Whether you were a Twitter user or not, it’s unlikely that you missed all the front-page headlines about Elon Musk re-branding the social media platform as X and releasing a new logo and app icon to go along with it.
Misaka for MacDirtyCow devices running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-16.1.2 has been all the rage recently. Working as a jailbreak-style package manager for non-jailbroken devices for accessing some of the community’s greatest MacDirtyCow add-ons, the project is rapidly gaining momentum. But hot off the heels of the new kernel file descriptor (kfd) exploit, it’s poised to become even more popular.
The Dopamine jailbreak tool for A12-A15 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 received an update Wednesday evening, officially bringing the utility up to version 1.1.3.
Our friends at Belkin are out with a new MagSafe-friendly bedside charging option for iPhones and Qi-enabled accessories this week, this time taking a flatter approach to the product’s design.
Just a couple of weeks ago, we showed you an add-on for MacDirtyCow devices called Plampy UI by YangJii that enabled a spiffy new look and feel for the Control Center user interface by way of new icon glyphs.
Being able to obtain the raw .ipa files of the apps you own from the App Store is a powerful capability. Not only can you often decrypt those apps to run them on Apple silicon-equipped Macs, but you can also inject your own custom tweaks into those apps before sideloading them on your iPhone or iPad with utilities such as Sideloadly.
When the MacDirtyCow exploit for iOS 15.X-16.1.2 devices first made its appearance, developers quickly took advantage of the newfangled ability to read and write to kernel memory.
Just last week, Apple released iOS & iPadOS 16.6 to the general public with a bevy of security patches to make the company’s mobile devices more secure.
Interesting news arose this weekend after @exploit3dguy shared what appears to be a successful blackbird exploit-based firmware downgrade on an iPhone 6s to iOS 10.0.1 with fully working passcode functionality.
Misaka, the premier package manager app for devices utilizing the MacDirtyCow exploit on iOS 15.x-16.1.2, received another update this week, officially bringing it up to version 1.9.0.
The iDB team takes its coverage of jailbreak tweaks and other jailbreak or device hacking content very seriously, but if you want a quick overview of everything that happened in the past week, then you’ve come to the right place.
It's the weekend people, and you know what that means! It's time for another edition of our Apps of the Week roundup. This week we have some awesome picks for you including an app that helps you make decisions, a remote for taking photos, and an interesting AI assistant. And as always, we've selected a fun game for you to check out.