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Re:A new jailbreak for a new era by jibbers on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:37AM (#25195626)
My experience has been the opposite. I jailbroke an iPhone 6s less than a year ago just by following the jailbreak du jour instructions. Any of my non-techy friends could have done the same.

Just a few months ago I tried to install an alternate rom on a Motorola Moto e6 and was dumbfounded by how impossibly complicated it seemed. Turns out this less than one year old phone had a locked boot loader and was not compatible with any modifications like I was attempting.

Every time I jailbreak my iPhone I always end up reverting it. Cydia is so janky and everything about the mods seem so tacky, tasteless, and janky I figure why bother. I need my phone to work.

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Re:A new jailbreak for a new era by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:00AM (#25195741)
Cydia is not very slick but it does its job and you don’t have to open it very often. (Perhaps it would be more accurate to say it’s about as slick as Synaptic.)

For everything else, it really depends on what you install. I think Colorflow, for instance, could very easily be mistaken for a native iOS feature.

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Re:A new jailbreak for a new era by freedomben on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:38AM (#25200046)
Ah yeah, you gotta check bootloader lock status before buying. That's something that frosts me too, and it's why I pretty much only buy from OnePlus or Google.

If you buy a hack-friendly phone though, I've found it to be fairly easy to do, although I've always used CLI tools, so if someone (like non-techy friends) were to do it they'd probably be put off by the CLI.

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