Category: iPhone Tips & Tricks

In one of our recent articles on the FlexiSPY blog we explained how you could use a Mac to jailbreak an iOS 8.1.x device by installing Windows on it using virtual machine software called VMWare Fusion.

We understand though that this is not quite as easy as it sounds and this is why we have created a video, with thanks to the team at spyphonereview.

In order to fully benefit from this video please make sure you have done the following:

1. Download VMWare Fusion Trial from our article here and saved it to your Mac desktop.
2. Download the Windows 7 ISO file from our article here and saved it to your Mac desktop.

Once you have done that you are ready to install Windows on to your Mac by watching the video shown at the top of the post.

Of course having Windows on your Mac gives you much more benefits than just being able to jailbreak iOS 8.1.2 devices.

If you don’t want to have to browse to our separate article then you can also download iTunes which is needed from here.

1. Download install iTunes using your new Windows 7 Virtual Machine you created by watching the video below.
2. Download the TaiG jailbreak tool from here using your Windows 7 virtual machine.

Once you have done that you can watch the video below to learn how to use Windows to jailbreak an iOS 8.1.1 device – using your Mac!

Or if you want to jailbreak iOS 8.1.2 using Windows 7 on your Mac,watch this video.

Changelog

feb 10 2015

– Apple is no longer signing the IPSW file, so it’s no longer possible to Downgrade iOS 8.1.3 to 8.1.2

jan 29, 2015

– Article released.

Apple recently released iOS 8.1.3 to the public and, in the release notes, they thanked the Taig team for helping find several vulnerabilities that were patched in the iOS 8.1.3 release which means that as of right now, if your device is running iOS 8.1.3 it cannot be jailbroken.

Luckily however Apple are still signing the iOS 8.1.2 IPSW file which means you can downgrade the device back to iOS 8.1.2 and jailbreak it again to get the jailbreak back.

As of right now there are no Cydia tweaks that are compatible with iOS 8.1.2 that trick the phone in to thinking the version of iOS installed is the latest version so that it cannot be upgraded so if the device is upgraded you must downgrade first by following this guide to get your jailbreak back.

Disclaimer: FlexiSPY is not responsible for anything that goes wrong from following this guide.  All steps were correct at the time of writing.  You do this at your own risk.

This will DELETE ALL DATA on the device so please backup in iTunes before proceeding.

And here is how to do it.

Find the device number and download the correct IPSW file

You need to make sure you download the correct firmware for your particular device.

To do this simply look on the back of the device as the picture shows to find your model number (our picture is an example).

Save the downloaded file to an easy location such as your desktop.

Confirm that the iOS 8.1.2 IPSW file is still signed by Apple

In order to downgrade to iOS 8.1.2 successfully you have to make sure that the iOS 8.1.2 file for your device is still being signed by Apple. Once Apple stop signing the iOS 8.1.2 IPSW file for your device YOU CANNOT DOWNGRADE ANY LONGER!.

If you try to downgrade using an iOS 8.1.2 IPSW file that Apple no longer sign it will not work and CAN DAMAGE THE DEVICE.

To check the current sign status of your iOS 8.1.2 IPSW file click here

Restore the device

Connect the device to your PC or Mac using the USB cable.

Now that the device is connected to your PC or Mac do the following:

1. Open iTunes on your PC or Mac
2. Hold down the Alt key (Mac) or Shift key (PC) and click the Restore button within iTunes when your connected iPhone is displayed.
3. When asked, browse to the IPSW file you downloaded.
4. Wait for the device to restore itself.

Jailbreak iOS 8.1.2 using a PC

Once the device has restored itself to iOS 8.1.2 you can the jailbreak it again using Taig.

PC users who wish to jailbreak iOS 8.1.2 can watch this video.

Jailbreak iOS 8.1.2 using a Mac

For Mac users the steps are different.

First, you must install Windows 7 on to your Mac using VMWare Fusion.  You can learn how to do this by watching the video below.

