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.
Taking an interest in a newly designed Control Center interface doesn’t make you weird, it just means you recognize that Apple’s interfaces are starting to feel a bit dated, and a MacDirtyCow add-on called CC UI by iOS developer PhucDo can help make things look fresher.
Jailbreaking iPhones and iPads is a fun hobby that your friends at iDB are strong advocates of. But even if you aren’t able to jailbreak, chances are you can utilize exciting hacks like MacDirtyCow to change up the norms of your handset.
The latest development in iPhone and iPad security research this week saw @_p0up0u_ Tweeting a link to a GitHub project for achieving read and write to kernel memory on Apple devices called kernel file descriptor (or kfd for short).
We’re accustomed to seeing interesting things in the jailbreak community. That’s why it may not come as much of a surprise that someone has used their ASUS ROG Ally handheld gaming system to jailbreak their checkm8-susceptible device.
The iDB team are avid Nintendo Switch users ourselves, and that’s one of the reasons why we’re so adamant about sharing the best deals we can on Nintendo Switch games and accessories.
The Misaka package manager app for MacDirtyCow exploit-susceptible devices running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-16.1.2 received yet another update this week, this time bringing it up to version 1.8.9 beta.
Looking for MacDirtyCow add-ons for your iOS or iPadOS 15.0-16.1.2 device that will let you customize your handset outside of the stock parameters? If so, then you might take an interest in one called NoVulnTools2 by iOS developer tyler1029.
Our friends at Nomad have just debuted a new iteration of their iconic ChargeKey accessory, which is essentially a phone or tablet charging cable that tethers to your key ring so that you always have a means to keep your device(s) fully charged.
At the beginning of the year, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called Novus by iOS developer nicho1asdev that reimagined the iPhone’s native Phone app with new features that made it feel like an actual 21st-century app instead of something we’ve been using since the stone ages, and it received lots of praise from us, and deservedly so.
If you were already shying away from subscribing to YouTube Premium for all the benefits it brings to the table because of the monthly price tag associated with it, then YouTube’s latest change might really turn you away.
System sounds aren’t readily configurable on non-jailbroken iPhones and iPads, except maybe the ringtone and text tone, but with a MacDirtyCow exploit-based add-on called SoundManager by iOS developer EPOS, you can do this even without a jailbreak.
One of the major problems that stems from owning both a Mac and a Windows PC is that storage drives you use for one operating system may not be compatible with the other – especially when they’re formatted using a macOS-specific format.