Anthony Bouchard

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.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: Cyrch, NotchBanners, & more…

The jailbreak community is in a particularly exciting situation right now. With the Fugu14 untether now available and jailbreak developers diligently working to incorporate it into existing tools, many jailbreakers are avidly waiting to experience an untethered jailbreak for the first time since iOS 9. In the meantime, it can already be used to keep the unc0ver jailbreak app signed indefinitely via the latest version of AltStore.

Apple stops signing iOS 15.0.2, killing downgrades from iOS 15.1 just one week after launch

Downgrade iOS 15

Apple last Monday released iOS & iPadOS 15.1 to the general public following a lengthy beta testing period with a bevy of enhancements for the company’s mobile operating systems. Those enhancements comprised of SharePlay, support for COVID-19 vaccination cards in the Wallet app, an automatic macro toggle for the Camera app, and a plethora of bug fixes among other things.

Cyrch adds a search bar to Cydia’s Sources tab

Jailbreak tweak and theme developers typically use repositories such as BigBoss, Chariz, or Packix to host their work. But with more developers opting to host packages on their own private repositories, your package manager app’s repository list has likely grown much longer today than it would have been 10 years ago.