Jailbreak Apps & Tweaks

These are the latest jailbreak apps and tweaks available for your iPhone or iPad. We save you time by highlighting only the best tweaks.

Theos Team announces Orion, a project to support tweak development using Swift

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 5, 2021

Many jailbreak tweak developers will be familiar with Theos, which is best described as a cross-platform suite of tools for developing software for the iOS and iPadOS platforms without the use of Xcode. The reason for Theos’ familiarity is that it has proven to be a particularly instrumental mechanism in the development of jailbreak tweaks over the years.

Just this weekend, however, the Theos team took to /r/jailbreak to announce Orion, a new and open-source DSL that will empower developers to more easily craft jailbreak tweaks using Apple’s renowned Swift programming language.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: PowerReach, YTOLED, & more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 5, 2021

Although jailbreak tweak releases were somewhat lean this past week, the community made up for that with what felt like a substantial amount of exciting jailbreak-centric news breaks.

Upgrade your jailbroken iPhone’s Reachability interface with PowerReach

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 2, 2021

Originally designed to make one-handed use of larger-displayed iPhones easier, Reachability is an often underused feature that holds a lot of potential.

The jailbreak community knows all about this potential, as jailbreak tweaks are seemingly always trying to make better use of the space at the top of the display upon summoning Reachability.

Dynastic Repo announces planned shutdown as alternative repositories offer homes for jailbreak tweaks & add-ons

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 1, 2021

In a rather unfortunate turn of events, it would appear that the popular Dynastic Repo repository, which has been commonly used for hosting jailbreak tweaks and other third-party add-ons, will be shutting down in the near future.

Some of the best jailbreak tweaks for altering iOS 14’s animations

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 1, 2021

At iDownloadBlog, one of our core efforts focuses on covering the jailbreak community’s news and releases as they materialize. Given just how much stuff happens day in and day out, we recognize that keeping up with the best jailbreak tweaks for your device can be a struggle. Fortunately, we’re here to help you hustle.

Sileo updated to v2.2.4-1 with additional bug fixes and performance improvements

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 31, 2021

Following the release of a major update to the Sileo package manager just over two weeks ago with support for all jailbreaks and an extensive change log, the Sileo Team has published several smaller updates in the days following.

Today, we’re witnessing the release of yet another update for the Sileo package manager, this time bringing the app up to version 2.2.4-1.

Substitute updated to v2.2.0 with preliminary iOS 15 support & other improvements

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 30, 2021

Substitute is the preferred tweak injection method for the unc0ver jailbreak, but it can also be used by checkra1n jailbreak users who feel like using something other than Cydia Substrate.

Monday evening, Substitute received a quiet, yet important update to version 2.2.0 with what could only be described as notable changes.

YTOLED gives the YouTube app a true OLED-friendly & pitch-black Dark Mode

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 30, 2021

It’s truly wonderful that the YouTube app supports Dark Mode on the iOS and iPadOS platforms, assuming the user toggles the feature on first. But unlike most Dark Mode-supported apps for the iPhone and iPad, the YouTube app’s user interface is more of a dark gray than black.

CoolStar updates libhooker Configurator to v1.2 with support for iOS 12 & other improvements

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 29, 2021

At the start of the year, CoolStar launched a standalone libhooker Configurator app that could be used to fine-tune the native libhooker tweak injection method on the Odyssey and Taurine jailbreaks.

The libhooker Configurator app has received several updates since its initial release, but a new build launched just this weekend in the form of version 1.2 might be especially intriguing – especially for anyone using the Chimera jailbreak.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: NetworkList, Tako, & more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 29, 2021

This past week has been spicy for the jailbreak community, especially given the latest updates to the Taurine jailbreak tool for iOS 14.0-14.3 devices and the new versions of support packages that go along with it, such as Jailbreak Updater. Given just how much happened this past week, we wanted to circle back and provide it all to our readers in one convenient and easy-to-digest piece.

This new jailbreak tweak hides all VoIP suggestions from iOS’ contact list

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 26, 2021

In more recent iterations Apple’s mobile operating systems, like iOS 13 and 14, the company attempted to incorporate support for third-party VoIP apps such as WhatsApp in the contact list to make reaching people who use those services even easier.

The concept sounds splendid on paper, but the execution appears to have been anything but. iOS developer 0xkujhappened upon a tweak bounty by Reddit user karm2308 requesting the removal of these botched options from the contact list, and a free jailbreak tweak dubbed Hide VOIP Suggestions was consequently conceived.

Some of the best jailbreak tweaks for bolstering security on iOS 14

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 25, 2021

Jailbreaking your iPhone liberates you from the walled garden that Apple wanted to keep you in. It also lets you do more with your device than you ever could out of the box, and that includes improving your handset’s security.