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We’ve been covering a project known as Semaphorin for the better part of two months now, and as a tethered blobless downgrade and jailbreak utility for certain checkm8 bootrom exploit-vulnerable devices running various versions of older firmware, it plays an important role in this community.
Certain aspects of the iOS mobile operating system provide feedback of different styles. Whether that’s haptic feedback you can feel or audible feedback you can hear, it’s intended to give you the positive response you’d come to expect from taking a particular action.
At iDownloadBlog, we make it a priority of ours to ensure that you’re getting the latest iPhone and iPad jailbreaking news as it becomes available and that it’s as accurate as possible. But it’s hard for most people to keep their attention glued to a website all week long, which is why we make weekly recaps like this one.
If you’ve been following along during the past couple of days, especially following the release of iOS & iPadOS 17.5, then you’ve likely heard about the new PoC for a kernel vulnerability in AppleAVD impacting iOS & iPadOS 17.4.1 and older called CVE-2024-27804, which Apple cited as having the potential impact for an app to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
One of my longtime favorite jailbreak tweaks, a beautiful audio visualizer for the Now Playing interface on jailbroken iPhones and iPads, has been reimagined for the latest rootless jailbreaks by iOS developer Ryan Nair in the form of a new release called Mitsuha 6.
Just yesterday, following Apple’s release of iOS & iPadOS 17.5, security researcher Meysam Firouzi (@RootkitSMM) took to X (formerly Twitter) and said that they planned to publish a proof of concept (PoC) for a kernel vulnerability impacting iOS & iPadOS 17.4.1 and older dubbed CVE-2024-27804.
Talented jailbreak developer @dora2ios, known for their work on projects such as the Kok3shi9 jailbreak for iOS 9.3.x devices, the meowbrek2 semi-untether for the palera1n jailbreak, and for tinkering with the kernel file descriptor (KFD) exploit to make iOS 16-based jailbreaks for arm64 devices, appears to be working on something new that might be of interest for anyone using legacy iOS 9 firmware.
Apple on Monday released iOS & iPadOS 17.5, with a substantial part of that update incorporating a handful of security patches. At the very top of Apple’s “About the security content of iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5” web page is CVE-2024-27804, a peculiar kernel vulnerability in AppleAVD which had the potential impact of an app being able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
The iDB team zeroes in on the latest jailbreak news as it happens so that we can cover it in real time throughout the week. But we also know that people can’t stay glued to the internet all day every day, which can make it easy to miss stuff.
Remember all those jailbreak tweaks that used to bring classic Pokémon game-styled aesthetics to iPhone and iPad notifications? PokeBar, one that we showed you back in 2020, comes to mind, as does a similar release for iOS 12 by iOS developer SkittyBlock. These add-ons were popular among jailbreak enthusiasts, and among fans of the original Pokémon games.
Every so often, you wake up and refresh your jailbroken device’s sources to see if there’s anything new that might be of interest to download and try in the jailbreak tweak world.
Around four years ago, I showcased a jailbreak tweak called N95 by iOS developers ETHN and MTAC that used masking effects to make the Now Playing artwork more interesting to look at in not only Apple Music, but also a variety of different media playing apps.