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The original was posted on /r/xreal by /u/Stridyr on 2023-09-01 17:13:33.

We have been asking Xreal to post something about what’s going on with their apparent attempts to break the ‘Jail break’ on the Beam but they refuse to. For some reason, they feel that it’s better to leave this community stewing in anger and frustration.

I not only cannot condone this action, I have no respect for whoever is making these self defeating decisions. So if I get ‘fired’ for this then O well, I’ve got better things to do with my time than try to put out fires that they are causing but refuse to put out.

When I got upset and started ‘demanding’ some answers, this was the response. I have no idea why they couldn’t post this themselves but here it is:

"our team will make Beam more open, providing an easier access to jailbreak Beam, or you could call it the developer’s mode. People don’t have to do complicate procedures before they could jailbreak it and install apps.

Team is preparing it, during their adjustments to the launcher, the jailbreak solution provided by the community now will be impacted temporarily, especially the UI of the apps installed through jailbreak.

… (here I was told that they are actually reading our posts: I’m at a loss as to why they would continue to ignore the growing anger)

Jailbreak is a delicate thing that cannot be publicly encouraged by the manufacturer. What I assuming is that you maybe upset about that we seemed to be disregarding our community’s need, well, we don’t. We are just trying to work on a better solution that will provide more apps, more accessibility to users in a more safe way."

We have one user, Klarts, who has apparently talked to someone at Xreal and he has been attempting to tell us what’s going on, but this is straight from an Xreal employee. I hope that I don’t get that person fired for answering my questions, but, imho, this should never have been left to fester this long.

The best answer we can get is “in a few weeks”. That was last week but at least now we know that they aren’t trying to mess with the ‘Jail break’, instead it’s just a needed step with unintended consequences, as Klarts has been saying.

So hang in there, we should start seeing something ‘soon’, hopefully within a couple of weeks. 🤞🤞🤞