phone.
- Tons of Alternatives- You can use a lot of alternatives to the default applications on iOS, and a lot of which have more functionality compared to what the phone’s default applications have to make your phone more useful than ever and customize your phone’s look and entire feel that suits your personality rather than getting stuck with the limited options that iOS offer to you.
- Tethering ability- You can freely tether your Mac computer to your iPhone and bypass your network’s mobile Hotspot feature that is very often restricted by the iOS and if you want to add it on is totally expensive to purchase.
In most countries around the world, jailbreaking your iPhone is completely easy to do and it is also legal, although the entire subject of Apple’s official disapproval of this practice, and you can likely invalidate the warranties that come with your iPhone.
There are many ways to jailbreak your iPhone depending on which version of the iOS you are running while the brand-new versions of the iOS generally cannot be jailbroken due to some innovative security features Apple added when they came out. Jailbreakers, however, are working totally hard in finding ways to get around with the new safeguards and the restrictions which have been placed on the new software of the iOS, and there are a lot of instructions and resources that can aid you online when you are planning to jailbreak your new iPhone.