iOS isJailBroken Flag Returns True When Parental Controls Are Enabled

[safwanidrees]

On iOS, we’ve observed that isJailBroken returns true when Parental Controls are enabled on the device. However, our intended behavior is for isJailBroken to return true only when the device is actually jailbroken, not when Parental Controls are active.

final isJailBroken = await JailbreakRootDetection.instance.isJailBroken;

Is there a recommended approach to differentiate between a jailbroken device and one that simply has Parental Controls enabled? Any guidance on refining the jailbreak detection logic would be appreciated.

[safwanidrees]

We are currently waiting for a response. Could someone kindly assist me in addressing this?

[hsynksahin]

Hello, just passing by and saw this. Did you check which jailbreak issues you have ? Use the checkForIssues method to get a list and log them to see if it is really problamatic or not.

I assume you have the proxied issue when parental controls are active which is also can be man-in-the-middle attack. If that case gotta find a way to detect parental control in that case nullify the issue by making your own 'isJailBroken' condition.

For example (this is an extension on List<JailbreakIssue>):

 bool get isSafe => ((debugBypass && kDebugMode) ||
      (!contains(JailbreakIssue.jailbreak) &&
          !contains(JailbreakIssue.fridaFound) &&
          !contains(JailbreakIssue.cydiaFound) &&
          !contains(JailbreakIssue.tampered) &&
          !contains(JailbreakIssue.reverseEngineered) &&
          (hasParentalControl || !contains(JailbreakIssue.proxied)) &&
          (_allowUnknown || !contains(JailbreakIssue.unknown)) &&
          (_allowSimulation || !contains(JailbreakIssue.notRealDevice)) &&
          (_allowDeveloperOptions || !contains(JailbreakIssue.devMode)) &&
          (_allowExternalStorage || !contains(JailbreakIssue.onExternalStorage)) &&
          (_allowDebugged || !contains(JailbreakIssue.debugged))));