The 12 Best Reasons To Jailbreak Your iPhone

Not only has it become so easy that your grandma can do it, nevertheless an incredible array of polished apps and tweaks are available that greatly expand the capabilities of your iPhone.

Many of the apps and tweaks we'll show you do things Apple should've done to begin with, and some do things Apple will probably never do.

All of these apps can be installed through Cydia, which automatically gets installed when you jailbreak your iPhone.

You can put Twitter or RSS feeds on your lock screen, notifications, favorites, weather, missed calls, emails, text messages, and best of all--your calendar always with the naked eye.

With LockInfo, you can even make your unlock slider go invisible so you can see more appointments, emails, etc. Clearly, the unlocking swipe motion nevertheless works to unlock your phone.

Lastly, another amazing feature of LockInfo is being able to create an Android-esque drop down called InfoShade that can contain notifications, unread texts, etc, that you can access any time you're using your phone.

The themes you can download are pretty tacky

Most of the themes you can download are pretty tacky, nevertheless there are by all means some sleek ones out there that rival Apple's standard iOS theme.

We have it set up so SBsettings launches when you hold your finger down on the iPhone's clock. As well, our iPhone's ringer switch is broken, so the ringer on/off toggle is incredibly handy.

We all know how hard it is to tap the shutter button when you're holding the phone up with one hand, so we find ourselves using this tweak a whole lot.

Note: when you install Netatalk, you can connect to your iPhone through Finder on your Mac using username: root, password: alpine.

Another amazing use for this app is being able to use VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) apps like FaceTime over your 3G connection. Use this feature at your own risk, because you're technically not allowed to use data for making calls.