The palera1n team used this New Year holiday to announce exciting intentions for the forthcoming 2023 year with respect to palera1n, the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool for A9-A11 chip-equipped handsets running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-16.x.
The jailbreak community has been turning up the heat lately with respect to news and tweak releases, and a lot of that had to do with the palera1n and XinaA15 jailbreaks that can be used to pwn certain subsets of devices running iOS or iPadOS 15 through 16.
If you’re one to enjoy fun or quirky sounds when interacting with your iPhone in one way or another, then chances are you’ll appreciate a free jailbreak tweak called BoopBoopBoop by iOS developer Hoangdus.
In an interesting turn of events Thursday afternoon, it appears that Odyssey Team lead developer CoolStar appears to have officially handed the keys of the Sileo package manager to longtime Sileo Team member Amy While (@elihwyma).
The MacDirtyCow bug for iOS 15.x-16.1.2 has proven to be a rather interesting one. Without jailbreaking your device, you can exploit this bug to do things such as customize system fonts and change the Lock Screen’s Face ID glyph animation. But it seems like the realm of possibilities doesn’t stop there.
Those donning a jailbroken iPhone who might be interested in adding a splash of color to their handset’s Status Bar will likely want to try a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called ColorBar15 by iOS developer DTCalabro.
The iOS 16.1.2 update brought with it a redesigned battery level indicator for notched handsets that displays a more accurate icon fill to match the numeric percentage. Sadly, users of non-notched handsets aren’t quite as fortunate.
A bug affecting iOS & iPadOS versions 15.x-16.1.2 and macOS 13.0.1 called CVE-2022-46689, also codenamed MacDirtyCow, has been making headlines recently. This bug was discovered by security researcher Ian Beer of Google Project Zero, and while it’s not being used in any jailbreaks, it does appear to be at the epicenter of some interesting hacks for modding iPhones and iPads recently, such as TrollLock Reborn.
Those searching for the next interesting way to customize their iPhone may enjoy the new TrollLock Reborn add-on based on the MacDirtyCow hack by iOS developers @haxi0sm and @dedbeddedbed.
The TrollStore perma-signing utility used by various apps on devices running iOS & iPadOS 14.0-15.4.1 (and some 15.5 betas) has gotten insanely popular over the past several months. Unfortunately, with most projects being hosted via individual GitHub pages instead of a centralized place, users strain in attempting to discover new apps to perma-sign with it.
If all you want for Christmas this year is a bit of jailbreak news, then your friends at iDownloadBlog are here to help.
The option to upgrade the iPhone's Home app in iOS 16.2 will return soon. Issues and problems that users reported have prompted Apple to abruptly pull the upgrade.