Download and install iTunes to your Windows 7 virtual machine

Now that you have installed Windows 7 in to the virtual machine as well as VMWare Tools VMWare Fusion should now boot in to Windows 7 and it will work exactly as Windows 7 would normally work on a PC.

Download and install iTunes to your Windows 7 virtual machine by getting it from here.

Download the jailbreak tool to your Windows 7 virtual machine

You now need to download the Taig PC jailbreaking tool which you can get from here.

Save the download to an easy to find location on your Windows 7 virtual machine, such as the desktop and extract it to its own folder.

Use your Windows 7 Virtual Machine and Taig to jailbreak the device

Simply connect the iOS device to your Mac and make sure it is shown inside your Windows 7 virtual environment.

Once it is shown run the Taig jailbreak you downloaded from above.

Follow the instructions that are shown within the Taig program to jailbreak the connected device.

You should now have downgraded your device from iOS 8.1.3 to 8.1.2 and jailbroken it using a PC or a Mac.

Thanks to Spy Phone Review for their jailbreak tutorials and videos that helped with this article.

 

iOS 8.1.2 is now out, and FlexiSPY is now compatible with iOS versions up to this current jailbreak, rendering this guide irrelevant. Here’s the guide for the latest jailbreak – https://blog.flexispy.com/jailbreak-ios-8-1-2-taig/

No sooner had iOS 8.1.1 been released did everyone start saying that it could no longer be used for jailbreaking because it killed the original Pangu jailbreak.

But that’s now changed with the release of an untethered iOS 8.1.1 jailbreak termed ‘TaiG’. This is not the same group as Pangu but it does hail from China which is why the entire installer is in Chinese. This is an untethered jailbreak so once it has been jailbroken you do not need to worry about losing the jailbreak unless (or until) Apple fix this when they release iOS 8.2.

Step 1 – Get your iOS 8.1.1 iPhone or iPad ready

The TaiG jailbreak will work for any iPhone 4S, 5. 5S. 5C or iPad (from 2^nd Generation onwards) running iOS 8.x – 8.1.1 so it means you can also use this tool to jailbreak iOS 8.1 as well.

Note: Apple stopped signing the iOS 8.1. IPSW file on December 1^st which means that if you upgrade to iOS 8.1.1 to perform this jailbreak you CANNOT downgrade back.

Make sure the device is running iOS 8.1.1 by going to Settings > General > About > Version and making sure the version number of iOS installed is 8.1.1.

Before you connect your iDevice to your PC you must perform two tasks.

1 – Turn off any password or passcode locking the device or its screen

Go to Settings > Password > Turn off any password set.

2 – Turn off ‘Find My iPhone’ from within iCloud.

Go to Settings > iCloud > Find My iPhone > Tap to disable it.

Step 2 – Download the TaiG jailbreak tool

At this time the program is in Chinese only and is only on PC. You can get it from here.

Step 3 Run the TaiG jailbreak tool

After you have downloaded the jailbreak tool and unzipped it run the main EXE file and TaiG will open.

Connect your iPhone or iPad to your PC and wait for TaiG to recognize it.

Make sure you have disabled any passwords and the ‘Find My iPhone’ option as detailed in step 1.

Make sure the second checkbox is NOT checked – only check the Cydia option so it looks like below.

Finally, click the big green button to start the jailbreak process and wait for it to complete – this may take some time.

When it reaches 99% your device will restart to complete the jailbreak process.

Once the device restarts you will see the Cydia icon proving that the jailbreak was successful.

Tap the Cydia icon to set up the Cydia filesystem (your device may restart afterwards) to complete the Cydia setup process and your newly jailbroken iOS 8.1.1 device is ready to use.

We have to raise our hats to the TaiG team for giving us the ability to jailbreak iOS 8.1 so soon. But it could soom come to an end with the upcoming release of iOS 8.2.

