Jailbreak news of the week: Don’t install unofficial ElleKit builds, iPad Pro displaying tvOS, & more…

The iDB team passionately covers iPhone hacking and jailbreaking news as it happens throughout the week. But for those who can’t follow along in real time, we offer a weekly weekend roundup that compiles everything into a largely summarized post.

In this roundup, we showcase all the latest jailbreaking and jailbreak tweak news spanning the week of Monday, June 3rd to Sunday, June 9th. We’ll begin with some important stuff, and then outline everything else toward the end.

Important stuff from this week

Modder gets tvOS to work with iPadOS

Sigmund Judge's iPad Pro displaying a picture from an Apple TV. — Image Credit: Sigmund Judge

Sigmund Judge, a co-host of the Magic Rays of Light Podcast, recently showed off how he modified an Apple TV 4K (3rd generation) so that it could be powered by an 11-inch iPad Pro, which also took the HDMI output of the same Apple TV to display its picture on-device.

This was a really interesting mod that didn’t require any jailbreaking, but it did require a little bit of tech surgery to install a special board in the Apple TV 4K, as well as some additional hardware to bypass HDCP and to get the video to display on the iPad Pro via USB Video Class.

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

PurePKG updates

The PurePKG package manager app alternative to current options such as Sileo and Zebra received updates this past week that improve the app and its user experience.

You can learn about the latest PurePKG updates below:

PurePKG v1.5.1 & 1.6 released

Procursus package updates cause issues for some Dopamine users

On Tuesday, the Procursus Team released updates to several of its dependency jailbreak packages that interact with the jailbreak bootstrap. Unfortunately, those updates didn’t bode well for all jailbreakers.

In a public comment, Dopamine lead developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) said that the Procursus updates weren’t to blame, but rather Dopamine. Some iOS 15 users would have found themselves using the iOS 16 bootstrap, which would have interacted poorly with these updates.

There’s an easy fix, and you can learn more about that in our full news post.

Verxina

The Dock is a beloved part of the iPhone’s Home Screen, but it hasn’t changed much over the years and some users demand more out of it.

Enter Verxina, a new all-encompassing control panel that you can access by swiping up on the Home Screen’s Dock.

You can learn more about Verxina and the different things you can do with it in our full review post.

Dynamic120hz

The Dynamic120hz jailbreak tweak allows the end user to experience a better refresh rate experience on ProMotion display-equipped iPhones that can be jailbroken.

The tweak not only offers per-app configurability, but it can also show you when the display’s refresh rate is enhanced with a privacy-style indicator that you can customization in and of itself.

You can learn more about Dynamic120hz in our full review post.

Everything else from this week

CrossOverIPC ~ Dopamine: A cross-process communication tool for sending and receiving messages on iOS 15 & 16 for rootless jailbreaks (free via BigBoss repository)

Eevee Amino Tweak v5.0.1 released: Includes a hot fix for the crashes in the new version 3.25.0, removes the coin transfer feature because it was fixed server-side (free via Havoc repository)

FlixRatings for Netflix v3.2.5 released: Add compatibility with Netflix v16.34.0 and later (free via Havoc repository — review post)

FoxFort Tools v1.4.11 released: Internal changes (free via Havoc repository)

Glance v1.1.3 released: Add a setting for the blur intensity, fix disabling the tweak to work as expected, potential fix for an issue regarding Apple Watches, fix a rare issue where Glance would show up on the Home Screen, disabled RootHide-Libroot support until comet receives an update ($1.49 via Chariz repository — review post)

Nyx for Instagram v1.3.0 released: Add new feature to auto clear the cache and save storage, smart copy detection now identifies any link and provides options to copy the link or open in a browser or copy the entire text, new feature to hide threads in your feed, enhanced update check feature now allows exclusion of beta or experimental versions from the check, add and improve various feature compatibility with newer Instagram versions, improve hide reels to better detect various types of reels in explore feed, update various translation languages, fix issue that caused story features menu to not appear in newer versions of Instagram, fix issue causing some features to not be selectable, other minor improvements (free via BigBoss repository — review post)

PlayMusicOnRecord: Keeps your music playing when you record videos (free via BigBoss repository)

Rune v1.3.1 released: Add API for developers to create their own Rune panels, add support/contact page to the preferences, fix bug when using “Always open to first panel” without “move entire screen,” remove flashlight toggle on devices that do not have one, resolve tweak conflict with SplitViewPro, fix crash for some SplitViewPro users ($2.49 via Havoc repository — review post)

SafariX v1.2.0 released: Add a refresh button, add a button to inject cookies into Safari (free via YouRepo repository – review post)

SleeperX v3.0.4 released: Utilize a more optimized and cleaner method to skip alarms since the previous method could leave a skipped alarm in an inconsistent state, fix an issue that prevented an alarm from being manually skipped twice with NextAlarmSX ($0.99 via Havoc repository — review post)

Translomatic v2.18.24 released: Add support for YouTube v19.21.3, remove deprecate code ($2.99 via Havoc repository — review post)

TrollRecorder JB v1.10.0-267 released: Re-designed “Recycle Bin,” now you can restore recently deleted recordings within app, you need to toggle “Use Recycle Bin” on before deleting, new app icon for Pro users, export with metadata now writes ID3 tags to the exported audio files, optimize performance for batch deleting and exporting, remove outdated recordings gets a new 45-day option, add special markings for outdated recordings to be deleted, the primary app icon has been modified to be centered ($6.99 via Havoc repository — review post)

TwitchAdBlock: Blocks video ads in the Twitch app (free via level3tjg’s repository)

UKGBP: Jailbreak bypass for UKG Dimensions and UKG Workforce Central (free via level3tjg’s repository)

YouTube X v1.6.6 released: Improve the ad blocking logic (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

YTUHD v1.5.2 released: Fix crash on YouTube version 19.22.3 and later (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

YTUnShorts v1.2.1 released: Removes Shorts from the YouTube app’s feed (free via PoomSmart’s repository – review post)

Zetsu v1.6.2 released: Add search function on the Favorites and Pre-App Settings screens, add the ability to hide the Menu Bar when screenshotting, add a cunning date to the Change Log screen, fix an issue where the foremost application is closed when Split View is closed with camera background enabled, fix an issue where the keyboard disappears when the front most application is rotated with the keyboard activated, add functionality to the PullOver Pro menu bar style, add the ability to launch Split View from the App Switcher, the color of the application name text in the Windows menu bar is now set to black if the application icon is light or white if it is dark, the menu bar can now be selected to be shown or hidden for each application using the blacklist function, fix a crash problem when creating a Window from the iOS 15 App Switcher (free via Chariz repository — review post)

That brings us to the end of this week’s jailbreak tweak and jailbreak news roundup, but we promise we’ll be right back again next weekend with another roundup just like this one, albeit updated to include the latest news at that time.

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