Apple Cautions Users Against Jailbreaking iPhone OS

thats true about the notifications i get notification on facebook for some other jailbreaker

while all this maybe true, i'll rather take the chance than to use their monotonous OS.. it becomes boring after a while..jailbreaking rocks!!

My Phone is truly a smart phone thanks to Jailbreaking. My Phone does tons more than the Brand New 4G can do and more!!!! Yeah, I have a hiccup or two but nothing a quick Google to find the solution can't handle. Thanks GeoHot!

I've jailbroken both of my iPhones (2G and 3GS) many times and have now stopped because I've noticed frequent stability issues, some of which were so bad that the phone would randomly become bricked and require a restore. I'm not the only one either, several of my friends have had the same problems.

Well there's a jailbreak for me on my 3Gs
I'm rolled back on 3.1.2 from 3.1.3

These are phantom threats with no basis in frequent or provable reality, and yet another attempt by Apple at whining over what people choose to do with the hardware they paid good money for. Get with the program Apple and people won't need to jailbreak. 4.0 still won't be able to replicate "QuickReply" which in and of itself makes not upgrading worth it.

it make you use the iphone with its full capacity. and to be honest apple should be happy as they wouldnt even dream to sell this amount if it wasnt for the jailbreak community, and to be honest its not about the application from the app store , its more about what you can do with your device i paid 460£ for it and i want to do what ever i want . jailbreak FTW

I mean.. pop up blocker, and i-protect – two simple jb apps that apple should integrate by default, they make ppl want to jailbreak by neglecting basic needs of their users.

When they talk about updated software, do you they mean iphone os 4.o? The only problem I have noted is my battery drained a quarter faster. Even though I had a few problems I will jailbreak every iphone I ever own. Only then is the true potential of the iphone realized.

I have two words for you Steve Jobs,

FUCK YOU

I am still waiting on the 3gs 3.1.3 jailbreak .i already JB my 3g i do everything from lockscren and bosspaper .come on guys do the 3gs 3.1.3 jailbreak please.i bought it i do what i want with it .its mine ok

Wow I can't imagine having an Un-Jailbroken Iphone because when apple and at&t slowly spoon feed these so called features they need to do their due diligence on in order to assure quality control and performance, our Jailbroken iphones are working fine and I bet if you took a poll everyone and their mother! yes their mother! would rather be jailbroken and take their chances versus an expensive motorola razor by apple! Ok maybe I was harsh with the razor but you get the drift! Ten thumbs up for Jailbreaks! it's called testing! and we all use at our own risk! just show your Lockscreen (lockinfo) to a non jailbroken Iphone user and they will feel like they are being robbed! and if you show them anything else forget it they will feel like jerks!

I read this article… and the message I understood was that Apple is afraid… very afraid… and they are trying to now make us afraid to resist them.

Major fail again Apple… it's disappointing to hear that your warnings to us on why we shouldn't jailbreak are really nothing more than fear tactics based on generalizations that really probably apply more to your hardware than anything else. You remind me of Big Government, trying to scare the people into trusting that they should trust in it, instead of their own individualism and free choice.

Booooo!

Can't wait for the jailbreak!!!

HAHAHAHAHHA! No DOUBT.

Are you related to Apple? Give me a break.

My 3gs just died of a random hardware issue, other than that it worked great Jailbroke from day one. It was replaced under warranty and I got screwed with a new one that had bad ram and now ANOTHER new one that's on 3.1.3, without it being Jailbroke I use it about half as much and miss calls ALL the time. Without Jailbreak Iphone is a barely call making Ipod.

Jailbroken 3g and 3gs and unlocked with no problems to report. Honestly AT&T was the biggest issues I had with yh iPhone.

How did you roll back to 3.1.2?

What are you guys 12?

There are like 2 or 3 new articles a day and you are the first to post on this one…. congrats… no really… this is an accomplishment for you I'm sure. Now that you have peaked and reached the highlight of your life, all that's left is downhill. You might as well go and get a Windows Mobile phone since you have nothing left to live for.