Apple, having announced upcoming plans for 8.2 to developers, have apparently fixed the exploits used by TaiG in jailbreaking iOS 8.1.1 which means that, come the release of iOS 8.2 you might not be able to perform a jailbreak.

Here are the steps for keeping your 8.1.1 Jailbreak.

Upgrade to iOS 8.1.1 – Jailbreak it immediately

As soon as Apple releases a new iOS update they immediately stop signing the old version. What that means is that anyone who is not running iOS 8.1.1 right now will skip iOS 8.1.1 and move straight to iOS 8.2 if they restore or update their phone (e.g. from iOS 7.1.2 to 8.1.1). So upgrade to iOS 8.1.1 now and jailbreak it to be safe.

Prevent Future Updates – With No Update

You may also want to look at installing Cydia tweaks such as No Update.

You can install No Update by searching for it in the default list of Cydia sources as it is part of the ModMyi repository.

Once installed on the device it will disable the ability to get software update notifications on the device, however the target device can still be connected to iTunes and either restored or updated to iOS 8.1.1 from there.

This article will show you how you can use FlexiSPY on an iPhone to spy on all Hangouts chats that take place on the TARGET iPhone and view them directly from inside your FlexiSPY online account.

Getting Started

Step 1 – Make sure you have the TARGET iPhone in your hand.

Step 2 – Make sure the TARGET phone has been jailbroken.

Step 3 – Make sure you have installed and activated FlexiSPY on the TARGET iPhone.

Step 4 – Make sure that the TARGET iPhone has Hangouts installed with an account signed in.

Viewing the captured Hangouts data

Step 1 – Log in to your FlexiSPY online account.

Step 2 – Highlight the Messages tab and click IM’s to bring up the IM menu.

Step 3 – Click the IM services drop-down menu and choose Hangouts from the list.

Step 4 – All captured Hangouts information on the TARGET iPhone will be displayed.

That’s all there is too it, and you should now successfully be using FlexiSPY’s Hangout instant messaging capturing feature for iPhone to spy on their Hangouts messages.

Of course if you still have questions about this feature, or any other feature, feel free to let us know in the comments section below, or through our social media!

This article will show you how you can use FlexiSPY on an iPhone to spy on all the Yahoo Messenger chats that take place on the TARGET iPhone and view them directly from inside your FlexiSPY online account.

Getting Started

Step 1 – Make sure you have the TARGET iPhone in your hand.

Step 2 – Make sure the TARGET phone has been jailbroken.

Step 3 – Make sure you have installed and activated FlexiSPY on the TARGET iPhone.

Step 4 – Make sure that the TARGET iPhone has Yahoo Messenger installed with an account signed in.

This article will show you how you can use FlexiSPY on an iPhone to spy on all the Yahoo Messenger chats that take place on the TARGET iPhone and view them directly from inside your FlexiSPY online account.

Viewing the captured Yahoo Messenger data

Step 1 – Log in to your FlexiSPY online account

Step 2 – Highlight the Messages tab and click IM’s to bring up the IM menu.

Step 3 – Click the IM services drop-down menu and choose Yahoo Messenger from the list.

Step 4 – All captured Yahoo Messenger information on the TARGET iPhone will be displayed.

That’s all there is too it, and you should now successfully be using FlexiSPY’s Yahoo Messenger instant messaging capturing feature for iPhone to spy on their Yahoo Messenger chats.

Of course if you still have questions about this feature, or any other feature, feel free to let us know in the comments section below, or through our social media!

FlexiSPY already captures the most text and rich media across the most IM services -compared with all other spy phone software- and now we are the first to capture the popular Snapchat instant messaging program on iPhone as well.

What is Snapchat?

Snapchat is a popular instant messaging program that allows you to send pictures to anyone in your Snapchat contact list that will ‘self-destruct’ according to the number of seconds you set. This means that once the other person has opened the picture you sent it will then disappear and no longer be visible on their phone.

