Lots of people who hold iPhone jailbreaking near and dear to their hearts remember the sinking feeling they felt when Apple announced that iOS 17 wouldn’t run on the iPhone X and older devices. This decision effectively ended the use of the checkm8 exploit to jailbreak any iPhone firmware newer than iOS 16.
Back in 2020, when the MagSafe charging standard was still quite young and only available on Apple’s latest mobile devices, jailbreak tweak developers were making add-ons for pwned handsets that would enable the MagSafe-specific charging animation on non-MagSafe devices when connecting them to power.
In the wake of a new jailbreak release (yes, we’re talking about that thing called Dopamine v2), many jailbreak tweak developers began updating their tweaks or releasing new builds for the latest versions of pwnable iOS & iPadOS.
If you, like so many other jailbreakers, enjoy the experience of listening to jailbreak makers speak at special events, then you might be interested in knowing that Dopamine jailbreak lead developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) will give a talk at Zer0con 2024.
One of the more common things that we see jailbreakers doing with their iPhones and iPads is modifying the color scheme of their operating system. Previously released jailbreak tweaks like Kaleidoscope by SparkDev and Spectrum by Skittyblock have made this possible, but now, iOS developer rosiepie is releasing a new jailbreak tweak called Flora that has been built for use on modern jailbreaks.
You can always count on the team of iDB to bring you the latest iPhone & iPad hacking and jailbreaking news as it happens. But what good will that do you if you’re too busy to read the posts?
The Dopamine v2 jailbreak tool for various device and firmware combinations on iOS & iPadOS 15 and 16 received another update late last night that brought it up to version 2.0.8 with even more bug fixes and improvements.
The Dopamine v2 full-fledged rootless jailbreak has only been available for a week at the time of this writing, and we’ve received tons of questions about whether prospective jailbreakers should use it. Many of those prospective jailbreakers have previously used (or are currently using) the RootHide bootstrap or Serotonin “semi-jailbreak.”
Dopamine jailbreak lead developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) announced an updated build of the Dopamine v2 jailbreak late Saturday morning with a plethora of bug fixes and improvements that will further enhance the user experience of the community’s newest iPhone and iPad jailbreak tool.
Now that the Dopamine v2 jailbreak has been released, many now wonder about the role that the Serotonin “semi-jailbreak” currently plays in the modern jailbreak community.
A few years ago, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called ColorBadges that would automatically colorize your apps’ missed notification badges to match the dominant color of the icon itself. Fast-forward to today’s rootless-esque jailbreaks, and this tweak, which was designed to work on rootful jailbreaks, no longer works.
Lots of people like it when their Lock Screen interface is as simple as possible. Perhaps even simpler than Apple makes it right out of the box.