Any palera1n jailbreak users out there are going to wake up to a pleasant surprise Tuesday morning, as the palera1n team published a new build of its checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool late last night.
A bit of good news emerged from the woodwork this past weekend for anyone who might be using a rootless jailbreak on their iPhone or iPad such as Dopamine for A12-A15 devices running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 or palera1n-c for A9-A11 devices running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-16.x.
Apple on Thursday, May 18th released iOS & iPadOS 16.5 and iOS & iPadOS 15.7.6 to the general public. The higher of the two, obviously for Apple’s latest handsets that can run iOS & iPadOS 16, and the lower of the two being for some of Apple’s older handsets that can’t install iOS or iPadOS 16 due to Apple-imposed installation limitations.
ElleKit, the primary tweak injection method used by the new Dopamine jailbreak for A12-A15 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 was updated this week to version 1.0.
If you haven’t been following along in the iOS 9 jailbreak scene for quite some time now, then we wouldn’t blame you. After all, it has been almost seven years since Apple retired iOS 9 in place of the newer iOS 10 software update, so many people have moved on. Nevertheless, we have some important jailbreak news pertaining to this particular firmware to share with you.
Developer Lars Fröder (opa334) released version 1.0.4 of the Dopamine jailbreak tool for arm64e devices running iOS & iPadOS versions 15.0-15.4.1 Monday evening to address more bugs and to further improve the stability and user experience for all.
Lars Fröder (opa334) released version 1.0.3 of the Dopamine jailbreak tool for A12-A15 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 on Sunday with some bug fixes and improvements that will benefit end users.
Just under two months ago, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called Nexus by iOS developer iCraze that mimics an iOS 16-style Lock Screen on older version(s) of iOS.
Following the Dopamine jailbreak tool’s first official update to version 1.0.1 early Wednesday afternoon, project lead developer Lars Fröder (opa334) followed up a few hours later with a second update to Dopamine that brought it up to version 1.0.2.
The Sideloadly Team took to /r/jailbreak late Tuesday night to announce a new update to the popular AltStore alternative for sideloading apps into iPhones and iPads, and also to reveal some of what’s new in several recent automatic updates.
After just releasing the Dopamine jailbreak tool for A12-A15 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 late Tuesday night, developer Lars Fröder (opa334) has now pushed the tool’s first public update.
Immediately following last night’s launch of the Dopamine jailbreak tool for A12-A15 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1, the Zebra Team released an updated version of the Zebra package manager app in the form of version 1.1.31.