In all this fun stuff, let's not forget the enigmatic Fuchsia.

@27, The phone is paid off, so it's not like I'd be voiding any warranties. But with some of the things I'd change, I think she'd notice. Also, with the iOS 14.3 checkra1n jailbreak, you can't have passcode and Face ID. If unc0ver comes out with something I may get it. I just know how my mom would be if she found it though. She is afraid that it would mess up the phone

@31, not really. I mean, sure it can *technically* mess up the phone, a bit like how poring a kettle can technically go very badly wrong if you don't have good reaction times and / or a liquid level indicator or whatever. Or how making a teeny tiny typo when using the dd command on linux can potentially erase your entire operating system. Or how doing just about anything in the windows registry can... I think you get the idea. I'd hope that anyone going into jailbreaking has taken the time to understand the risks involved, and is willing to accept the fact that yeah, maybe something might break and they might have to fix it.
Something I do feel bares mentioning, though, is that it's literally impossible for jailbreaking to completely render a phone unusable. I mean, doing stupid things like unplugging the phone in the middle of the process can be a hole other can of worms, but aside from that, you have Itunes. You have recovery mode, and the ability to roll back. Ditto on android, you can always flash the standard bootloader at any time, remove magisk's packages, etc. And like I said earlier, the contract only really extends to the sim it's associated with.

@32
Yes, it's *fairly* safe.  But fairly comes with the caveat that it's entirely reasonable for whoever actually owns the phone to say "don't do this", it does void warranties, and there are unrecoverable states you can get iPhones into (at which point, of course, you voided the warranty).  My point isn't don't do it so much as it is that mom isn't making any sort of unreasonable demand at all.

@Ethin, that's only the fine print. My point was that regardless of what happens to the phone, if you have a sim, you're contract is still very much valid, and when you're due for a renewal, you'll be able to get 1 because the price for the phone on the contract would have been paid off already, regardless of which phone is actually being used with the sim. Broadly speaking, carriers don't give a shit about what you do so long as they get their money.
@Camlorn, fair enough. I suppose it just erks me to see people like Rich's mum seemingly trying to be all high and mighty when they clearly have no idea what they're talking about.

@25 Android is never going to get that closed. I did move the Sim from an iPhone 7 Plus to an Moto G Stylus. it is tided to the sim not the phone.

this is a joke? right...

At 35 what do you mean, jailbreaking? Depends on the version of iOS 6 you have installed, go check and then use google, you find everything there.

Greetings Moritz.

I'd imagine that's because plastic. I know my 3 does have it, as well as the 3XL and probably others.

Yes, they do. Look at the Pixel 5.