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Chrome is dropping support for older iPhones and iPads, requiring iOS 17

Christian Zibreg ∙ June 9, 2025

Google Chrome will soon require at least iOS 17, causing it to stop working on older iPhones and iPads, such as the iPhone X and certain iPad Pro models.

Hacker publishes steps to upgrade unsupported iPad (6th generation) to iPadOS 18

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 8, 2025

At the end of last year, we talked about an interesting attempt by hackers to port iPadOS 18 to the iPad (6th generation) – a device that seems to be capable of running the firmware based on substantial similarities to the officially-supported iPad (7th generation), but has simply been left off the table by Apple in an effort to force planned obsolescence on its users.

Jailbreak news of the week: Aquila, Cellebrite acquiring Corellium, Silque, & more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 8, 2025

Hacking and jailbreaking iPhones & iPads is one of our favorite activities here at iDownloadBlog, so it goes without saying that we follow these spaces very closely and enjoy sharing our findings with our like-minded readers.

Aquila untethered jailbreak for iOS 6 devices uses a newer, faster kernel exploit than previous options

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 7, 2025

While there hasn’t been any word of a modern iOS or iPadOS jailbreak lately, there’s been a lot of movement in jailbreak development for older legacy firmware versions as of late. The latest to join the fray is a new tool called Aquila by iOS developer staturnz, which targets all devices that can run iOS 6.

Alpine could one day be a CLI & SSH Server tool for iOS that doesn’t require a jailbreak

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 5, 2025

In an interesting turn of events, iOS developer @skadz108, the same person who created the dirtyZero device customization toolbox based on Ian Beer’s CVE-2025-24203 security vulnerability, took to social media platform 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) on Thursday to share that they were working on a new project called Alpine.

Upcoming Silque project strives to offer effortless IPA sideloading & app management without a computer

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 5, 2025

To this day, AltStore remains the most popular way for iPhone and iPad users to sideload apps, but it has the sometimes-pesky requirement of needing a computer, which isn’t always available when you need it most. For this reason, there have been several attempts to create a computerless sideloading alternative for iPhone and iPad users, such as SideStore.

What to do if you cannot add file attachments to email on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Ankur Thakur ∙ June 5, 2025

Check out these troubleshooting tips to fix issues preventing Apple's Mail app from using email attachments like Office documents, ZIP archives, photos, video, PDFs and other files.

Scrubble is another tweak that automatically scrobbles songs from other music apps to the Last.fm app

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 4, 2025

Just yesterday, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called Scrobbit by iOS developer iCraze that could automatically scrobble music from other music streaming apps to the Last.fm app on your jailbroken device. But as it would seem, Scrobbit has some healthy competition.

Scrobbit is an automatic Last.fm scrobbler for any music streaming app on your jailbroken device

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 3, 2025

Whenever you listen to a song in in the last.fm app, that listen becomes known as a ‘Scrobble,’ which is a fancy way of indicating that you’ve listened to the song before and allowing last.fm to make algorithmic decisions about what to play next based on your listening history.