Or so you both thought.

FlexiSPY will have already captured it.

This means that, with FlexiSPY, the Snapchat pictures that are disposable are not really that. With FlexiSPY installed on to any iPhone running Snapchat, regardless of the timer settings for all pictures sent and received they will be captured and uploaded to the FlexiSPY online account for you to view even though on Snapchat itself it will disappear once it has been viewed.

How does Snapchat work?

In order to show just how significant it is that FlexiSPY now captures Snapchat, and why you need it, let’s see it in action.

In the pictures below you can see a picture that we are going to send to the TARGET iPhone which has FlexiSPY installed on to it as well as Snapchat.

In the bottom left-hand corner you can see ‘3’ which means that when the TARGET iPhone receives the picture they can view it for 3 seconds before it is permanently removed by Snapchat.

you can then see that the TARGET iPhone has received the sent picture and that it is ready to be viewed.

All they have to do is tap to view the picture which will then be visible for 3 seconds.

Once it has been viewed for 3 seconds the picture will be completely erased by Snapchat.

However by that time FlexiSPY has already captured the picture and uploaded it to your online account so no matter how safe the TARGET thinks they are by using Snapchat FlexiSPY is always one step ahead.

Does FlexiSPY really capture Snapchat?

Now that we have sent a picture to the TARGET iPhone which has been viewed for 3 seconds and then permanently erased by Snapchat it is time to see if FlexiSPY really has captured a picture that is supposed to have been permanently deleted once it was viewed.

Simply log in to your FlexiSPY online account and choose Messages > IM> Snapchat to view the captured Snapchat data.

You can see in the picture here that the Snapchat information has been successfully captured.

FlexiSPY captures all the message information that was sent to or from the TARGET phone using Snapchat.

But what about the picture that was sent and was supposed to be permanently deleted by Snapchat?

You can see in the following screenshot on that the picture that was received by the TARGET phone which was supposed to have been deleted by Snapchat after being viewed for 3 seconds has been captured successfully and uploaded to the FlexiSPY online account.

Snapchat pictures no longer remain deleted with FlexiSPY.

At the time of writing this article FlexiSPY only captures Snapchat on iPhone but an Android version is planned for release soon.

After purchasing our iPhone Tracker software, one of the first things you might want to take a look at is the Spy on Call Logs Feature. This feature lets you monitor who they’ve been talking to, by giving you an in-depth and current view of their iPhone call logs. In the following guide, you’ll learn how to start using this feature. So, let’s get started.

Spy On Call Logs – Getting Started

Step 1 – Login to your FlexiSPY Dashboard via the Portal

Step 2 – Click the Calls tab and then click Phone.

Step 3 – View the call logs captured by FlexiSPY listed for your viewing.

Done

That’s all there is too it, and you should now successfully be monitoring their call logs. Depending on your automatic upload settings, the call logs will update every time a call takes place, you’ll see the contact name, phone number, call duration, and date & time. This really does give you a good view into what they’ve been up to. So head over to our iPhone Tracker page and see all of the great monitoring abilities that FlexiSPY gives you.

If you have any questions about this feature, or any other FlexiSPY feature, feel free to let us know in the comments section below, or through our social media!

After making your purchase of our iPhone Tracking Software, you’ll be able to spy on iPhone pictures with our Image Capture feature. This guide shows you the steps needed to get started.

Getting Started

Step 1 – Login to your FlexiSPY Dashboard via the Portal.

Step 2 – Click the Control Center tab, then click Photo Controls.

Step 3 – Click Historical Media

Step 4 – Set Get Image to On.

Step 5 – Click Sync Now.

Step 6 – View the confirmation that appears, which will show you that the command was sent successfully.

Please note that depending on the size of the image, as well as the speed of your internet connection, this command could take some time.

Step 7 – Click on the Media tab and then click Photos.

Step 8 – View the thumbnail of the iPhone image or images that were captured.

