Apple on Monday announced iOS & iPadOS 18 during the company’s WWDC 2024 Keynote, showcasing a plethora of new features for just about every platform the brand sells.
At least one checkm8-vulnerable iPad still supported by iPadOS 18
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Jailbreak news of the week: Don’t install unofficial ElleKit builds, iPad Pro displaying tvOS, & more…
The iDB team passionately covers iPhone hacking and jailbreaking news as it happens throughout the week. But for those who can’t follow along in real time, we offer a weekly weekend roundup that compiles everything into a largely summarized post.
See how someone modified an Apple TV 4K to view its HDMI output on an 11-inch iPad Pro
The Apple TV is an amazing streaming device for the television you use at home. But what if you were trying to enjoy content from your Apple TV while you were on the go and didn’t have a television at your disposal?
Developer uses hack to get animated app icons on his iPhone without a jailbreak
As many stock iPhone and iPad users know, Home Screen app icons are typically static images. A couple of exceptions do exist, such as the Calendar app that updates each day with the correct date and the Clock app that updates every second with a live analog clock.
Lars Fröder and Boris Larin meet at GeekCon 2024 as Fröder publishes presentation slides to GitHub
Dopamine jailbreak lead developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) arrived in Singapore on Thursday, May 23rd to participate in GeekCon 2024 International, which hosts a crowd of some of the most prominent hackers and security experts in the world.
Dopamine jailbreak v2.1.5 released with additional bug fixes & improvements
The Dopamine jailbreak tool for iPhones and iPads running certain versions of iOS & iPadOS 15 & 16 by developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) received an update on Monday to version 2.1.5.
New exploit could seriously improve iOS 12 & 13 jailbreak reliability and speed
It’s been a bit since we talked about the Odyssey jailbreak last given how it’s for firmware that’s around 4 years old, but since quite a few people still use jailbroken devices on iOS & iPadOS 13 today, it seemed imperative to mention interesting developments that could come to the Odyssey jailbreak in the foreseeable future.
Semaphorin checkm8-based tethered downgrade and jailbreak tool gets support for A10X & A11 devices, and more…
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.
Apple walks back CVE-2024-27804, claims it’s non-exploitable & offers security researcher paltry $1,000 bounty
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
Untethered jailbreak for iOS 9.2-9.3.4 devices teased by dora2ios
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.
Security researcher says PoC for kernel vulnerability targeting iOS 17.4.1 and older coming soon
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.
Semaphorin v1.0 beta 3 tethered downgrade & dual boot utility adds support for more device & firmware combos
At the end of March, we shared with you the news about a new utility called Semaphorin, which is a tethered blobless downgrade, dual-boot, and jailbreak utility for certain checkm8 bootrom exploit-vulnerable devices.