How to prepare your iPhone for a future jailbreak

1. Stop updating iOS immediately

This is the single most important thing, and the one most people get wrong. Jailbreaks target older firmware — by the time a tool is public, Apple has usually patched the newest versions. Every update you install moves you further from a jailbreakable state, and iOS updates are one-way: Apple stops signing old versions within days, so you cannot go back.

Turn automatic updates off now:

• Settings → General → Software Update → Automatic Updates
• Switch off both Download iOS Updates and Install iOS Updates.
• If a "prepare update" banner keeps nagging, delete the downloaded update in Settings → General → iPhone Storage.

2. Save your SHSH blobs

SHSH blobs are small signing files unique to your device and iOS version. In some situations they let you restore to a firmware Apple no longer signs — which can mean the difference between catching a jailbreak and missing it forever. Saving them while your current version is still signed costs nothing and can only help. Tools like blobsaver (desktop) archive them automatically.

3. Keep a spare device on older firmware

If you have an old iPhone in a drawer, this is its job now. Leave it on the lowest iOS it will run, never update it, and you have a device that is ready the moment a matching jailbreak appears. Many long-time users keep one "jailbreak phone" and one daily driver for exactly this reason.

4. Know a real release from a fake one

The gap between "unsupported" and "a tool exists" is prime hunting season for scams. Protect yourself:

• No web page can jailbreak your phone by itself. A real jailbreak is an app you install and run. Anything that claims to jailbreak you from a browser is fake.
• Nobody legitimate needs your Apple ID password to jailbreak your device. Ever.
• Real releases come from named developers with a track record, not anonymous "free jailbreak" pages behind survey walls.
• Check our compatibility checker and the home page — when Relaxin is genuinely out, the download turns on here, and we say so plainly.

5. What you can do without a jailbreak

While you wait, sideloading still works on any supported iOS: you can install IPAs with your own Apple ID using tools like AltStore or Sideloadly, no jailbreak required. It is not the same as a jailbreak, but it covers a lot of what people actually want.