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Jailbreak

Meaning in mobile app development, with examples

/ˈdʒeɪlˌbreɪk/nounAdvanced term

In mobile app development, jailbreak means: Removing the software limits Apple puts on an iPhone so it can run unapproved apps and changes; on Android, getting similar full access is called rooting.

In Turkish: jailbreak, kısıtlama kaldırma

How it is used

Used as a noun, as a verb (jailbreak a phone) and in 'jailbroken device'. Banking, payment and streaming apps often detect jailbroken or rooted devices and limit some features, because the usual security protections may not work as expected on them.

Example sentences

  1. The bank's security team wants to block login on devices with a jailbreak.

  2. Our jailbreak and root detection flagged two percent of sessions last month.

Common collocations

  • jailbreak detection
  • jailbroken device
  • rooted device
  • jailbreak a phone
  • keychainApple's encrypted storage for small secrets such as passwords, tokens and keys, protected by the system and kept separate from normal app data.
  • receipt validationChecking with Apple or Google that a purchase made in the app is real and still valid before giving the user the paid content or features.
  • biometric authenticationConfirming a user's identity with a physical feature, such as a fingerprint or a face scan, instead of or in addition to a password or PIN.
  • iOSApple's operating system for the iPhone. Apps for it are built with Apple's own tools, mainly Xcode and the Swift programming language.

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