My grandfather smoked a carton a day and lived to be 90. This is proof that smoking cant be bad for you.

Just because your jailbreak didnt cause any problems for you doesnt mean that's the case for everyone. Wish one could jailbreak some people's brains, bec. they sure are under using them.

True. Jailbreaking is not for the computer illiterate. If u know what ur doing ur phone will be fine. The jailbroken community rocks!

Im the first to post that you need to take that dick out your ass…i know that's an accomplishment for you im sure. So stop trying to bring down the mood and go continue taking it in the ass =)

The iPhone is a good device, but a jailbroken iPhone is truly the best phone in the market! I don't understand why Apple is against jailbreaking. Jailbreaking unlocks the full potential of the iDevices. They shouldn't be restricting the capabilities of their devices but releasing them to the consumer with full access. Apple should he happy that we take pride in their devices and jailbreak them. That means we are trying to find ways to make their devices better and use them more frequently. There wouldn't be a need for jailbreaks if the phone came out of the box ready-to-use with all the features of a jailbreak. If Apple wants to maximize sales and keep consumers with the iPhone in their hands, they should give up the fight against jailbreaking. When people without iPhones see what a jailbroken iPhone can do, it makes them wish they had an iPhone! Jailbreaking should be left up to the consumer and not Apple without neglect or punishment. If I couldn't have jailbroken iPhone, I probably wouldn't have an iPhone.

JB Rules!!!

The Hypocrisy is when ever SJ tells you sv to jump, you say how high? And if he asks you to bend over, you'll ask, shall I bring the Vaseline with me Steive?

I find it quite ironic that one of the key points that apple makes is about security… How about providing a firewall and protection for the device the only messures in place to protect the phone out of the box from where I am sitting only protect apple, no-one else lol.

Personaly I have been able to find quite a few security issues with my non jailbroken Iphone ( what can I say with a lack of other things to do with it I decided a hardware and application level security audit would be intresting lol).

What I found has far superseeded intresting and personaly speaking I will be adding a firewall to my device asap wether apple supports it or not because failure to do so in this day and age of technology is plain ignorance particularly anyone with a dataplan which lets face it is well over 80% of the smartphone market….

I am overall quite a mild jailbreaker I don't use counterfit sofware, However refuse to bow to limitations put in place just so apple can avoid the more challanging aspects of phone OS design and feel good about themselfs.

Not hard to design a "stable" platform that only has to run on a few handfulls of configurations at most and when you strip away half of the functions which can cause potential issues whilst they get it right lol.

The stock Iphone is far from perfect I have had quite a few bugs and issues with my most recently aquired iphone so whats apple going to blame for that ?

and no I am not running os4 on it yet lol

Talking about JB GeoHot just a few minutes back through his twitter account is asking everyone about the 3.1.3 jailbreak http://twitter.com/geohot

Without JB iphone is useless for me. If you use it just as phone there are many cheaper and better alternatives.
But with jailbreaking I can do whatever I want with iphone (for example, skype calls on 3G with bluetooth headset!)

A little thing called…..mmmmmmmagic.

no matter what anyone says i believe that hacking has helped sell the iphone. and has allso help inovate the apps and software

i love jailbreak and unlock my iphone…so i can use third party apps that apple doesn't want me to use. unlocking allows me to use sims around the world?

Screw apple! I would never buy an iphone if there is no jailbreak community.

