Hey, thanks for your comment. I really appreciate your support :) Unfortunately, the RU-vid algorithm doesn't like creators like me :D Anyway, I am glad some people found this video interesting.
I remember I jailbroke my iPod Touch 4 solely to get Siri, right after the iPhone 4s was released. I followed the tutorial, but then my iPod got stuck on the Apple logo and wouldn’t reboot. Sad times as a 12 year old…
Was just a soft brick, hope you just unbricked it... I had siri always on, so even when the screen was off I would control everything by voice. Super cool.
I was so mad when apple restricted siri after they bought it. I had it on my ipod touch before they bought it and was so Angry when they shut it down to make it exclusive to the new models
i had an ipod touch 4, but i lost it behind my couch and when i found it months later it was somehow disabled for over 400 years, and it displayed the time i had to wait in minutes.
I’m convinced if you were in middle school during 2011-2014 you knew someone who thought they were an elite hacker cause they knew how to jailbreak an iPod Touch lmao
Same. Funny how during my HS years I had these dreams that I would be this crazy exploit-researcher, coming up with various jailbreak methods and having my name up on the jailbreak community. But during my Uni days, through my CS course, I soon came to realise that it's a lot more practical to simply become a web-dev. And here I am, 1 yr into my first serious IT gig, working from a comfort of my home, as just another back-end dev. The low-effort and a high-pay lifestyle is just too comfortable for me to throw myself into something that actually requires an effort Xd(I.e exploit researching) P.S: I know remote work just one year in as a junior dev sounds crazy, but I managed to do it because I had an operation on my right foot after a bad fall, I'm basically fully recovered now, but our team-lead/boss said that since I had "a good work from home ethic", he's cool with me staying as a remote worker indefinitely.
@@6moses338 for me it was, get a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and start looking for a job at your local city. After 2 months of searching I landed a job that I was happy with.
I originally studied computer science when I began college (switched to audio production about halfway through; big change, I know). I had this cybersecurity class that required us to do a semester project, but it was very open ended, so me and this one guy decided to do our project on jailbreaking. For a big chunk of my research, I jailbroke my iPhone 7 and used it for the entire semester. I helped people out on Reddit, tried different combinations of tweaks, etc etc. Our paper was very well done, and when we presented to the class, we were tied for the class’s favorite presentation of the day… the teacher failed us (56/100) without a single mark on our paper and no comments on any of it. This teacher was in bed with Silicon Valley big tech, so I’m almost certain she did it just because she didn’t like it. Thanks for reading my story, random person on the internet. Have a wonderful day.
Upload you paper somewhere so that we can have a look at it. If it exists. I still have each and every file I've worked on since 2000. I don't have anything worth keeping before that
@@xl000 why would he keep his papers on a qualification he didnt end up achieving? some people don't care about obsolete documents, not worth the hassle to keep around when it got them nowhere
I used to spend hours trying to jailbreak my iPhone and even longer customizing my phone once I finally got it to work. This brings back so much nostalgia for me and on behalf of all loyal iPhone users thank you saurik for making the iPhone more than just a cellphone
@@nothing1843 Actually, that's what some security researchers do. They'll get the bounty, and once a patch has been released, they release the code used to exploit. That has resulted in the current drip-feed of exploits that barely keeps the jailbreak scene alive nowadays.
Apple never pays the bounty, there’s plenty of devs that have never been paid out with anything more than credit in the patch notes that nobody reads. What actually killed it is the black market of selling exploits to malware makers and other hackers. Why write a jailbreak when you can have a botnet of iPhone users that don’t know they’re infected?
Saurik is one of the kindest and most thoughtful people I’ve ever met. I owe him for so much of my success. Thank you for showcasing his impact on mobile software ❤
cydia is not dead, it's still going strong but a lot more underground now since it takes a bit more time to crack current devices with a lot more hurdles.
@@ArthurBrassart It's not mainstream because ios isn't as outdated compared to android anymore. Besides from piracy, the major reason was just for basic features that android already provided out of the box.
@@brandonnesfan Say what you like, Android generally has worse UI than ios. Android was designed for power users, while ios was for anyone, pixel ui is still abhorrent with glitches and issues so there really are reasons to still use iphones.
