Jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch: All You Need to Know

Jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod touch is pretty much hacking it to remove Apple's restrictions. There are a lot of things on the iPhone and iPod Touch that could be improved. Thousands of users have jailbroken their iPhones and iPod Touches in order to change or improve their devices. The iPhone is held back by its lack of multitasking support, the apps in the app store, and more. One of the biggest things is the approval process of apps in the app store. A lot of apps that people want are rejected by Apple. Jailbreaking provides a solution for all of this. Jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch gives you access to Cydia, the main unofficial app store. There are also some other unofficial app stores. Cydia does not have an approval process and does not limit anything. This means that users who have jailbroken their devices have access to a much larger number of applications. Jailbreaking lets you do a huge number of things with your iPhone or iPod Touch that Apple does not want you to do. For example, you can multitask, or run multiple apps at the same time, change the wallpaper on your homescreen, organize things a different way, tether your iPhone to your computer, and much more. Jailbreaking also allows you to unlock your iPhone, or use it on any GSM carrier. Jailbreaking allows you to do almost everything with your device, but there are some cons. First of all, Apple has probably disabled all of the features that jailbreaking enables for a reason. One being, multitasking would probably drain your battery a lot. Apple wants to control your user experience, and by doing this they can insure that your iPhone or iPod Touch works without any problems and that you are satisfied. Also, when you do something with your iPhone or iPod Touch that Apple does not want you to do, it might not work as it is supposed to. Some people say that jailbreaking could brick your device, or render it completely useless, but the chances of this are very slim and I have never heard of it happening. Jailbreaking also voids your warranty. If you take your device to the apple store and it is jailbroken, they will probably refuse to fix it. This is fairly easy to get around though, because you can just restore your software through iTunes and no one would ever know that your iPhone or iPod Touch was jailbroken. Another con is that every time that Apple releases a software update, they find some way to block jailbreaking. This means that if you want your iPhone or iPod Touch to stay jailbroken you would have to leave it on the current version or wait for a jailbreak to be developed for the new software update. A new jailbreak is always developed, but no one knows when the jailbreak will be released. Now that we have listed most of the pros and cons of jailbreaking, we can finally get to actually doing it. Jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch these days if fairly easy, usually the software for jailbreaking does all of the hard work and you just have to sit back and watch. Jailbreaking is as easy as the press of a button these days. In the past it was complicated and took a long time, but now all you have to do is press a button. In this post we will not actually describe how to jailbreak your device, but all you have to do is search for and iPhone or iPod Touch jailbreak on Google and you will get a million great ways to do it.