Just this week, Hyperixa released a neat little app called IPSW, which could be used to see if a particular iPhone or iPad firmware version was being signed by Apple at the time of checking. The IPSW app was first made available for jailbroken iPhones and iPads via package managers such as Cydia, Sileo, and Zebra.
Sideloady, a popular alternative to AltStore for sideloading .ipa files onto iPhones and iPads as a means of bypassing the App Store to install apps, received a fresh update on Tuesday in the form of version 0.26.5.
The AltStore team is out with a fresh update for its popular AltStore and AltServer sideloading software for iPhones and iPads, and it’s now available for all users.
You may recall earlier this week when we showed you a modified version of the unc0ver jailbreak app provided by iOS developer ichitaso with integrated permanent signing capabilities made possible by a new PoC by security researcher Zhuowei Zhang.
Sideloady, a popular alternative to AltStore for sideloading apps on iPhones and iPads, has received an update to version 0.26.3 that might be of interest to existing users.
AltStore, a popular piece of software used for sideloading apps on iPhones and iPads, is officially only supported on macOS and Windows. Still, that hasn’t stopped motivated developers from making unofficial Linux-compatible options.
There has been a lot of hype surrounding Zhuowei Zhang’s recently-released PoC because it allows apps to be signed on a device indefinitely.
A newer feature of the AltStore sideloading platform for iPhone and iPad is the ability to use trusted sources in the AltStore app to find and install sought after software that will likely never be present in Apple’s App Store because of its rules and restrictions.
Hot off the heels of the release of a powerful PoC by security researcher Zhuowei Zhang that allows sideloaded apps to be signed indefinitely, the Odyssey Team has now provided a package for Taurine jailbreak users on iOS & iPadOS 14.0-14.3.
Apart from the checkra1n jailbreak, just about all of the jailbreak tools released in recent memory come in the form of a sideloadable app, which needs to be signed using your free or paid Apple Developer account or a third-party signing service.
Apple released its first betas of iOS & iPadOS 16 and macOS 13 Ventura shortly after the conclusion of the WWDC 2022 Keynote address. But one thing that users of sideloaded apps may have noticed after installing these betas is that some things weren’t quite working right – namely the Mail plugin and AltJIT.
While many are waiting for a jailbreak for the newest hardware and software combinations available today, we’ve witnessed an uptick in the number of legacy jailbreaks for older device and firmware combinations over the past several months.