When we aren’t blogging about iPhones and other Apple devices, you can often find us playing games on the Nintendo Switch. You might even call us Nintendo Switch afficionados.
Microsoft just this week announced Office 2024 for its Mac and Windows customers, offering a way for individuals to buy (for a one-time fee) professional office software without subscribing to a monthly subscription model as required by Office 365.
There are a lot of instances where I tap on a link in an app or on a website, and rather than opening that link in a new tab in my web browsing app, it launches a specific application on my device to load content instead.
Of all the different ways that you can tinker with a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, perhaps one of the most fun ways is to add a bit of novelty to your device by introducing user interface add-ons that make your device more exciting to look at on the daily.
Hurricane Helene just finished ravaging the state of Florida last week, and it left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity before, during, and after the storm. A Florida resident myself, I was impacted by this, which brings me to my next major point.
I’m When you’re right in the middle of your jam, there’s no worse feeling than when the sound of a push notification interrupts that rad bass drop. You could rewind the music… but it just isn’t the same as a full playthrough.
Nugget, the backup-based hacking utility that makes use of the same SparseRestore exploit that the TrollRestore TrollStore installation method does to allow system customization on iOS 17.0-18.1 beta 4 without a jailbreak, received an update over this past weekend to version 3.0 with what iOS developer LeminLimez calls a “parity update with Nugget Mobile.”
The RootHide Procursus-based bootstrap, which can be used in tandem with the TrollStore perma-signing utility to allow users to inject jailbreak tweaks directly into their apps without a full-fledged jailbreak, has been updated on Sunday to version 1.2.7 beta with bug fixes and improvements.
While the palera1n jailbreak has proven to be resilient for arm64 (A11 and older) devices due to being based on a bootrom hardware-based exploit called checkm8 that can’t be patched by Apple with a mere software update, the fact remains that a lot of people are turned off by it being a command line-based jailbreak tool as opposed to offering an easy click-based graphical user interface (GUI) like checkra1n once did.
While perusing the /r/jailbreak boards this weekend, I was reminded about a website that once existed for the specific purpose of passing APT repositories through a URL using the ‘?source=’ parameter, which would then present the end user with buttons to add that particular repository to all available package manager apps that the user might have installed on their jailbroken device.
Keeping tabs on the latest news in iPhone & iPad jailbreaking is one of our favorite pastimes here at iDownloadBlog. For that reason, it’s a lot of what we do here, and jailbreakers will feel right at home throughout our regular news cycle.
The AltStore Team on Saturday celebrated the fifth anniversary of the day when it launched AltStore Classic for all iPhone and iPad owners worldwide who sought an easy way to sideload apps on their devices via an Apple Developer-registered Apple ID with the release of AltStore version 2.0.