Can a 14 Year Old iPhone 3Gs Run Minecraft?

The iPhone 3GS was my first phone as a kid and the first thing I did was jailbreak it... So let's see what it takes to get Minecraft running and see if I can survive the night 🫡
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[@Papasot]

I started playing Minecraft on this exact phone!!!

[@zacharystaines]

That's epic man! It was a huge nostalgia hit that's for sure!!

[@Papasot]

@@zacharystaines Absolutely!!! I haven't seen the old game menu for years!!!

[@Acer_Real]

Thx man i‘m gonna jailbroken mine tomorrow could you make a video or short how to install modern apps like spotify or youtube ?

[@WoodFriedGames]

ayooooo

[@1080p_gamer_]

same, 3Gs is fire

[@gustav5473]

Can’t wait for "Can a 20 Year Old iPhone 15 Run Minecraft?". Awesome video, gave me some nostalgia!

[@zacharystaines]

hahah bro i'm gonna be 80 and still trying to run minecraft! Thanks for watching lad 🫡

[@destroyer100onblitz]

@@zacharystainesyou 60 ? 😂😂😂

[@charlietherobloxgamer_]

.

[@muslimnikah1]

​@@zacharystaines wait hold up

[@アイドル愛]

@@destroyer100onblitzhe meant even if he will be 80 he will do something like that yk

[@tds9058]

It’s kinda weird how new kids are amazed by early Gen-Z tech cause this is how I used to play Minecraft in my school days lmao

[@zacharystaines]

Hahah yeah man tech is moving so dang quick

[@vincethebanana]

I installed bedrock when thats all it was on my middle school computers and I have no clue how they never got after me for it

[@elwell27]

WINDOWS CE

[@Theunicorn2012]

It’s kinda weird how new kids are amazed by early Gen-Z tech cause this is how I used to play Minecraft in my school days lmao

[@LonerWarrior]

Even I’m amazed at how could I play minecraft in such a small phone and had so much fun with it when I was a kid

[@martaas_cz]

The low performance on the Dell is actually caused by HDD/Bad SSD, and it will also need a fresh install of Windows too.

[@NebulaHatesWatchdog]

I’m sure the hard drive isn’t bad, it’s just old and crappy. Also it’s totally not an SSD lol. That would make things go much more smoothly.

[@felixhaun6688]

​@@NebulaHatesWatchdogOr install more RAM (if possible). HDD usage is so high because of ram being almost full so its using the Page file which basically is ram on your HDD or SSD and that causes high HDD usage.

[@PWVlogs]

It needs reimaged completely with windows 10 and probably wiped. He could probably access OneDrive for his sister’s files to back them up.

[@AlevityXiaku]

@@PWVlogs It's too slow to download, install, and upload files to One Drive. Replace the whole HDD with an SSD and put a fresh install of Windows. Use a SATA adapter to transfer the files back directly from the HDD. RAM is at 64% so it's not full.

[@Theunicorn2012]

The low performance on the Dell is actually caused by HDD/Bad SSD, and it will also need a fresh install of Windows too.

[@93Volvo240]

I don’t even play Minecraft, but this video was still absolutely awesome! I’m so glad to see that old phone STILL working in 2023. I have an iPhone 3G that I take with me when I go out because my iPhone 7 doesn’t work away from the outlet XD

[@zacharystaines]

That’s epic lad! Glad you still dug it!

[@Lylcaruis]

i would definitely spend the bit of money to get a second hand 10/11/12, its so worth it and the 7 is GENUINELY old now

[@mal0gen]

​@@Lylcaruisget an android, crapple is hot garbage

[@Lylcaruis]

@@mal0gen ye or that, I have a pixel 7

[@Ordlnary_Gamer]

@@mal0genoh shut up, adleast our phones get more than 2 years of support. Wackdroid isint as good as you think it is.

[@chappy7861]

Only og pocket edition players remember the nether reactor

[@Applealt90]

Yes

[@Theunicorn2012]

Only og pocket edition players remember the nether reactor

[@midnightbat344]

Only og pocket edition player remember using sign as redstone

[@darkzoyt9094]

​@@Theunicorn2012 bot

[@UnderAverage]

7:56 The splash screen text on the 3GS is absolutely perfect

[@foxyfanfan4374]

I can confirm this does work and you can also play multiplayer if you get the same version of the game on another device

[@zacharystaines]

We starting a giant 3Gs LAN party lads?!

