Apple officially stopped signing iOS & iPadOS 16.4 this evening, a predictable move that prevents ordinary iPhone and iPad users from voluntarily downgrading their device’s firmware from the newer iOS & iPadOS 16.4.1 software update that Apple released on Friday, April 7th with bug fixes and security improvements.
More and more jailbreak tweaks have been adding support for the rootless jailbreaking dynamic ever since Fugu15 Max and palera1n-c made it evident that this would be the future of jailbreaking for iOS & iPadOS 15 and later.
Developer Lars Fröder (@opa334) took to Twitter Friday afternoon to announce the release of a seventh public beta of the Fugu15 Max jailbreak for arm64e devices (iPhone XS and later) running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1.
Developer Lars Fröder (opa334) published a sixth Fugu15 Max public beta early Thursday morning with a rapid bug fix after seeding a fifth public beta just yesterday.
Developer Lars Fröder (opa334), known not only for making the popular TrollStore perma-signing utility, but also for efforts to make the Fugu15 jailbreak for arm64e devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 functionally stable for end users, an effort currently being dubbed Fugu15 Max for the time being, announced a fifth beta of the Fugu15 Max project on Wednesday.
The AltStore sideloading app for iPhones and iPads has been updated to version 1.6.3 with a short list of improvements.
Just a couple of years ago, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called Mochi by iOS developer Sugiuta that aesthetically improved the Lock Screen’s Music player. Not only was it naturally big and clunky at the time, but it lacked the customization that jailbreakers had come to know and love.
Just yesterday, Linus Henze published a proof of concept (PoC) demonstrating kernel bug CVE-2023-28206, which Apple patched in iOS & iPadOS 16.4.1 because it could purportedly grant arbitrary code execution by an app on an affected device.
iOS 15.7.5, iPadOS 15.7.5, macOS Monterey 12.6.5 and macOS Big Sur 11.7.6 fix a dangerous vulnerability that Apple says may have been exploited in the wild.
Linus Henze, the talented hacker behind the Fugu15 jailbreak for arm64e devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1, just this week shared a proof of concept (PoC) for a security vulnerability dubbed CVE-2023-28206 that Apple fixed with the release of iOS & iPadOS 16.4.1.
With everything that has been happening in the iPhone and iPad jailbreak community recently, we wouldn’t blame you if you said you’ve had trouble keeping up. After all, things seem to happen at all hours of the day every day of the week when many people are busy with their studies or professional lives.
As rootless becomes the norm in the modern world of jailbreaking, we’re seeing more and more of a shift toward supporting this new dynamic. We’ve seen multiple repositories pick up support for rootless packages, and now, yet another important change is making the crawl toward rootless: file manager apps.