iPhone Jailbreak

You need to use an Online or computer based software to Jailbreak your iPhone.

Jailbreak tools may vary according to iPhone models.

Please select your iPhone model to find the best Jailbreak tool.

iPhone 13 models iPhone 12 models iPhone 11 models iPhone X models iPhone 8 / 8 Plus iPhone 7 / 7 Plus iPhone SE iPhone 6S / 6S Plus iPhone 6 / 6 Plus iPhone 5S iPhone 5C iPhone 5 iPhone 4S iPhone 4 iPhone 3GS iPhone 3G

Also following information will be important if you are interested in iPhone Jailbreaking.

Best iPhone Jailbreak apps/ tweaks

Why people Jailbreak iPhones

Risk of iPhone Jailbreaking

iPhone hardware Jailbreak

Jailbreak iPhone 13 models

iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro & iPhone 13 Pro Max are the newest additions to the Apple family. It's not possible to jailbreak any of the iPhone 13 models yet. Even iOS 15 & higher versions can not jailbreak yet.

Therefore you can use Zeon jailbreak repo as a recommended method to install jailbreak apps for iPhone 13 until archive iPhone 13 jailbreak.

Learn more about Zeon Plus from the following pages.

iOS 15.2 Jailbreak (beta)

iOS 15.1 / iOS 15.1.1 Jailbreak

iOS 15 – iOS 15.0.2 Jailbreak

Jailbreak iPhone 12 models

iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 pro and iPhone 12 Pro max running latest iOS 15.1, iOS 15.1.1 versions. Even iOS 15.2 beta.

There is no untethered or semi untethered jailbreak for these latest versions running these iPhones. But You can use jailbreak repo extractors.

Recommended following Hexxa jailbreak repo extractor for iOS 14.6, iOS 14.7, iOS 14.7.1, iOS 14.8, iOS 14.8.1, iOS 15, iOS 15.0.1, iOS 15.0.2, iOS 15.1, iOS 15.1.1, iOS 15.2 beta.

Read full iPhone 12 jailbreak guide

Also you can use the following Jailbreak tools for older iOS versions.

iOS 14 – iOS 14.5.1 – Unc0ver

iOS 14 – iOS 14.3 – Taurine

Learn more about

iOS 14.8 / iOS 14.8.1 Jailbreak

iOS 14.7 / iOS 14.7.1 Jailbreak

iOS 14.6 Jailbreak

iOS 14.5 / iOS 14.5.1 jailbreak

Jailbreak iPhone 11 models

iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro & iPhone 11 Pro Max are introduced with iOS 13 and now iOS 15.1.1 running as latest versions.

It has several semi-untethered jailbreak tools for these iPhone models up to iOS 14.5.1. You need to use a jailbreak repo extractor for iOS 14.6 onwards because there is no jailbreak tool release after iOS 14.5.1.

iOS 13 – iOS 14.5.1 – Unc0ver

iOS 13 – iOS 13.7 – Odyssey

iOS 14 – iOS 14.3 – Taurine

iOS 15 and higher – Hexxa Plus

Read more about iPhone 11 Jailbreak.

Learn more about

iOS 14.3 – iOS 14.4.2 Jailbreak

iOS 14.2 / iOS 14.2.1 Jailbreak

iOS 14 – iOS 14.1 Jailbreak

iOS 13 – iOS 13.6.1 Jailbreak

iOS 13.7 Jailbreak

Jailbreak iPhone X models

iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, XR came with iOS 12 versions and iPhone X introduced with iOS 11. Now all of these are compatible with iOS 15 & higher versions.

You can find many jailbreak tools for these devices.

iOS 12 – iOS 12.5.5 – Chimera

iOS 12 – iOS 14.5.1 – Unc0ver

iOS 13 – iOS 13.7 – Odyssey

iOS 14 – iOS 14.3 – Taurine

iOS 15 and higher – Hexxa Plus

Apart from the above tools there are following jailbreak tools only for iPhone X jailbreak.

iOS 11 – iOS 11.4.1 – Electra

iOS 12 – iOS 14.8.1 – Checkra1n

Learn more about

iOS 12 – iOS 12.3.2 Jailbreak

iOS 12.4 – iOS 12.5.5 Jailbreak

Get full iOS X guides from the iPhone X Jailbreak page.

Jailbreak iPhone 8 / 8 Plus

iPhone 8 / 8 plus initially released with iOS 11 and now support with iOS 15 & higher versions.