[@7_tl3]

i have minecraft on a pixi 3.5 lol there's this one square button that has one purpose on the entire phone, and minecraft used it for the pause button so its pretty cool

[@finndershood5557]

“Can lead to piracy” as if that’s a bad thing 😂😂

[@zacharystaines]

i aint out here to make enemies bruh 😆

[@duc_ke]

your channel really took off! i started subscribing to your channel 1 year ago! and i couldn't believe my eyes. These videos are top notch and your videos keep improving and improving! Huge congrats to you ♥

[@zacharystaines]

That's amazing man! Thanks for sticking around and supporting the channel - it's been a wild ride lol!

[@TorutheRedFox]

they never officially ended support for the iOS 6 app store they just screwed something small but crucial up and nobody cared enough to even realize since it only affects iOS versions that are over 10 years old now

[@zacharystaines]

Yo that's some great insight! Good catch!

[@bbbbagger9912]

apple actually fixed the app store on (as far as i’m aware) ios 4 and above, you might still need a tweak to get apps that you didn’t purchase at least a decade ago, but hey, at least it works (same with ios 6 siri, it was gone for some time and now it’s back, might also be back on ios 5 but i don’t have any devices running anything below ios 6 to confirm)

[@TorutheRedFox]

@@bbbbagger9912 it was people making tweaks to fix it, not apple

[@bbbbagger9912]

@@TorutheRedFox but apple did fix the problem with the app store not showing up when trying to connect. this happened in like the last 24 hours so it’s still pretty new news

[@20EsOfficial]

@@bbbbagger9912 wrong. still broken, same for apple maps, etc. I daily an iphone 3Gs for reminders alongside my android because i keep my android on vibrate and want to hear just the reminders, works well, also the iphone has a headphone port that i like to use :)

[@taylorlukens8486]

As someone who has been jail-breaking phones for years, this is very painful yet very funny, good job man.

[@zacharystaines]

Pain is my middle name lol

[@Theunicorn2012]

As someone who has been jail-breaking phones for years, this is very painful yet very funny, good job man.

[@darkzoyt9094]

​@@zacharystainesbot

[@Lickitung_yt]

​@@Theunicorn2012u copied

[@hadirizvi9070]

now that's something epic! keep them uploads coming bud!

[@zacharystaines]

Thanks lad 🫡 I appreciate you watching dude!

[@michelleenderink3664]

My dad has this phone and I played Minecraft demo on the 3GS. Nostalgia kicks in.

[@magmaxt]

If you have another faster phone you can play a minecraft map with infinite world generation on the 3GS pretty well. Altough you can disable "limit world size" on options,but the game runs too slow

[@zacharystaines]

Thinking about seeing how much TNT it can handle tbh

[@manthanguptaaa]

How the hell this man doesn't have a huge audience!! Keep this quality work goin on 🔥💞 Great Vid

[@zacharystaines]

Dang lad I appreciate that! Stoked yall are digging it

[@tomleopard.]

Hello

[@jromero.337]

Oh my, in those old days, even my late cousin and I used to play Minecraft all the time. The old version of Minecraft was better than today's. I stopped playing Minecraft when my cousin passed away, and later, I noticed that Minecraft had undergone a significant new update that I didn't like. But once again, those were good memories of the old Minecraft days!

[@unown8202]

Same. I used to play the old minecraft pe before I even got my first pc. I used an old samsung phone and i remember it being laggy as fck but i just can't seem to stop enjoying it. Today, I still play minecraft but I got so bored with the current version that I can't play mc without some kind of mod. And speaking of which, you might be interested in looking up "Better than adventure" mod for minecraft 1.7.3(?). It's hard to explain but basically it's what minecraft would have been if everthing beyond 1.8 didn't happen. Also, condolences for your late cousin.

[@MIKE5477_YT]

this phone was my older brother phone and i borrow his phone to play angry birds, but in reality i was playing on his minecraft world until he upgraded to iphone 5s and his old 3g is given to me. it was laggy but i was able to play minecraft and i was so happy. Its been 10 years since and i moved to java edition

[@ItsaMeJay64]

YO when you showed the dell laptop running at 100% disk i had a heart attack. I have an 8 year old Dell Inspiron 15 that ALWAYS runs at 100% disk at all times, something with dell laptops man, it's like impossible to figure out how to stop it from happening, even if you search all over the web, so many cases of this happening! Just thought it was wild to see that same issue in a video haha! Great vid

[@maks721ppp]

Next video: can a 47 years old apple computer run minecraft?