@@PlatoonGoon "Say what you like, Android generally has worse UI than ios." Don't get shit android phones then. Besides from pixels, the only android i've ever heard of that have a bad/clunky ui are budget/chinese phones. I've been using Samsung phones for years and never had an issue. Right now I'm rocking a zflip3 and couldn't be happier. I haven't had any issue with my phone and I've seen thousands of people with the same phone or a samsung fold. " Android was designed for power users, while ios was for anyone" No android is designed to be open and accesiable where-as apple's design is to provide a "tailored experience". That's why jailbreaking exists, you had to hack your iphone to have the same level of accessibility of android. "pixel ui is still abhorrent with glitches and issues" Google pixels aren't THE android, there just one of thousands of companies making phones. Also, you can change the ui due to anrdoid not stopping you from doing that. " so there really are reasons to still use iphones." Not really, the only thing apple has is the "apple ecosystem" Anything else is just user preference.
You never forget your first time breaking out of Apple's clutches. Thank you Saurik, redsn0w and everyone else who has contributed to the jailbreaking/opensource movement.
Never forger George Hotz with blackra1n or limera1in! He's also the first to unlock an iPhone & of course the PS3 jailbreak when Sony sued them and he dropped à crazy diss track 😅
It’s crazy just how true this statement is..I remember feeling so much joy just being able to do things we should have already Ben givin.somethings we still don’t have on IOS that I had in 2012..it’s crazy
I used to jailbreak back in the iPhone 4/5 days it was fun while it lasted, with recent developments to iOS you dont really need tp jailbreak anymore, but if you think about it, apple just stole ideas from old school tweaks and presents them as new and revolutionary? ......icon customization? weve had that for years but iOS 18 is 'revolutionary'
Yep, iOS 18 is heavily inspired by Jailbreak ☺️ PS. I am trying to organize an interview with Jay Freeman (Saurik) to ask his opinion about Apple, Tim Cook, iOS 18 etc
This has to be my biggest grip. I jailbroke phones from the first till the 6th and as someone who is now an open source dev I despise apple for the way the treated the brilliant jailbreak community. Stole their ideas, threatend them with legal action and all around treated us like criminal scum for daring to break their precious walled garden. I don't think I will ever regret switching to android.
@@ArthurBrassart I’d say ever since iOS 16 you could see the inspiration, I had an iPhone 12 Pro Max when iOS 14 was latest and I remember installing Jellyfin and other such tweaks to customize the Lock Screen almost exactly how it ended up looking like on those newer versions…to think that was the last ever possible jailbreak within “modern” iOS
I miss the days of early jailbreaking. Everything felt fresh and exciting, same as the early days of PSP cfw's. I learned so much in that time because it felt like the door to endless possibilities. Now everything tech wise feels kind of bland. Sure, we have AI now, we have phones capable of incredible tasks but I can't help but miss those old days.
Yeah :) i think it cud be where thers not as much real original programming and game design these days? Like maybe because people tend to use gui and tools rather than building their own engines and code from scratch it just stifles creativity?.. I think its all on purpose tbh because by making things really fenced in and controlled and overly simple it stops people really experimenting n by trial n error getting the hang of whats truly possible, like the freedom and access we had years ago was totally different experience than say android where you dont even have admin privelage by default like i think it was actually very mind expanding helped develop problem solving and lateral thinking to go thru the trial and error of sometimes learning what breaks your pc and what doesnt lol and learning html and C++ as opposed to using a game maker like unity or a pre made engine is a totally different skill level i see using these tools it becomes more like using the old elder scrolls creation kit or pumping out rom hacks kinda fing.. Plus the sheer amount of uploads these days means its so easy for things to go unnoticed (or be censored by your 'tailored search results')
I know the exact feeling. My friends and brother and I would compete every day just to see who could find the coolest features, setups, apps, aesthetic, etc. Such great times.
I loved Cydia and the jailbreak community. I only had iPhone because of them. I was able to turn an iPad touch into an iPhone thanks to Cydia and a special case. I still have on my channel old jailbroken awesomeness. Had real Bluetooth, awesome customized themes and tweaks. Thank you for all you did Mr. Freeman! And to all that made the jailbreak possible, I used every single tool through the years! ❤
Awesome video, man! A dying culture... I remember the days when the first thing we'd do any time a new iPhone dropped was to jailbreak it haha. Love the editing, looks professional! :)
@@ArthurBrassart Speaking of improving your editing skills, the VCR sounds is interesting. The duct tape transition not so much. As a general rule of thumb, people will put up with subpar video but not audio. That being said, if it was me I would use an EQ HPF -6dB roll off around 250hz (this removes the low droning sound from your low voice, some of us don't want our skulls rattled by headphones just listening to a talking head, take it as a compliment). This will give the narration more clarity. Then normalize audio at -9dbFS Sample Peak Program (General rule of thumb for dialog is keep it between -15 to -10dB) this is why -9dbFS (SPP) is default setting in Davinci Resolve, btw. Keep it up dude!
