If you own an iPhone and likes to customize your phone. But at the same time you just not willing to bite the bullet and go Android because you hate the stuttering experience on Android devices, there is a solution for you. Jailbreak.
Unlike old times where a wrong step in Jailbreaking will give you a very expensive Apple branded paperweight, Jailbreaking is perfectly safe nowadays.
I won't re-write the guide on how to jailbreak your phone cause a comprehensive guide is available @TaiG. Also follow people like @Saurik or @Modmyi to get really interesting stuff from jailbreak.
One thing to note. Similar to Android, a bit of precaution is needed and don't go adding un-trusted repo into Cydia. You know sh1t is about to go down once you see Russian popped up in your phone.
That aside, here's 10 reason why you should jailbreak your iPhone.
1) Apple UI is boring.
If you used Android before and loved how much customize-able the springboard is. Jailbreak removes that barrier. You can have you iPhone looks like your Mac or Windows 10 or even becomes Android Marshmallow itself. The tweak Winterboard and Springtomize allows you to turn your iPhone into this... plus lots more cool stuff.
Or if you missed Windows 95...
2) Spotlight is super damn annoying.
Don't you hate it when you're busy swiping your phone, and suddenly your thumb miss-cued and swiped down a little bit and spotlight pops up. Spotlight isn't exactly that helpful, although Apple kind of boost spotlight capability in iOS9. For me, No Spotlight gives me the cure.
3) Ads are even more annoying.
I understand people put ads on their app and webpages in order to gain a bit more revenue. But I don't remember my super mario bro 2 have ads popping up every 10 seconds. So sorry ads, adblocker is installed.
4) Keyboard Berserk
For those who used this, you'll never use the default apple keyboard ever again. Apple copied this into iOS9 but using 2 fingers kind of defeating the purpose. Swipe selection wins hands down.
5) Apple's notification banner is way too big.
Imagine you're playing a game and sudden;y a message comes in. And guess what, the default banner is too god-d@mn big that it cover a huge area of the already small iPhone screen. Tinybar fixes this. No more wasted screen space.
6) Know your iOS internals
Apple hides the file system from prying eyes. But having iFile, you'll be able to see iOS without clothes on. I can see power users drooling already.
7) Go easy on your eyes at night
If you know the blue light red light thing, and how it affect your brain and your sleep. Then you know using smart devices at night actually messes up your brain. But don't worry, there's a fix. It's called f.lux. It'll adapt the warmth and color of the screen with the time of the day so your brain will not be messed up seeing blue light e.g. the sun in the middle of the night.
8) Activate your phone
Want to look cool while using your phone? Want to minimize the usage of home and power button cause those 2 button broke really easily? Now you can use all kind of swipe, tap, pinch action to do lots of cool stuff e.g. hold the clock at the lock screen to capture an emergency selfie.
Activator allows you to customize your phone to do all these. Or to make your life easier, you can get Tage to quickly makes your phone multitasking a breeze.
9) Apple notification center sucks
Android notification center wins big time. To make your notification center as powerful as the one you get in Android, get IntelliscreenX.
10) Super powerful message app
BiteSMS sets the standard that Apple can't keep up with the messaging app. Period.
Extra
There are plenty other jailbreak tweaks e.g. one that makes touch ID a lot more useful (I'm a sucker and still using iPhone 5, so no touch ID), a much more powerful air drop using AnyDrop, lots of camera tweak like having 4K or slomo recording on unsupported device, icaughtu that snap picture of the guy who stole your phone when he tried to unlock your phone or even LocalAPStore that allows your to get in app purchases for free.
Jailbreaking is indeed fun and you'll never realize that iOS can do so much more than what you're seeing everyday. And we all know that all the fancy features you get in newer iOS and Android are mostly copied from jailbreak tweaks.
For those interested, you can head to TaiG right now and give it a shot. However, it's strictly for iOS8 only. If you "accidentally" updated to iOS9, then you might want to wait a while for the new jailbreak to become available.
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