The RootHide development team published updated builds of their Procursus-based bootstrap on Monday, enhancing the user experience for all of those who are taking advantage of tweak injection via the kfd and CoreTrust exploits (also referred to as “semi-jailbreaks”) such as Serotonin and kfdfunv4.
Both beta v4.0 and beta v4.1 were announced via the project’s Discord server and via posts shared to X (formerly Twitter), and from what we can gather, these updates include the following improvements:
Bootstrap v4.0 beta
– Fix the bootstrapping issue on M2 iPads running iPadOS 17.0
– Fix the issue that the app cannot be injected or crashes when launched from the search on Home Screen
– Adopt a new injection mechanism to better support tweaks, including jailbreak detection bypass tweaks, and tweaks can now be enabled for iOS Shortcuts app
– Support running theos on the device side, build tweaks, install, and run
– Add a button to reinstall package manager to avoid reinstalling the whole bootstrap in case of Sileo/Zebra corruption
– Add a button to rebuild the icon cache, which can be used when problems persist after disabling tweaks for some system apps
– Optimize app list display and list sorting
– Many other detailed optimizations and bug fixesBootstrap v4.1 beta
– Fix an issue where errors occurred when installing some tweaks
– Fix the prompting error when uninstalling the bootstrap
These semi-jailbreaks allow users to install jailbreak tweaks via Sileo or Zebra without a full-fledged jailbreak because they allow tweak injection on devices that are vulnerable to the kfd exploit and CoreTrust bug.
They can be considered a stop-gap as we wait for a full-fledged jailbreak to materialize following yesterday’s PPL bypass publication, but it should be noted that it’s possible to boot-loop your device if something goes wrong or system file modifications occur that corrupt important files.
For this reason, we generally recommend holding off from using semi-jailbreaks and waiting for the official thing to come out. That’s because it would be absolutely terrible should something go wrong, costing you an opportunity to jailbreak in the future.
It’s not that the bootstrap or that the semi-jailbreak itself are inherently dangerous — this is something we want to clarify right away. Instead, it’s the potential of what you could do to your device, or a malfunctioning tweak, or a tweak that modified system files a certain way that pose the greatest risks.
On the other hand, we know that lots of people are antsy to install hacks and add-ons, so if you are one of those people, just exercise extreme caution — install only known working tweaks and avoid installing anything seems like it could be a gamble.
If you’re interested in learning more about the RootHide development team’s bootstrap for non-jailbroken devices, then you can head over to the project’s GitHub page. The bootstrap supports iOS & iPadOS 14.0-17.0 devices.
Are you taking advantage of RootHide’s bootstrap for tweak injection? Let us know in the comments section down below.