One of the glorious things about jailbreaking older iPhones is that jailbreak tweaks can unlock features for those devices that Apple generally restricts to newer handsets.
iOS developer PoomSmart is at it once again, showing us just how easy it would have been for Apple to give older device users access to iOS & iPadOS 15’s latest features, but instead limiting them to newer devices to enhance their appeal.
If ever there was a quick and easy way to make the Settings app more visually stunning, then the new and free BlurredPreferences jailbreak tweak by iOS developer pookjw would be it.
iDB is adamant about keeping our readers apprised about the latest trends in iPhone and iPad hacking. We follow jailbreak developments, tweak releases, and other miscellaneous tools like TrollStore and sideloading utilities that let you do things Apple won’t otherwise allow on their platforms out of the box.
Live Text is one of those cool, but somewhat niche features in iOS 15 that lets users interact with text in an image like it was text in a document. The feature works in images, videos, and even while looking through the camera lens in real time.
iOS developer Elis Sfeir is out with the latest iteration of his SmartBattery jailbreak tweak on Saturday, the the newest of which is SmartBattery iOS 15.
iDB closely monitors developments in the jailbreak community including jailbreak tweak releases and other related topics throughout the week to report news in real time, but we also find time every weekend to round everything up for our readers into one convenient post.
In the months ahead of Halloween this year, we talked a bit about a project called Legizmo Kincaid by lunotech11 that could be used on jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices (the latter via TrollStore) to pair Apple Watches running newer versions of watchOS with older versions of iOS.
The palera1n team appears to be looking into the possibility of adding iOS & iPadOS 16 support to its checkm8 bootrom exploit-based palera1n jailbreak tool for A9-A11 devices.
SourceLocation, the developer behind the popular TrollTools system customization app for TrollStore users released a new app on Thanksgiving Thursday called AirTroller.
iOS 16 introduced the native Status Bar-based numeric battery level percentage for notched handsets for the first time since the iPhone X debuted in 2017. All this despite how non-notched handsets have had it this entire time… *slow clap.*
Apart from the iPhone X, most of the iOS & iPadOS 15.x devices that you can jailbreak with the palera1n tool have a Home Button and therefore lack the modern gestures first introduced with the iPhone X.