Checkra1n is the most recommended jailbreak tool for iPhone 8 / iPhone 8 Plus up to iOS 14.8.1. Hexxa plus Jailbreak repo extractor is the most recommended for iOS 15 & higher. Also, there are other jailbreak tools such as Electra, Unc0ver tools compatible for older iOS versions.

iOS 15 and higher – Hexxa Plus

iOS 14.4 – iOS 14.8.1 – Checkra1n

iOS 11 – iOS 14.5.1 – Unc0ver

iOS 11 – iOS 11.4.1 – Electra

iPhone 7/ iPhone 7 Plus are running the latest iOS 15 & higher versions. Apple announced these two models with iOS 10 and it came out when iOS 10.0.1 released.

Jailbreak iPhone 7/ iPhone 7 Plus with Checkra1n or Unc0ver. Find the below list to know about all available jailbreak tools for iPhone 7/ iPhone 7 Plus.

iOS 10.0.1 – iOS 10.3.3 – h3lix

iOS 10 – iOS 10.3.3 – Meridian

iOS 11 – iOS 11.4.1 – Electra

iOS 12 – iOS 12.5.5 – Chimera

iOS 14 – iOS 14.3 – Taurine

iOS 12 – iOS 14.5.1 – Unc0ver

iOS 12 – iOS 14.8.1 – Checkra1n

iOS 15 and higher – Hexxa Plus

Jailbreak iPhone 6S / 6S Plus

iOS 15 & higher versions compatible with iPhone 6S and 6S plus. Chekra1n is the most recommended jailbreak tool for these models hence it is compatible with all latest iOS versions.

iOS 9.0.1 – iOS 9.3.5 – Phoenix

iOS 9.1 – iOS 9.3.5 – JailbreakMe

iOS 10 – iOS 10.3.3 – h3lix

iOS 10 – iOS 10.3.3 – Meridian

iOS 11 – iOS 11.4.1 – Electra

iOS 12 – iOS 12.5.5 – Chimera

iOS 14 – iOS 14.3 – Taurine

iOS 12 – iOS 14.5.1 – Unc0ver

iOS 12 – iOS 14.8.1 – Checkra1n

iOS 15 and higher – Zeon

Jailbreak iPhone 5S

iPhone 5S has a lot of jailbreak tools because it was compatible with iOS 7 – iOS 12.5.5. You can select any jailbreak tool from the below list. However, unc0ver was the best jailbreak tool for iPhone 5S.

iOS 8 – iOS 8.4 – Pangu8

iOS 9.1 – iOS 9.3.5 – JailbreakMe

iOS 9.3.5 – iOS 9.3.6 – Phoenix

iOS 10 – iOS 10.2 – Yalu 102

iOS 10 – iOS 10.3.3 – h3lix

iOS 11 – iOS 11.4.1 – Electra

iOS 11 – iOS 12.5.4 – Unc0ver

iOS 12 – iOS 12.5.5 – Chimera

iOS 12 – iOS 12.5.5 – Checkra1n

Jailbreak iPhone 5C

iOS 10.3.3 is the latest version for iPhone 5C. You can jailbreak iPhone 5C running older iOS versions using TaiG. Latest version can be jailbroken from h3lix.

Also there are following jailbreak tools for iPhone 5C.

iOS 8 – iOS 8.4 – Pangu8

iOS 9.1 – iOS 9.3.5 – JailbreakMe

iOS 9.3.5 – iOS 9.3.6 – Phoenix

TaiG –  TaiG Jailbreak tool is the biggest competitor of Pangu Jailbreak tool. This tool belongs to Chinese team called TaiG team. Earlier TaiG tools functioned with only Windows, and now supported the Mac version too. The Taig team has introduced the easy guide to Jailbreak to compete with other jailbreak tools. This tool is untethered and finally, Cydia 1.1.23 version is installed automatically.Taig team successfully exploited all iOS versions of iOS 8 except iOS 8.4.1 released by Apple.

Jailbreak iPhone 5

Apple dropped support for iPhone 5 after iOS 10.3.4. Several tools to jailbreak iPhone 5 since iOS 6 – iOS 10.3.4. H3lix is the most popular jailbreak tool for iPhone 5.

