The iOS 7 jailbreak has been popular since it was released by the Evad3rs group right before the end of 2013, but many people still wonder whether a jailbreak is a risky move.

The whole idea of jailbreaking your phone -- or nowadays, another device such as an iPad -- is exactly what Apple does not want you to do. But just because Apple doesn't want people jailbreaking phones and using them differently than originally intended, it doesn't seem to be illegal.

"We aren't lawyers, so we can't tell you for sure, but jailbreaking seems to be OK," according to JailbreakQA.com. "A law in the United States, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), has an anti-circumvention clause which states that if there is a protection mechanism on a piece of software, a user is not allowed to bypass that protection. Jailbreaking may fall under that clause, but in 2012 the Library of Congress renewed an exemption for jailbrekaing cell phones such as iPhones. A proposed exemption for jailbreaking tablets (such as iPads) was declined, but this doesn't necessarily mean that jailbreaking iPads is now illegal."

So it may be legal, but what about in terms of your phone's already existing warranty? Is it true that it becomes void as soon as you go through with the jailbreak? It is if you want your phone to remain in its existing form. According to the Jailbreak Q&A, there is a way around this too, though.

"Apple says that they "may deny service for an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that has installed any unauthorized software," but jailbreaking is easily reversible, so you can go back to authorized-software-only whenever you want to," the Evad3rs said. "In other words, when you jailbreak your device, it is no longer eligible for Apple support if something goes wrong -- but you can always restore the device to remove the jailbreak and then take the device into Apple for support, since a restored device has no evidence that it was previously jailbroken."

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