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.
It’s not every day we witness the jailbreak tweak releases that integrate with Apple’s HomeKit, but that’s exactly what we’re getting with a new one called Ambience by iOS developer cemck.
After jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad, there’s a lot more you can do besides simply making your device look cooler. You can also harness the power of your handset’s built-in sensors to perform useful tasks.
Everyone can agree that having fast on-demand access to your favorite apps is nothing short of convenient, so it’s rather interesting to see that Apple hasn’t yet added an app launcher or something like it to the iOS platform — not even in the announcement for iOS 16 this week.
Twickd, a major repository used by jailbreak developers for hosting jailbreak tweaks and other add-ons for use by jailbreakers, just this week announced that it would retire its free PayPal library in August.
Apple just got done unveiling iOS & iPadOS 16 during the company’s annual WWDC Keynote presentation, and after seeing all the new features that appear to be coming to the iPhone and iPad by way of iOS & iPadOS 16, some were left stunned while others shook their heads and thought, “the jailbreak community had that first.”
Everyone loves the idea of enhancing their device’s privacy and security, and jailbreakers are no different. Fortunately, a new and free jailbreak tweak dubbed AlwaysVPN by iOS developer iosrouter might be able to help in this respect.
Each Sunday, iDB takes all of the jailbreak-oriented news and tweak releases and complies it all into one easy-to-read outline so that our readers never miss a beat. This Sunday will be no different in that respect.
While many are waiting for a jailbreak for the newest hardware and software combinations available today, we’ve witnessed an uptick in the number of legacy jailbreaks for older device and firmware combinations over the past several months.
Users of the Saily package manager for jailbroken iPhones and iPads would do good to open the app and refresh their sources, as a new version of the app was released just this week.
Those paying attention to new jailbreak tweak releases lately will recognize that many of the highest quality products have been coming from Hyperixa, and it now seems that Hyperixa is running a limited time sale.
Screen recording is a feature that comes standard on iPhones and iPads, but if you fancy more advanced screen recording options, then you’re out of luck unless Apple decides to add them later in a software update.
Lots of people jailbreak their iPhones and iPads just to install jailbreak tweaks that add features they didn’t have out of the box, but another subset of users jailbreak their devices because they want to have novelty features that make the device more fun to use.