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Pangu Team purportedly jailbreaks iPhone 13 Pro remotely at TianfuCup 2021

Anthony Bouchard / October 16, 2021

The Pangu Team is a name you might remember if you’ve been jailbreaking iPhones and iPads since ye olde days of iOS 9. Despite not releasing a public jailbreak since then, the Pangu Team continues to be hands-on with respect to iOS-related security research.

A wonderful example of that happened just this weekend in Chengdu, China at the TianfuCup (TFC) 2021, where the Pangu Team appears to be taking home the first-place prize in the contest by successfully pwning Apple’s brand-new iPhone 13 Pro running iOS 15 via a remote jailbreak. The earnings? A juicy $330,000 cash prize.

This free jailbreak tweak prevents apps from accessing your Photo Library in the background

Anthony Bouchard / October 16, 2021

One thing all iPhone users seem to agree about is that their privacy is very important to them. Regardless, we continue to witness apps overstepping their boundaries time and time again for what the developer’s deem a so-called “better user experience.”

This jailbreak tweak brings a MacBook Pro-inspired Touch Bar to pwned iPhones

Anthony Bouchard / October 14, 2021

One of the signature features of Apple’s high-end MacBook Pros is the Touch Bar — that thin and touch-sensitive OLED strip just above the keyboard that encompasses Touch ID and dynamic controls for interfacing with the operating system.

Hacker pattern_F_ goes hands-on with Saar Amar’s new kernel vulnerability, demos jailbreak on iOS 14.0

Anthony Bouchard / October 14, 2021

Security researcher Saar Amar on Monday published a proof of concept (PoC) of a kernel-level vulnerability dubbed CVE-2021-30883 that was patched by Apple’s iOS & iPadOS 15.0.2 software updates.

The write-up reignited hope that we’d see a jailbreak for recent iterations of Apple’s mobile operating systems, and perhaps unsurprisingly, some security researchers have already started going hands-on with it.

RAMUnderTime tells jailbreakers how much free RAM their iPhone has left

Anthony Bouchard / October 13, 2021

iOS automatically regulates RAM usage to prevent apps or the operating system itself from bogging down, but that has never stopped jailbreakers from wanting to view their device’s free RAM remainder in a convenient manner.

Acies provides a redesigned Lock Screen Now Playing interface for jailbroken handsets

Anthony Bouchard / October 13, 2021

A popular thing to customize after jailbreaking iPhones and iPads is the native Now Playing interface — specifically, the one you see on the Lock Screen when you have media playing in the background.

Some of the best jailbreak tweaks for the Phone app on iOS 14

Anthony Bouchard / October 12, 2021

Despite how iPhones are personal pocket computers with so much more capability than merely placing phone calls, the native Phone app is still an integral part of the device’s user experience. Still, Apple almost never provides any upgrades to this seemingly under appreciated component of the iPhone.

New PoC renews hope for jailbreaking remaining versions of iOS 14, and maybe iOS 15

Anthony Bouchard / October 11, 2021

When Apple released iOS & iPadOS 15.0.2 on Monday, one of the major changes was a security patch for a vulnerability reported in IOMobileFrameBuffer in which memory corruption could have resulted in an app executing arbitrary code with kernel-level privileges.

Searchy lets jailbroken iPhone users search the Phone app’s Recents list

Anthony Bouchard / October 10, 2021

With all the extravagant changes Apple seems to be making to the iOS mobile operating system with respect to recent updates, it remains to be seen why important things such as the native Phone app haven’t received new or useful functionality.

iOS developer MiRO92 recognized at least one way that the Phone app could be improved, and as such, created a jailbreak tweak dubbed Searchy.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: DockSearch, YTETA, & more…

Anthony Bouchard / October 9, 2021

Like clockwork, jailbreakers continue to rough out the annual drought that swings around this time of the year after Apple shakes things up with new software updates and product releases.

But not all is doom and gloom in the jailbreak community, as an upcoming untether planned for release later this month has a lot of jailbreakers excited about upgrading the capabilities of their existing pwned handsets.

Sileo updated to version 2.2.6 with package purchasing and downgrading improvements

Anthony Bouchard / October 9, 2021

The Sileo Team is out with yet another update for the Sileo package manager this Saturday afternoon with a number of miscellaneous bug fixes that should lend subtle improvements to the app’s user experience.

Some of the best jailbreak tweaks for cellular connectivity on iOS 14

Anthony Bouchard / October 5, 2021

After jailbreaking an iPhone or iPad for the first time, it can be daunting to find the best jailbreak tweaks for upgrading its capabilities beyond the bounds of Apple’s stock configurations. At iDownloadBlog, we know this, and that’s why we try to make tweak discovery easier for our readers.