Jailbreak news of the week: Changing the root password, iPod nano 5G bootrom exploit, EverPwnage, & more...

The iDownloadBlog team monitors for new developments in the iPhone jailbreak community and reports what we find all week long, but if you might’ve missed some of that important knowledge from this past week, then you’ve come to the right place because this will be a dedicated roundup piece aimed at helping you get caught up.

This roundup will discuss news spanning the week of Monday, December 16^th to Sunday, December 22^nd. As usual, we’ll kick things off with a roundup of the latest important releases and news tidbits and then wrap up with an outline of everything else afterward.

Without wasting even another moment of your time, we’ll jump right into it below.

Important stuff from this week

Changing root user password on rootless jailbreaks

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It’s important to keep your root user password secure when jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad, and this holds true even if you have a rootless jailbreak, as this is different from the root user.

In our step-by-step tutorial, we show you how to change your root user password on modern rootless jailbreaks to keep yourself secure from unwanted SSH attacks.

S5Late bootrom exploit for iPod Nano

A security researcher released a bootrom exploit for the 7th generation iPod Nano this past week that they call S5Late.

A bootrom exploit is an exploit in the device’s hardware that can’t be patched with a software update, and can often lead to jailbreaking.

You can learn more about S5Late in our full news post.

palera1n still works on iPadOS 18.3 beta 1

iPad (7th generation) jailbroken with palera1n on iPadOS 18.3 beta 1, courtesy of MasterMike88.

Jailbreak commentator @MasterMike88 confirmed with the jailbreak community on Monday that the palera1n jailbreak still works on the iPad (7th generation) running Apple’s latest iPadOS 18.3 beta 1.

The palera1n jailbreak runs on the unpatchable checkm8 hardware-based bootrom exploit, so this is hardly a surprise, but considering the fact that no version of iOS or iPadOS 18 has been jailbroken without the checkm8 bootrom exploit yet, this is still exciting in today’s day and age.

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

EverPwnage iOS 8.0-9.0.2 jailbreak

A new jailbreak for legacy devices running iOS 8.0-9.0.2 called EverPwnage was released this past week with an optional untether for certain compatible devices.

This jailbreak can be considered an upgrade from several jailbreaks for this particular device and firmware combination, but not all.

You can learn more about the ins and the outs of this jailbreak in our full news post.

iOS 18.1.1 unsigned

Apple on Wednesday stopped signing iOS & iPadOS 18.1.1 in a move that prevents users from downgrading the newer iOS & iPadOS 18.2 firmware update that launched just last week.

You can learn more about the implications of this change in our full news post.

CatVNC

With the new CatVNC jailbreak tweak, you can turn your jailbroken iPhone or iPad into a VNC server and use a VNC program on your Mac to control it remotely.

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

EmoZoom

In iOS 18.1 and later, the Emoji keyboard started displaying larger Emojis. This gave iOS developer PoomSmart the idea to make Emojis resizable in the iOS keyboard.

Enter the new EmoZoom jailbreak tweak, an add-on that lets you pick your preferred Emoji size in the iOS keyboard, whether you want them to be larger or smaller.

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

YouSpeed

YouSpeed is a jailbreak tweak by iOS developer PoomSmart that enhances the official YouTube app for iOS by making the video playback speed setting more accessible.

It does this by adding a dedicated video playback speed button to the video overlay interface, allowing you to perform this action in fewer steps than you could out of the box.

You can learn more about YouSpeed and how it works in our full review post.

Spawn Me

Sometimes you have a need to make phony notifications on your iPhone from apps on your device, and while this doesn’t come as a native feature, there are hacks that can enable it for you.

The Spawn Me sideloadable app is one such example, and with it, you can make notifications with custom content that appear to originate from various apps on your device.

You can learn more about Spawn Me in our full review post.

Everything else from this week

Ango Full Theme, Icons, Settings, UI v5.3 released: Add over 90 new icons ($0.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

BarTime v1.0.1 released: Update for iOS 15, update for rootless type jailbreaks, improve code (free via YouRepo repository)

CatVNC v1.0.1 released: Add support for iOS 14, add screen scale option in preferences, map the keyboard’s Home key to iOS device’s Home Button ($5.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

CopyVault v1.7.5 released: Optimize pasting in Tencent series of apps, fix bugs and implement various optimizations ($6.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

DLEasy v2.14.6 released: Fix the download issue in the app (Facebook, MeWe, Reddit, TikTok, WhatsApp, YouTube, and others), fix various issues, update compatible app versions ($2.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

EmojiLibrary v1.6.1 released: Remove misspelled and rather unused functions (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

EmojiPort (iOS 12.0-17.3) v1.5.1 released: Depend on EmojiLibrary 1.6.1 and later (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

HEPTA Theme, Icons, Settings, Badges v2.1 released: Add 80 new icons ($0.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

Lonie v4.6 released: Add new icons and more ($4.49 via Havoc repository – review post)

Moxy Theme, Icons, Settings v3.2 released: Add 150 new icons ($1.49 via Havoc repository – review post)

Return YouTube Music Dislike v1.13.1 released: Fix like/dislike data not being sent to RYD server in recent versions of YouTube (free via Chariz repository – review post)

Return YouTube Music Dislike v1.2.1 released: Fix like/dislike data not being sent to RYD server in recent versions of YouTube Music (free via Chariz repository – review post)

SquidExtender v3.5.0 released: Extend script abilities, add switch Emoji keyboard action, fix issue where buttons wouldn’t be displayed in the browser in some cases, texts for testing can now be saved when editing scripts, pasting picture in the Tencent series of apps is now optimized, several other optimizations ($6.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

SquidGesture Pro v2.6.6 released: Optimize the logic of executing a single action on Lock Screen, fix issue where users could save icon settings in the Open Link action ($6.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

TrollRecorder JB v2.12-521 released: Add Automation > Silent Mode option to run notifications automatically without notifications, add Automation > Physical Button Combination options that you can press both volume buttons simultaneously while not in a call to run a specific shortcut or to record voice memos, Appearance > Show Recording Format, Show Bundle Name, and Show SIM Card Alias now support hiding the corresponding content on the details page, Add Player Options to the options menu at the top right corner of the recording playback page with support for adjusting playback speed and support for skipping silent segments at three times speed, add Play Uplink Audio shortcut action so you can play custom audio files to the opposite during call recording and adjust the audio playback volume and infinite loop playback of background audio, functions of the Automation page are now unavailable on iOS 15, allow skipping code signature verification to view or export recordings in read-only mode, add animation effects when triggering actions by long-pressing the floating ball, fix issue where Voice-Over-Voice preview audio could not be interrupted properly, fix issue where the floating ball could not be displayed when cold-started in a screen-on but locked state, fix issue where the WeChat Call Assistant plugin might read the last call record after being overwritten and invalidated ($6.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

YouQuality v1.2.3 released: Only unregister its own observer on memory deallocation, added ar localization (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

YouSpeed v1.0.1 released: Only unregister its own observer on memory deallocation, added vi localization (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

YTUHD v1.5.6 released: Fix an issue where a video may start with a random non-preferred caption track (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

That pretty much caps off this week’s news regarding jailbreaking iPhones and iPads, but if you’re looking for additional resources, then we’ve got you.

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If you’re still hungry for more, then we advise keeping it tuned to iDownloadBlog throughout the coming work week, as we’re sure to have more jailbreak tweak releases and jailbreak information to share with you then!