Having to authenticate yourself with a passcode or even Face ID or Touch ID just to use your device after a respring is an inconvenience that only jailbreakers typically ever have to experience. But with the MacDirtyCow and kfd exploits bringing add-ons to non-jailbroken firmware, even non-jailbreakers are putting up with the added inconvenience these days.
Unless you live in the European Union, you might not be aware that iPhones and many other devices sold there have a volume cap that prevents the max volume from reaching what it can in other parts of the world.
The Control Center user interface is at least mildly customizable on stock devices, at least to the extent that you can rearrange toggles, enable those you use, and disable those you don’t. But the stock experience is lacking something.
The Lock Screen on Face ID-equipped iPhones displays an animated padlock glyph to indicate when your device is locked or unlocked, but many people have become burnt out from seeing the same glyph over the years, prompting the desire for themes that can make it look different.
Those looking for an add-on for their MacDirtyCow or kfd exploit-enabled device that can do almost any of the heavy-lifting that we’d generally expect from a jailbreak tweak might take a liking to a newly released add-on via the Misakapackage manager app called Fast ToolBox by YangJiii.
The Misaka package manager for users of the MacDirtyCow and kfd exploits for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-16.1.2 and 16.0-16.6 beta 1 respectively has received an update early Monday morning that brings the project up to version 2.1.1 beta.
If you’re interested in colorizing various user interfaces of your iPhone or iPad and don’t have a jailbreak at your disposal, then a new add-on for the MacDirtyCow and kfd exploits called Palette by roeegh might interest you.
Home Button-equipped devices are just hanging on by a thread as Apple moves to totally stop supporting them with iOS 17 and beyond, but for those who own them and recognize their worth in terms of hobby hacking, there’s a new MacDirtyCow exploit-centric add-on in town called Gestureify by HackZy that may captivate your attention.
Just under two weeks ago, we showed you a project called Picasso that was made to bring Cowabunga-like systemwide customization to devices susceptible to the kfd exploit — namely arm64e devices running iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.6 beta 1. Today, Picasso received a major update.
When a third-party Reddit client known as Apollo first hit the App Store’s shelves in 2017, it was an app I couldn’t wait to get my hands on. Unfortunately, project developer Christian Selig was forced to shut the app down on June 30th after Reddit implemented heavy-handed API changes that effectively made running third-party Reddit client infeasible for indie developers like Selig.
The Misaka package manager app for the MacDirtyCow exploit on iOS 15.0-16.1.2 and the kfd exploit on iOS 16.2-16.5 was updated on Tuesday to version 2.0.3 beta.
You can effortlessly change your iPhone’s ringtone from the Settings app, but unless you’ve downloaded a third-party ringtone from the iTunes Store or previously synced your own ringtones from your computer, you won’t find an easy way to import your own ringtone files on a non-jailbroken device.