It is able to jailbreak using any of the following jailbreak tools according to iOS versions.

iOS 8 – iOS 8.4 – Pangu8

iOS 9.1 – iOS 9.3.5 – JailbreakMe

iOS 9.3.5 – iOS 9.3.6 – Phoenix

H3lix Jailbreak

h3lix Jailbreak available for all the iOS 10 versions. That is compatible only with 32-bit devices. h3lix tool developed by Tihmstar and Siguza. That is a Semi-Tethered jailbreak. That means when you reboot your device, your jailbreak features will be lost. Then, yYou just need to re-jailbreak your device.Tihmstar's latest jailbreak release is DoubleH3lix for 64-bit devices. It supports jailbreaking all the iOS 10 versions including iOS 10.1.1 & iOS 10.1. Both DoubleH3lix and H3lix jailbreak methods found through Siguza's v0rtex.

Jailbreak iPhone 4S

iPhone 4S latest version is iOS 9.3.6. Many jailbreak tools have been there since the iPhone 4S 1st release. Absinthe is the most recommended Jailbreak tool for iPhone 4S.

Here are the other Jailbreak tools available.

iOS 8 – iOS 8.4 – Pangu8

iOS 8 – iOS 8.4 – PP jailbreak

iOS 9.1 – iOS 9.3.5 – JailbreakMe

iOS 9.3.5 – iOS 9.3.6 – Phoenix


Absinthe – Absinthe is one of the easiest jailbreak tools for iPhone 4S. It is userland untethered jailbreak and both MAC & Windows support available.  Absinthe Is developed by the Chronic Dev team and the combination of redsn0w &iPhone Dev Team for troubleshooting. It uses the Racoon String Format Overflow Exploit and HFS Heap Overflow from Corona. It is named Absinthe in respect to Chronic Dev Team's earlier jailbreak to greenpois0n. Download it from greenpois0n website.

Jailbreak iPhone 4

It was initially released with iOS 4 and iOS 7.1.2 is the latest version for iPhone 4. evasi0n is the best jailbreak tool for Jailbreak iPhone 4.

Here are the other jailbreak tools compatible with  iPhone 4.

iOS 4 – iOS 4.3.3 JailbreakMe

iOS 7.1 – iOS 7.1.2 – Geeksn0w

Jailbreak iPhone 3GS

iOS 6.1.6 is the latest iOS version for iPhone 3GS. You can Jailbreak it using Sn0wbreeze & P0sixspwn Jailbreak tools.

Also following iOS versions of iPhone 3gs can be jailbroken by these tools.

iOS 3 – iOS 3.1.3 – ipwndfu

iOS 4 – iOS 4.1 – limera1n

Sn0wbreeze – Sn0wbreeze was another successful jailbreak tool released by iH8sn0w. It supports jailbreak iOS 3.1.3 to iOS 6.1.3 versions as untethered. 2.9.14 was the last version and beyond iOS 6.1.3 release, iH8sn0w failed to update. Download Snowbreeze from here

P0sixspwn  – Posixspwn is the most successful jailbreak tool of the iH8sn0w. It works to jailbreak iOS 6.1.6 to iOS 6.1.3 versions as untethered. The latest version is 1.0.8, and it is working on both Windows and Mac operating systems. But, it has not had any P0sixspwn tool update recently. Posixspwn available to download on Posixspwn site.

Evasi0n

Evasi0n is an untethered jailbreak tool released by evad3rs. It is known as a portable code base and minimal use of arbitrary code execution. This was the most downloadable Jailbreak tool. It has all Windows, Mac OS X OS and Linux system support. Also, there was  a "evasi0n iOS 6.0-6.1.2 untether" Cydia package which can untether an existing tethered jailbreak without the need to restore and use the desktop tool.

Jailbreak iPhone 3G

iOS 4.2.1 is the latest iOS version of iPhone 3G. You can jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 running iPhones using PwnageTool, Sn0wbreeze, or Purplera1n / blackra1n.

Also you can Jailbreak iPhone 3G iOS 2 – iOS 4.2.1 versions from the following tools.

iOS 2.2.1 – iOS 4.2.1  – Redsnow

iOS 4 – iOS 4.1 – limera1n

PwnageTool – PwnageTool is Untethered jailbreak for all devices including iPhone 3G with iOS 2 – iOS 6.1.2. PwnageTool developed by the iPhone Dev Team. The speciality of this tool is that it allows you to create custom firmwares while preserving the baseband, a key component unlocking their iPhones.

PwnageTool allows you to pre-install jailbreak applications. PwnageTool is a Mac only application which always requires you to put your iPhone in DFU mode to complete the jailbreak process.

