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.
A clearly exasperated CoolStar offered an update on the status of the upcoming Cheyote jailbreak tool for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1 this Friday evening, which suggested that a public release wouldn’t happen for at least another 4 weeks, or perhaps even longer.
Even since the first jailbreak for the iPhone launched back in 2007, tools have historically been free for end users to download or use. Despite being free, jailbreak users could generally donate to jailbreak developers if they wanted to provide gratitude for the tireless work that went into making it.
An interesting dynamic of the Lock Screen on Apple’s upcoming iOS 16 mobile operating system can be found in the added wallpaper depth that places certain subjects over the top of Lock Screen text, such as over the date and time display.
Quite a few heads began spinning on Thursday after Odyssey Team lead developer CoolStar made a comment in the team’s Discord channel that mentioned how the upcoming Cheyote jailbreak for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1 would “probably” be a free release, followed by an explanation of how CoolStar has been spending most of her time lately.
In an unforeseen turn of events this week, the Hyperixa repository for jailbroken devices went offline with no word as to why. Hyperixa hosted a plethora of solid jailbreak tweaks we’ve shown our readers over the course of the past several months.
After releasing iOS & iPadOS 15.6.1 last week with bug fixes and security improvements for the iPhone and iPad, Apple is at it again this week with the company’s standard process of unsigning older firmware after pulling the plug on the previous iOS & iPadOS 15.6 release.
As much as we try to be on our best behaviors, we occasionally wake up on the wrong side of the bed or feel impacted by uncontrollable life events. If this puts you in a bad mood, then you’ll be excited to hear that there are a few different jailbreak tweaks that may be able to uplift your mood.
Substitute, the primary tweak injection method tapped by users of the checkra1n and unc0ver jailbreaks received an unexpected update on Tuesday to version 2.3.0.
Your iPhone’s Lock Screen displays the date just underneath the time so that you can always reference what day it is from a convenient place. But it’s worth noting that some people like to format their dates differently than others.
If you’re in the market to enhance your iPhone’s Status Bar with a more detailed time display, then we think there’s a humble chance that you just might appreciate a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called date bar by iOS developer ElioFegh.
Although the wait for an iOS & iPadOS 15 jailbreak continues, the good news is that development is underway. In the meantime however, iDB is happy be here this wonderful Sunday morning to share what’s new with respect to the jailbreak community.