Following the announcement about the new puaf_landa kfd exploit method on New Years Day for 2024, we learned that the kfd exploit’s effectiveness could be expanded to support all versions of iOS & iPadOS 16 as the method was officially patched in iOS & iPadOS 17.0.
In an unfortunate bout of news for the iPhone & iPad jailbreaking communities, respected and seasoned iOS developer @sugiutadev has announced their departure from the community to move on to bigger and better things.
Microsoft Copilot brings the company’s AI chatbot to the iPhone and iPad, and it works similarly to OpenAI’s official ChatGPT iOS app.
The Misaka package manager app, which hosts a bevy of add-ons made to support both jailbroken and non-jailbroken iPhones and iPads vulnerable to the MacDirtyCow and kernel file descriptor (kfd) exploits, received an important update early Monday morning to version 8.0.0.
So if you’ve been following along in the jailbreak community for the past year, then you’ve undoubtedly heard about the kernel file descriptor (kfd) exploit, which supported iOS & iPadOS versions 16.0-16.5 & 16.6 beta 1, as well as iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.7.6.
Here's an interesting little device that I'm sure a lot of people don't know exist. It's the SwitchBot Smart Switch, and it's a tiny, button-pushing robot. I don't know the technical term for it (I want to say...actuator?), but it's a small device you can place on any one-way button or switch, to control it remotely. Put it on a light switch, a coffee pot, garage door, or a pet food dispenser, and create timers/schedules, so you can set it and forget it. It's even compatible with Apple HomeKit, and right now it's only $21.
If you’ve been keeping up with the cacophony of news in the jailbreak community recently, then you may recall a project dubbed meowbrek2, a re-jailbreaking utility for the palera1n semi-tethered jailbreak for A9-A11 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-17.x. In effect, meowbrek2 turns the jailbreak into a semi-untethered one on certain firmware versions that we'll discuss below.
Just last week, the RootHide development team shared that it was working on a Procursus-based bootstrap for TrollStore 2 devices, which was intended to bring a jailbreak-like environment to iPhones and iPads running TrollStore 2.
As we get excited for next year on this New Year’s Even edition of iDB’s Wallpapers of the Week, we wanted to take a look back through a year of backgrounds. In this stroll through a wallpaper round up, check out the 2023 Top 10 iPhone wallpapers. To earn a top spot these posted were required to be posted in 2023 and visited the most by you!
The team at iDB is as passionate about jailbreaking as many of you are, and that’s the primary reason why we continuously monitor the latest developments in the iPhone hacking and jailbreaking communities.
Let's do this one more time before 2024, shall we? It's the weekend everybody, and you know what that means! It's time for another Apps of the Week roundup! This week we have some fantastic picks for you including a field guide for Apple stores, an Ai app that interprets your child's art, and an app that wants to help you keep your reading resolutions. And as always, we've selected a fun new game for you to check out.
It was only yesterday that nekoJB developer HAHALOSAH pulled the first beta of the kfd exploit-based jailbreak tool for arm64 devices (iPhone 6s-iPhone X) running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-15.7.6 due to concerns about the tool sharing files that the developer wasn’t authorized to distribute.