I personally think the transition is kind of annoying. But this is a really good structured video on history of jailbreaking. This takes me back. I made a dark mode UI for winter board back then. Like multitasking background status bar, default, iPhone apps and etc.. though I posted it for free. I miss those good old days. Jailbreaking community was very tight. Almost like being part of a family. Shame that those days will never be here again again. As far as I know, jailbreaking is completely dead. So I think we still need to be able to do it. The software updates don’t give us all the cool stuff we used to have. I miss making my entire home screen dance to Harlem shake lol
watching this on my jailbroken xs max lol. Edit: just wanted to mention that thanks to jailbreaking there are videos of me as a baby cuz my dad had jailbroken his iphone cuz at the time it didint support video recording.
@@ArthurBrassartwondering how it will all play out especially with how the future seems to want to have ai integrated directly into hardware. Wonder how different these devices will seem looking back after 10yrs. But yea I have a 11pro max & 15pro max will hold on to them for the fuck of it :)
There is without a doubt that apple themselves have jailbroken devices & use jailbroken tweaks because a lot of tweaks usually end up showing up in iOS updates.
Man, back in my day when I was in middle school, there was a kid who had been showing off his jail broken iPhone and it blew me away. I had gotten ahold of an iPhone from my rich Aunt who had an extra they no longer needed, I asked him about it and he said he could jailbreak it for $20 and gave it to me the next day. I was set after that, Cydia was awesome and Winterboard was so good to be reminded of, that brought back memories!!! Thanks for this video man, wow, absolutely nostalgic!
This was such an amazing point in iOS history. I remember being in high school, spending countless hours jailbreaking my iPod Touch, and installing as many tweaks as I would find. I had friends even pay me to jailbreak their devices. I remember trying to install Siri on my device was one of the biggest challenges I ever faced. Once I got it installed, it was slower than I could imagine. Just a testament to how popular these hacks were. I miss them dearly.
Good old days. From jailbreaking my iPod Touch 2nd & 4th Gen to iPhone 4 and 5. The amount of customisation you could do on a jailbroken iPhone was insane. Jailbreak was the only reason why I was stuck with Apple. Ever since jailbreak release was slowing down, I've decided to switch to Android. As much as I love Android now, the jailbreak era is forever in my heart. Thanks to Saurik and others who've made it possible.
@@winchesterkid lets see what algorithm thinks about this new video about Jony Ive: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KH7gV1Q5wes.htmlfeature=shared
Insane how many of the jailbreak tweeks, Apple ended up implementing it into iOS. Dark mode, gridlock, control center, themes, a file manager, descriptions on photos, better Volume UI, cellular hot spot, Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen widgets. List goes on. Tbh if it wasn’t for the jailbreak scene iOS would be entirely different today IMO
Crazy how Apple stole the jailbreak features/customizability options and released them shouting their *"innovation"* Truly disgusting that they didn't even acknowledge those poor developer's hard-work and creativity. Instead tried to sue them.
Jailbreaking died for me around 2015-2016.. I just stopped hearing about it anymore and found increasingly little reason to Jailbreak as time went on. Now I know why. Thanks for this video, Arthur.
It’s crazy how much iOS updates would take ideas from jailbreaking. From the widgets to the simple color changing music screens, the minimal ui changes so much more
I remember the jailbreak that was on a website that had “slide to jailbreak” on it. Was pretty cool at like 12 y/o jailbreaking my iPod touch at my grand parents house
haha, I like it too:D You can download it in the description under this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8pMv8In503g.html BTW: I have a lot of funny dynamic island wallpapers
i remember jailbreaking for the first time in 2008. haven’t stopped, but it’s mad to think back in the day you’d have to wait a few weeks, now it’s years apart. feel like this 16.4 jb might potentially be my last. edit: i also do remember when the servers couldn’t handle the traffic. cydia used to be SO SLOW 😂. you’d have to really know what you wanted to download because it would take like a 3-5 minutes to load the cydia homescreen
@@coreyperryjones2142 nah, but battery drain’s culprit would usually be a certain tweak. definitely have had issues in the past with some tho, just not this one 😅
Got a iPhone touch 2g for Xmas when I was like 12/13. I remember jailbreaking it, I remember sbsettings lol. Many things from this video brings back some nostalgia.
jailbreak's not dead. I've a jailbroken Iphone 8 on my truck loaded with apps such as the one to use Safari on my truck's touchscreen, files, watch RU-vid and much more. So it's far from dead, I been using it from 2007 until now. Thanks for your video is great to remember this stuff and name great devs like Jay, without him our phones won't be the good as they're today.
