The short answer is yes, you can brick your iOS device if you try to jailbreak. Or even after it’s jailbroken. By jailbreaking your iOS device you can make your device unusable, it crashes, doesn’t boot correctly, the screen colours are off or simply it just goes all wrong.

Yes. Jailbreaks are specific to certain iOS versions, so if you update your iPhone, you will lose your jailbreak. As well, Over-the-Air updates (OTA) are not recommended for jailbroken devices. Restore them instead using iTunes.

Can I still use iTunes and App Store after jailbreaking? Yes, you can use iTunes and App Store after jailbreaking your device. The most notable change to your device will be that, after jailbreaking, you will have a new application installed, like Cydia.

A cell phone that is “Bricked” is considered to be unrepairably damaged electronically, usually not from physical damage. To “unbrick my iPhone” would mean to get a non-working iPhone working again.

Having a bricked iPhone means your iPhone’s software is corrupted to the point of no repair, making your iPhone appear to be an expensive aluminum “brick”. Luckily, it’s almost impossible to permanently brick an iPhone.

We say an iPhone, iPad, or iPod is “bricked” when it refuses to turn on or when it appears that your device does not work at all! What happens behind the scenes is that your iPhone gets stuck on the connect to iTunes logo after updating to a new iOS. Basically, your iOS software update started but didn’t complete.

“Bricking” essentially means a device has turned into a brick. It may be an electronic device worth hundreds of dollars, but it’s now as useful as a brick (or perhaps a paperweight). A bricked device won’t power on and function normally. The verb “to brick” means breaking a device in this way.

Here are the steps:

1. Make sure your device is off.
2. Hold the power and home buttons for 10 seconds.
3. Release the power button but continue holding the home button for 10 more seconds.
4. Release the home button.
5. Restore your iDevice with iTunes using the restore instructions in the previous section.

/brɪk/ to build a wall of bricks around something, or to fill something with bricks: The doors and windows had been bricked up to prevent squatters from getting in. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

A bricked phone means one thing: your phone won’t turn on in any way, shape or form, and there’s nothing you can do to fix it. It is, for all intents and purposes, as useful as a brick. A phone stuck in a boot loop is not bricked, nor is a phone that boots straight into recovery mode.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English be bricking itBritish English informal to feel very nervous or frightened → brick.

Bricked up – slang To be extremely happy and cannot be brought down.

/ (ˈpɪlək) / noun. British slang a stupid or annoying person.