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.
Apple just last week released iOS 16.0.3 to address a multitude of bugs affecting various handsets in the iPhone 14 lineup. And as expected, the company is now leveraging its firmware signing mechanism to stop downgrades to the previous iOS 16.0.2 firmware.
TrollStore, the insanely popular perma-signing utility for iOS & iPadOS 14.0-15.4.1 (and some iOS 15.5 betas) received an update this Monday afternoon to version 1.2.1 with a couple of minor tweaks.
For those who enjoy the thrill of ultimate iPhone customization after jailbreaking, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called Violet by iOS developer MatoiDev is sure to turn some heads.
Of the many things you can do with a jailbroken iPhone, spoofing your location is perhaps one of the most sought-after capabilities because it can alter the way apps behave. And now, with the new Localisation Changer app by iOS developer C22, you can do this with a device equipped with TrollStore whether it's jailbroken or not.
Apple takes user privacy very seriously, which one of the primary reasons why iPhone users see so many different prompts asking if they’d like to share their personal data with apps that request it. Among those is location, which some apps may require more than once with varying degrees of accuracy.
It seems like there are a lot of different projects to keep tabs on these days whether you’re an existing jailbreaker or a prospective jailbreaker waiting for a release. With that in mind, it can feel like a challenge trying to stay on top of all these developments. That’s why we’re here.
If you’re accustomed to the YouTube app defaulting to full-screen video playback when you turn your handset into landscape orientation, then I can only imagine your dismay when the YouTube app added the new behavior in which it displayed comments beside the video playback before going full-screen. I say this because I wasn’t too happy with it myself.
When it comes to jailbreaking and the many different tool options available, it’s inevitable that users will want to know which one(s) are the most stable, and the new Uptime jailbreak tweak by iOS developer MTAC can help.
Whenever you start listening to media on your iPhone or iPad, you’re presented with a convenient Now Playing widget on the Lock Screen and in Notification Center so that you can control playback without having to visit the playback app.
iOS developer SourceLocation is out today with a new app called deb-to-ipa-app that converts .deb-based apps into .ipa-based apps so that they can be installed and perma-signed with opa334’s TrollStore.
Speaking at the Hexacon security conference in Paris, France on Friday, hacker and security researcher Luca Todesco discussed Apple’s latest mobile software security trends and showed off a jailbreak on iOS 16.1 beta.