Just yesterday, we reported on one of TrollStore perma-signing utility developer Lars Fröder’s posts on Bluesky sharing that some banking apps available in Apple’s App Store as of this writing utilize a 0-day sandbox escape technique to find out if certain unfavorable apps or services are installed on the end user’s device.
Apple devices utilize a security technique called sandboxing, which isolates apps’ processes into their own protected environments so they can’t access certain parts of the file system that the manufacturer deems sensitive. But it’s possible for apps to circumvent this security mechanism via what’s known as a sandbox escape.
When you rock a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, one of the cardinal rules you follow is staying on the lowest possible firmware (or the newest jailbreakable firmware) at any given time. When you do this, software updates will quickly outpace you, and some App Store apps may require you to actually update for device’s firmware to use them.
In what appears to be a positive change for Apple users, the Cupertino-based company on Tuesday published a new support document, first spotted by 512 Pixels’ own Stephen Hackett, entitled Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to Another Apple Account.
The United Kingdom government is investigating Apple’s and Google’s respective mobile businesses and app stores for iPhone and Android.
The AltStore Team took to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday to share some exciting news concerning AltStore PAL, a third-party App Store experience for iPhones and iPads that anyone residing in the European Union (EU) can use to install apps that aren’t available in the first-party App Store by Apple.
Learn how to stop your iPhone or iPad from asking you to type your Apple Account password every time you download a free app from the App Store.
Another class-action lawsuit targeting App Store prices and accusing Apple of overcharging iPhone owners for apps and in-app purchases goes to trial.
Popular game emulator app Delta by iOS developer Riley Testut and company has received an important update on Tuesday that officially brings it up to version 1.6.5.
I find it insulting enough that Apple doesn’t trust its own users to choose which version of firmware that they can install on the iPhones and iPads they own. In fact, they actively prohibit firmware downgrades via a signing scheme that either approves or disapproves of firmware installation requests through iTunes or Finder.
Learn how to set your Mac to offload large macOS apps and games directly onto an external flash drive, SSD, or hard disk if internal storage is limited.
There’s no shortage of apps from the App Store that ask you to rate them, and while we understand that iOS app developers are eager to receive good reviews in the App Store, the nagging and persistent pop-ups can be somewhat annoying to the end user.