2023 will be the last year we use iMessage as we know it. Starting next year, and as Apple itself has already confirmed, Apple’s messaging service will be integrated into the RCS standard to guarantee a certain level of integration between iOS and Android. The cause is, once again, the European Union and its regulations.
But Apple’s willingness to embrace messaging standards hasn’t stopped attempts to break into the service’s prized “blue bubbles,” which will continue to differentiate iPhone owners from others. This is what Beeper Mini sought to do, with a result that, for the moment, cannot be described as successful..
Once again, we will ultimately have to resort to jailbreaking
I said it when Beeper Mini launched and I say it again today: whatever happens, the efforts behind Beeper Mini are commendable. It’s not every day that someone manages to find a safe way to “disguise” themselves as an iPhone and use iMessage with the blue bubbles.
However, Apple’s obvious attempts to stop the Beeper Mini from working have paid off. The company blocked the service several times, to the point where its developers admitted that using a jailbreak is the only solution, and it is This will be the last attempt they make to keep Beeper Mini alive.. They stated this in one of the entries of their official blog.
To understand everything that happened, we’re going to see a chronological list of everything that happened between the arrival of Beeper Mini and this outcome.
Beeper Mini vs. Apple: Timeline of Everything That Happened
- Everything starts early December 2023. Beeper Mini presents itself as a new way to use iMessage, but without sacrificing our privacy. While other attempts like Nothing involved transferring our Apple credentials unencrypted to third-party servers, Beeper performed a reverse engineering exercise. Thanks to it we can connect with any Android terminal and “disguise” it as an iPhone.
- Four days later, the December 9, Beeper Mini stops working. Suspicions already indicate that Apple has found a way to block the app.
- He December 11, Apple confirms it: they blocked Beeper Mini. As expected, a company spokesperson assures that its intention is to continue to guarantee the security and privacy of its users. The fact that a third-party service managed to break into a closed system puts this at risk.
Beeper Mini reactivated its service several times, but could not cope with successive blocks from Apple
- The same day, Beeper Mini announced that it had successfully unblocked its service again. Officials are confident that they will be able to overcome the measures coming from Cupertino, even if They remove the subscription that their users pay since they cannot guarantee it. It doesn’t take long for Apple to block the service again.
- He December 19, the law comes into play. A group of US senators and representatives, from the Democratic and Republican parties, are writing a letter calling for Apple to be investigated for its allegedly anti-competitive policies regarding iMessage. Beeper Mini sees its continued efforts to unblock the service operating at a very low level.
- And finally we come to what was mentioned in this same article, Beeper Mini admitting that the only solution is a jailbreak generated from a computer with Linux and using an old iPhone to which this patch can be applied to the system. Which (in my opinion) almost amounts to saying that the service can no longer continue to operate normally.
To the creators of Beeper Mini They only have one option left: that the FTC ends up investigating Apple and accepts their lawsuits. But even if that also fails, their requests will already have an effect thanks to the integration with RCS. Maybe we’ll continue with the blue and green bubbles, but at least the integration between platforms will be much better than what we currently have.
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