If you’re a jailbreaker who just bought one of Apple’s shiny new Apple Watches, be it an Apple Watch Series 9 or an Apple Watch Ultra 2, then you might have found that you can’t pair your new wearable with your iPhone without upgrading and losing your jailbreak. But not anymore…
iOS developer lunotech11 has just released Legizmo Lighthouse, a continuation of the popular Legizmo series of jailbreak tweaks that lets users pair Apple Watches running newer firmware on unsupported older versions of iOS. Currently, the tweak supports watchOS 6.0 through 10.x and iOS 13 and newer.
Legizmo Lighthouse lets you pair one of these unsupported watchOS versions with your iPhone running an older version of iOS easily. It walks you through the pairing process and helps to seamlessly integrate most features that would ordinarily only be supported on newer versions of iOS, such as Blood Oxygen on iOS 13, just to name an example.
In other words, you can go to the store right now and buy yourself a brand-new Apple Watch Series 9 or Apple Watch Ultra 2 and pair it with your jailbroken iOS 13, 14, 15, or 16 device without any headaches.
And in case you were worried about watchOS software updates breaking Legizmo Lighthouse, don’t be. There are safeguards built into the tweak to ensure compatibility with newer watchOS updates. If one is found not to be compatible, it’ll be blocked from installing to prevent your user experience from breaking.
The developers do warn that there will inevitably be certain features that don’t translate well into older versions of iOS, since Apple generally adds support for newer Apple Watch features in newer iOS versions to be compatible with your iPhone. So while many of those features will integrate seamlessly, not all of them will. This is just the nature of the beast when using hacks like this.
Here are a few details you might want to be aware of per the tweak’s depiction page:
Feature Support
– Updates the Apps Support fix with support for watchOS 10 apps
– Updates the Screenshot Support fix with support for watchOS 10
– Introduces the Icon Layout Support fix, which allows icon layout arrangement within the Watch app when paired with watchOS 10
– Introduces the Lockdown Mode tool, which allows Lockdown Mode to be toggled on or off from within the Legizmo app
– Introduces the Beta Update Support tool, which allows the installation of watchOS betas using the new method introduced in watchOS 9.5. Use of beta versions is at your own risk
– Introduces the Ping Watch tool, which allows you to ping your active Watch from your phoneKnown Issues
– Periodically, iMessages or SMS messages sent from the Messages app on watchOS may fail to deliver, and time out.
– Messages sent from your other devices, and messages received, continue to work as normal
– Features depending on Location Services may work intermittently, including Watch face glances
– Syncing Music to watchOS 9 or newer may be unavailable (iOS 15 and older) (fixed in an upcoming release)
– Syncing Photos to watchOS 9 or newer may be unavailable (iOS 15 and older) (fixed in an upcoming release)
If you’re interested in giving the new Legizmo Lighthouse a try, then you can head over to the Chariz repository via your favorite package manger app where you can purchase it for $4.99. A jailbroken device is required unless you opt to use the TrollStore version of Legizmo instead. The developer also notes that the XinaA15 jailbreak isn’t supported, so you’ll need to be using a proper rootless jailbreak such as Dopamine or palera1n.
If you’re using a different version of watchOS and iOS, then you might want to consider older versions of Legizmo instead, such as Legizmo Grace, which is designed for the pairing and using of Apple Watches running watchOS 1.0-7.x on iOS 12 or later, Legizmo Jupiter, which is designed for running watchOS 1.0-8.5 with iOS 13 or later, and Legizmo Kincaid, which is designed for running watchOS 9 with iOS 14 or 15.
Do you plan to take advantage of the new Legizmo Lighthouse? Let us know why or why not in the comments section down below.