Apple's iOS 26 update could delight Apple Music subscribers with fullscreen album artwork animations on the iPhone's Lock Screen.
iOS 26 could animate album artwork on the Lock Screen
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Scrobbit is an automatic Last.fm scrobbler for any music streaming app on your jailbroken device
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.
Revamped Apple Shortcuts will let you create actions with AI prompts
Apple will allegedly revamp the built-in Shortcuts app in iOS 26 this fall with the ability to create actions using Apple Intelligence models.
Jailbreak news of the week: Avoiding certain social media tweaks, PureKFD updates, CVE-2025-31200 PoC, & more…
Whenever it comes to hacking or jailbreaking iPhones and iPads (even Apple TVs), the iDownloadBlog team is never far behind the latest announcements. We report on the latest news and releases as they happen, ensuring that our readers benefit from these kinds of device enhancement tools as they become available.
Why we recommend against using certain social media-oriented jailbreak tweaks
Of all the different kinds of jailbreak tweaks that you can use on a pwned iPhone or iPad these days, some of the most popular are those that change the behavior of social media apps and websites, like Facebook, Snapchat, WhatsApp, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube, among countless others. But should you use them?
Security researchers share PoC for CVE-2025-31200, a security vulnerability patched in iOS 18.4.1
In iOS & iPadOS 18.4.1, Apple patched CVE-2025-31200, which is a CoreAudio security vulnerability patch that could have enabled arbitrary code execution in the userspace process responsible for processing the malicious file. Apple was made aware of instances in which this vulnerability may have been used against specifically targeted individuals and consequently patched it with improved bounds checking.
PureKFD device toolbox version 5.3 released with improvements for KFD exploit users
PureKFD is an iOS toolbox for non-jailbroken devices that supports various versions of iOS & iPadOS ranging from 14.0 through 18.0/18.1 beta 4. While it previously only supported firmware versions that were susceptible to the Kernel File Descriptor (KFD) exploit, that all changed recently when the toolbox added support for the more recent SparseRestore exploit starting with version 6.
Apple may identify iOS releases by year, so expect iOS 26 instead of iOS 19 this fall
Apple is changing the naming scheme for iOS releases from versions numbers to year, so expect iOS 26 instead of iOS 19 this fall.
iOS 19 may provide a built-in Android transfer tool with eSIM support
New evidence suggests that Apple's iOS 19 update will bring the option to transfer content from an Android device to an iPhone with support for direct eSIM transfer.
Jailbreak news of the week: Fortnite mobile returns to the App Store, iOS 18.4.1 unsigned, & more…
When it comes to the latest stories as it relates to iPhone and iPad hacks and/or jailbreaking, iDownloadBlog remains ever-committed to sharing information in breaking fashion.
Fortnite approved for the iOS App Store, grab it before Apple changes its mind
These past couple of weeks have been an interesting roller coaster of events between Apple and Epic Games, two large companies that have been duking it out in various courtrooms all over the world for several years as a result of Apple’s anti-competitive and predatory App Store practices, which harm developers.
Apple stops signing iOS 18.4.1, ending firmware downgrades from newer iOS 18.5
Apple this week stopped signing iOS & iPadOS 18.4.1 approximately one week after launching iOS & iPadOS 18.5, a feature and security patch update intended for iPhones and iPads alike.