Having the skillset to reverse engineer things with respect to the iPhone and iPad can be particularly valuable, especially if you’re a security researcher, developer, or advanced-level power user. But what if reverse engineering could be made easier and more approachable?
In what can only be described as big news for the AltStore PAL community, the AltStore Team announced in a post shared to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday that Epic Games has provided the platform with a MegaGrant grant that will be used to cover Apple’s Core Technology Fee from now on.
Jailbreaking has been a beloved hobby of mine since iOS 3, and in that timeframe, there would almost always be a new jailbreak release shortly after Apple came out with a new firmware update in the Fall months. Fast-forward to modern times, and it seems we’re waiting ever so longer for jailbreaks to release, and lots of jailbreakers want to know why.
I’ve long been a user of the SF Symbols app that Apple offers for macOS because it lends an extensive library of more than 6,000 unique symbols that Apple’s many operating systems use and that blend seamlessly with the San Francisco system font of those systems.
Sideloading is something that a lot of iPhone and iPad owners cherish because it allows them to run apps on their iPhone or iPad without being bound to the rules of the iOS & iPadOS App Store. Sideloading has become so popular in recent years that platforms like AltStore and Sideloadly have exploded in popularity. Some projects, such as SideStore, don’t even require a computer to sign apps, but other prerequisites need to be met.
It’s always rough when we’re stuck saying our goodbyes to talent in the jailbreak tweak development community, but unfortunately that’s the news we have for you today.
The iDB team takes immense pride in sharing iPhone and iPad jailbreak news. We not only cover developments as they happen, but we keep our readers apprised by sharing weekly roundups like this one to make it less likely that someone misses something important.
It looks like it isn’t just the palera1n jailbreak tool getting updates this weekend. A few hours after our announcement post about palera1n v2.0.1 being released, Dopamine jailbreak project lead developer Lars Fröder shared that Dopamine version 2.2.2 had been officially released.
The palera1n jailbreak team released an updated version of the palera1n semi-tethered jailbreak for iOS & iPadOS 15.0 and later early Saturday morning, officially bringing the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based tool up to version 2.0.1.
In a post shared to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, the AltStore team announced that it had released an update to the AltStore PAL alternate App Store in the form of version 2.1.1.
As avid fans of the Nintendo Switch game system, we like being able to share when we find the lowest prices on games and accessories for the platform with other fans.
Raise to wake is a feature of the modern iPhone that I’ve come to know and love. But there are obviously times when I don’t really need this feature, such as when I’m using my iPhone as a flashlight.