One thing you won’t need is a jailbroken iOS device. In addition to the above, it would be handy to have a few files on hand that you’ve been putting off transferring to your device because of the kludgy iTunes transfer process (we have a bunch of comics to load into Comic Zeal).
#IFUNBOX HACK LIST WINDOWS 7#
What Do I Need?įor this tutorial, we’ll be using iFunBox on a Windows 7 machine and an iPad, but the application is also available for OS X and works with all iOS devices. You don’t have to totally uninstall iTunes (and we certainly recommend keeping it around to perform iOS device backups), but you will definitely find yourself using it a lot less. IFunBox brings back that kind of easy just-sending-it-to-my-flash-drive file manipulation to your iOS devices–no more waiting for iTunes to chug through all sorts of backup, syncing, and other routines just to get the file you want where you want it. We don’t know about you, but when we want to transfer a bunch of files and hit the road, we want to transfer a bunch of files and hit the road–silly fiddly syncing processes just frustrate us. Further more, there’s no option to simply open up your iOS device like an attached flash drive and copy files between your computer and your device. The file syncing features of iTunes leave a huge amount to be desired (and performing a task like copying over a pile of comic books or the like is needlessly fiddly and complex). As old school geeks, we like just opening up a device and dumping files onto it. The 8.3 issues appear to be an improved security lock-out of the Sandbox, which frankly I’m amazed they haven’t done before, but as this is working on a backedup database rather than the device it doesn’t have that iOS lockout of the sandbox and so just works.We’re huge fans of the iOS stable of devices, especially the iPad, but we’re not such big fans of iTunes.
There was no loss of data, no corrupt files and the cheat works fine.
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If you’ve not backed-up your device before just google how, it’s pretty straightforward.Ģ) I installed iBAckupBot, you’ll need to buy a serial to activate the editing capabilities, but you can try the trial/demo just to see if the navigation works for you if you don’t want to immediately fork out – and who would?Īgain, there may well be other editors out there, perhaps some that are free, this was just the first I came across, blame Google.ģ) When you run iBackupBot it opens up the backed-up data from the database, including access to apps and their folders, in a standard(ish) file explorer window.Ĥ) You can then navigate to, highlight and (if you’ve registered a serial) export files or import files to the selected folder, whichever you prefer.ĥ) I imported a game cheat to Candycrush Soda – Oooh don’t you judge me! – overwriting an existing file.Ħ) I then closed iBackupBot and ‘restored’ my iphone through iTunes.
Youtube not needed, it’s really really simple.ġ) I first did a complete backup of my 8.3 iOS iphone, using itunes, to my computer. You can still access apps with iTunes File Sharing-enabled, such as VLC, using a third-party file management tool. Before there is a solution, iFunbox will fail to open data directory of any App if the device is not jailbroken.” Now we totally lost the control of Apps on our own devices. Previously only writing is block in executable directory. Apple blocked access of the entire sandbox directory of every installed App since iOS 8.3. “iOS 8.3 ruined our freedom of controlling data in our installed Apps and Games. This is what the iFunBox developer had to say: Trying to access the file system on iOS 8.3 using iFunBox results in a ‘ App Sandbox access is restricted by Apple to ones with iTunes File Sharing enabled since iOS 8.3‘ message. However, iOS 8.3 doesn’t have a jailbreak, which means you can’t use tools such as iFunbox to gain file system access. If you’re jailbroken and have OpenSSH installed, then you can have complete access to the file system on iOS. Apple had also patched an exploit that was being used by the TaiG jailbreak team. Until now.įile management tools such as iFunBox, iTools, iExplorer, etc, aren’t able to access the directories on iOS 8.3. These tools use the Apple Sandbox and iTunes File sharing to gain access to the basic file system on your iOS device, including app directories, and doesn’t require a jailbreak. It has been recently discovered that Apple has blocked file management access to third party tools such as iFunBox and iExplorer.