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.
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.
The XinaA15 jailbreak by Zhu Xinlang (@xina520) for arm64e devices (A12+) running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1 has been available as a beta to the public since the start of December 2022. It became public after an internal beta was leaked, prompting Xinlang to essentially throw both arms in the air and just begin seeding public betas instead of trying to keep it under wraps.
If you’ve been following along in the jailbreak community recently, then you’d know that many of the major repositories that host jailbreak tweaks and other add-ons for pwned iPhones and iPads have been adding support for rootless packages, with the first two being Chariz and Havoc.
There are several different ways you can spice up your Home Screen to make it more interesting to look at, like the AppColorClose (iOS 12+) add-on we showed you yesterday. But if you want more, then check out another free jailbreak tweak called Everest by iOS developer Christopher Anderson.
If you’re interested in a dead-simple way to spruce up your jailbroken handset’s Home Screen without going over the top, then you might find a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called AppColorClose (iOS 12+) by iOS developer PoomSmart to be an aesthetically pleasing addition.
If you’ve decided to remove the palera1n-c jailbreak for any reason after using it, then you’ve come to the right place. We’ll be showing you how you can do exactly that in this step-by-step tutorial.
The jailbreak community received a bit of closure late Monday night after former Odyssey Team member and lead developer CoolStar formally announced that the Cheyote jailbreak for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1 had been cancelled and that CoolStar was leaving the community for good.
There’s been a lot of exciting stuff happening in the jailbreak and iPhone hacking community as of late, but if you lead a busy life, then it can be easy to miss something important.
The first public beta of the Fugu15 Max jailbreak for arm64e devices (A12+) running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 made rounds this week after initially being leaked from a semi-private developer beta testing trial.
There were a couple of important announcements made by the palera1n team on Wednesday, and unless you’ve been playing close attention, they would’ve been easy to miss.