Jailbreak news of the week: PoC for iOS 17.4.1 and older, iOS 17.5 released, & more...

At iDownloadBlog, we make it a priority of ours to ensure that you’re getting the latest iPhone and iPad jailbreaking news as it becomes available and that it’s as accurate as possible. But it’s hard for most people to keep their attention glued to a website all week long, which is why we make weekly recaps like this one.

In today’s piece, we’ll be going over everything we showed you throughout the past work week, to include jailbreak tweak releases and jailbreak-centric news breaks spanning Monday, May 13^th to Sunday, May 19^th.

So if you’re excited to see what you may have missed, then follow along…

Important stuff from this week

Kernel vulnerability PoC for iOS 17.4.1 and older

A security researcher said that they plain to publish a write-up denoting a proof-of-concept for a kernel vulnerability impacting iOS & iPadOS 17.4.1 and older very soon.

The announcement came shortly after Apple released iOS & iPadOS 17.5 with a slew of security patches, and it could mean great things for iPhone hacking in the future.

You can learn more about the announcement in our full news post.

Update: In a follow-up post, the same security researcher made good on their promise to share a PoC. But it may not result in a jailbreak, or even a viable kernel exploit at all.

Update 2: Apple reportedly told the security researcher that the kernel vulnerability is non-exploitable and that they will not pay the full bug bounty for it.

iOS & iPadOS 17.5 released

The iPhone's Settings icon with red badge, set against a gray background

Apple on Monday released iOS & iPadOS 17.5, a major software update with a substantial number of security patches.

Obviously, those hoping to jailbreak any time in the future should stay far away from this update, especially given the news about the potential PoC mentioned above.

You can learn more about what’s new in iOS & iPadOS 17.5 in our full news post.

Untethered jailbreak for iOS 9.2-9.3.4 teased

Jailbreak developer @dora2ios has teased an untethered jailbreak on iOS 9.2-9.3.4.

While it’s only for older arm64 devices, the achievement of an untethered jailbreak is no small feat. There is no ETA at this time.

You can learn more about the achievement in our full news post.

Moxy Theme

Moxy Theme is a beautiful theme package for jailbronen and non-jailbroken devices that features well over 1,550 icons and incorporates icons for the Settings app and unique wallpapers.

The developers express their interest in making the theme support at least 3,000 icons, so they take requests from users.

You can learn more about the Moxy Theme in our full review post.

Everything else from this week

AudioSnapshotServer: Sets up a UDP multicast server to listen in on mediaserverd. Tweaks such as Mitsuha 6 use this to fetch audio buffer’s snapshot from mediaserverd (free via Chariz repository)

CornBar v1.1.0 released: Add custom image option, add tint option, remove leftover image files (free via wrp1002’s repository — review post)

CozyBadges v2.1-rootless released: Replaces traditional Home Screen notification badges with colorized app icon labels (free via b4db1r3’s repository)

Glance v1.1.2 released: Allow custom icon and profile picture sizes, separate the icon and title show option, allow only blurring the screen instead of blacking it out, fix crashes when receiving certain notifications, mark as compatible with RootHide-Dopamine v2, fix crash when loading, add rootless deb ($1.49 via Chariz repository — review post)

Misaki v2.0.9 released: Add option to double-tap Home Screen to lock device, add option to hide battery edge, add option to change card size in App Switcher ($1.49 via Chariz repository — review post)

MojoX Dark v1.3 released: Add 110 new app icons (free via Havoc repository — review post)

N95ThemePack v1.5 released: Support for rootless jailbreaks added (free via Havoc repository)

N95ThemePack V2 v1.1 released: Support for rootless jailbreaks added (free via Havoc repository)

OLED Dark Mode: Enables true Dark Mode on OLED-equipped devices in those apps that don’t use a true black background (free via b4db1r3’s repository)

Omakase v1.0 released: A remix of Skittyblock’s Sushi jailbreak tweak (free via b4db1r3’s repository — review post)

Tako ( iOS 15-16 ) v3.5 released: Apply another fix to the disappearing problem, change logic for both views to be more robust, fix full icon with red notification bottom bar visuals, compiled with the wrong SDK is now fixed (free via b4db1r3’s repository — review post)

Translomatic v2.18.21 released: Fix a crash in Messenger app by Facebook v457.0.0 ($2.99 via Havoc repository — review post)

TrollRecorder JB v1.8.6-145 released: Play recording warning can now be played by pressing the pause or resume button on the floating panel, customize the rectangular region that helps you position the hover-ball on the screen, determine which edges of the screen the hover-ball can be attached to, add warning dialogs to enable WeChat call assistant, increase timeout intervals in some scenarios, fix issue that prevents iOS 15 and iPhone 12 users from touching the hover-ball, fix issue that prevents call direction detection for WeChat calls, fix issue that causes the allow automatic recording toggles for FaceTime and Phone calls to not work properly, when URL scheme enabled is toggled off, open Safari to download the updated .tipa package ($6.99 via Havoc repository — review post)

Velar v1.1 released: Add new icons, add glyph settings icons, fix .plist for calendar to display day, updated and redesigned various icons, and more… ($2.99 via Havoc repository — review post)

YTClassicVideoQuality v1.4.0 released: Use an alternative method to restore the video quality selector, contributed by @dayanch96 (free via PoomSmart’s repository — review post)

Right about now you’re caught up with the latest trends in iPhone and iPad jailbreaking communities. If you didn’t see what you were looking for in today’s roundup, or you’re anticipating something different, be sure to keep it tuned to iDB throughout the upcoming work week to see if it surfaces. Otherwise, we’ll be right back next Sunday with an updated piece just like this one.

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