Purplera1n / blackra1n –  purplera1n Jailbreak available for iOS 3.0. It achieved this by patching the firmware of the device "on the fly". It edits the firmware located on the device whilst in DFU (Device Firmware Upgrade) mode. Also, iOS 3.1 – iOS 3.1.2 can jailbreak with the blackra1n tool. These jailbreak tools were developed by George Hotz. Download Purplera1n or blackra1n to jailbreak iPhone 3G.

Best iPhone Jailbreak apps / tweaks

Once you jailbreak your iPhone you can install 1000 of Jailbreak apps and tweaks. It has various apps and tweaks for themes, games, movies, musin, social apps and many more. Once you jailbreak an iPhone you can easily install Jailbreak apps / tweaks through Cydia.

These are the best iPhone Jailbreak apps / tweaks have ever used.

Snowboard

Snowboard is the theming engine which lets you customize your iPhone's Home screen with new icon themes, change the layout of icons, and more. This tweak is called the spirit of jailbreaking. It was compatible with the oldest iOS 7 to iOS 14.8.1 version.

Most popular themes such as Desa, Peek, Mohave, Voila, Big Sur, Darker, Nookphone you can download through snowboard.

Grupi

Grupi will make your lock screen more useful. It lets you categorize all the app notifications & quickly remove a notification group by 1 tap. In addition, it has custom dark mode and adds a shallow blur to the lock screen. Also, comes with the feature of Nonobstructive mini media player integration. It 's compatible with jailbroken iPhone running on iOS 11 – iOS 14.8.1.

Filza

Filza is one of the most essential tweaks ever. Filza is a complete file manager with file opening capability.  Filz lets you access several types of file formats including DEB tweak files. Also it allows you to fully browse the whole filesystem. Filza also has a built-in Terminal to run commands in bash if you need to fix your jailbreak and you do not have NewTerm2 or SSH installed.Apart from these it has a lot of useful features. That's why Filza must be on your iPhone. You can install Filza on iOS 7 to the latest iOS 14 versions.

iCleaner and iCleaner Pro

iCleaner allows you to remove unnecessary files from your iPhone.  It Analyzes the file system to what can be deleted to free up space while never deleting your personal files or photos.

Some features that iCleaner offers :

Delete files sent and received via iMessage or MMS

Delete cookies browsing history and cache files to free up memory

Delete app caches, cookies, temporary files and snapshots.

deletes downloaded iOS update file

deletes archived battery data

custom cleanup pass based on file extensions & more

It is compatible with iOS 4 to iOS 14.8.1 running iPhone Jailbreaking. While compatible with the oldest iPhone 3G to latest iPhone 12, iPhone 12 pro & 12 pro max.

Shuffle

With Shuffle tweak you can find the settings for apps and tweak in the top of the app. It helps you to manage the apps and tweaks adding  tweaks section for accessing all of your tweak settings,

Shuffle jailbreak tweak is a very popular tweak because it is compatible with older iOS 10 to  iOS 14.8.1.

Flame

You can change the Cydia interface with the Flame app. Previously, Cydia was non-customizable and with Flame jailbreak tweak we could do that. Flame offers features such as Timeout , Automatically respring, reboot, or return to Cydia when installation is complete, Remove Ads, remove the button border, change the border color, and change the background color of the installation screen.

Snell

Snell is an awesome iPhone Jailbreak tweak. Snell gives alert messages customization features for iDevice. It gives a modern and clean look to your iPhone's alert messages. Snell Jailbreak tweak customizes almost everything on our Jailbroken iPhone. In settings you can find so many customization options for your iPhone with Snell Jailbreak tweak. Snell also provides pre set customization options, Or you can save your own iPhone customization themes using this.

Dyan

Dyan is a notification banner related iPhone Jailbreak app. You can change font size, appearance, radius , icon size of Settings of Dyan. Also you can change status bar settings, button settings, profile picture on your iPhone using Dyan jailbreak tweak. From this iPhone Jailbreak tweak, it is possible to enable or disable profile pictures of notification banners for some apps such as WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Twitter, iMessages and more.

PercentNotify

Customize your jailbroken iPhone battery notifications with PercentNotify iPhone jailbreak tweak. This tweak is supported with AirPods too.

Just install PercentNotify iPhone jailbreak tweak with https://onelesslagger.github.io/repo/ repo.

Users can set the certain battery percentage for both iPhone and iPod to get notification or alert.

DockSpring

DockSpring gives a respring option for iPhone's HomeScreens Dock. Jailbroken users know that respring is very important for them. You can download DockSpring iPhone jailbreak tweak from packix repo. If you are an iOS 11 or later iPhone user, you can easily respring your iPhone with DockSpring tweak.

