We’re accustomed to seeing interesting things in the jailbreak community. That’s why it may not come as much of a surprise that someone has used their ASUS ROG Ally handheld gaming system to jailbreak their checkm8-susceptible device.
Looking for MacDirtyCow add-ons for your iOS or iPadOS 15.0-16.1.2 device that will let you customize your handset outside of the stock parameters? If so, then you might take an interest in one called NoVulnTools2 by iOS developer tyler1029.
System sounds aren’t readily configurable on non-jailbroken iPhones and iPads, except maybe the ringtone and text tone, but with a MacDirtyCow exploit-based add-on called SoundManager by iOS developer EPOS, you can do this even without a jailbreak.
There aren’t a whole lot of people using legacy iPhones anymore; but just in case you’re one of those niche enthusiasts who does for the sake of personal endeavors or for collecting and testing purposes, we’ve got some great news for you.
The Dopamine jailbreak for A12-A15 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 took the jailbreak community by storm, especially given the tool’s compatibility with TrollStore’s perma-signing capabilities to lend a semi-untethered user experience.
Apple keeps its iOS and iPadOS device USB connections fairly restricted. For example, while basic connections and file transfers with MFi-compatible dongles are a given, you can’t just attach any USB-based device if your choosing and start tinkering with it like you can with a full blown computer.
Just a couple of days ago after WWDC 2023 kicked off, the palera1n team confirmed that it would support iPadOS 17 on the small subset of iPads that were both susceptible to the checkm8 bootrom exploit and capable of running iPadOS 17.
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.
Many of our readers might be familiar with Cowabunga, an all-inclusive system customization app for both jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices that works by way of TrollStore or the MacDirtyCow exploit.
If you’re a Disney+ subscriber, then you might be a little peeved at the fact that users are required to update to iOS or iPadOS 15.3 or later to use the app. This is especially a pain point for jailbreakers.
In case you missed it, iOS developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) formally released Dopamine v2, a perma-signable and semi-untethered jailbreak tool for A8-A16 and M1-M2 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-16.6.1*.