If you’re jailbroken on iOS or iPadOS 15 or 16, then you can take advantage of a jailbreak tweak called SmartNetwork iOS 15-16 by iOS developer Elias Sfeir to enjoy more advanced network-centric features than you would have on any stock device.
If you’ve been paying any attention to the jailbreak community lately, then you’d be pretty hard-pressed to have never heard of palera1n. It's a pretty big deal these days.
You’ve just stumbled upon iDB’s weekly roundup of iPhone jailbreaking and hacking news, where we hand-pick our favorite news, reviews, and tutorials related to these sectors from the past work week and pack it all into one convenient place to help ensure you don’t miss a beat.
Apple has done amazing things to bring the iPhone’s native apps inline with the latest design trends, but the Phone app is starting to show its age. In fact, it hasn’t received any aesthetic facelifts in quite a while, which is why the jailbreak community often tries to make its own improvements.
We live in a Dark Mode-obsessed world today, and despite how many people are using Dark Mode on their mobile devices and even their computers, there are still so many websites that don’t support it.
A few years back, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called FingerLock by iOS developer MTAC. This tweak lets the user add a touch-based unlocking mechanism to the Lock Screen to bypasses the Home Button or Home Bar.
Just last week, we showed you a brilliant app called Morfic for customizing your iPhone’s wallpaper experience in unique new ways.
The MacDirtyCow bug, also known as CVE-2022-46689, has opened Pandora’s box for Apple on iOS & iPadOS 15.x-16.1.2 because it allows people to make system customizations on their non-jailbroken iPhones and iPads that they technically shouldn’t be allowed to make. It all works by sideloading a special app that exploits this bug.
Just under a couple of weeks ago, we reported on a beta update for the popular iCleaner and iCleaner Pro junk file removal applications for jailbroken devices and how it had received preliminary iOS & iPadOS 15 support in addition to a slew of other improvements.
The Dynamic Island is one of the most distinguishable differences between the iPhone 14 Pro lineup and all prior handset models. This handy feature utilizes the area surrounding the TrueDepth camera system to display useful information about what’s happening on your device, such as Now Playing media, Personal Hotspot connectivity, and active Screen Recordings, among other things.
iPhone hackers and developers have been rather busy lately, not only with respect to improving jailbreaks and releasing tweaks, but also with expanding support for customizations by way of the MacDirtyCow bug.
By now you’ve probably heard about the MacDirtyCow bug for iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.1.2. Shortly after Google Project Zero security researcher Ian Beer reported CVE-2022-46689 to Apple late last year, security researcher Zhowei Zhang created a rough draft of a bug that developers now actively exploit to make operating system modifications that ordinarily wouldn’t be possible without jailbreaking.