Just last month, we talked about an ambitious project called RootHide that strives to hide your rootless jailbreaks from apps that want nothing more than to know that you’re jailbroken. In other words, it’s a jailbreak bypass that lets you use those annoying apps that refuse to work when you’re in a jailbroken state.
The Dopamine jailbreak received an unexpected update to version 1.1.7 this Thursday afternoon with a possible fix for at least some of the reported spinlock panics that users have reported.
Apple on Thursday released iOS & iPadOS 17.0.1 for most iPhones and iPads along with iOS 17.0.2 for the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro lineups, marking the first official updates to Apple’s significant software upgrade for the year of 2023 since it first launched this past Monday.
At the start of the week, the Odyssey Team released an updated version of the Taurine jailbreak to add support for iOS & iPadOS 14.4-14.8.1.
If you were a huge fan of this past week’s Apple event and loved everything about what you saw and what Apple announced, then chances are you might appreciate a new add-on for the MacDirtyCow & kfd exploits dubbed AppleEvent Lock 2023 by iOS developer Kumiki.
Supervised mode is an important thing for not only prospective jailbreakers, but for folks who want to upgrade to unsigned firmware using the DelayOTA method to take advantage of kernel exploits that make add-ons possible, with two recent examples being MacDirtyCow for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-16.1.2 and kfd for iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.6 beta 1.
Adding customized color schemes to an iPhone or iPad’s native user interface is a great way to show off that you’ve taken control of your handset from Apple and made it your own.
If you use a lot of Emojis when you type to people and you’re interested in an enhanced Emoji font for your device, then you might take a liking to a new add-on called JoyPixels by iOS developers HackZy and PoomSmart for the MacDirtyCow and kfd exploits for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-16.1.2 and 16.0-16.6 beta 1 respectively.
Cluckabunga, the all-in-one system customization app for kfd exploit-vulnerable devices running iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.6 beta 1 and the successor to the Cowabunga app of similar nature for the MacDirtyCow exploit for older iterations of iOS & iPadOS, received an update Monday morning that may have gone unnoticed amid all the noise regarding Apple’s iOS & iPadOS 17 software updates.
Today, Apple released iOS & iPadOS 17 to the general public, unleashing a bevy of new features, interface improvements, and more to iPhone and iPad users. But shortly following that release, the AltStore Team came out with a new update of their own: AltServer and AltStore version 1.7.
The Odyssey Team’s aging Taurine jailbreak tool, originally designed for iOS & iPadOS 14.0-14.3 devices only, has recently started picking up support for later iterations of iOS & iPadOS 14.
The long release notes for iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 list dozens of cool new features and quality-of-life improvements available for the iPhone and iPad.