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Telemetry logs can be sniffed, with a good firewall and as long as you're on your wifi with a wifi only device you can learn a lot. I jailbreak to use this: http://cydia.saurik.com/package/ca.btraas.appfirewall/

Amazing how much analytics I block from every app.

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If you drill down far enough in the settings, most Apple products are happy to show you the telemetry that's sent back to Cupertino. I've seen the HomePod data while poking around in the Home app.

They don’t tell you their own telemetry as far as I know.

No. They do. I can see crash logs for assetsd, awdd, com.apple.mobilemail, DifferentialPrivacy, and much more. Just open up Settings and search “analytics”

I get those crash logs but I don’t benefit from it as much as seeing a realtime task like telemetry attempts but this is also pretty useful. Thanks. It looks like this that data is piped into this jailbreak app. https://repo.packix.com/package/com.muirey03.cr4shed/

On iOS you can see Apple’s telemetry in Settings -> Privacy -> Analytics -> Analytics Data. Or export with XCode.

No idea if it’s exhaustive. But I can see things like general day by day analytics and recent crash reports.

It’s a bit opaque and difficult to make sense of, but it’s still impressive they make this telemetry available to you at all.

That’s very cool, thanks!

I have most of it disabled this is what the firewall options are for OfferUp for example. https://ibb.co/SVbyybC Aside from analytics I can also block the ads from Bing in the app.

Awesome to see a jail breaker here on HN. It has been my experience that when you mention the benefits of jailbreaking the HN crowd really looks poorly at it and shuts it down.

Whats the current status of jailbreaking on iPhone 12s and iOS 15? I've been out of the game for a very long time, I assume even if I wanted to have a look at it I'm out of luck.

What are the major benefits you yourself get from it? My major reasoning used to be emulators, but I have a hacked New 3DS which runs everything I want it to these days with better controls.

Firewalls like the grandparent comment seems quite useful

I set my battery to never charge more than 80%, I have a 50 entry clipboard, and I can downgrade App Store apps at will, I use Halide instead of Halide II since it’s free and they don’t normally let you download old apps unless you saved them to iTunes. You can get emulators without jailbreak on it by using delta here, and a clipboard is available here too. https://altstore.io/

The jailbreak subreddit has a solid sidebar with info on devices / iOS versions supported, and by what jailbreak method. Any current gen device is off the table at the moment, as is iOS 15.

Also- recently ordered a Japanese New 3DS and am glad to hear you are enjoying it, looking forward to having a great emulation machine- maybe one day I’ll get around to installing a modchip in my switch lite too

The New 3DS has blown me away by how powerful it is. Been playing full-speed PS1 games via RetroArch on it has been super neat. N64 is sadly hit-and-miss, but that's honestly fine as most of the games I want to play have NDS or 3DS ports already. Played through Metal Gear Solid and Parasite Eve entirely on my 3DS!

The injectors for the Virtual Console are super great too; GB, GBA and Sega have worked flawlessly (including saving, for the GB/GBA). It can be a little finicky to get the right settings for injection (around the battery/nand emulation), but once you get the process down pat it's straightforward.

The coolest part was that the second hand one I bought still had the previous users Nintendo Account setup on it, but the homebrew/custom firmware system let me erase it without wiping the system.

They're brilliant little systems, I'm very impressed.

I've got the first-generation bootloader exploitable Switch that I've considered hacking, but I think I'll wait til it's a bit older or I've replaced it with the next generation Switch.

I love using iOS as a mobile Unix device and android as mobile Linux, I feel like it can do everything once you unlock the limited software and have more access to lower levels. They probably think it’s all piracy or it’s their telemetry I’m blocking, but you don’t need to jailbreak to pirate, or to run a VPN and it’s nice to have stuff like https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/10/15/battsafe/ to never have my battery trickle charge.

Sometimes there’s flaws/glitches in iOS or OS X and they kill battery life or rewrite databases, I was able to diagnose it, I installed top (yes CLI top) and figured it out. I have a full terminal just like my computer, it’s awesome so much Linux CLI has been ported.

Former jailbreaker here, but still holding strong on a jailbreakable iOS version (14.3).

I stopped using a jailbroken phone mainly because it was getting more and more difficult to circumvent banking app security, and it seemed like every payment-related app wants to include some form of jailbreak detection these days.

Use the mobile site, the watch if you can, or hide the jailbreak from the app with something like A-bypass.

This was my experience as well- holding out on old versions of iOS + inevitably breaking normal workflows like banking ended up becoming too much of a pain, went back to a stock setup.

That and the random resprings which were likely the fault of jailbroken content I installed, but often it is too time consuming to debug exactly which tweak was causing the instability

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