Anthony Bouchard joined the iDownloadBlog.com team in 2016 after originally covering Apple and iPhone jailbreak news at ModMyi.com. As an experienced editor, he brings more than 15 years’ worth of jailbreaking knowledge to our in-depth guides, opinion pieces, and news articles. His passion for device customization and user choice sparks his strong push to empower readers with the tools they need to explore and enjoy the freedom that comes with jailbreaking. Anthony blogs about not only jailbreaking, but also Apple software & accessories, drones & photography, and Nintendo gaming systems. Anthony honed his advanced technical knowledge over the years with hands-on projects ranging from gaming PC builds to engine repair mechanics. His never-ending hunger for knowledge is why you’ll always find him tinkering – tearing things apart and putting them back together to understand what makes them tick.
Linus Henze, the talented security researcher that brought us the Fugu15 rootless developer jailbreak that eventually helped lead to the creation of the Dopamine jailbreak for end users on iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1, turned a few heads on Wednesday with respect to his GitHub page.
Starting this week, Apple device users can officially add their PayPal and Venmo credit and debit cards to their Apple Wallet for use with Apple Pay at merchants that accept the convenient NFC-based touchless payment method.
For buyers of the new iPhone 15 & 15 Pro lineups, they may never look at an Apple Lightning cable ever again. But anyone using an older-generation iPhone, such as the iPhone 14 & 14 Pro and earlier, the Lightning cable isn’t going away any time soon.
When it comes to taking the perfect photograph, lighting is everything. In fact, even just slightly under-exposing or over-exposing a photograph can make or break it.
When Apple released iOS & iPadOS 17.0.1 just over a week ago, we also touched on comments made by TrollStore lead developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev), who claimed that a bug possibly similar to the one used by TrollStore had been patched in iOS & iPadOS 16.7 and 17.0.
Get ready for a blast from the past; only, this is actual news in 2023. When we received a tip email about a new iPhone 4 jailbreak coming out, our staff looked at it cross-eyed for a moment, but we quickly realized that it was a serious tip.
One of the signature features of the new iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max is that Apple has replaced the traditional ringer/silent switch with a customizable Action Button that works similarly to the one found on the Apple Watch Ultra, albeit without the screaming orange aesthetic.
PureKFD, a popular all-in-one package manager app for the MacDirtyCow and KFD exploits has been updated to version 4.0 in what is being described in its announcement as a “complete overhaul.”
One of the major new features to ship with Apple’s iOS & iPadOS 17 mobile operating systems this year was the addition of interactive Home Screen widgets, which now offer more usability directly from the Home Screen so that you aren’t forced to launch an app and then close it once finished with your activity.
One thing we take very seriously here at iDB is our coverage of jailbreak and iPhone hacking news. Unfortunately, we know that busy lives keep a lot of our readers from seeing the latest news as it unfolds, which is why we make roundups like this one every Sunday so that those readers can catch up.
RootHide, the popular new jailbreak detection bypass utility for the Dopamine jailbreak for arm64e devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1, was updated to version 1.0.3 on Friday with a number of improvements.