A special Lightning connector for debugging has been found embedded inside the Ethernet port of the latest Apple TV 4K model, according to reports this past weekend.
With October winding down, we take a look back at the news and more from the last week.
There have been so many interesting teasers involving the new checkm8 bootrom exploit that we seriously can’t wait to see what becomes of it, but for those who might be jailbroken on iOS 11 or iOS 12 with Chimera, Electra, or unc0ver in the meantime, we’ve put together a comprehensive list of this week’s jailbreak tweak releases for your convenience.
In this roundup, we’ll dive into things by discussing our favorite jailbreak tweak releases fist and then wrap things up with an outline the rest afterward.
Just over a week ago, well-respected hacker and security researcher Luca Todesco took to Twitter to tease an all-new custom boot logo and frame buffer concept for checkra1n, a purported jailbreak utility that would be based on the recently-released checkm8 bootrom exploit from @axi0mX. Fortunately, the teasers haven’t stopped there.
Just this weekend, the official checkra1n Twitter page teased an image of what appears to be both a seventh-generation iPod touch and an iPhone SE – each running iOS 13 – with the checkra1n jailbreak app present on the Home screen.
Anyone enjoying a jailbreak by way of the Electra Team’s Chimera or Electra tools will want to fire up the jailbreak’s native Sileo package manager and refresh its sources this weekend.
The Sileo Team released an updated version of the Sileo package manager on Saturday, bringing it up to version 1.5.0 with significant speed boosts, preliminary support for iOS 13, and dark mode-centric aesthetic improvements. The announcement was made early this morning via Twitter:
The iPhone’s advanced photography capabilities make it incredibly easy to fill your Photo Library with images. On the other hand, iOS’ Photos app doesn’t do as great of a job of communicating file attributes as we’d like.
Given the circumstances described above, we’re particularly excited to show you a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called PhotoInfo by iOS developer shepgoba.
It has been one week since Apple added a handful of games to Apple Arcade, its newest subscription service focused on playing games on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS devices. And now there is a new batch of titles.
Apple has always had to make crucial decisions in regards to China and how it handles business there, sometimes appearing to bow to the Chinese government just to make sure it can still do business there.
Apple on Friday updated a couple of its Beats headphones to feature new color options for those who might be in the market for the wireless headphones.
Yup, you read that right. Loyal iDownloadBlog reader Niles Mitchell has outdone himself once again. After doing a video around an Apple Watch connecting to an Iomega Zip disk, he's set out to one-up himself by trying to burn a CD using the Apple wearable device. But will it work?
Appel Watch assembler Quanta Computer is understood to be currently supplying the Cupertino tech giant with "unspecified autonomous driving solutions."
If you need additional clues that Apple is indeed working on a new MacBook Pro model, here's one: an icon depicting the company's unreleased sixteen-inch notebook has been discovered in the first two betas of the upcoming macOS Catalina 10.15.1 update.