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How to fix app crashes on jailbroken iOS 11

fix app crashes on jailbroken iPhones

Jailbroken and currently facing those annoyingly constant app crashes on your iPhone? Well now you can fix those frequent crashes on your jailbroken iPhone following these simple tips.

Causes of app crash and how to fix them

  • App not compatible with your current OS

Your first troubleshooting step should involving checking the compatibility of the app with your device OS. While this may seem like an obvious cause and an easy fix, most users often neglect this important step.

Open your Appstore and Check if the app is compatible with your OS or the repository and check the requirements, If it’s not compatible, kindly uninstall it and check for an alternative.

  • Opposing apps installed

Not all apps play nice with one another especially those that makes use of the low-level permission (jailbreak). Some of these apps may not work well if the other is installed. As such you may want to check the timeline of the installation of various apps and see when the crashes began. Uninstall your apps chronologically starting with the newest and you’ll end up catching the culprit.

If you observe such incompatibility, you might want to send the developer an email to help them make changes to the app so that you can use them later.

  • Bad apps from an untrusted repository

One of the responsibilities that come with jailbreaking is taking care of your phone security. There are many repositories out there that you can get powerful apps from once you jailbreak your iPhone. Unfortunately, not all of them can be trusted. Some are quite dangerous. As such if you have installed an app from any repository you’re not sure of their integrity, you should definitely uninstall such app as they may be the cause of the crash.

  • Restoring from a jailbroken backup

After unjailbreaking your device, you probably have restored your files back again from a backup created from a previously jailbroken iPhone. If you find your springboard constantly crashing, this might be the culprit. To fix this, you might want to completely restore your phone and start afresh. This may seem a huge price to pay but for peace of mind, it might be your best option.

Quick troubleshooting tricks to find the apps causing crashes on your jailbroken iPhone

  • Install iCleaner app
  • Launch and click on the + sign
  • Add all the Cydia substrate add-ons
  • Toggle the switch button for the first 50% apps (if 10, turn off the first 5)
  • Close the iCleaner, respring and see if the crash still occurs. If yes then the bottom apps may be the cause of your problem.
  • Toggle half of the remaining apps, respring again and see if the crash still occurs.

Continue this process until you’re left with the app that causes the problem and then uninstall it. This should fix the crashing problem.

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Apple Warns iOS Fans About Jailbreak Risks

The reason why people jailbreak their iOS devices is because it gives them freedom to install whatever type of apps they want, even the apps that Apple doesn’t list on its official App Store. Not just that, but there are services such as Cydia which makes it possible for iPhone and iPad owners to install paid apps for free. With that said, it should come as no surprise that Apple is completely against jailbreaking tools and that it recently sent out a warning to jailbreak enthusiasts.

Jailbreak Risks

The Cupertino based tech-giant rolled out a new iOS update on June 16th and the update contained an unexpected surprise, a refreshed official support page. The support page now includes a document which tells iOS fans of all the risks that they are facing whenever they install jailbreak tools on their devices.

The most important risk that Apple warns iOS fans about is security vulnerabilities. Apple puts a high price on user security and it always provides iPhones and iPads with top-notch security. However, Apple is saying that these jailbreaking tools are helping hackers and malware steal personal information from iPhone and iPad owners.

OS Instability

Apple didn’t stop at security vulnerabilities and it also said that people who jailbreak their devices might have to deal with operating system instability. The support page is stating that Apple devices which are powered by a hacked iOS will drain battery life, freeze, alter data connections and even cause the OS to randomly crash.

From the looks of it, Apple is determined to get rid of the jailbreaking community. Usually, Apple simply patches all kernel exploits that hackers manage to find, but this time, Apple has decided to take the fight to the next level by warning everyone about what can happen to their devices after installing a jailbreak tool.

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iOS 11.3.1 Jailbreak by Electra – tfp0 Exploit and Ian Beer

Apple puts so many limitations on its iOS operating system that there is an entire community dedicated to breaking it in order to allow users to install Cydia and all other apps that Apple doesn’t agree with on their iPhones and iPads. Fortunately, recent news are showing that Apple fans who are stuck iOS 11 which cannot be jailbroken should consider updating to iOS 11.31 because a jailbreak tool is on the way.

iOS 11.31 Electra Jailbreak

As previously mentioned, there is a dedicated community to jailbreaking iOS devices and Electra is an important member. Electra is a team of developers who are known for creating iOS jailbreak tools when no one else can. Therefore, Apple fans should be happy to know that the official Electra website is saying that an iOS 11.3.1 is coming soon.

The “tfp0” Exploit

“All iOS 11.2 -> 11.3 should get to iOS 11.3.1 ASAP. We do not know yet whether the exploit will work below 11.3.1, so get to 11.3.1 to be safe” said CoolStar who is a member of the Electra team of developers.

Nonetheless, the reason why Electra will be able to crack iOS 11.3.1 is that the team will use the newly unveiled “tfp0” exploit which was announced by Ian Beer. In case you don’t know who Ian Beer is, he is a security researcher that made numerous discoveries which helped hackers crack Apple’s operating system.

Apple Releases iOS 11.4

We should also mention that Apple recently rolled out its latest iOS 11.4 software update which means that the tech giant is looking to stop signing anymore devices on iOS 11.3.1. Therefore, iPhone and iPad owners who are running on an older version of iOS should make sure to update their operating system.

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