For those who want to be more conservative with the amount of time they spend on their iPhones, Apple introduced a feature dubbed Screen Time that allows us to set time limits.
Looking for a way to bring some of macOS Big Sur’s design language to your jailbroken iPhone or iPad? If so, then you’re in luck because iOS developer MTAC has just released a new and free jailbreak tweak called Are You Sur? that does exactly that.
Apple is no longer signing iOS & iPadOS 15.2 as of Wednesday, a move on the Cupertino-based company’s part that will stymie individual users’ attempts to restore or downgrade their iPhone or iPad to this particular firmware using either Finder on macOS or iTunes on Windows.
Apple is developing a fix for a recently discovered Safari tracking bug that would let any website track your browsing history and access your Google ID for tracking purposes.
A common behavior I discern among smartphone users, be it Android or iOS, and jailbreak or not, is pulling the handset out of their pocket to check the time. I do this myself, even despite having an Apple Watch.
Released just over two years ago, the checkra1n jailbreak has proven to be particularly resilient because of the hardware-based checkm8 bootrom exploit that powers it. The checkm8 exploit targets A7-A11 devices (up to and including the iPhone X), and due to being hardware-based, Apple can’t patch it for those devices already in circulation.
Jailbreaking your iPhone liberates you from the gloomy feeling you get when someone tells you what you can and can’t do with your personally-owned device, and that’s the chief reason why we love doing it here at iDownloadBlog!
One of the most anxiety-inducing things that you might experience as a jailbreaker is the inevitable red notification badge on the Settings app icon denoting a pending software update.
While there are several package managers for jailbreakers to choose from today, one of the most widely trusted is Cydia, a tried and true workhorse that has been with us jailbreak after jailbreak for more than a decade. However, all that age is beginning to show as Cydia hasn’t received any real aesthetic upgrades over the years; this continues even as competing package managers such as Installer, Sileo, and Zebra both outperform and look much slicker than Cydia.
An important piece of advice that we often reiterate for aspiring jailbreakers-to-be is to keep their iPhone or iPad on the lowest possible firmware. You’ve likely read this, or lines just like it, every time we break jailbreak-related news and developments, and there are some critical reasons behind why we do this.
Apple is no longer allowing people who are on iOS 14 to skip the latest iOS 15 update, a possible reaction to the company's own numbers showing the number of devices in the wild running iOS 15 lags behind the iOS 14 adoption rate at this point after release.
iOS 15.3 helps resolve iCloud Private Relay error messages by no longer blaming cell carriers when the feature gets inadvertently turned off due to a network issue.