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.
It was only a week ago that we reported on the Def1nit3lyN0tAJa1lbr3akTool semi-untethered Kernel File Descriptor (KFD) exploit-based jailbreak tool for arm64 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.7 and 16.0-16.6.1 officially coming out of beta.
I’m a big fan of jailbreak tweaks that modify the appearance of the stock iOS & iPadOS user interface, and perhaps that’s one of the reasons why I’m excited about a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called OCD (Obsessive Color Disorder) by iOS developer b4db1r3.
CarPlay doesn’t ordinarily allow users to play YouTube videos on a vehicle’s CarPlay-compatible head unit, but a new app called CarTubePlus by osk3apps screws the rules and lets you do it anyhow.
It was only just last night that the RootHide development team pushed version 1.2 of its Procursus-based bootstrap for devices running iOS & iPadOS 14.0-17.0 with updated builds of Sileo and Zebra and a plethora of other bug fixes and improvements. But as it would seem, the team wasn’t done.
If you use the RootHide development team’s Procursus-based bootstrap, then you might be excited to learn that there’s an updated build available to the general public as of this Sunday afternoon.
The iPhone hacking and jailbreaking community is something that the iDB team carries near and dear to our heart. For that reason, we monitor the latest developments in this space week after week, reporting on important news as it happens.
Apple’s brand-new Vision Pro spatial computer, the Cupertino-based company’s take on what’s basically a virtual reality headset (despite Apple’s attempt to not to have it branded as one), has only been available to the public for one day. But that hasn’t stopped talented hackers from working their magic on it.
We’ve long understood Misaka to be a package manager that you could sideload or perma-sign on an iPhone or iPad to view a catalog of packages supporting the MacDirtyCow (MDC) and Kernel File Descriptor (KFD) exploits, but what if we told you that you didn’t even need to sideload or perma-sign the app?
Lots of prospective iPhone and iPad jailbreakers are undoubtedly excited about the onset of Dopamine 2, the next-generation jailbreak expected to launch in the coming months that will expand jailbreaking to arm64e devices on iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.5.1 for the first time, in addition to other already-jailbreakable versions on more devices.
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Just in case you haven’t been paying attention to the community recently, Misaka project lead developer @straight_tamago recently released a new dedicated TrollStore installer for iOS & iPadOS 14.x-15.8.1 devices called TrollMisaka.
ElleKit is the tweak injection method used by modern jailbreaks such as Dopamine and palera1n, but if you depend at all on the meowbrek2 re-jailbreaking utility and semi-untethered tool for arm64 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.x, then you might want to read up on the latest update.