Author: FlexiSPY

Yes, that’s right, iOS 9 can now be jailbroken, thanks to the Pangu team.

What is required to perform the jailbreak?

• A compatible iPhone or iPad running iOS 9 – 9.0.2.
• A Windows PC
• The jailbreak software which you can download from here.

How to set up the device ready for the jailbreak

1. Go to Settings > Passcode > Enter your Passcode > Turn your Passcode off and enter the passcode to disable this feature.
2. Go to Settings > iCloud > Find my iPhone and make sure this is turned off.
3. Enable Airplane Mode from inside Control Center.

How to perform the jailbreak

1) Run the jailbreak tool on your Windows PC.

2) Connect the compatible iPhone or iPad. Wait for it to be recognised.

3) Click Start and then click Already Backup when asked.

4) The jailbreak will start and, after some time, the device will reboot.

5) Enable Airplane Mode again on the device when asked.
6) The jailbreak process will continue.

7) On the device, tap the Pangu app when asked.

8) When the device notification appears about Pangu wanting to access your photos tap
9) The device will reboot once more.

10) Disable Airplane Mode on the device and enable Find my iPhone and any passcodes.
11) Tap Cydia to configure Cydia and remove the Disk Almost Full message that may appear.
12) Once Cydia has finished loading and configuring itself the jailbreak is complete.

We’ve been running a poll on the blog for the past couple of months. The poll asks our customers what they’d like to see discussed on the blog in the future, and so far there’s been a ton of responses. In this article we wanted to address one that caught our eye.

The question was “Can I use FlexiSPY on a phone in China?”

While this is a great question, we wanted to further expand on it. So we’ve altered it and instead will be answering “Does FlexiSPY have any geographical limitations?”

Q: Does FlexiSPY have any geographical limitations?

A: The short answer to the question is no. When FlexiSPY is installed and activated, it does not need to fit a geographical rule to work. But, let’s get into why -as well as the fine print.

Explained further

There are a few requirements when installing FlexiSPY. One of them is that during installation and activation, the phone will need to have a SIM card in it. But after you’ve installed our software, it doesn’t matter where the phone is. The only other need is that it’s connected to the internet.

Why it works this way

FlexiSPY collects data on the phone, and after there is enough to upload, it’s securely sent to your dashboard. From your dashboard you can view the collected data.

But what if the phone doesn’t have internet for some time?

No worries, FlexiSPY is intelligent and will queue the data for uploading. Once the phone gains some form of internet again, it will being the syncing process.

Things to keep in mind

One thing you might want to consider when using FlexiSPY is the phone’s data usage.

For example, say you have set FlexiSPY to capture videos that are on the phone. Uploading the videos to your dashboard will use a good deal of the phone’s data plan. If the phone is roaming in another country, charges could incur that weren’t expected.

We have built FlexiSPY with this scenario in mind though.

From within your dashboard, you can set data uploads to be WiFi only. This means FlexiSPY will wait until the phone connects to a WiFi connection before the data syncs.

Conclusion

As long as you properly install and activate FlexiSPY, there is no need to worry about the geographical location of the phone.

Of course, if you still have any questions, or would like to tell us what you think about this, please leave us a comment in the comments section below!

It’s one of the more common questions we get asked “How can I change my FlexiSPY User ID or Password?” Luckily, it’s not that hard to do, and if you follow through this short tutorial, you’ll be up and running with your new login creds in no time.

Getting Started

Step 1 – Head over to your account settings:

Your account settings are located near the bottom of your dashboard, but incase you are unable to find it, you can click on the link below
https://portal.flexispy.com/main.php#/account

Step 2 – changing your user id:

• Next to the field labeled User ID there is a button that says Edit which you’ll want to click.
• In the box with your current User ID, highlight it and then enter in the username you desire. Make sure you write it down somewhere incase you forget it on a later date.
•  Finally, you’ll need to enter in your current password before you can save the changes.

Step 3 – changing your password:

• Next to the field labeled Password there is a button that says Edit which you’ll want to click.
• After clicking Edit the Edit Your Password module will appear.
• Enter your current password into the field called Current Password
• Enter the new password you’d like into the New Password field. Then confirm the password within the Confirm New Password field below. (Note that if you ever forget your password, you can reset it directly from the login screen of the portal.

And that’s it, you should now know how to change your FlexiSPY username and password.

If you still have any questions (or suggestions,) feel free to let us know in the comments section below or through one of our social media channels.

NOTICE: All data older than 90 days is automatically deleted.

One of the more common questions we get asked by our customers is how they can go about downloading the data that FlexiSPY has captured to their computers.

We do offer a solution for doing exactly this and we will explain further into the article, but first we’d like to reveal that we are working on a new system for downloading captured data which our customers should find more convenient (to stay updated on this we recommend that you follow us on one of our social media channels).