[@brendamobley]

This gives me hope, I have an old old phone I’m too poor to replace but I can’t deal with a lesser display.

[@magik9643]

I didn't know they disabled the app store, I remember installing geometry dash less than a year ago and it was so much easier! Nice vid bro

[@EvanCaritopTV]

I started playing mcpe demo on my 3gs on december 1st 2012, begged my dad to buy the full version for me the next day and I have been a semi frequent player ever since. I think mcpe was on version 0.5.0 when I started.

[@The_NJG]

Man I can't believe iPhones are so old at this point. I still remember flip phones and phones with slidable keyboards to play java mobile games on. I'm only almost 19 but damn I feel old.

[@zacharystaines]

Same man same 😢

[@Thesaeedgamer]

In this version exactly, there are a lot of servers. There are still people playing this version and above, as well as older versions of it. I hope you will try the servers.

[@zacharystaines]

Wait for real?! Dang ill have to check it out. Sick theres still a community around it!

[@isurvived9-11]

M8 made an another accomplishment. Respect.

[@zacharystaines]

We only just getting started 🫡

[@rossbeauchamp8851]

Ha Ha, Dude, totally remember jailbreaking my iPhone4. Thats a blast from the past, Prob going to dig out an old iphone to try again LOL

[@zacharystaines]

Rossy!! Mate give it a shot! The days when we had cell lock lol

[@EvanCaritopTV]

I remember I started playing mcpe 0.5.0 on this phone and so I jailbroke it to start screen recording and making my first minecraft videos 11 years ago lol

[@kajusziaunys9587]

Bro thats what you call nostalgia 24 year old phone running nostalgia😢

[@gracechaker]

You can run Minecraft’s 0.14.3 (the version you’re playing on) on your main iPhone with a UI pack called VDX Old days UI. On the internet.

[@ItzAri_Editz]

Since it has 256mb of RAM and the Samsung APL0298C05 chip that is composed of an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU core underclocked to 600 MHz (from 833 MHz), integrated with a PowerVR SGX 535 GPU, which were very good specs for its time. So I’m happy to see it can run Minecraft.

[@kaitheguy2006]

How is it possible that he has less than 1 million subs?

[@zacharystaines]

Dang lad that means a lot! One day - we're on our way!

[@ٴٴ007]

​@@zacharystainesit will obviously happen. How can the channel not?🤔

[@bowlorice]

This is amazing man. Good work. Since you have done this there is a block only on a certain version of minecraft called the nether reactor which was a mobile exclusive on certain versions so i guess you could get that long lost block lol.

[@zacharystaines]

Yo wait really?! That's sick! I have to give it a go 🫡

[@Damn_it.]

I am actually an android, windows and Linux user. Yes a lot of OS 😅. But I do like your video. Jailbreaking is like rooting android maybe. But it's normal for us to install unsupported apps. Give this iPhone some rest. I think it was getting hot

[@zacharystaines]

Every OS you can get ;)

[@AliGhost00001]

I really respect your hard work 😂

[@arron840]

Can we take a moment for how much effort he puts in his videos and his countless replys to his commenters

[@zacharystaines]

Glad you enjoyed the video lad! Appreciate everyone who watches hey! 🤠

[@Nothing-name]

Two days ago I installed Minecraft: Bedrock Edition on my old IPhone 4s and then KZbin sent me this video to my recomendations

[@danfan-ll2kk]

You should have 1 million subscribers,the editing is amazing !

[@zacharystaines]

Yo Dan you're a legend! Learning everyday man so one day we'll get there! Thanks for watching!

[@DiabloProcentoPersonal.]

In short, yes. Iphone 3GS can run Minecraft pocket edition... And i love this video for trying that even though i never though about it :dDD

[@zacharystaines]

And it runs surprisingly well too haha! Thanks for watching lad 🫡

[@no_hacker2]

iPhone 3G was an incredible phone back then

[@zacharystaines]

It lives rent free in my head lol

[@Nulgim]

how does he not have 1 million subs yet? its incredible you found a wat to run minecraft on a 3gs!

