Apple’s iPhone 4S finally has an undeterred jailbreak which is called Absinthe. If you have an iPhone 4S, then surely you will want to jailbreak your phone and thus, personalize your phone according to what you wish. Here is a list of instructions that will tell you how to jailbreak your phone.
Currently you can jailbreak the iPhone 4S with the Absinthe tool on Windows and Mac (a Linux tool will be coming soon). The whole process takes about half an hour in all and also does not actually require any hacking skills. Moreover, it also works on all A5 devices which means that it is also an iPad 2 jailbreak.
· Before you start, make a backup of your iphone 4S on your PC. It might take some time, but it is worth doing. Install iOS 5.0.1 on your phone, if you do not have it already. This is necessary for jailbreaking and downloading it won’t take much time.
· Download the Absinthe Jailbreak tool. You will easily find the link to this on the internet.
· Then plug in your iPhone 4S.
· Open Absinthe and then choose “jailbreak”. Absinthe will directly connect to your device.
· Wait for it to perform a restore. After this, your device will reboot. Throughout the process, do not touch it.
· The tool will then send payload data to your iPhone 4S.
· Once the tool says that the jailbreak has been completed and asks you to tap on the jailbreak icon, do that on your iPhone 4S.
· After this, your iPhone should restart and would be jailbroken. Just tap on Cydia to complete the process.
After you have jailbroken your iPhone 4S, head over to the list of the essential tweaks and apps for your newly jailbroken phone. Choose those apps that will help you in changing the looks of your phone and also add extra functionality.
Several users are usually afraid that they would lose access to Siri (a standout feature on the iPhone 4S) after they have jailbroken their iPhone 4S. So far, no such problem has arisen for most of the users who have tried jailbreaking their phone. how to jailbreak iphone 4s if you are one among those who look out for regular updates and install them as soon they are launched, then jailbreaking your phone is not a recommended trend, since it would then become very difficult to install new updates in a jailbroken iPhone.
After you have jailbroken your iPhone 4S, you will find a new icon that says “welcome to cydia”. This is an alternate app store where you can find all kinds of jailbreak tweaks and apps. You can look out for 5 icon dock or even apps that will help in finding themes that will make your phone look different. Though most of the apps and tweaks are free, there are also several paid apps that you can find in the app store. Before buying these apps keep in mind that if you unjailbreak your phone, you will not be able to use these apps later.