Now though, let’s look at how to download the captured data for backup purposes.

Getting Started

To download the captured data, you will first need to specify which data you want, there are two ways for doing this depending on the type of data you are trying to download.

Here are the text steps for downloading your data:

1. Click the Data tab of your portal.
2. Click the data tab for the data you want to download (SMS, MMS, IMs etc.)
3. Click Search

Here you can set what you want to search for.

• In this record type

Choose the type of data you want to search within (e.g. SMS messages, IM messages, web sites visited etc.).

• In this direction

Choose whether the data is incoming or outgoing.

• For this keyword

Type in the keyword you want to search for.

• For date range

Choose the start and end date to search between.

Click Search when you have finished to search for your data, the results will then be listed.

You can then choose to export as csv or if you prefer, xls.

• For XLS files, open them with Microsoft Excel
• For CSV files, open them with Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word

Download your media files

To download media files from your accounts, such as call recording files, follow the steps below.

• If you are using a Mac, click here.
• If you are using a PC, click here.

After clicking the link above you will see the screenshot below.

These steps are for PC.  Mac instructions may be slightly different.

Click Install.

Click Run when asked by your browser to run the install file.  You should see the screen below.

Click Install to install Download Manager to your computer.

Login to Download Manager

When the software has finished installing it will appear on your screen.

To log in, enter this information from your FlexiSPY account.

• Portal URL – https://portal.flexispy.com
• Username – This is your FlexiSPY account username.  See your welcome email for more information.
• Password – This is your FlexiSPY account password.  See your welcome email for more information.

Click Login to start using Download Manager.  You will see the main menu.

Scan for media files to download from your account

Click Scan to see how many media files are in your account that you can download.

View the types of media files you can download to your computer

When the scan has finished you will see the total number of files you can download displayed under No. of files.

Clicking this tells you more about the different kinds of media files you can download.

Change the save location on your computer

If you want to change where you save your downloaded media files, click Change.

Browse to a new folder on your computer to use to save your media files and click OK to update the save folder location.

Download your media files from a custom date range

If you don’t want to download all media files, select Download from a custom date range, and choose the start date and end date to use.

Download your media files to your computer

When you are ready to download the media files, click Download Now.

Open the save folder on your computer to view your saved media files

When the media files have been downloaded to your computer, click Open Folder.

Here you will see the media files that have been downloaded from your FlexiSPY account to your computer.

Simply open any of the folders to view the media files inside.

Yesterday apple released iOS 8.4.1, an update that fixes several bugs, includes features improvements for Apple Music, and most importantly, nulls the previous jailbreak solution. Being that the jailbreak is a must for all spy phone software to run on iOS devices, this is problem, and it is unknown when iOS 8.4.1 is going to become jailbreakable.

Luckily if you act fast (before Apple stops signing the required certificates for downgrading) there is a way to downgrade iOS 8.4.1 to the previous iOS 8.4, and then rejailbreak. We’ve written out the steps below in the article for doing so. First though, please read our disclaimer to understand what happens when you downgrade.

What you need to know before you begin:

When you downgrade back to iOs 8.4, the device will be restored to factory settings, so any apps that were once on the phone are going to be deleted. You will then need to rejailbreak back to iOS 8.4. However, Once Apple stops signing the iOS 8.4 downgrade file, downgrading will not be possible and you could be stuck without a jailbreak solution for sometime.

First off – Check the real-time signing status.

Apple won’t be signing the downgrade file forever, before you begin the downgrading process you will need to check to make sure that Apple is still signing it.

Please check through the following link (Green rows with a tick means that the firmware file can still be signed by Apple, and you’re good to go. ) Link here – https://ipsw.me/8.4

Getting Started –

• Firstly, put your device into DFU mode. For more on how to do that, read this post.
  • Plug the iOS device that you want to downgrade into a computer.
  • Make sure that the device is turned off completely by holding the sleep/wake button and swiping it off.
  • Hold the power button for 3 seconds.
  • Start holding the Home button without releasing the Sleep/Power button for 10 seconds.
  • Release the power button and continue holding the home button until you get a popup from iTunes that it has detected that your device is in Recovery mode.

• Click one the Ok button.
• Then click on the Restore iPhone… (iPad/iPod touch…) button.

• Then click on the Restore and Update button to continue.

• On the next screen you’ll be given the information about the iOS 8.4 update. Click on the Next button, followed by the Agree button to continue.
• iTunes will then download the iOS 8.4 software and install it on your device. It should take around 10 minutes.
• After it is successfully restored to iOS 8.4, you should see the white ‘helo’ screen. Follow the on-screen instructions to set up your device, and restore your device from the backup to restore your personal data.

And that’s it, your iOS device should now be successfully downgraded to iOS 8.4 and you can now re-jailbreak and re-install FlexiSPY.

