You can now jailbreak an iPhone using an Android phone as a portable "key."

In thick words: Apple vetoes functions of your iPhone for security, such as installing unauthorized apps. This ensures that your users do not unintentionally download malicious software, for example. But these blocks can annoy more experienced people, who want to experiment with their mobile. That is why there is the possibility of hacking it, for which you need a program that acts as a key, attacking the vulnerabilities of Apple's software.

This hack is what is known as a jailbreak, and obviously Apple doesn't like it at all. In fact, if you do, you lose your warranty. In addition, it is a dangerous process - the most inexperienced can lose information or render the phone unusable - and cumbersome: for now, you have to run a jailbreak every time the iPhone is turned on or restarted. In order for the software to jailbreak, the iPhone must be connected to a computer.

Until now. One of the programs that allow jailbreaking is called checkra1n, and it has just announced its compatibility with Linux-based systems. This has almost immediately resulted in Reddit users already managing to jailbreak an iPhone SE using an old Sony Xperia XZ1.

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Android is an operating system based on Linux, even though the most widespread version of the OS is a 'commercial' version with a Google layer. Of course, the Xperia was rooted—a process similar to jailbreaking the iPhone, but on Android.

Both terminals required to be connected through a USB-C to USB-A adapter, which in turn was connected to a USB-A to Lightning adapter, the Apple connector. 9to5Google has defined this discovery as the creation of a "portable kit" to jailbreak your Apple devices.

The discovery, which has become popular on Reddit, actually comes from XDA-Developers, one of the most important forums in the world for developers and experts on the Android scene. The scene is a movement by which cybersecurity experts seek to dissect devices as much as possible to get unprecedented performance and functionality and for which they were not initially intended.

A user can make their jailbroken Apple device believe, for example, that its GPS is recording the coordinates of another place in the world - at their discretion - which in a simple example means that many users were able to play Pokémon Go without leaving home.

Both running a jailbreak on an Apple device and rooting an Android phone or tablet are risky operations that lack official support from companies, so users in these cases have to act at their own risk and with caution .