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The palera1n team, known for its creation of the palera1n semi-tethered checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool for arm64 devices (the iPhone X and older) took to X (formerly Twitter) early Sunday morning to share an exciting announcement.
The Misaka package manager used to be an iPhone and iPad-only app, but thanks to recent developments by project lead developer @straight_tamago, Misaka is now available on the Apple TV in a more limited capacity and can be used to modify the user experience of tvOS.
Misaka project lead developer @straight_tamago has been doing a lot with tvOS recently, such as making an Apple TV-compatible Misaka for device customization on supported firmware.
The tvOS edition of the Misaka package manager app by iOS developer @straight_tamago received an update on Sunday to version 4.0 with some notable improvements.
There’s a new update available for the tvOS version of the Misaka package manager app as of this Sunday evening.
We’ve got some pretty big news for you if you’re a Misaka package manager app user or if you aspire to use it for Apple TV customization in any capacity.
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.
While Apple will indeed be killing off the iPhone X and older starting with iOS 17 despite initial rumors suggesting the contrary, the good news is that certain checkm8 bootrom exploit-vulnerable devices including older iPads and Apple TVs can run iPadOS 17 and tvOS 17.
We hardly see as much love for jailbroken Apple TVs as we see for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, but an upcoming project dubbed Spartan is drumming up some attention after being touted as “the first tvOS file browser” in a post shared on /r/jailbreak.
Apple TV owners who wish to jailbreak their Apple-branded set top boxes are in for a bout of good news this Wednesday afternoon, as an all-new Apple TV-centric jailbreak tool dubbed Blackb0x appears to have been released to the public.
Citing the project’s official GitHub page, the Blackb0x jailbreak fills an important niche by setting its sights on older Apple TV models such as second and third-generation units running various versions of tvOS. The support is a little complicated, which is why we’ll be outlining that in more detail below.
About a month ago, Guardian Firewall VPN founder and CEO Will Strafach, a former member of the Chronic Dev Team, shared a particularly exciting announcement in that nitoTV (now going by @freenitoTV on Twitter) had gotten VPN connections working on the Apple TV platform for the very first time; albeit with a jailbreak.
The aforementioned jaw-dropping feat demanded tons of complicated hackery, but after lots of research, development, testing, and refinement, the project, officially dubbed “vpnd,” is now available for jailbreakers who might want to try their hand at configuring a VPN connection on their own Apple TV.
For a company that appears to tout privacy as much as they do, it’s both astounding and questionable as to why Apple doesn’t permit VPN functionality on its Apple TV platform out of the box. Fascinatingly, VPNs can be installed and used on almost every other Apple device aside from the Apple Watch, including the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and even the Mac.
There’s no question that this silly limitation has brushed some Apple TV users the wrong way. On the other hand, there may be hope for those holding out. In a teaser Tweet shared this Thursday afternoon, Guardian Firewall founder and CEO Will Strafach said that the first VPN (and firewall) for tvOS is in the works and could be released for jailbroken Apple TVs in the future: