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Does Jailbreaking Slow Down Your iPhone?
Jailbreaking is a great way to open up the capabilities of your iPhone, but does jailbreaking slow down your iPhone and cause instability?
There are plenty of great reasons to jailbreak your iPhone, but what many beginner jailbreakers worry about is the possibility that jailbreaking can slow down their iPhone and hinder performance.
This is a valid concern, and it’s definitely one of the big downsides of jailbreaking, but jailbreaking doesn’t have to slow down your iPhone, and if it does, it’s a temporary problem that can be fixed.
Read: Apple’s Love/Hate Relationship with Jailbreaking
Of course, if you’re interested in jailbreaking your iPhone, you’ll need to make sure that your device is running iOS 9.0.2. Anything newer isn’t jailbreakable currently, as Apple patched up the jailbreak exploits with the release of iOS 9.1 and they’re still intact in iOS 9.2.
However, if you’re on iOS 9.0.2, then you can easily jailbreak your iPhone without a problem, and we have a great guide that takes you through the process of jailbreaking.
After you have jailbroken your iPhone, though, you might be worried that it will slow down your iPhone, whether it’s right away or over time. Here’s what you need to know about jailbreaking and your iPhone’s performance.
Does Jailbreaking Slow Down Your iPhone?
This is one of the most-asked questions from people who are interested in jailbreaking, and it’s a good question because it’s a legitimate concern.
When you jailbreak your iPhone and install various tweaks, you’re modifying iOS at the code level, which means changes to the system will happen, which can be a cause for concern as far as performance and overall stability.
To answer the big question, yes, jailbreaking can slow down your iPhone, but it’s not something that’s permanent and it’s not something that just magically happens the second you jailbreak your iPhone.
First of all, iPhones get slower over time anyway, whether it’s jailbroken or not. As iOS gets more features and more resource-heavy, the more that older iPhones won’t be able to keep up. Of course, this isn’t the main reason why jailbroken iPhones can slow down, but it’s perhaps one reason to consider when you experience performance issues.
Essentially, installing a lot of jailbreak tweaks can slow down your iPhone, depending on what tweaks you install and how many of them you install. Plus, some jailbreak tweaks might clash with others, resulting in iPhone performance problems and slow downs.
The good news is that jailbreak can’t permanently slow down your iPhone. Usually it’s just a matter of figuring out the culprit (which is usually a single tweak that’s creating problems) and getting rid of it.
Overall, though, jailbreaking can slow down your iPhone, and it’s likely during your jailbreak experience that you’ll come across some performance issues at some point, but it’s something that can easily be fixed if you know how to troubleshoot jailbreak problems.
In fact, more of than not, iPhone slow down will likely be the least of your worries when it comes to jailbreaking your iPhone. It’s possible to come across random boot loops, app crashes, and error messages more often than any performance issues, so while you may be worried that jailbreaking can slow down your iPhone’s performance, that should the least of your worries.
Greg Wilkinson (BoringPortlander)
12/27/2015 at 10:03 am
Propaganda to scare the inexperienced. This article was written by a bag of hammers
Tinajlowry
12/28/2015 at 1:09 am
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Leshammahan
01/02/2016 at 8:07 am
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Miles
01/16/2016 at 11:57 am
I agree with Greg.
I could have made a more accurate description of the actual risks and rewards one reaps of jailbreaking after getting shot with an elephant tranq dart in my forehead.