Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to New iOS 12.4 Jailbreak

Honest question... do people still really jailbreak like that? Like, how big is the jailbreak community now?

I love questions like that. Yeah, the community is quite big, the jailbreak subreddit has over 300k subscribers and after last couple of releases it seems to be gathering some popularity.

Stock iOS 12 is great, but jailbreaking it is a no-brainer for me, especially when we can jailbreak the newest and signed version (which is a very rare opportunity)
I can tell you why I jailbreak all my iOS devices (SE and two X's)

- You can get real split screen multitasking with the https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/04/23/pullover-pro/

- You can have ANY app on the CarPlay screen with https://www.redmondpie.com/carbridge-for-ios-12-jailbreak-released-lets-you-use-any-app-with-carplay/

- You can get all iPhone X gestures on older devices without any lags, bugs, with the https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/18/neptune-for-iphone/

- You can have customizable Answering machine, record messages to the device and even set different greetings for different callers with https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/08/23/answeringmachine-x/

- You can get rid of the full screen calling screen which users have been asking for ages with https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/06/callbar-xs-brings-everyones-favorite-phone-call-centric-jailbreak-tweak-to-ios-12/

- You can stack icons together instead of using folders which looks extremely cool with https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/12/03/zenith/

- You can get amazing gestures in app switcher screen with https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/05/04/gesto/

- You can get the grid switcher from iPad in your iPhone with https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/11/newgridswitcher/

- You can have custom shortcuts on lockscreen with the https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/04/20/jumper/

- You can write notes on your lockscreen with the https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/08/30/notepad/

- And hundreds of small things

Jailbreaking is not only about some themes, you can really get the 100% from your iPhones instead of the 60% or less that Apple gives you.
My jailbroken SE can do more than stock XS (without any performance issues) and that is not an exaggeration

I think that now is an amazing opportunity to try jailbreaking, you have nothing to lose. If anything happens (which is extremely unlikely because jailbreaks now aren't permanent/untethered) you can easily restore your device to the newest stock iOS version with iTunes and forget about everything

I really wish that I had the surplus of time that hackers always seem to have.

Honest question... do people still really jailbreak like that? Like, how big is the jailbreak community now?

I wish Apple was on its game, but alas, no. It's a company spread too thin, governed by greedy hand-wringers.

Yes yes, and Apple is doomed and Steve is rolling in his grave like a gas station hotdog

I'm surprised this regression happened. This points to a breakdown in product management discipline, which in general is a bad sign.

I wish Apple was on its game, but alas, no. It's a company spread too thin, governed by greedy hand-wringers.

"Unpatched" - There's a new one for the lexicon.

Cant figure out why anyone would need a jailbreak anymore...

So they can install apps that Apple deems inappropriate for the app store...

You know, legitimate apps like Kodi and Retroarch...

Not to mention being able to customize their own devices any way they see fit.

This is pretty ridiculous on Apple's part. I understand Apple develops parallel versions of iOS (12.3, 12.4, etc.) concurrently to reduce development time, but having one team not communicate with the other seems silly.

Cough when does apple do anything *accidentally*