Just last week, we showed you a brilliant app called Morfic for customizing your iPhone’s wallpaper experience in unique new ways.
Popular Morfic wallpaper customization app goes free in the App Store following successful launch
iOS 16
Some of the best MacDirtyCow bug-compatible apps for iOS 15.x-16.1.2
The MacDirtyCow bug, also known as CVE-2022-46689, has opened Pandora’s box for Apple on iOS & iPadOS 15.x-16.1.2 because it allows people to make system customizations on their non-jailbroken iPhones and iPads that they technically shouldn’t be allowed to make. It all works by sideloading a special app that exploits this bug.
Popular iCleaner junk file removal tool for jailbroken devices picks up iOS 16 support
Just under a couple of weeks ago, we reported on a beta update for the popular iCleaner and iCleaner Pro junk file removal applications for jailbroken devices and how it had received preliminary iOS & iPadOS 15 support in addition to a slew of other improvements.
Island upgrades the Dynamic Island experience and ports it to jailbroken iOS & iPadOS 14-16 devices
The Dynamic Island is one of the most distinguishable differences between the iPhone 14 Pro lineup and all prior handset models. This handy feature utilizes the area surrounding the TrueDepth camera system to display useful information about what’s happening on your device, such as Now Playing media, Personal Hotspot connectivity, and active Screen Recordings, among other things.
Jailbreak news of the week: Dynamic Island on more devices, XinaA15 updated, Ian Beer’s MacDirtyCow PoC & more…
iPhone hackers and developers have been rather busy lately, not only with respect to improving jailbreaks and releasing tweaks, but also with expanding support for customizations by way of the MacDirtyCow bug.
Ian Beer’s MacDirtyCow bug PoC reveals it’s more powerful than originally thought
By now you’ve probably heard about the MacDirtyCow bug for iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.1.2. Shortly after Google Project Zero security researcher Ian Beer reported CVE-2022-46689 to Apple late last year, security researcher Zhowei Zhang created a rough draft of a bug that developers now actively exploit to make operating system modifications that ordinarily wouldn’t be possible without jailbreaking.
Level up your iPhone’s wallpaper aesthetics with the new Morfic app
Rocketing into the top 5 of the App Store’s Utilities app genre as of late is a new app dubbed Morfic by Brendan Torpey.
Junipero is a macOS Big Sur-inspired theme for jailbroken & non-jailbroken iPhones
New to the Havoc repository this week is a Home Screen app icon theme called Junipero by graphic designer XerusDesign that draws a substantial amount of inspiration from the design language found in macOS Big Sur.
DynamicCow enables the Dynamic Island on all iOS 16.0-16.1.2 devices with no jailbreak
Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max are the company’s only handsets that natively support the Dynamic Island feature, and while a jailbreak tweak dubbed Dynamic Peninsula could bring a similar experience to notched devices, not everyone currently has access to a jailbreak — especially if they’re using iOS 16.
Easily get into Safe Mode on a jailbroken iPhone with SafeModeMuteToggle
Sometimes one of the most useful ways to troubleshoot a problem on a jailbroken device is to enter Safe Mode and use it to remove a conflicting jailbreak tweak or add-on. The only problem, however, is that entering Safe Mode doesn’t seem as straightforward as it once used to be.
Jailbreak news of the week: palera1n going rootless, new jailbreak detection bypass, iCleaner updates, new TrollTools features, & more…
As we conclude the first week of 2023, many are wondering what could be in store for the jailbreak community or for iPhone hacking and modding in general.
‘Not a bypass’ is a global jailbreak detection bypass for palera1n users
Many App Store apps, such as banking apps or games will embed some form of jailbreak detection to prevent jailbreakers from using their apps. If you jailbreak, then calling this problem a thorn in your side might feel like an understatement.