Why people Jailbreak iPhones

People Jailbreak their iPhones to remove all Apple's iOS restrictions and get more impressive functions to their iPhone. Usually, Apple does not allow regular users to do some of the most important functions. Jailbreaking is the only solution to get below mentioned features for iPhones.

iPhone Jailbreaking gives you awesome following features that are not available with your default iPhone / Apple App store.

  • Install themes or any customization apps.
  • Use new features with their old iOS devices.
    ex – Jailbreak users can use 3D touch apps, Siri, New emoji icons and more just like new iDevice functions.
  • Install system apps/tweaks to iPhones.
  • Directly download 3rd party apps from any other sources. They can download only Apple app store apps only.
  • Use Bluetooth files.
  • Application extensions.
  • Game coins/diamond hacking apps are available.
  • Use any advanced system-related apps such as Spy apps, Call recorder apps.

Also people get the following benefits through Jailbroken iPhone.

  • Jailbroken iPhone users can install new features without updating the firmware version.
  • Jailbroken iPhone users can install Apple latest features through jailbreak without upgrading firmware. But Non-jailbroken users cannot install Apple latest features without a firmware upgrade.
  • Non-jailbroken iPhones users only can install Apple approved Applications from the official App store. Jailbroken iPhone users can install any Apple dissentient apps.
  • Jailbroken iPhone users can use custom ringtones. But Non-jailbroken only can add default ringtone, or Apple approved ringtones via the official app store.

iPhone Jailbreak Risks

No matter that iPhone Jailbreaking is adding more value to your device. But there's always a big chance that something might go wrong with both software & hardware. So, before jailbreaking, you should know the risks of jailbreaking your iPhone.

Security risks – This is The biggest risk of jailbreaking your iPhone. Jailbreaking is removal of sandboxes.  That means installed apps have no more limitations and can make changes to your system or any other important/private files. These Side loaded apps that aren't checked through Apple's App Store. So there is a huge security risk.

On The other hand, once you jailbreak your iPhone, stop getting iOS updates. With these iOS updates you will miss the security updates Apples put on that. This will leave your iPhone even more vulnerable.

Malware – Jailbroken iPhone lets you install 3rd party apps. Suppose these 3rd party apps have malware. It effectively has complete access to all of the data on the devices.

We heard about that kind of popular iOS jailbreak malware called KeyRaider in 2015. It stole Apple ID's and thousands of certificates, private keys, and purchasing receipts.

Privacy – Jailbreking is put your privacy at risk. When you access banking apps, stored passwords and social media accounts from Jailbroken iPhone it could be at risk.

Warranty – Jailbroken iPhone users cannot claim Apple warranty (without restore or upgrade.) Non-jailbroken iPhone users can request Apple warranty anytime.

Battery drain  – Battery drain issue is a big minus factor of iPhone devices. (Jailbroken iPhone users can increase battery life using some jailbreak tweaks.

iPhone Hardware Jailbreaking

Hardware Jailbreaking is the latest trend of Apple Jailbreaking. You can use some parts to Jailbreak hardware features of iPhones.

Ru$za, Pangu8 developers and some hackers have started the hardware programming for latest iPhones such as the iPhone 5, 6, 7, 8 and iPhone X etc.

Some simple parts of hardware programmed will make a big difference on your iPhone. Here are some of the few.

  • Change the Apple backside Logo color
    It needs to install the Glow LED light Apple logo to your iPhone. It never asks for battery consumption for this product and no need to be welded. Just want to replace the Glow LED light Apple logo instead of the original logo. However, installation is not an easy process, if you have not technical skill about iPhone assembling.
  • Use dual Sim on iPhone
    Dual SIM Adapter is the way to get this option to your iPhone. The Adapter consists of an easy process to install. Take out the original sim tray and place the thin part of the Dual SIM Adapter into the tray. Other parts of the Adapter can install normal SIM cards.
  • Increase external memory of iPhone
    It can add external memory for your iPhone with easy installation. This method never asks to connect to the internet to sync files. Just plug the external device to increase the memory. Memory adapter consists of Apple Lightning & USB 3.0 and It is wireless.
  • Setup speaker lights
    It can set up glowing Speaker lights for the device as Hardware jailbreaking. Just place the glowing light near the speaker position according to the guide. However, installation is not easy, if users do not have some skills about iPhone hardware.