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Looking to give Cydia a modernized facelift? Try CellDia

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 31, 2019

Despite the relatively small number of redecorations the Cydia app has received over the last several years, it continues to be a reliable package manager today. Fortunately, Saurik (Jay Freeman) empowered developers to tweak and modify the Cydia app under Cydia Substrate starting in 2015.

Given the circumstances, the ball is very much in the jailbreak community’s court to make Cydia look and behave differently than it does out of the box, and that’s exactly what a free jailbreak tweak called CellDia by iOS developer Julio Verne attempts to accomplish as you’re about to witness.

Geosn0w releases OsirisJailbreak12, an incomplete ‘developer-only’ “jailbreak” PoC for iOS 12.0-12.1.2

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 30, 2019

Wednesday saw two separate jailbreak tools (Electra and unc0ver) pick up support for iOS 11.4.x, so one might be inclined to say that it’s been a decent day for the jailbreak community. But wait… there’s more!

Wednesday evening, hacker and software tinkerer @Geosn0w announced the release of an incomplete ‘developer-only jailbreak’ for iOS 12.0-12.1.2 dubbed OsirisJailbreak12. The work was made possible by the tfp0 exploit that was just recently unleashed by security researcher Brandon Azad:

Pwn20wnd releases unc0ver v2.2.2, updates v3.0.0 pre-release to fix Cydia installation and bootstrap bugs

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 30, 2019

Shortly after the Electra Team dropped a couple of updates for the Electra jailbreak tool, hacker and unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd released a duo of updates to the unc0ver jailbreak tool to the general public.

Pwn20wnd announced the updates Wednesday afternoon via Twitter, noting that it would resolve a problem with installing Cydia and extracting bootstrap upon jailbreaking. At the time of this writing, unc0ver v2.2.2 is now the latest public release:

Electra updated to version 1.2.2 with build number fix & other improvements

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 30, 2019

It was only a few hours ago that the Electra Team released Electra 1.2.0 with preliminary support for iOS 11.4-11.4.1, and we’re already seeing some of the first updates to the iOS 11-centric jailbreak tool post-release.

The Electra Team announced the updates via Twitter Wednesday afternoon, highlighting some of the changes that come along with them:

The latest iTunes beta prevents iOS downgrades

Christian Zibreg ∙ January 30, 2019

We've always been able to downgrade to a recent iOS version by installing an IPSW file on an iPhone or iPad through iTunes for Mac and Windows, but that's no longer possible in the latest iTunes 12.9 beta, distributed last week as part of the macOS Mojave 10.14.4 developer beta.

How to jailbreak iOS 11.4-11.4.1 with Electra1141

Joaquim Barbosa ∙ Updated May 23, 2019

Today, the Electra Team released the first publicly available jailbreak for iOS 11.4.x (excluding iOS beta versions), beating the unc0ver release by a matter of hours.

Whilst we recommend using the unc0ver tool for iOS 11.4.x due to its use of the original Cydia Substrate over Substitute and its greater support, we still dived in on a test device to give you a peek at the first past the post. If you really can't wait a moment longer and have a device sitting on iOS 11.4-11.4.x, then read on to jailbreak it.

Pwn20wnd drops unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release with support for iOS 11.4.x, releases unc0ver v2.2.0 to the masses

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated March 19, 2019

Not long after the Electra Team released Electra version 1.2.0 with official support for iOS 11.4-11.4.1, hacker and uncover lead developer Pwn20wnd officially released unc0ver v2.2.0 to the masses and dropped the first unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release in its wake.

Pwn20wnd made the announcements via Twitter Wednesday afternoon, noting that the unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release is based off unc0ver v2.2.0 but with support for Brandon Azad’s voucher_swap exploit for A9/A9X/A10/A10X/A11 devices running iOS 11.4-11.4.1 in addition to the preexisting support for iOS 11.0-11.4 beta 3:

Electra Team releases Electra version 1.2.0 with support for iOS 11.4-11.4.1

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated March 17, 2019

On Wednesday, the Electra Team released an updated version of the iOS 11-centric Electra jailbreak tool. Version 1.2.0 adds official support for iOS 11.4 and 11.4.1, making it the first public jailbreak tool to officially support these firmware versions.

The Electra Team made the announcement via Twitter, noting that Electra 1.2.0 uses a newer exploit dubbed voucher_swap. This exploit is allegedly more reliable than the traditional multi_path or VFS exploits that users have been relying on for months:

BLightAlert leverages your iPhone’s display brightness to get your attention for notifications

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 30, 2019

iOS’ notification system tends to be subtle enough that it can be easy to forget or miss an incoming notification. Fortunately, a free jailbreak tweak called BLightAlert by iOS developer Julio Verne can help mitigate this problem.

BLightAlert leverages your handset’s display backlight to grab your attention for incoming notifications. Once installed, the display brightness changes rapidly from low to high for a couple of seconds whenever an incoming notification rolls in, like so:

BigShotJb lets you capture taller screenshots more easily

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 30, 2019

I snap so many screenshots on my iOS devices each day that even the world’s most renowned mathematicians would need a calculator to keep count, but the situation is intensified when I capture tall vertical interfaces; doing so often requires snapping several screenshots that will need to be stitched together in photo-editing software afterward.

If you’ve ever been in a similar predicament, then you know what a pain this can be and you’ll be ecstatic to know there’s another way. A free jailbreak tweak dubbed BigShotJb (iOS 11) by iOS developers tapthaker and Julio Verne lets you capture tall vertical screenshots just like the one in the example above with minimal effort.

Security researcher Brandon Azad publishes voucher_swap exploit for pre-iOS 12.1.2 devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated March 19, 2019

Not long after tihmstar published his iOS 11.4-11.4.1-centric tfp0 exploit for headphone jack-enabled handsets, security researcher Brandon Azad followed up by releasing an exploit of his own intended for devices running iOS 12.1.2 and earlier.

Azad shared the news via Twitter Tuesday afternoon, including a link to documentation encompassing the exploit:

In change of heart, tihmstar releases tfp0 exploit for certain iOS 11.4-11.4.1 devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated March 19, 2019

Just over two weeks ago, it became known that hacking guru tihmstar was tinkering with a tfp0 exploit for iOS 11.4-11.4.1 devices of the A10 and earlier variety. But not long after finishing it, he opted not to release it, citing that ‘something cool’ would be coming instead.

Curiously, tihmstar appears to have undergone a change of heart on Tuesday after releasing his exploit to the public, a move that could reinforce existing iOS 11-centric jailbreak tools such as Electra and unc0ver: