Did PayPal Implement Jailbreak Detection in Their App?
I recently experienced a problem with the PayPal app on my iPhone. Did a little research and found others with the same issue as well. One thing I noticed is that we all have something in common, a jailbroken iPhone or iPad.
I was able to open the PayPal app, but all it display was the logo and stuck there for a good minute or two and then crash. I thought something must have been wrong with my Apple ID since I just changed not long ago. I went ahead and redownloaded the app. Tried to open it several times the next day and the same issue arise.
No official note from PayPal about blocking or prevent jailbroken iOS users from accessing their personal account or even launching the app itself. This problem occurred right after I updated the PayPal app to the latest version (v6.2.0 as of writing this article) from the App Store.
Here is what I did to fix the problem with PayPal crashes on iPhone.
Downgrade the PayPal App
Yup, you heard that right. The good thing is that your iPhone is jailbroken, which means it’s easier than before to downgrade an app from the App Store. Especially, when you have a tweak called App Admin that makes the process much faster. I actually wrote a tutorial on how to do that here. Check it out and follow the same process.
Basically, I went to the App Store, click the little download icon and then choose Downgrade, then I selected version 5.14. This one turned out to be working fairly well for me.
I’m going to continue using the older version of PayPal until I hear an official update from the company about this issue. Hopefully, this tutorial was able to help you resolve the issue on your iPhone or iPad as well.
Using PalFix
It turned out that the newest version of PayPal now looks for an active CydiaSubstrate, if the app detects it, then users will only see the logo upon launching the app.
With that being said, you can avoid this problem by going to no-substrate mode, safe mode, or installing a tweak called PalFix by Limneos (same guy behind Audio Recorder).
If you don’t want to downgrade the PayPal app, add this repository http://limneos.net/repo/ and then install PalFix from there.
The Alternative
If for some reason the tweak above didn’t work, there is a new one called PalBreak that help you solve the same issue. It will disable all security tweaks in the official PayPal app so that you can continue using it.
It injects a library into PayPal before MobileSubstrate can inject and blocks all substrate images and tweaks from being loaded.
Will says
PalFix dosen’t work anymore.
Kenny says
worked for me on 5s ios 9.0.2
wowallthecolors says
To get Paypal working on the new JB on 9.3.3 this worked for me.
Delete Paypal app
Goto cydia and install App Admin, then respring.
Goto app store search for Paypal, click the download button and choose Downgrade.
Choose 6.0 (any previous verious is no longer supported)
Open paypal
That worked perfectly for me on an iphone 5s 9.3.3
Shano says
I had the same problem as described above by stucking with Paypal logo and then after a min or 2 app crashes.
Tried just now w/ palfix and it worked for me.
Pat says
Palfix worked for me as well. No issues.
Guy who doubts other guys says
Why are you all still crying about PalFix…
It clearly says there is an alternative – PalBreak
PalBreak is easily available (from BigBoss) and is a safe & instant fix for even the latest official PayPal App version to this date
daniel says
6.1.0 works on 6S 9.3.3
Jim says
Confirm, PalBreak working with both 6s ios 9.3.2 and 9.3.3, PayPal 6.6.1
Tyrone Hamilton says
Awesome! Thanks for letting us know.
TwelveM0nkeys says
Palbreak works on ip6, 10.2, yalu 7b, Paypal 6.7.2
Tyrone Hamilton says
Awesome!
Luke says
Straight to the point like you ask, I want to offer my sincerest thanks for your guidance on why my PAypal app all of a sudden started crashing. U won’t believe the things I Tried before finding your site and working solution, I just wanted you to know that,maw so many don’t bother to offer thanks these days, 🙂 Thanks again
Tyrone says
No problem 🙂