iPod Touch Jailbreaking [Seeking Help/Tips]

[Ducky]

Earlier this year, I bought a secondhand iPod Touch [Version: 9.3.5 (13G36)] with a replaced battery. My main intention is to use it to listen to music and play games. (NO SOCIAL MEDIA on this iPod >:3)

A friend suggested that I jailbreak it so that I can access different app stores besides the official one.

I have tried to jailbreak it using the Phoenix method, but it didn't seem to work (it wouldn't let me log in with my Apple account, which btw I used a spare throwaway account rather than my actual  account.)

Looking up other methods on jailbreaking gives me a lot of different results. This is not a topic I am very knowledgeable on, so I figured it'd be wise to ask any tech-savvy folks in the forums for help/advice.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to go about successfully jailbreaking an iPod Touch (on Windows?) Any apps I should look into downloading if jailbreaking is successful? Should I even jailbreak the iPod at all?  Whatever tips you may have in regards to the topic, I'd love to hear them!

(Disclaimer, I looked it up, and jailbreaking one's device is perfectly legal. It would just mean that Apple would void any warranty and support. Not like they'd help me with it anyway, since they've long since discontinued the iPod Touch line.)

To end off the post, here are a couple of pics of the iPod in question:

Cute, huh?

[Melooon]

I use an iPhone 5 in airplane mode for the same reason  (though its black and not a fun as your iPod  )  Running iOS 10 it can still stream Apple Music and all the music I have in my iTunes library which is about 200GB worth (much more than I could store on the phone)

I used to Jailbreak a lot back in the day, and aside from some customisation features that were never that amazing there became less and less of a point to doing it by the iOS 9 era. These days I'm guessing the main reason is to sideload apps that are no longer on the AppStore? (Unless there is an underground scene of people making modern apps for old iOS versions that Im unaware of?  )

I remeber I once installed Android on an iPhone 3G.. that was a mess 

Usually jailbreaking would not hinder logging into an Apple account though; I don't remember that ever being an issue - on some older iOS versions you need to add the 2FA pin after your password when logging in; aside from that they still work ok! If you are installing modded versions or trying to restore back to the stock os; always do it in DFU mode - I've always found it much more reliable than other kinds of restores.

Anyway, Im curious to hear how this thread goes; if I can sideload apps, or backup apps I have installed on my phone that would be useful!

[thide]

i had an iphone with i think it was ios 15 or so, i modded it with the ios cfw.hacks guide, and it worked well. i have an iphone 4 with ios 6 and i dont remember how i did it, i think it was redsn0w or maybe p0sixpwn. the hacking apps all have nerdy names. i dont have the ios 15 phone any longer, but my ios 6 one is still here and i can use my apple account juuuuust fine. i have a tweak that repairs facetime, and imessage worked immediately.

(Unless there is an underground scene of people making modern apps for old iOS versions that Im unaware of?  )

there is a very limited selection of modern appstuffs... i have a discord client on my ios 6 phone, and i have a patch for twitter that lets it connect to Bluesky, but i use BlueBlips on it instead, but thats more revive than backport. i have a tumblr patch that fixes the tumblr app (you can get it as "Tumblere" on the Bag.XML Cydia repository), i have a mysterious (i dont remember how i got it and i cant find a copy anywhere else, and i cant decrypt it anymore) modded version of Opera Lite that loads even the most modern websites, which i dont use because its too modern 4 mi...

i would recommend you check out momentum dev, specifically their webapp and "momentum store", the webapp lets you install a very small list of apps directly from your phone, and some are patched, and the "store" (its all free) has a lot of IPAs.

for a specific recommendation, my all-time favorite ios game is Space Deadbeef, which is really hard to find but which i archived onto iPhoneOS Obscura (or, rather, pointed them to the Internet Archive repositories that had it). my dad used to have that game, and its really hard to find online besides two or three videos on youtube, and at least one of them was made by the developer himself. even worse, its package name is "myfirstbundleidentifier", which is the default (???? why did he do that?), so its hard to search for in directories of archived IPAs, especially if it conflicts w/ other default-named apps.

if you use XMPP/Jabber, i uploaded a decrypted version of Monal, which i did myself based off of the encrypted version i had on my iCloud account. the app is pretty limited, but it lets you text people and groups, and it has a Jingle-based calling thing but i never got that to work. nobody's told me if the decryption works on other devices, so if you want to veer into the jungle of beta-testing you can try to boot that app and tell me if it works.