Apple Watch Jailbreak

We are discussing all Apple watch jailbreaking / hacking methods and everything about Apple watch on this page.

However, Apple watch jailbreak is very rare when we compare it with other Apple devices such as iPhone Jailbreak, iPad Jailbreak and iPod Jailbreak.

In addition, if you want to know about the latest watchOS version, Apple released the most advanced watchOS 7 for Apple watches with iOS 14 for iOS devices and tvOS 14 for the Apple TV.

Jailbreak watchOS 5.1.2 (Brenbreak)

Brenbreak Apple Watch jailbreak for watchOS 4.0 – watchOS 5.1.2 is an upcoming jailbreak. According to the developer, work in progress and it will finalise within 2 weeks and regular updates will be available on his website.

Work on brenbreak will continue in 2 weeks. I won't let you guys down, you deserve a good Apple Watch jailbreak, and I plan to deliver. Updates at: https://t.co/fyHBBLLHPv — James Luke (@ethanpepro) June 9, 2019

Ethanpepro announced this iWatch jailbreak for watchoS 4.1 to watchOS 5.1.2 last April. But after that we did not get more updates about the Brenbreak Apple Watch jailbreak.

I've been getting a lot of questions about my upcoming Watch jailbreak. Just thought I'd answer a few here:

• Supported versions/devices are 4.0-5.1.2 (3.0?) on S0-S4

• Tweak support is planned, with work into custom watch faces being realistically achievable, but no promises — James Luke (@ethanpepro) April 3, 2019

Stay on watchOS 5.1.2. New Brenbreak Apple Watch jailbreak for watchOS 5.1. coming soon.

It won’t compatible with watchOS 5.1.3 or later.

Jailbreak watchOS 4.1 (jelbrekTime)

elbrekTime is developed by the Tihmstar and it is v0rtex-based watchOS 4.1 jailbreak for Apple Watch series 3.

watchOS 3.x and 4.0 running older Apple Watch models support can also be added by other advanced developers through modifying this project.

According to the developer, jelbrekTime comes with the following features.

Exploits kernel using v0rtex

Gets tfp0 and stores it to hsp4

Applies h3lix kernel patches

Remounts / as rw

Extracts bootstrap.tar

If you are a developer, you can access jelbrekTime installation from tihmstar’s GitHub repository.

Jailbreak watchOS 4

watchOS 4 jailbreak could be achieved by a skilled developer by modifying above jelbrekTime.

Jailbreak watchOS 3 (OverCl0ck)

OverClock is the latest iWatch Jailbreak project for watchOS 3. It is developed by the Ben Sparkes who brought us Meridian Jailbreak for iOS 10.X. This Jailbreak tool is based on the v0rtex exploit to get root access on the Apple Watch. This method is very similar to Max Bazaliy’s method which was demonstrated at DEF CON 2017.

This is still in the early development stage, and Ben Sparkes released it as XCode project to GitHub, because collaboration is necessary to move forward.

I just posted an early prototype of OverCl0ck to GitHub. I've also modified @tihmstar's offsetfinder to work with saved watchOS kernels (still needs work).

Don't expect to much of this too quickly.

Contributions are very welcome. https://t.co/vY95k2O3hn — sparkey (@iBSparkes) January 26, 2018

Device compatibility-

Apple Watch Series 1

Apple Watch Series 2

Version Compatibility –

watchOS 3.0

watchOS 3.1

watchOS 3.1.1

watchOS 3.2

watchOS 3.2.2

watchOS 3.2.3

Important : It has not published IPA yet, If you are a developer, you can download the necessary files using Github. Here is the Official link.

According to the developer, the following functions require development. These functions will be added to the future updates of OverCl0ck Jailbreak tool.

Fix watch_offsetfinder utility to find offsets correctly.

Fix v0rtex exploit.

Add kernel patches.

Codesigning patch.

Mount root filesystem with full read/write permissions.

Add SSH support with Dropbear client.

Find a reliable way to transfer files to Watch

Port Comex’s Substitute (Substrate alternative) to watchOS 3.

Add a Cydia-like package installer for running tweaks.

Max Bazaliy’s watchOS 3 Jailbreak Demonstration

Hacker Max Bazaliy demonstrated about watchOS 3 jailbreak at World’s largest hacker conventions of DEFCON which was held on 27–30th July 2017. At the presentation, he has targeted access to the following sensitive information.

