Jailbreaking your iPhone — removing Apple’s restrictions that prevent you from installing any apps on your device that you want or messing with settings Apple otherwise locks down — isn’t for everyone. It can be a risky process to begin with, and doing it voids your warranty, but it’s a great way to extend the life of an older device or something you don’t carry around for everyday use.

Over the last 24 hours, owners of iOS devices across the globe have been compelled to take their expensive gadgets, wrap them in Glad Wrap and stick them inside their refrigerator. What on Earth would make anyone do that, short of a mental break? Well, it is because of a break of sorts — a jailbreak.

On May 30, security research Ian Beer, well-known in the industry for uncovering bugs in Apple software, announced the discovery of two new exploits in iOS — specifically 11.3.1, which until recently was the most up-to-date build. Shortly afterwards, the jailbreaking community went bonkers, the promise of an updated jailbreak for Apple gadgets, both new and old, seemingly around the corner. But, here we are, well into June, with no public jailbreak in sight. So, what's going on?

It was only a couple of weeks ago when I suggested that the age of the iOS jailbreak was coming to an end. But then, last week, a Google researcher revealed how an exploit in iOS 11.1 could be used to create a new tool for side-loading "unauthorised" apps to an iOS device. Apple promptly released a patch for that in iOS 11.2 (and then 11.2.1 to deal with a HomeKit vulnerability). But it seems Apple hasn't plugged all the jailbreakable holes.

Jailbreaking used to be pretty common amongst iPhone users, but it seems like interest has died out recently. So, we want to hear it, are you still interested in jailbreaking your iPhone?

Last week we learned you can jailbreak every current model of Kindle. Even better, while the process is a bit time-consuming, it's also pretty easy to do. The end result is a Kindle that's a little more pleasurable to use. Here's how to do it.

Jailbreaking a Kindle comes with a variety of benefits, including installing custom screensavers and software, but most recently the availability of the jailbreak has been restricted to a small handful of firmware. Now, its seeing a much wider release.

Pokemania has swept the nation since Pokemon GO was launched in Australia this week. Thousands of people are rushing outdoors with their phones out, trying to catch digital critters in the wild through the augmented reality (AR) interface. You have to be outside and walking around in order to find and ensnare Pokemon in the game... or do you? If you own a jailbroken iPhone or a rooted Android smartphone, you can become a well-travelled Pokemon Master on GO without taking a single step. Here's what you need to know.

Jailbreaking is a process that changes little by little with each iOS upgrade. Rather than always publishing new guides, we’re simply going to keep this one up to date. If you want to jailbreak your iOS device, you’ve come to the right page.

Pangu, the team behind the most recent jailbreaks on iOS, have just released a jailbreak for the Apple TV. There are a lot of caveats for using it, including the fact you'll need to still be running tvOS 9.0/9.0.1.

The iOS 9 jailbreak was just released from the same team who brought us the iOS 8 jailbreak. Like last time, it's also Windows-only for the time being.

Last week we reported that Apple released iOS 9's final build to developers. It's not available to the public until Wednesday but someone has already jailbroken it.

Mac/iOS: Back in June, the TaiG team released their jailbreak tool for Windows. That was followed up by an unofficial (and glitchy) offshoot for Mac by another team in July. Now, the TaiG team has released their Mac version.

iOS/Mac: The iOS 8.3-8.4 jailbreak as released a few weeks ago, but it was limited to Windows users. Now, there's a Mac version.

iOS: There hasn't been much in Apple's incremental updates to iOS 8, but if you updated to iOS 8.3 and lost your jailbreak, it's now available.

The iOS 8 jailbreak has been around for a while now, and that means the apps and tweaks are really starting to get into the sweet spot of functionality. Lets take a look at the best apps that have come out since we looked at them last time.

Now that we've had some time to hang out with the iOS 8 jailbreak, new apps and tweaks are coming out made specifically for the new operating system. Let's take a look at the best.

iOS 8.1.1 was released earlier this week, and it includes a few small bug fixes. It also happens to break the current version of the iOS jailbreak. If you updated on accident and want to keep your ability to jailbreak, iDownloadBlog shows you how.

Pangu, the jailbreak team who brought us the iOS 8 jailbreak, has released its Mac app.