We have some pretty great news for anyone that stayed on iOS or iPadOS 16.5.1 or below on their A12 or newer device. As it would appear, staying on the lowest possible firmware and avoiding software updates despite the many temptations really does have its perks!
You can count on your friends at iDB to keep all the latest iPhone hacking and jailbreaking news front-and-center because we care as much about this exhilarating hobby as you do.
Around a week ago, we shared the news about a breakthrough new tool called meowbrek2 by iOS developer @dora2ios that could effectively turn the semi-tethered palera1n jailbreak for arm64 devices running iOS 15-16 into a semi-untethered jailbreak by making use of the kfd exploit.
Thursday morning bore witness to interesting news for anybody who finds themselves intrigued by iPhone and iPad security research.
Face ID as a biometric authentication was a serious upgrade in device accessibility and a step up in convenience when it first debuted on the iPhone X. It continues to be Apple’s biometric of choice on its iPhones & iPads today.
Interested in a jailbreak tweak that will let you download media from the Twitch app? If so, then we’ve got just the tweak for you.
Keeping up with all the recent software updates relating to Misaka, Picasso, PureKFD, TrollStore, and XinaA15 v2 is a challenging task. Fortunately, your friends at iDB have you covered.
Among the many things that aren’t allowed on CarPlay-capable head units is watching videos, and for valid reasons. After all, car manufacturers don’t want to offer this feature as it may entice some individuals to pay more attention to a screen in front of their face while driving than the actual road they’re driving on.
Many people would agree that iOS 16 made the Lock Screen’s Now Playing media interface more stylish when compared to iOS 15.
The Misaka package manager app for the MacDirtyCow and kfd exploits received a handful of updates within the past 24 hours with a ton of improvements for end users. The latest version at the time of this writing is now v3.3.6.
Wouldn’t you just love it if you had a way to actually understand phone calls when someone who speaks a different language is on the other end? If you answered yes to that question, then a new jailbreak tweak called Live Call Translator by veteran iOS developer Elias Limneos might be for you.
I still remember more than a decade ago when I first began jailbreaking iPhones that I would always install a particular theme on my device called Glasklart. I always appreciated the transparent icons on my Home Screen, along with the simplistic glyphs at the center of them.