Watch have access to SMS, Calls, Health

Photos and emails synced to Watch

Fetch GPS location from the phone

Microphone usage

Apple Pay

However this jailbreak was done privately and he did not hint about public release

Jailbreak WatchOS 2 & Minor versions

Some good news for watchOS 2 jailbreak has followed.

Steve T-S confirmation for iWatch jailbreak

Steve Troughton-Smith ( Irish programmer for Apple software), Saurik (Developer of Cydia) and Adam Bell (Canadian software developer for Apple watch) was able to hack Apple watch and ran UIKit & SceneKit apps on the watch device. Proven video as follows.

So… spent a night hacking with @b3ll (& @saurik!) – we got UIKit (& SceneKit) apps running on Apple Watch (video) pic.twitter.com/khcpHgVsZo — Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) June 12, 2015

Hamze sood jailbreak

Another Developer Hamze Sood was able to run Flappy Bird on Watch OS 2 and users can control it by touching and handling Crown.

After some haxx… Custom watch faces on Apple Watch!



Watch face source code is on GitHub:https://t.co/7ZvOz8nK34 pic.twitter.com/nQGJKlp6kt — Hamza Sood (@hamzasood) August 18, 2015

Web Browsing by Comex

It has no safari web browser to the Apple watch and even in the future, it will never be added because of the small display resolution. But users are interested to have it. So jailbreak is the only solution to do it. As expected, the Web browser released by Comex and he could run Google Home page, and Copy/Define option is running on watch display. Here are the Twitter image and video confirmation of Comex web browsing.

I always wanted a web browser on my wrist. http://t.co/hh52DsJdje — comex (@comex) May 10, 2015

Why should iWatch jailbreak

iWatch (Apple Watch) introduced without some most necessary functions such as Web browsing. Also, Apple limits some of watch face designs to specific Apple Watch models.

Cydia offers many third-party apps to customize the iOS devices as the most popular 3rd party app store for jailbroken devices. Therefore jailbreak is the only option to get those missing functions as jailbreak tweaks to iWatch.

Reasons for iWatch jailbreak

Stock apps customization.

Watch faces change.

More themes.

Custom elements complications.

Home Screen Customization.

Third Party Watch Faces

Third Party Watch Faces

Alexander Zaytsev introduced many new faces at WWDC event keynote session before releasing the iWatch. Apple launched a few faces when the iWatch was released and some of them were rejected. However, once jailbreak method confirms Alexander Zaytsev will introduce more new faces and then we can use all faces.

Basketball face by Plearns

Plearns has created several faces to watch the interface. Basketball face was one of the smart faces, which he made first. Once the jailbreak release for iWatch, users can use all of his face.

Japan face by Alexander Zaytsev

This is another face which creates Alexander. Also he created time telling apps / themes for iWatch. Unfortunately we can not use it all because there is no any jailbreak method for the iWatch device.

Meditation face by Mackenthun

The Mackenthun is another jailbreak app developer for Apple devices. He has created many applications / wallpapers for the third party app installations.

Sunset face by Martin Eriksson

This is a very beautiful upcoming jailbreak custom face. We have no idea why Apple does not include this face for default list. However, all iWatch users will be lucky to install it after jailbreak.

Running Face by Michael Martino

This is also a very creative watch face, and it is displaying past and now running speed. This is specially created for athletics players and other users can use too.

Nike fit face by Geo1

It depends on the official Nike Inc. Nike Company asked to Developers to create a watch face for Nike. Then the Geo1 team has created this watch face for Nike Company.

Behance face by Tyler Gough

This face can customize the watch face according to the user’s choice even if users can add their own image. Other faces can not change. Because of the customization ability, this face will be most popular among the users.

Watch Clock 2nd by Martin Eriksson

This is a very attractive face with a good color balance. It is displaying time and weather forecast according to your current place. Because of these features, this will be the most popular custom face among the users too.

Music Mockup face by Martin Eriksson

It has a nice 3D look. Most advantageous part is users can stream music directly with this face. Users only need to hold and touch the face and here after it asks from you to stream the music. This will be famous among music lovers.

Watchface by Judesh

This face was created by one of Israel’s developers. When compared with other iWatch faces, this has a very simple design. Because of simply having a design, it will be popular.