One of the signature features of Apple’s high-end MacBook Pros is the Touch Bar — that thin and touch-sensitive OLED strip just above the keyboard that encompasses Touch ID and dynamic controls for interfacing with the operating system.
Security researcher Saar Amar on Monday published a proof of concept (PoC) of a kernel-level vulnerability dubbed CVE-2021-30883 that was patched by Apple’s iOS & iPadOS 15.0.2 software updates.
The write-up reignited hope that we’d see a jailbreak for recent iterations of Apple’s mobile operating systems, and perhaps unsurprisingly, some security researchers have already started going hands-on with it.
iOS automatically regulates RAM usage to prevent apps or the operating system itself from bogging down, but that has never stopped jailbreakers from wanting to view their device’s free RAM remainder in a convenient manner.
A popular thing to customize after jailbreaking iPhones and iPads is the native Now Playing interface — specifically, the one you see on the Lock Screen when you have media playing in the background.
Despite how iPhones are personal pocket computers with so much more capability than merely placing phone calls, the native Phone app is still an integral part of the device’s user experience. Still, Apple almost never provides any upgrades to this seemingly under appreciated component of the iPhone.
When Apple released iOS & iPadOS 15.0.2 on Monday, one of the major changes was a security patch for a vulnerability reported in IOMobileFrameBuffer in which memory corruption could have resulted in an app executing arbitrary code with kernel-level privileges.
With all the extravagant changes Apple seems to be making to the iOS mobile operating system with respect to recent updates, it remains to be seen why important things such as the native Phone app haven’t received new or useful functionality.
iOS developer MiRO92 recognized at least one way that the Phone app could be improved, and as such, created a jailbreak tweak dubbed Searchy.
Like clockwork, jailbreakers continue to rough out the annual drought that swings around this time of the year after Apple shakes things up with new software updates and product releases.
But not all is doom and gloom in the jailbreak community, as an upcoming untether planned for release later this month has a lot of jailbreakers excited about upgrading the capabilities of their existing pwned handsets.
The Sileo Team is out with yet another update for the Sileo package manager this Saturday afternoon with a number of miscellaneous bug fixes that should lend subtle improvements to the app’s user experience.
Apple released iOS & iPadOS 15.0.1 on October 1st, marking the first update to the company’s new mobile operating systems with bug fixes. Notably, this update resolved a problem with Unlock with Apple Watch not working correctly with the brand-new iPhone 13 lineup – an exceptionally valuable feature amid a raging pandemic in which mask-wearing has become a common sight.
Now that some time has passed since Apple released iOS & iPadOS 15.0.1, it’s no surprise to see that Apple is closing the signing window for the original iOS & iPadOS 15.0 firmware that launched to the general public just two weeks prior.
After jailbreaking an iPhone or iPad for the first time, it can be daunting to find the best jailbreak tweaks for upgrading its capabilities beyond the bounds of Apple’s stock configurations. At iDownloadBlog, we know this, and that’s why we try to make tweak discovery easier for our readers.
A couple of Mondays ago, Apple officially released iOS & iPadOS 15 to the general public with a slew of new features for Apple’s mobile device lineup following an extensive beta period throughout the Summer months.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Apple’s move to launch a new firmware version for its platforms has now been complemented with the unsigning of the previously current firmware — iOS & iPadOS 14.8.