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.
Twitter app users will notice an update for the official iOS app starting this weekend that highlights some of the changes coming to Twitter Blue, which is the social media platform’s premium subscription service intended to provide users with enhanced features for a monthly fee.
TrollTools, one of the most popular system customization apps to perma-sign with the TrollStore utility, was updated to version 2.1 on Saturday by iOS developer sourcelocation with a slew of improvements that users will surely embrace with welcome arms.
iOS developer opa334 released an update for the TrollStore perma-signing utility for iPhones and iPads on Saturday, formally bringing the increasingly-popular utility up to version 1.3.5.
Following a move earlier this week by Apple to unsign iOS 16.0.3 about a week after launching iOS & iPadOS 16.1 to the general public, Apple on Friday appears to have also unsigned iOS & iPadOS 15.7 after subsequently releasing iOS & iPadOS 15.7.1 with bug fixes and security patches for the iPhone and iPad.
If you’ve been patient enough to wait for a true 15W MagSafe-supported iPhone charging mount for in the car, then it’s your lucky day because Belkin just today opened pre-orders for such an accessory.
The iPhone 14 Pro series of smartphones have been on the market for just under two months, and since receiving my iPhone 14 Pro Max, I’ve kept steady with my annual hunt for the best accessories to go along with Apple’s latest handset.
One thing about using computers or smartphones is that you’ll find nuisance pop-ups just about everywhere — within apps and even while you use the internet. While some are good and may be carefully tailored to your interests, others may seem less so.
Some people like iOS’ badge notification system, and some people hate it. Regardless of which of those camps you reside in, a newly released jailbreak tweak called Badger by iOS developer 0xilis promotes a wealth of customization that you’d be hard-pressed to find in any other single jailbreak tweak.
At the start of October, Linus Henze took the stage at the Objective by the Sea conference to showcase his Fugu15 jailbreak on an iPhone running iOS 15.4.1 with a slick new installation method that reminded a lot of us of the JailbreakMe days. And as of this Monday, it’s officially released and open source on Henze’s GitHub page.
Sakura Development team member @dora2ios, perhaps best known for their part in developing the kok3shi jailbreak, has released a new work-in-progress developer-centric jailbreak tool called ayakurume for iOS 15 that utilizes the same checkm8 hardware-based bootrom exploit as the venerable checkra1n jailbreak tool.
Following the release of Linus Henze’s developer-centric Fugu15 jailbreak for arm64e devices running iOS 15.0-15.4.1, iOS developer opa334 released two subsequent updates to TrollStore to fix an issue with installing the Fugu15 jailbreak through the popular perma-signing utility. The first update was marked version 1.3.3, while the second was marked version 1.3.4.