In this talk, we will discuss how abusers use rooting and jailbreaking to compromise survivors’ devices. When a phone is jailbroken or rooted, it gives up the phone’s security and causes the potential for shortened battery life, crashes, and freezes. Jailbreaking and rooting can leave a survivor with limited control over system updates, anti-malware protection, and can facilitate an abuser installing unauthorized apps, such as stalkerware, which allows the abuser to monitor the survivor’s device. It is important that survivors know and understands how these tactics of tech misuse can impact their devices and also learn how they can check their devices for this type of tech misuse.