I Jailbroke my iPhone as my Service Provider would not allow me to use my Data Plan with a computer. It was also nice to have access to some of my games I paid for but were removed from the store for various reasons. Great video 😊
Great video man! I loved the content. One issue that I found myself feeling frustrated about was the animations for each chapter. I felt they happened to often… where each time you ran that animation, it’s about 13 seconds, and when I just saw it 3 minutes prior, it really felt like it took me out of the video. Other than that, I really enjoyed the video
I can’t even describe the excitement I felt when I first swiped up on my Home Screen to reveal the next screen full of app icons…it was so mind blowing. Thanks Jay, for such memorable moments. 🙏🏼
I miss the jailbreak times. Apple made a mistake by actively killing the literal thinktank behind the best iOS features we have now. Once the apps market got way better on Android (2013-14), I moved to it just to be able to have my own custom phone instead of barely having different wallpapers. Although, Android as well has became closed and the root scene pretty much died unless you have very one of few devices. But it will take much more than iOS 18 to catch up lol.
Nah Android are always open source. You got wrong phone. Don't buy Samsung ever again!!!!! Get Google Pixel or Sony Xperia come with unlockable bootloader that let you install custom roms. Do not buy phones from att, T-Mobile, Verizon and any prepaid company. Buy your own android phone with no network carrier branded. 70% Android manufacturer and network carrier love to locked their devices so customers can't do much with it until exploit come out.
Great video! Back in high school I used to jailbreak iPod touches for people. A couple of soft bricks here and there but I always managed to fix them. I think a lot of the troubleshooting I did then is what lead me to a tech career. Favourite tweak back then was definitely Barrel so that the app pages always had different animations. Then there was installous which everybody wanted for obvious reasons 👀
Jailbreaking is the best thing to ever happen to Apple. 1. Because people bought iPhones just to jailbreak them. 2. Every feature in iOS today comes from tweaks like bioprotect and dark mode.
13:59 : It was such a coincidense, that you were able to set a timer/alarm from the lockscreen. Then choose a sound; - open the appstore without any unlocking... when leaving the appstore you could just enter the mobile phone, bypassing the seciruty PIN code... I think the FBI had opened the phone or could have opened it without any problems. just a moment after this disscovery that exploit was patched. probably you can find some videos of it on YT...
I was there back in iOS 4.0, Jailbreak was the epitaph of the iPhone. But Apple didn’t killed the jailbreak. They rendered it obsolete by taking everything users wanted and integrating it directly in iOS. Jailbreak can still be achieved, but the community isn’t there anymore not as the armada of developers we had back then. It was one of the greatest period of my life and I thank everyone who was involved back then
Such nostalgia honestly. I remember back in the day we used to do this to all of our Ipod touches and show off all the cool mods we had....Good times..
I miss being a kid starting off having no idea what I was doing u till I figure out that I was making my phone more to my liking. I miss jailbreak ig so much :(. I use to show off to my friends with me getting the new iOS before release and all my tweaked apps
It's wild that I could lock individual apps/folders with passcodes with unique passwords on a jailbroken iPhone over 10 years ago and Apple still doesn't have this feature lmfao.
Love the premise of the video, but I definitely wanted more from the execution. Each of the chapters feel like they’re missing really interesting info. It really hit me when Chapter 4 ended so abruptly. There were a ton of super cool jailbreak tweaks back in the day, and there was even video clips of a couple of them. But there wasn’t any real explanation of what the tweaks were and why they were so cool, which would’ve added a lot of life to the video and helped us feel why that time was so special. Just a bit of feedback, hope to see what you cook up next!
I remember getting the third generation iPod touch and jailbreaking it. So many useful features came from jailbreak such as the Control Center stuff we have in stock iOS now. The thing about beating jailbreak is that not only they patched the security exploits, but they also copied some features which made regular people want to jailbreak their phones in the first place. Kinda like how Steam helped reduce piracy with good customer service.
