Jailbreak news of the week: Dopamine jailbreak updates, hack enables animated icons, & more…

One of the major areas of interest here at iDownloadBlog is jailbreaking iPhones and iPads. It’s one of the reasons why we spend so much time covering jailbreak tweak releases and hacking news throughout the week.

Every weekend, we like to give our readers a brief roundup about the latest trends and news in the jailbreaking and hacking communities, especially as it pertains to iPhones and iPads. This weekend is no different.

In this roundup, we’ll discuss everything new spanning the week of Monday, May 27th to Sunday, June 2nd. We’ll start with our most eye-catching tidbits and then outline everything else afterward.

Important stuff from this week

Dopamine updates

The Dopamine jailbreak for certain iOS & iPadOS 15 and 16 devices received updates this past week that improve the performance and stability of the jailbreak.

You can learn about the latest updates to the Dopamine jailbreak below:

Dopamine v2.1.5 released

Lars Fröder and Boris Larin meet at GeekCon 2024

Dopamine jailbreak lead developer Lars Fröder and Kaspersky GReAT team member Boris Larin, who was instrumental in discovering the PPL bypass that made Dopamine v2 possible, met one another at the GeekCon 2024 security conference in Singapore.

Fröder also published slides to his presentations at GeekCon and Zer0Con to his GitHub page to serve as informational materials to aspiring jailbreakers and hackers alike.

You can learn more about this in our full news post.

Animated app icons without a jailbreak

Bryce Bostwick’s animated app icons for the Home Screen.

A talented developer by the name of Bryce Bostwick has discovered a seamless way to animate Home Screen app icons without a jailbreak.

This method doesn’t require an app to be foregrounded, nor does it require the app to show a pop-up notification each time the app icon changes.

You can learn more about this capability in our full news post.

iOS 17.5 unsigned

Apple on Tuesday stopped signing iOS & iPadOS 17.5 in a move that prevents firmware downgrades from the newer iOS & iPadOS 17.5.1.

This predictable move on Apple’s part helps keep people from running out of date firmware, which results in issues getting on hackable firmware when the time comes.

You can learn more about this in our full news post.

Best Bluetooth jailbreak tweaks

Bluetooth jailbreak tweak roundup for iOS 16.

We show you what are some of the best Bluetooth functionality-enhancing jailbreak tweaks for jailbroken iOS 16 devices available today.

These jailbreak tweaks may also support other versions of iOS, but they have been specifically tested to work on iOS 16.

You can read the full roundup to learn more.

DuckOff

The DuckOff jailbreak tweak upgrades the functionality of your iPhone or iPad’s keyboard and swipe-type features so that they will actually recommend and facilitate the typing of swear words.

Too many times, everyone’s favorite F-word gets auto-corrected as “Duck,” but that will happen no longer with the DuckOff jailbreak tweak.

You can learn more about DuckOff and how you can get it in our full review post.

Zetsu adds Split View multitasking

The Zetsu multitasking jailbreak tweak broke new ground when it enabled windowed multitasking on the iPhone just over two years ago, but a more recent update is once again spicing things up.

in Zetsu v1.6, the jailbreak tweak has added support for iPad-style Split View multitasking for both portrait and landscape orientations, allowing you to run two apps side-by-side and use them at the same time.

You can learn more about this, as well as all the other new features in version 1.6, in our full news post.

Ango Full Theme

The Ango Full Theme is available as a full-featured theme with tons of options embedded, such as custom icons not only for the Home Screen, but also for the Status Bar, Settings app, various apps, and more.

The colors used to produce the icons for Ango Full Theme are incredibly vibrant, and it’s simply wonderful to look at.

You can learn more about Ango Full Theme in our full review post.

Everything else from this week

Ango Full Theme, Icons, Settings, UI, Status Bar icons: A slick theme with more than 6400 icons that looks amazing ($1.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

Bloom v1.1.4 released: Add option to disable animations in the currently active application, fix notification sound not playing in some rare cases ($1.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

DuckOff v0.0.1 released: Forces the iOS native keyboard to recommend curse words, now available in the BigBoss repository (free via BigBoss repository – review post)

Exiwall v2.1.5 released: Add compatibility with 16Player ($2.49 via Havoc repository – review post)

JFRebornMComplicationsBridge v1.1 released: Make JellyFish Reborn and More Complications work better together, space elements more evenly (free via YouRepo repository)

LSTimeSeconds (iOS 15 – 16) v0.3 released: Enhanced adaptive Always On Display mode now displays the seconds when the screen is on and not in AOD mode whether the device is locked or unlocked, fix overheating and memory leak issues, streamlined the code-base by removing unnecessary hooks and updating the logic with compatibility for iOS 16, add support for most third-party jailbreak tweaks including JellyFish Reborn to ensure seamless integration, cleaned up the code by removing unnecessary logging to enhance performance, refactor several methods to improve overall performance and efficiency, add an option to check if AOD mode is active and hide seconds in AOD move when active so that the only appear when the device is unlocked, improve the transition animations between AOD and screen-on modes to ensure smoother visual changes, fix an issue where seconds wouldn’t update continuously when pulling down to view the Lock Screen (free via YouRepo repository)

MojoX Dark v1.4 released: Add support for more icons (free via Havoc repository – review post)

OCD v5.2.1 released: Further adjustments to the X position for Dots View ($1.00 via YouRepo repository – review post)

OpenAlphabeticListConfirm: Confirm before opening the App Library list (free via BigBoss repository)

Orzfolder: A folder layout customization tool (free via BigBoss repository)

StealthHome: Hide certain elements from your iOS 16 Home Screen (free via YouRepo repository – review post)

Translomatic v2.18.22 released: Fix Translomatic not showing in Instagram v332.0 direct messages menu ($2.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

TrollRecorder JB v1.9.7-183 released: Warning not to install TrollRecorder and TrollRecorder JB at the same time, fix a bug that caused the latest TrollStore version being pushed to TrollRecorder JB, optimize transition animation between foreground and background, optimize interaction animation when elements are pressed in settings page, record playback of background audio and media control, add support for traditional Chinese (Taiwan), previous version of Traditional Chinese has been renamed to Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), fix a bug that the location will be populated unintentionally when “Record with Location” option is disabled, app settings will be attached to feedback emails from now on ($6.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

That’s all we’ve got for you this weekend, but we’ll be sure to cover more news topics related to iPhone hacking and jailbreaking this coming week and then see you again next Sunday with a roundup just like this one.

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What was your favorite news tidbit or review piece from this past week? Let us know in the comments section down below.