Apple then should listen to their customers! One of the major reasons to jailbreak is to unlock the phone in order to use it on any network. As long as apple keeps this principle of locking their phones, jailbreak will always be there. NB: I also heard SJ uses a JailBroken iPhone under the pretense "I want to test the jailbreak to see what areas of the iPhone OS" are vulnerable! Bullshit! Jailbreak rules the iPhone world. And Mr Jobs knows it!

i did it with snowbreeze .u have to go to one of these links http://www.redmondpie.com/sn0wbreeze-jailbreak-iphone-3g-3gs-3.1.2-on-windows-9140328/ this is the one i use .u will have to follow the instructions to the t . i got it on the fourth try ok http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-iphone-os-3.1.3-firmware-with-redsn0w-0.9.4/

Being in the older rather than younger generation I still remember the little defensive company hoarding its little apples and tiny cut of the global computer market with copyright this and can't copy this or that… end result… the little apple almost went bust… on the other hand PC sales skyrocketed because of the opportunities they provided for innovation.

Apple as a company has some great ideas, I went Apple for this very reason, but will they ever learn from their past mistakes??? I find it amazing to see how narrow sighted and narrow minded they are becoming yet again.

If something is truly good it will sell itself.

I find it even more amazing to read their weak poultry excuses for not Jailbreaking an iPhone/Touch. Imagine if Microsoft were to apply the same arguments to their OS's. Their attempt to lock in a webbrowser at the OS level is one example of consumer market reaction. The consumer world went into an uproar.
The admission from Apple themselves, posted in the article above, is particularly telling,
"…third-party apps that use the Apple Push Notification Service have had difficulty receiving notifications or received notifications that were intended for a different hacked device…"
To me this smacks of a serious iPhone OS security issue.

smackoz
jailbroken iPod Touch 2g and loving it!

If you have had your iphone more than two years, and or your warranty has expired, Apple is NOT a threat to you! Also, as recently reported, Apple will no longer provide updates to the 2G. So, they can go roger themselves!
The whole notion that I can not manipulate a device which I PAID FOR to absurd. Just imagine if you bought a PC and the manufacturer said you couldn't install additional software because of a license agreement or your actions might do any of the above listed things. You would tell them to sod off. So let the revolution begin and do what the bloody hell you want with the device you bought and paid for.

This announcement of Apple is the best proof that the Spirit Jailbrake or the one of Geohot will work on OS 4.0 and iPhone 4G!

I did a JB on my iPhone 3Gs the 1st week I bought it and that was at the launch of the model and I have had no problems performance wise. I have bought just about every jail broken app on the Cydia store. I love my jail broken iPhone but at the end of my contract I will be getting a new HTC android phone because they are getting better and better very quickly and I believe soon they will indeed outsmarted apple simply because apple release upgrades and updates to slowly. I don't think of the iPhone as a smart phone with a iPod on it but rather than iPod with iPhone on it.

Because he's an egotistical little jerk

Without JB, I would be using a Droid by now.

Yep, I'll go along with that

I was wondering since your not jailbroken anymore is your iPhone crash free worry free, no drop calls.

Winterboard (MobileSubstrate) protects your device by placing it in Safe Mode where you can access Cydia / Rock and remove offending packages.
Sometimes, packages do conflict with another installation, but most good Devs test & retest then place an 'Advisory' in the More Info sections, funny how some people refuse to read up on what they want to install.
If you do find a conflict, most Devs welcome an email about whats happening, it helps them and us

Crashes CAN, WILL & DO happen with any software devices, Doesn't mean it makes the device less useable.
Packages such as Firewall ip, Adblock etc are there to make our devices safer (and ad free )

I jailbroke my 3g back in december and updated back to 3.1.3 when apple released it this year. to be honest and anyone can say what they like but there is no denying the phone is a whole lot more stable unjailbroken, My phone used to regularly crash and eventually completely stopped working so i had no option but to place into recovery mode and update the firmware thus over-riding the jailbreak. The exact same thing happened to my sisters iphone. I understand the right to jailbreak but theres no denying the iphone os is a hell of a lot more stable and efficient unjailbroken.

You can downgrade 3.1.3 to 3.1.3 without SHSH backups. Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf9rd6wH3zU

This worked perferctly for me last night after being forced into a 3.1.3 upgrade because of a crash/freeze. Follow the instructions precisely. I did this on my 3GS (MC model so usually not possible) and without an shsh backup.