[@zacharystaines]

I appreciate that bro! We’ll get there 🫡 kinda stoked man - who needs a switch 😂

[@cm5g]

there was a way to play it for a while now and ive done it on basically every (possible) legacy ios device i own

[@Niceguy_24]

@Nulgim Yea

[@NoReverse77]

If you own the game downloading it isn’t piracy. No matter where it’s from.

[@Arieander]

I remember i started playing minecraft pocket edition on my ipod 4, good times

[@zacharystaines]

Yeah man those were the goooood old days

[@Kurdzo]

The iPhone 4 can still download it with no issues whatsoever from the App Store and runs probably a 2015 version? What’s crazy is the 4S can run 1.16! Literally Minecraft from 2020

[@matsumaki_]

broo great vid, I'm surprised u managed to make something mundane into a vid that's interesting to watch👍, for future vids maybe you could try doing something with 90s to early 2000s macs or an ipod to do something interesting like edit a video or play games on 1st gen ipod(just an idea tho😅) I'm sure you'll hit big man, great vid

[@zacharystaines]

Thanks ya legend! Oooo i dig those ideas lad! We're on our way 🫡

[@danielheitz7393]

I kid you not I bought a 3GS yesterday for a living in the 2000s challenge and I was wondering what else I’d be able to do with it. Godsend man!

[@zacharystaines]

Yooooo it's a good time man give it a shot!

[@TheKidWithD]

This is such an underrated video, so happy u got to play minecraft on your 3gs ❤ im subbing as well

[@zacharystaines]

Ahhh lad that means a ton! Thanks for sticking around 🫡

[@romenyesayan3855]

3:05 to 3:08 Bruh what was that head shake 💀

[@Lylcaruis]

my old 4s ran this game really well when i tried it when i was like 10 lol, i exploded a decent bit of tnt and it didnt lag only optimized version of minecraft

[@healt.]

I love watching from this channel you know why because I do exactly the same thing as him because my phone is not that good and im actually learning from this kind of stuff so yeah .....I Subbed❤

[@regendaRHWT]

and in 5 years "Can a 10 year old iphone 10 run minecraft?" Great video

[@digitalclock]

Mum's 3GS back in the day was how i first played minecraft...

[@kv3513]

Such a cool video! Try this on an iPhone 2g 😂

[@zacharystaines]

Wanna watch me cry? lol

[@kv3513]

@@zacharystaines hahaha yes. I have jailbroken my iPhone 2g as well and have some really cool games on it. Would be epic to play Minecraft on it. 🔥

[@misterfish12]

I would love play the old MCPE again 😢 Btw very good video 👍

[@zacharystaines]

It's a classic man! Give it a shot if you can!

[@seeborutharwin1106]

pleasee can you do more old iphone to run minecraft like 4 or 4s pleaseee👍👍👍👍

[@j_w_i_]

who made the appstore fix tweak

[@ItzzFuZZioNZZ]

Loved my iPod 3Gs I jailbroke it when I was about 11 it was great😂😂 funky home screens the lot

[@PretzelSalt]

I've been looking one for an ipod touch 4 jailbreak, thank you for showing this!!

[@miwiki6]

well, that was a journey

[@zacharystaines]

Rollercoaster is my middle name

[@miwiki6]

@@zacharystaines that's a good one hahah

[@CreatorPS_]

MePhone3Gs still working great

[@xaenza]

5:27 One must imagine Zachary happy.

[@sibilakshman9575]

Pure joy , villages ready to be raided , sheeps to be killed , nights to be felt safe.

[@PhoenixDening-cz5wd]

0.14 was the first update I got hyped for

[@xavierfernandes5602]

Man i remember when i was like 5 i used the 3gs to play minecraft before i got a better phone i miss my minecraft world :(

[@zacharystaines]

Such a throw back man! Childhood mems are strong!

