Jailbreak IPad d 3 Yes or No

dixiefly

Hi, I have an iPad 3 about 2 years now and am considering getting it jail broken. Can anyone answer the following

1. What are the major benefits?
2. What are the drawbacks?
3. Where can I find out the most efficient wayy of doing it?
4. Can the process be reversed?

Thanks in advance, I am of the opinion that, after spending more than €600 on the iPad, I would like to access as much as possible.

Zcott

3 depends on your OS and 4 is yes.

For 1&2, if you don't know any compelling reasons to do it, I wouldn't do it. Try google top jailbreak apps and see if anything takes your fancy. And then check that with the feature list for iOS 8 which included a lot of the popular jail break tweaks like quick reply.

Creamy Goodness

Also be aware the likes of Sky Go and UPC Go won't work on jailbroken devices. I'm sure there are jailbreak tweaks to get around that but like why bother?

There hasn't been a compelling reason to jailbreak an iOS device since Apple started selling unlocked devices.

Jailbreaking to me, slows the device, allows third party software to run on your device (from people who may have ulterior motives) not to mention because jailbreaking causes extra software to be constantly run on the device, it will waste your battery quicker.

That being said I haven't kept really up to date with the types of app you can get on the jailbreaking store so there could be killer apps there (SBSettings was one but control centre has made that redundant) but i doubt it.

davo2001

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

Also be aware the likes of Sky Go and UPC Go won't work on jailbroken devices. I'm sure there are jailbreak tweaks to get around that but like why bother?

There hasn't been a compelling reason to jailbreak an iOS device since Apple started selling unlocked devices.

Jailbreaking to me, slows the device, allows third party software to run on your device (from people who may have ulterior motives) not to mention because jailbreaking causes extra software to be constantly run on the device, it will waste your battery quicker.

That being said I haven't kept really up to date with the types of app you can get on the jailbreaking store so there could be killer apps there (SBSettings was one but control centre has made that redundant) but i doubt it.

Jail breaking is more to do with customization than installing apps. IMO, do it yourself, if you don't like it then just restore the iPad via iTunes.

Creamy Goodness

well aware of what jailbreaking allows you to do, I actually helped with some of the earlier jailbreaks in iPhone first gen land.

n0brain3r

The only reason I jailbreak now is to enable the personal hotspot on my iPad a couple of years ago it was to add features but apple has baked most of them into ios now

davo2001

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

well aware of what jailbreaking allows you to do, I actually helped with some of the earlier jailbreaks in iPhone first gen land.

Cool, with what group?

Creamy Goodness

davo2001 wrote: »

Cool, with what group?

The iPhone Dev team, I gave up my device to test a couple of their early jailbreaks.

dodzy

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

The iPhone Dev team, I gave up my device to test a couple of their early jailbreaks.

Showing your age there, CG;)

Savage Tyrant

The jailbreak app "Movie Box" alone is worth jail breaking.
If you are on the most up to date ios then its a very simple process with Pangu

Aspiring

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

The jailbreak app "Movie Box" alone is worth jail breaking.
If you are on the most up to date ios then its a very simple process with Pangu

This.

Also xbmc only works on jailbreak. There are a huge amount of great tweaks available also.