Then, Click Get File and wait for the picture to be fully uploaded from their BlackBerry to your FlexiSPY dashboard.

Next, Click Get Photos to start the image upload process.

Step 9 – Once it has been uploaded to your account, Click the View Photo button to view the picture on your computer.

The Picture will then be displayed in full size.

Done

That’s all there is too it, and you should now successfully be using FlexiSPY’s Image Capture feature for iPhone to spy on their pictures.

Of course if you still have questions about this feature, or any other feature, feel free to let us know in the comments section below, or through our social media!

There is nothing worse than installing spy software on to an iPhone that advertises itself as being hidden, only to find out later that the software was not as hidden as it should be, and the iPhone user found it.

This article will show you how FlexiSPY has been designed to be completely hidden once you have installed it on to an iPhone.

An iPhone has two main areas that can lead to being discovered if the spy phone software is not hidden as advertised.

The first is that an iPhone must be jailbroken before you can install any spy phone software on to it.

What does this mean?

Jailbreaking an iPhone gives you access to far more configuration options and allows you to install a greater range of software, including any iPhone spy software.

But it also means that after you have jailbroken the phone a new icon will appear for the Cydia program, the iPhone user will see this icon and know that something on their phone has changed.

They can then open Cydia and see if anything unfamiliar has been installed.

Anything that they see which is unfamiliar to them they can easily remove in a single tap, this includes the spy phone software you just installed.

That is why FlexiSPY is not visible in the two main areas that we have already discussed.

How does FlexiSPY do this?

First FlexiSPY removes all traces of itself from inside Cydia.

The iPhone user will not see that anything unfamiliar or new has been installed, if the iPhone was already jailbroken.

Secondly, FlexiSPY also hides the Cydia icon after it has been installed.

Now that FlexiSPY has hidden Cydia the iPhone user will never know that it had been jailbroken or that any iPhone spy software has been installed

So if you want serious iPhone spy software that really cannot be found after installation then FlexiSPY has you covered.

Included in our iPhone Tracking Software is the ability to monitor their phone surroundings using our Ambient Recording feature. In the following guide you’ll see the steps needed to do so. Let’s get started.

Getting Started

Step 1 – Click the Control Centre tab and then click Call Controls.

Step 2 – Click Start Ambient Recording, then Click and drag the slider to set the duration of recording (from 5 minutes up to 60 minutes only).

Step 3 – Click Start Ambient Recording Now.

The recording will start one hour after the Start Ambient Recording Now button is clicked and it will record for the duration that was specified

Please remember that the time it then takes to upload the recording to your FlexiSPY dashboard depends on the internet connection speed on their Symbian Belle phone so it may take time.

Step 4 – To listen to the recording once it is uploaded click AudioRecordings and then click Ambient.

Step 5 – The ambient recording file will be listed.

Step 6 – Click Download to download the file to your computer to listen to

Step 7 – The recording will start to play on your computer

Done

That’s all there is too it, and you should now successfully be spying on iPhone surroundings with our Ambient Recording feature.

Of course, if you have any questions about this feature, or any other FlexiSPY feature, feel free to let us know in the comments section below, or through our social media!

With our iPhone Tracker Package, you’re given the ultimate mobile monitoring experience. Included in the package is the ability to track iPhone GPS Locations, you’re able to easily see where they are, and where they have been, all from the convenience of your dashboard.

In the following guide, you’ll learn how to use FlexiSPY’s GPS Tracking Feature – let’s get started!

Getting Started

Step 1 – Login to your FlexiSPY Dashboard via the Portal.

Step 2 – Click the Locations tab.

Step 3 – The latest GPS location captured by FlexiSPY will be listed for you to view.

Done

That’s all there is too it, and you should now successfully be tracking their iPhone GPS location.

Of course, if you have any questions about this feature, or any other FlexiSPY feature, feel free to let us know in the comments section below, or through our social media!