Same, Cydia still has the blobs saved from when I jailbroke it with p0sixspwn. Pretty amazing how many features were available on the third gen compared to the previous, despite both of them running that same iOS 4.2.1 software. After all, never quite likened to iMessage on the 3G compared to how everyone knew it on the 4G alongside FaceTime
I'm so sad I can't use iOS 6 on a daily basis anymore :( no more Appstore, no WhatsApp, no EMails (partially working), no Maps... you can only admire it's beautiful design.
Jailbreak been a huge part of my childhood. My first iOS device ever been an iPod 2nd gen on iOS 4.2.1 , done the jailbreak with appsync installed , to get to install cracked apps . Then my first iPhone 3G in 2014 , when the look of iOS changed with iOS 7 , some developer launched a version of iOS 3.1.3 with all the tweaks from iOS 7 , which was mind blowing, it was designed to run on 2G/3G , iPod 1st gen , 2nd gen . Anyways jailbreak was cool , it was a flex back then to have an iPhone with endless pages of games and apps .
Sadly now the only devices that can jailbreak iOS 17 are the 2017 iPad Pros, and the iPad 6th and 7th generation. The 7th gen may be our only hope in getting an iOS 18 jailbreak because it’s the only one of those 3 to get that version
As I owned a 7th gen (recently upgraded to a 2018 iPad Pro), I will say jailbreaking iPad aren’t as particularly fun, nor useful like they used to be sadly 😔
@@LeseanDeVon Plus there’s no tweaks for iOS 17. I jailbroke a 7th gen on iOS 17 and there were a few cool tweaks but most tweaks are for iOS 16 earlier
I remember being a kid and thinking I jailbroke my iPhone, I went and bought every app thinking I wasn’t going to get charged…what a whoopin I received that day….
Having a hailbroken ps3 after anonymous took it down, looked like so much fun. I remember before anonymous got to them, the challenge lobbies were so much fun in mw2.
And then even after they took down psn, going into bypass lobbies on mw2 and doing all the elevators and whatnot, what a time man. I wish I could go back. We didn’t know what we had.
I liked the video it invokes nostalgia…. but you left one loose end: did he agree to help the fbi or did he work with “the man” ? Because I’d really like to think Jay would appreciate privacy… unless they gave up some insane amount of money. Still though, he wouldn’t be helping in just that one case. Sharing knowledge like that with the feds is just another step on the road to blade runner 2049
I jailbroke my ipod touch 4, iphone 4s, and iphone 5s. I only used fully untethered jail breaks. I used iphone 7 plus, and I never jail broke it. It was my last iphone. I am on Android now.
*I was getting $30 a piece to jailbreak and SIM unlock the 3G/3GS in 2009-2010 back when the iPhone was sold exclusively by AT&T for use on their network*
I used to help kids jailbreak their ipod touch 4th gens when i was in middle school. This video is like a blast to the past. Not sure why it was recommended to me but great video. Subbed
Man, I remember jailbreaking my iPod Touch 2nd gen and turning that thing into a little handheld computer that ran alongside my cell phone with all the apps I wanted that weren't in the app store. Loved being able to customize all the icons and the GUI.
Jailbreak was a huge help. Hands down to this man. I remember jailbreaking my ipod touch 3 to enable features. This has caused apple to make huge improvements in their effort to stop jailbreaking. Now im using 14 pro max. Cant help but be nostalgic.
Great video! Reminds me of my jailbreaking days in highschool. People would pay me to jailbreak their iPhones off the school computers. It was after ios4 so there was no JailbreakMe anymore.
When I was 12 I went to my local phone store and jailbreaked one of the iPhones on display. I ended up working at that store years later and confessed my crimes
Never was an iOS user but I always LOVED Open Source community and their hard work for making consumer devices more customizable and better in many ways. 2000-2015 were GOLDEN days for technology and hacking your devices, so much freedom and excitement but now it became way too complicated, not enough exciting advancements, people are being too distracted by social media etc. Boring and soul-less time in technology these days...
I remember telling my friends my iPhone was jail broken and they always ask if I could do it for them and I’m like Mann, listen your don’t want these problems!
My new IOS18 beta with filtered colors on apps feels like my old jailbroken iPhone for the first time. Not as many customizations, but at least I can make my entire phone neon colored.
Best video, i know every details of this video and lived it in these old days. I subbed you, thanks for your excellent first class video. Greets from germany my friend and greets to the community here ;) - cheers
Really good video, but the transitions with the tape and VHS feel very... contextually wrong? Also, the video text warping would be a cool idea if it didn't warp outside the TV screen!