If you are stuck then give this a try and report in here when it works for you.

Apple doesn't want us running apps that are not specifically approved by them, like most of us are already aware of. That's the bottom line. If they don't have a hand in it $$ wise, they don't want it on their device. That's their call of course, it's THEIR product. I don't like how they outright LIE though about the products' capabilities or lack thereof (video recording on the 2G and 3G models for example). They make claims that 'the hardware just won't support it…' yet introduce a new model soon afterward that now runs the apps the previous model would not (according to them)….yet the jailbreak community proves otherwise. Laughable really.

Well Apple of course lose profit and control over the iphone with jailbreaking..

But I think Apple is failing to look on how it helps them. It really show what users want.

Looking at iphone 4.0 for example…. Basically the majority of the new features that people are excited about, I have had access to those features via jailbreaking. Apple have used the jailbreak community for basically as a market research thing. I have been using folders and backgrounders as far as I can remember. And they are finally introduced in 4.0, since I think a lot of jailbreakers use categories and backgrounder.

So yeah Apple is against jailbreaking… since they lose money and control.. but I think they do secretively support jailbreaking at some point, since it's free market research for them.

If Apple/ATT would unlock my phone, I would be happy to give up jailbreak and pay for apps. I travel frequently and lock to carrier is just stupid. I have a contract with ATT, it's not like I was going to skip payment to them, why should they care if the phone is unlocked or not? So European carriers offers legal unlock service.

So I'm sitting here, using my internet connection with My-Wi (Jailbroken App) reading warnings from Apple (on an iPhone Hacker Site) about possible problems my iPhone (Jailbroken for a year now) might be having due to jailbreaking. Really?!? I love Apple and all it's products but I must say this – "GO KICK ROCKS TIL YOUR FEET BLEED!!!" Jailbreaking my phone gave me a video camera right after a friend paid $300 for a video camera 3GS. Stopped paying for extra internet service when My-Wi came into the picture and now since you can't stop the hackers, you're appealing to the customers that you screwed?! REALLY??!!! As long as the iPhone exists, there will always be jailbreakers and I will never own a non-jailbroken iPhone…Now I can really say – There's an App for That! LOL

These posts are really annoying keep it on topic who likes to go through ten posts of little kids screaming they are first? Why does it matter post something relevant or don't at all…now to not be a hypocrite my jailbroken iPhone runs perfectly and exceeds that of a virgin iPhone!

Holy shit, when you write a carton, that means 200 cigarettes per day, isn't it? I guess he's in the Guinness book, right ?

Yes LoneWaffle works for apple. Are you guys serious? I don't know exactly what jailbreaking does to the phone, but when you start installing some of the 3rd party apps off Cydia and digging through your phone's file directory, stuff can happen. I'll bet this happened to you.
Gotta be careful when using SSH.

I've had my 3g the day it came out, and jailbroke it around November of that year. I've messed with everything on it, and even formatted the phone several times…just to rejailbreak it. My phone works for the most part but on occasion apps do crash. Not the phone. I also get a NO SIM INSTALLED message at times, but this is of late.

My biggest annoyance of this phone after everything it has gone through is how SLOW it is. INCREDIBLY laggy.

I believe jailbreaking is fine to do, but this article speaks more of what can happen not when jailbreaking goes wrong, but when the USER goes wrong.

hopefully this fixed the bolding of all the comments

Apple is just doing FUD, boy has jobs sold out and become super borg. I think it is time someone else ran the company so it can realize its potential. Oh and for the record apple I bought the phone and will do anything I like with it.

hey guy i am not really good with computers and im finding it hard to jailbreak my iphone 3gs 3.1.3 any tips would be great….

also i heard someone has jailbroken the os 4.0 beta and i was wondering if i should wait until that comes out so i can get the added features

I tried to do this and broke my iPhone I now am in the middle of restoring

Hey just wanna say great job just jb’d my iphone 3gs and i fucking love it