IM’s (Facebook messenger, LINE, WhatsAPP, Viber, etc,) by their nature are one of the top things on a phone that people want to be able to spy on, and FlexiSPY is proud to be the spy application that monitors over 13 IM clients, the most in the business.

But there is an inherit problem with all IM applications, and that is that IM’s often auto-update themselves, sometimes up to 2-4 times a week. These frequent updates by the IM’s don’t usually bring some great new feature that tech publications will write up about, the updates are actually the kind that dont bode so well for spy software, encryption updates. These updates render parts of spy software unusable, and it takes time for us to update our software to be compatible with the updated IM again.

The workaround

By doing what we describe below, you will be inline with full support for FlexiSPY.

#1 ) Turn Off Automatic Updates

Here’s how to turn off automatic updates so that the target device is never notified and never downloads an available update.

1. Open up google play store on the device (this is the native app for downloading applications to the phone.)
2. On the Play store, swipe to the right side or tap the toggle button so that you end up in the settings menu.
3. In the settings section remove the checkmark from “App updates available”
4. Finally, Tap on “Auto-update apps” and choose “Do not auto-update apps”

Once done, the target phone will no longer receive notifications of available updates, and it will also no longer auto update.

Functional Limitation

Some apps may cease to function properly if their version is too old. Don’t worry – except for WhatsApp, If this happens nothing breaks. The user would open up their app and an in-app message will tell them that they need to update the app. The message will direct them to the Play store where the user will then tap on the “Update” button.

Downgrading IM’s

But what if one of the phones IM applications has already been updated to a version that FlexiSPY doesn’t yet support?

The answer in this case is to downgrade the IM app to the version that currently has full support by FlexiSPY.

Here’s how to downgrade the IM app of your choice to one fully supported by FlexiSPY. Note that to check which version you should download of the IM app, checkout our compatibility page, here.

Step 1 – Uninstall the current the version of the app you will want to downgrade.

– You can do this by doing the following (Go to the settings on your target device -> Find and open application manager -> Open the app you want to uninstall and click “Uninstall”)

Step 2 – Find the earlier version of your app.

Android drawer is a good place to get old versions of your app if you’d like to find the APK’s for yourself. Head there, type in your IM app name and then scroll down to find the version that corresponds with FlexiSPY’s version. (Or directly download the correct APK files from the chart we’ve made below:)

After downloading the appropriate APKs for your incompatible IM app, turning off the app update notification settings, and turning off auto update, all as described in this article, you should no longer have any issue with FlexiSPY not capturing all of the IM data.

We hope this has been informative, but if you have any questions about the content in this post please comment below and we’ll be happy to respond! Also, for more posts like this, please signup to our mailing list here which will then notify you of future posts on how to use certain FlexiSPY features!

We’ve all seen it before. Camera pans in onto a woman as she types into google “how to track a phones gps location.” She clicks on the first link in the search results. A page appears on her computer screen, telling her to type the phone number into the field and press enter.

A few spins of the loading wheel later and boom! Her husband’s gps location pops up with a red bracket indicator, X marks the spot, and he’s not at the bar!

This is how gps tracking technology is portrayed in just about every soap opera that exists. So it’s no wonder that we believe that it’s so simple to get a person’s gps location.

But how can you really track someone via their phone’s gps?

Misconceptions

Unless you are law enforcement, you probably don’t have this kind of access to gps tracking technology. right?

While not as easy as typing in their phone number and clicking a big button, there are ways to track someones gps location.

The first thing to know about gps tracking is that you will need to physically install spy software onto the phone that you are wanting to spy on. This doesn’t mean that you will be attaching a big antenna to their phone, it just means that you will need to have their phone in your hand.

bear in mind that iOS devices like an iPhone will need to be jailbroken first before you even think about getting your spy on as Apple keeps things secure for the most part.

If the phone you want to track is an Android phone then you are in luck and no further alterations will need to be made.

Finally, you will also need to be able to get past any lock screen that the phone has..

Which spy software fits your needs?

You will need to do a bit of research on which spy software to purchase, or you can just take our word for it and choose our top pick. Either way, a good jumping point for research would be the website spyphonereview There’s actually a team of testers there that put spy phone software through the reins and then publish their results, unlike other review sites.

After you purchased the spy software of your choosing, you then need to install and activate it onto the persons phone that you want to spy on.

If you chose FlexiSPY then you are in luck and here’s a quick setup guide for getting started.

Will they ever get it right?

Recently hollywood has been paying more attention to the techniques used in actual hacking, like the show Mr. Robot which has been praised for its showing of real spy tools, including an episode where they showed FlexiSPY being used. But this is just one show that is putting in the research time. You can bet that there are sure to be many more distasteful displays of how this type of software works to come.

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