The Apple vs. Epic Games saga continues to heat up… this time with Epic Games scheming to try and compel Apple to approve the popular Fortnite mobile video game on its App Store via court order (at least, that’s what could happen if the game publisher gets its way).
The iDownloadBlog team tracks the latest trends in the iPhone and iPad hacking & jailbreaking spaces every single day, and while we bring you the hottest news as it happens, we also know that keeping track of new developments can be a challenging endeavor as you balance the struggles of everyday life.
Just last night we reported on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s statement that Apple had neither approved nor rejected the company’s popular Fortnite mobile game for the iOS & iPadOS App Store after a resubmission following a United States-based court order that ruled Apple needed to allow third-party payment options in apps rather than going through the App Store and collecting the 15-30% Apple tax for every transaction.
A couple of months ago, talented hobbyist and security researcher @alfiecg_dev shared a write-up on a deterministic kernel exploit called Trigon that was based on CVE-2023-32434 with a 100% success rate, but support was limited to certain older devices running older firmware. Since then, it appears that @alfiecg_dev has been busy…
Just last week, Fortnite game publisher Epic Games re-submitted the popular battle royale game to Apple’s App Store following a U.S.-based judge’s ruling that Apple could not charge 15-30% commission fees on in-app purchases made from apps and that app makers could use their own payment systems outside of the App Store’s.
When Apple released iOS & iPadOS 16.7 back in 2023, they patched a security vulnerability discovered by Bill Marczak that has since been coined CVE-2023-41992. Apple noted in the online ‘About the security content of iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7’ support document page that this was a kernel vulnerability that may have enabled an attacker to elevate their privileges.
Back in March, Dopamine jailbreak tool and TrollStore perma-signing utility lead developer Lars Fröder, or perhaps better known in this community as @opa334dev, spoke at a cybersecurity conference called Nullcon Goa 2025 to discuss the state of jailbreaking in 2025.
Apple's Safari browser on the Mac now supports Declarative Web Push to display push notifications even if a website isn't open in any tabs.
Apple has unveiled a new Brain Computer Interface protocol to let patients control their iPhone or iPad with their mind, just by thinking.
Apple unveiled new accessibility features coming to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Vision Pro this fall with iOS 19 and other software updates.
Anyone who uses the Infuse media app on their iPhone or iPad to enjoy video content in almost any video format they can imagine could probably benefit from the likes of a handy jailbreak tweak called Infuse Plus by iOS developer Dayanch96.
In case you didn’t already know, there’s a new kernel exploit out in the wild that renowned Google Project Zero security researcher Ian Beer recently published a writeup about. CVE-2025-24203, which is being referred to by the iPhone & iPad hacking community as dirtyZero or mdc0, is a kernel exploit that allows for certain system customizations akin to what the MacDirtyCow exploit was once capable of on supported firmware.