# Jailbreak/Rooting Detection

DevFeed: [Jailbreak/Rooting Detection](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/jailbreak-rooting-detection-19340.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.codenameone.com/blog/jailbreak-rooting-detection/>)

Author: Shai Almog

Published: 2017-01-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [CodeName One](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codename-one.md>)

Topics: [Jailbreak](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jailbreak.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [iOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ios.md>), [Process](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/process.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [ios](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ios.md>), [jailbreak](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jailbreak.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

This article discusses detecting jailbroken or rooted iOS and Android devices. It explains that detection is not fully reliable, and suggests that high-security applications may block functionality or raise an alert while encrypting sensitive data and assuming the device may already be compromised.

## Source excerpt

iOS & Android are walled gardens which is both a blessing and a curse. Looking at the bright side the walled garden aspect of locked down devices means the devices are more secure by nature. E.g. on a PC that was compromised I can detect the banking details of a user logging into a bank. But on a phone it would be much harder due to the deep process isolation.