[@xavierfernandes5602]

I have a challenge for you get the original floppy bird on a old phone

[@HeyImRancover]

@@xavierfernandes5602thats pretty easy but you have to find the flappy bird ipa i think

[@danielchavira6727]

This dude got the most ancient looking laptop and is trying to compare it to his current day Mac lmao

[@Rigby-Mordo]

Sideloading would work, you’d just have to do an old version

[@Turtloid]

For some reason recently apple started allowing old iPhones to run the App Store again which is really weird

[@cartiarchivess]

Only iOS 11 app store is permanently shut down. The iOS 6 and below app stores weren’t shut down on purpose but a certificate expired and they didn’t notice until a month later. Its not the first time that happened

[@UltimateGamer6000isepic]

the woah was perfect when showing the camera new minecraft 7:53

[@iRedMCYT]

It's so strange seeing this video because... yea of course it runs. I have a 3GS with it installed.. from when the store last worked. What's even more impressive would be running it on the first iPhone.

[@mrinaldutta1812]

MacBook is also a pc. You guys call messages= iMessage video call= facetime So deep into apple world everything else seems different to you when it's not

[@atvstudios.]

Awesome vid dude! I found ur channel with the Mac video and u make good stuff. Keep it up bro

[@zacharystaines]

Thanks bro! Stoked to have all the lads here 🫡

[@LikeNOW100]

Brings me back to when I had bedrock and that only

[@reetial]

The reason minecraft didnt work on the first try was that the version used was notinstalled correctly or permissions werent fulfilled

[@YaaSalty...0_o]

Bro your channel is so odd, your Mac video popped the hell off! Congrats!

[@zacharystaines]

haha thanks lad! For real its so odd but I'm just having fun making videos over here about goofy stuff lol

[@Davide0033]

being fair, i find kinda funny how bro's jailbreaking an iphone 3gs but somehow has no clue how to use windows, or how to sideload apps

[@noobbrainsredyoshi]

2:25 because its a 32bit app Catalina (10.15) dropped support for 32 bit

[@CarLOO178]

the fact that an iphone 4s can just play minecraft 1.16.3 is amazing

[@Thepowerof2190]

POV: your playing minecraft for 15 minits and it explodes

[@zacharystaines]

Story of my life lol

[@technodude]

This guy should make a documentary

[@alexrick5092]

Im definitely gonna try this on my ipod touch 3

[@zacharystaines]

Yoooo yes!

[@Valay.]

YES i can finally play minecraft again on the device i played minecraft for the 1st time ever!!!!!! (tho mine was a 3G not a 3GS & that was my 1st phone i ever had)

[@sirpugstudios]

bro what next, a printer?

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

When the companies stop supporting something, the pirates come to pick it back up.

[@desktop-ini]

I’ve been curious about macs for a hot minute. I just can’t afford one with the kind of specs I need.

[@kalebplayz125]

2:41 ISTG THAT IS MY SAME MODEL

[@Struwex]

it sucks you had to go through all that hassle to get the game, I just logged in the App Store on my 3gs and I could download it

[@mateo-yn9yd]

FINALLYYYY!!! I use windows 7 because i hate new windows and you too use it 😅

[@chungusqiqi2009]

Amazing, Minecraft was what I player on my iPhone 3g

[@EkipaDaneks]

8 minutes just to know if old phone can minecraft

[@zacharystaines]

It's very important information lol

[@RoseQuartz692]

@@zacharystaines it is

[@Random12024]

I'm Brazilian 🇧🇷, but I still found the video amazing, your videos look very cool bro good luck on KZbin (if you're a little confused it was because I used the translator haha😅)

[@TheRealQuacko]

That's impressive! Running Minecraft on an iPhone 3GS, which is quite an old device, must have taken some creativity and technical know-how. How did you manage to accomplish that?

[@Zakedraftx]

And also the version that it works the online server ip

[@siemaytsiema]

I cant wait for "Can You Play Games On 14 years old IPhone 3Gs?"

[@zacharystaines]

Any games you would be keen to see? 🤠

[@Brehlol99]

Its so satisfying

[@DuduBear34]

Proof Zachary never surrender Success start from fail Fail into success

[@zacharystaines]

Haha let’s go lads 🫡

[@auxport11]

Good video

[@zacharystaines]

Thanks for watching lad!

[@zachmodz5083]

I got this exact phone for 10 dollars at a garage sale after my iPod broke such a steal at the time and well needed ended up being so much better than an iPod with calling apps!

[@Husky_Kun1914]

You are so underrated man. Your deserve more subs and likes.

[@Dasker2k6]

Had no idea why it wasnt working, it’s because its minecraft on a old ass phone

[@Russiansleepexperience]

You should've used veteris, it's easy.