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.
All the hubbub lately surrounding kernel vulnerabilities for the iPhone and iPad has been in relation to the now-turned kernel exploit for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1. But a fresh announcement shared Wednesday afternoon to Twitter by @Synacktiv is turning quite a few heads.
If you’re jailbroken right now, then it’s because you’re on iOS or iPadOS 14 or earlier. Many continue to patiently wait for a jailbreak on iOS or iPadOS 15, but now that the deadline to DelayOTA to iOS 15.1.x has expired, many are left wondering what jailbreak tweaks they can use to simulate an iOS or iPadOS 15-like experience on their pwned iOS or iPadOS 14 device.
If you’ve been following along with us as we report on the journey to an iOS & iPadOS 15 jailbreak, then you’ve likely caught wind about Odyssey Team lead developer CoolStar explaining how it will be easier to jailbreak A9-A11-equipped handsets than it will be to do the same with A12 and newer-equipped handsets.
Nearing around two weeks after security researcher @b1n4r1b01 published a working kernel exploit for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1 based on Brightiup’s CVE-2021-30955 kernel bug, another respected hacker now appears to be surfacing with an exploit release.
Jailbreakers who want to customize various parameters of their handset’s SpringBoard user interface and behavior can and should check out a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Springlicious by iOS developer zachary7829.
Safari is the web browser of choice for iPhone and iPad users alike. While it gets the job done in its most basic form, jailbreakers can harness the power of Safari-oriented jailbreak tweaks to unlock power features that ordinary users will drool over.
I thoroughly enjoy being able to set an alarm from the convenience of my iPhone’s Clock app. Whether it’s for waking up on time for the daily grind or trying to ensure you don’t forget about an important upcoming event in your day, there’s no disputing its usefulness.
Ever since a kernel-level exploit for iPhones and iPads running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1 officially dropped, major players of the jailbreak community have been looking into the feasibility of incorporating it into a public jailbreak. Odyssey Team lead developer CoolStar was among one of the first to publicly acknowledge this, however they also warned about how changes made under the hood would make jailbreaking later firmware on A12 and newer devices more of a challenge.
It’s an exciting time to be a part of the jailbreak community, especially now that we have a potentially viable kernel exploit that could lead to the development of an iOS & iPadOS 15-compatible jailbreak tool.
Prospective jailbreakers, in an attempt to motivate jailbreak developers to create and release an iOS & iPadOS 15-compatible jailbreak tool, are now banding together to organize a bounty that will award the payout to anyone who releases such a jailbreak first.
An important courtesy reminder for the jailbreak community: Sunday, March 13th at 00:00 P.M. UTC (7:00 P.M. EST) is the hard deadline for using the DelayOTA method to upgrade to the unsigned iOS or iPadOS 15.1 or 15.1.1 firmware.
The iPhone and iPad each come standard with native screen recording capabilities, which is essentially a means of capturing activity on your display for someone else to see on their own device as a video file.