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Jailbreak news of the week: XinaA15 jailbreak gets new UI, iOS 16 downgrades are toast on A12+, & more…

Weekly jailbreak news roundup.

Keeping track of all the latest things to surface in the jailbreak community these days is tough work, and it’s even harder when you’ve got a busy life to contend with. That’s why iDB comes at you every Sunday morning with roundups just like this one to help you find out what’s happening in the iPhone hacking community lately.

Mammoth, GoLinks, ClearSpace, and other apps to check out this weekend

Apps of the week

Welcome back to another edition of our Apps of the Week roundup, where we highlight some of our favorite recently-discovered apps and games. This week we have some great picks, including a comprehensive Mastodon client, an app for quickly saving and sharing info, and an app to help you eliminate compulsive phone use. And as always, we've selected a great game for you to check out.

FutureRestore developer discusses state of iOS 16 firmware downgrades, and it doesn’t look good

iOS 16 firmware downgrade

Firmware downgrades are something that jailbreakers have used over the years to thwart Apple’s attempts to stop jailbreaking. Even when Apple stopped signing firmware, jailbreakers found a way around that by saying .shsh blobs and using them to restore to unsigned firmware. But more recently, changes made on Apple’s end appear to have made even this process less than usable.