News broke late Wednesday night that Apple stopped all firmware downgrades from any version of iOS or iPadOS 17 to iOS or iPadOS 16 after iOS & iPadOS 16.6.1 stopped being signed. But that’s not all that happened…
Apple released iOS & iPadOS 17.0 as 2023’s major new software upgrade for iPhones and iPads, which as you can probably guess, means that Apple really doesn’t want people downgrading back to the older iOS & iPadOS 16 firmware.
Apple on Thursday released iOS & iPadOS 17.0.1 for most iPhones and iPads along with iOS 17.0.2 for the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro lineups, marking the first official updates to Apple’s significant software upgrade for the year of 2023 since it first launched this past Monday. Â
Apple last week released iOS & iPadOS 16.6.1 to the general public with a patch addressing some serious security concerns on iPhones and iPads.
A legitimate concern among those who use outdated iOS & iPadOS versions in an attempt to keep jailbreakable or exploit-susceptible firmware on their device is the risk that Apple’s over-the-air updating mechanism might automatically try to force a software update.
Just last week, Apple released iOS & iPadOS 16.6 to the general public with a bevy of security patches to make the company’s mobile devices more secure.
Interesting news arose this weekend after @exploit3dguy shared what appears to be a successful blackbird exploit-based firmware downgrade on an iPhone 6s to iOS 10.0.1 with fully working passcode functionality.
Over the weekend, we told you about an ambitious project called kernel file descriptor (or kfd for short) that would help jailbreak developers achieve kernel read and write privileges on firmware up to and including iOS & iPadOS 16.5.
Apple may have quietly released a firmware update to enable software support for the latest Bluetooth 5.3 standard on its 13-inch M2 MacBook Air laptop from 2022.
Just last week, Apple released iOS & iPadOS 16.5.1 to the general public. While the firmware didn’t give Apple devices any new features, one thing it did do was patch an actively exploited bug. For that reason, it’s strongly recommended that you update if you haven’t already (unless, of course, you’re jailbroken).
If you’re looking to use the DelayOTA update method on one of your jailbroken devices to move to a newer firmware, then you can make things easy on yourself by taking advantage of an add-on called Dahlia by iOS developer Dhinakg.
Apple on Thursday released iOS & iPadOS 16.5 for all of their latest devices, as well as iOS & iPadOS 15.7.6 for some of their older devices that can’t run iOS or iPadOS 16. These updates comprised of a small number of new features, but incorporated a wide array of security patches that will make future jailbreaks more challenging to achieve.