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.
Rocketing into the top 5 of the App Store’s Utilities app genre as of late is a new app dubbed Morfic by Brendan Torpey.
TrollStore is one of the best ways to install powerful apps on your iPhone or iPad running iOS or iPadOS 14.0-15.4.1 (and some 15.5 betas). Not only that, but those apps will also remain permanently signed because of the CoreTrust bug that it exploits, so you won’t have to re-sign those apps like you would after using something like AltStore or Sideloadly.
Some apps are purposely limited in terms of CarPlay availability, generally for the sake of safe driving. This includes video playback apps such as Netflix or YouTube.
New to the Havoc repository this week is a Home Screen app icon theme called Junipero by graphic designer XerusDesign that draws a substantial amount of inspiration from the design language found in macOS Big Sur.
After releasing Evyrest last week, a tool for TrollStore for automatically changing a user’s wallpaper, iOS developer sourcelocation released yet another TrollStore project called IconExporter.
Jailbreakers using older versions of iOS, especially the likes of iOS 13, may recognize a problem with AirPods firmware version 5b58 that results in an unexpected crash of bluetoothd while using the accessory.
Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max are the company’s only handsets that natively support the Dynamic Island feature, and while a jailbreak tweak dubbed Dynamic Peninsula could bring a similar experience to notched devices, not everyone currently has access to a jailbreak — especially if they’re using iOS 16.
Sometimes one of the most useful ways to troubleshoot a problem on a jailbroken device is to enter Safe Mode and use it to remove a conflicting jailbreak tweak or add-on. The only problem, however, is that entering Safe Mode doesn’t seem as straightforward as it once used to be.
The XinaA15 developer-centric jailbreak tool for A12-A15 chip-equipped handsets running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1 by @xina520 received an update over the weekend to version 1.1.6.2.
As we conclude the first week of 2023, many are wondering what could be in store for the jailbreak community or for iPhone hacking and modding in general.