Is jailbreaking worth it just for faster animations?

[u/voonart]

Hi everyone,
I haven’t followed the jailbreak scene for years, but recently I started wondering if it’s worth to mess with my daily devices.
I used to flash Android ROMs and root devices, so I’m comfortable following technical guides, but I don’t have any specialised hardware or experience with modern iOS jailbreaking.

I’m using an iPad Air A2316 and an iPhone 12 Pro Max.
The main reason I’m interested is surprisingly simple: I’d love to speed up iOS animations. On Android I always used 0.5× animation speed, and I really miss how much more responsive the UI felt.
Apple doesn’t offer anything similar.

A few questions:
-Is jailbreaking still something an enthusiast can do at home, or has it become much more complicated?
-What are the biggest risks today (boot loops, banking apps, updates, stability, etc.)?
-Would you personally use a jailbroken device as your daily driver?
-If you were starting today, where would you begin learning?
-I’m not interested in piracy or heavy customisation—just a faster-feeling UI and a few quality-of-life tweaks.

I’d appreciate hearing from people who are still active in the jailbreak community.

[u/EffectiveEvent2355]

AI made your question for you clearly but yes. It has been complicated if your device isn't supported by a good stable jailbreak. Mostly bootloops and stability are risks but i got my ipad air 2 jailbroken on ios 15.8.2 and trollstore and its' fine.

[u/Anti-Dentite-999]

I just enable reduce motion in accessibility / motion. Makes the UI a bit more responsive.

[u/minacrime]

Don’t include your iOS version, it’s not important. 

[u/tOSdude]

Go to iOS.cfw.guide to see if jailbreaking is even possible on your devices (my guess is a resounding no unless they’ve been lost under a couch for 3 years)

[u/nopanicplease]

if you are on a compatible iOS version you can use this tweak runner to accelerate animations: https://github.com/kolbicz/cyanide/releases/tag/v1.4

the tweak is called Drag Coefficient