The jailbreak is in Apple's sights, a few days ago we told you how in the Apple Store purchase policy they spoke directly about jailbreaking and their recommendation not to do it, because it could affect the security of your device among other reasons.
In this story the jailbreak has not removed security, but has helped the user find the thief Who stole his wife's iPhone, this Reddit user tells the story of how the iCaughtU Pro tweak was key to finding the crook.
It is true that Find My iPhone is a good way to locate a lost or stolen iPhone, but it is relatively easy to disable this function so that they cannot follow you, with iCaughtU Pro it is more difficult to avoid being caught.
This takes photos and sends them to the email address next to the location, when they try to turn off the device, something that can lead to catch the thief, it can also be configured to send the location and photo when someone enters a wrong password, these are some of the configurable options of the tweak.
This tweak was the one that helped identify the woman who stole his wife's iPhone, as G1ngerBear recounts on reddit:
“My wife and I were at a charity event in South Edmonton. We hung our jackets in the church wardrobe before we started.
When we finished my wife realized that her phone was not in her coat pocket. I quickly found its location using iCaughtU Pro and saw that it was 10 minutes north of us. Thinking this was an error I checked it and looked for the location again. This time he went further north and sent me the first image of a failed password attempt to my email. This is the photo of her with the smoke in her mouth. "
Then continue explaining how did he catch the thief:
“I quickly ran to the nearby police station, where I saw a policeman in his car. I explained the situation to her and after doing what she asked, we went to find her.
Using the images and location received from iCaughtU Pro we were able to locate her at a bus stop a few kilometers away. As soon as we got there she came out with her hands up and said, 'I didn't steal it, I swear! I just found it on the street. I was taking it to the police station to return it 'To which the police replied' the police station is a short distance away, it doesn't seem like it was in your way. ” I told him: «the phone is specially programmed to show a message to request the return of the phone, it even has a button, in order to call me so that I can come and retrieve it. I don't have missed calls and I know you got the message because I had a picture of you sent to my phone when you didn't enter the correct password twice. If you had thought of returning you would have pressed the call button. "
She was arrested for possession of stolen property. "
The jailbreak gets a bad rap for hacking, but misuse by some users does not mean it is badThanks to jailbreak, community developers sometimes solve problems before Apple itself, in addition to giving users new functions for their iPhones.
I suppose I would have ios 7, since that app is not compatible with ios 8
Friend in the developer's repo is the beta that works with ios 8
It's a really useful tweak. For me, it is one of the best that both iPhone and iPad should have. (worth paying a few pesos for security)
Developer repo: http://cydia.itaysoft.com
Hello colleagues I have a very urgent problem I have put this program and now the phone does not work, only the apple comes out from time to time and the problem is that when I try to restore it is impossible because it makes me disconnect, look for my iPhone and I can not because it does not turn on. Can someone help me is urgent.
I have already deleted the iphone through the icloud web and it has been left with the apple and a line, I think I have made a good mess by putting this application.
Hi, I find the story very interesting, but there is nothing real about it. It is a promotion of the application, as a user of reddit.com, a story with similar characteristics appeared a few months ago and was considered false by the reddit group.
I point out that the story that has been translated in this news, and written by the user G1ngerBear on reddit.com has been removed as it is considered a promotion of the application: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/2oi7d2/this_women_stole_my_wifes_phone_today_i_got_it/.
Of course, I do not doubt that the tweak is good for these cases.
A greeting.
Luckily the iPhone is already working, I had to erase it through iCloud and it has finally been restored after a few hours. The jailbreack and fiddling is over for me, I don't hit this scare again because there's no money to fix it if I charge it
I use iGotYa on iOS 8.1, which does the same; it is paid and only allows one device per license, but it works very well; it even prevents iPhone shutdown.
Just for this application it is worth jailbreak the iPhone. I hope Apple incorporates this feature soon.
Greetings.
Here in Spain they stole an iPhone 4 and I was wearing the igotya, I gave them the location and a couple of photos of the thief, and they did not bother at all, we will call me, they said, about this 2 years ago.
pffff if you come without a belt or talking on the cell phone if they go to give up, but if you have to help, you take it CLEAR.
This all works if the thief is not smart enough to take the sim out of you!