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.
Back in 2021, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called YellowPages by iOS developer MiRO92 that that enhanced the incoming caller ID function on jailbroken iPhones by integrating directly with the data provided by the Truecaller app from the App Store.
Just yesterday, we shared how the Misaka package manager app for MacDirtyCow devices would soon pick up support for the newer kernel file descriptor (kfd) exploit for devices running up to and including iOS 16.6 beta 1.
Whether you were a Twitter user or not, it’s unlikely that you missed all the front-page headlines about Elon Musk re-branding the social media platform as X and releasing a new logo and app icon to go along with it.
Misaka for MacDirtyCow devices running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-16.1.2 has been all the rage recently. Working as a jailbreak-style package manager for non-jailbroken devices for accessing some of the community’s greatest MacDirtyCow add-ons, the project is rapidly gaining momentum. But hot off the heels of the new kernel file descriptor (kfd) exploit, it’s poised to become even more popular.
The Dopamine jailbreak tool for A12-A15 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 received an update Wednesday evening, officially bringing the utility up to version 1.1.3.
Our friends at Belkin are out with a new MagSafe-friendly bedside charging option for iPhones and Qi-enabled accessories this week, this time taking a flatter approach to the product’s design.
Just a couple of weeks ago, we showed you an add-on for MacDirtyCow devices called Plampy UI by YangJii that enabled a spiffy new look and feel for the Control Center user interface by way of new icon glyphs.
Being able to obtain the raw .ipa files of the apps you own from the App Store is a powerful capability. Not only can you often decrypt those apps to run them on Apple silicon-equipped Macs, but you can also inject your own custom tweaks into those apps before sideloading them on your iPhone or iPad with utilities such as Sideloadly.
When the MacDirtyCow exploit for iOS 15.X-16.1.2 devices first made its appearance, developers quickly took advantage of the newfangled ability to read and write to kernel memory.
Just last week, Apple released iOS & iPadOS 16.6 to the general public with a bevy of security patches to make the company’s mobile devices more secure.
Interesting news arose this weekend after @exploit3dguy shared what appears to be a successful blackbird exploit-based firmware downgrade on an iPhone 6s to iOS 10.0.1 with fully working passcode functionality.
Misaka, the premier package manager app for devices utilizing the MacDirtyCow exploit on iOS 15.x-16.1.2, received another update this week, officially bringing it up to version 1.9.0.