How do I know if phone was jail broken?

My girlfriend bought an iPhone 4 from someone and documents keep showing up on there that she didn't download, and there has been apps that have disappeared and apps that have appeared out of nowhere

Posted on Mar 25, 2018 7:34 AM

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Mar 25, 2018 7:51 AM in response to garrettgiz

Then unless she, or someone with access to her phone, who also knows the passcode to get to the home screen and install a jailbreak app (which you would see alongside your other apps), then it is not jailbroken.


There are numerous ones available now. Many of which only work under a specific version of iOS:


Cydia

EvasiOn

TaiG

Pangu

p0sixspwn

Redsn0w

Absinthe

PwnageTool

Sn0wBreeze

GreenPois0n

LimeRa1n


Regardless, since you've reset the phone as new, you won't find any of these. And if it had been jailbroken before you received the iPhone, it no longer is.


Which still leaves the mystery of why apps would appear and disappear, but I don't have a suggestion for that.

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