Jailbreak news of the week: Dig3st, Nugget v5.1 teaser, iOS 18.3.1 unsigned, & more...

Your friends at iDownloadBlog are avid fans of jailbreaking iPhones and iPads. We’ve done it for more than a decade, and it’s a fun experience that we still partake in despite the slowing of new releases and jailbreak tools.

Since we want as many people to be able to enjoy the hobby of jailbreaking as possible, we compose detailed step-by-step guides and break news about the latest releases as they happen throughout the week (and yes, even on weekends). But since many peoples’ schedules vary, we like to come at you every Sunday morning with a roundup just like this one, which brings it all together so you don’t miss a beat.

In this week’s roundup, we’ll be discussing everything new in the iPhone and iPad hacking & jailbreaking communities spanning the week of Monday, March 17^th through Sunday, March, 23^rd. We’ll discuss our favorite news stories first and then wrap things up with an outline of the latest jailbreak tweak updates afterward.

Important stuff from this week

dig3st

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The new dig3st jailbreak tweak for iOS 15-17 devices brings Apple Intelligence-style notification summaries to older, jailbroken devices.

The tweak is highly configurable and works with most notification types, excluding notification groups.

You can learn all about dig3st and how it works in our full review post.

Nugget v5.1 to get video wallpaper support

Nugget v5 is already in the hands of beta testers with animated wallpaper support, but in an announcement shared just this past week, we learned that developer LeminLimez is already working on the next big thing.

Indeed, Nugget v5.1 will add support for video wallpapers, allowing users to pick a .mov file from their Photo Library to use as their wallpaper.

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

iOS & iPadOS 18.3.1 unsigned

Apple just this past week stopped signing iOS & iPadOS 18.3.1 in a move that prevents iPhone and iPad owners from downgrading from the newer iOS & iPadOS 18.3.2 firmware.

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

MiniIsland

The MiniIsland jailbreak tweak can make the Dynamic Island narrower on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max when listening to Music, preventing the wide Dynamic Island from forcing Status Bar icons to disappear in certain cases.

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

Everything else from this week

Ainsworth v1.7.0.1 released: Fix an issue where the settings wouldn’t propagate on rootless jailbreaks, remove some dangling dependencies, fix iPadOS crash for the color picker ($1.49 via Chariz repository – review post)

Amber v1.2.4 released: Optimize the code that detects the camera version (free via PoomSmart’s repository – review post)

CatScript v1.5.2 released: Add script running status indicator, add app.bundle_path(), add app.data_path(), fix some compatibility issues ($5.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

CatScript Lite v1.5.2 released: Add script running status indicator, add app.bundle_path(), add app.data_path(), fix some compatibility issues (free via Havoc repository – review post)

CatVNC v1.6.0 released: Web client supports screen rotation now ($5.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

EmojiLibrary v1.7.0 released: Change the position of the new Emojis to be the same as on iOS 18.4 beta 3 and later (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

HideSearchButton: Hides the Home Screen’s search button (free via BigBoss repository)

NoWaveForm: Hides the wave form on the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen when media is playing (free via Nathan’s repository – review post)

PanCake (Rootless) v2.3 released: Fix preferences not bring read correctly on rootless jailbreaks, add 2 lighter haptic feedback options, disable gestures when the keyboard is opened (free via AnthoPak’s repository)

Premium UI Theme and Icon Pack v1.3 released: Add 37 new icons ($3.49 via Havoc repository – review post)

QuadHighCurrent v1.1.3 released: Optimize the code that detects the camera version (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

Return YouTube Dislike v1.13.4 released: If the raw dislike data isn’t available for a video, then the normal dislike data will be used instead to prevent app crashing when viewing videos under these circumstances (free via Chariz repository – review post)

Return YouTube Music Dislike v1.2.3 released: If the raw dislike data isn’t available for a video, then the normal dislike data will be used instead to prevent app crashing when viewing videos under these circumstances (free via Chariz repository – review post)

SquidExtender v3.7.0 released: Add support for Hammer It word segmentation for tapping and holding messages in GPT window, add one-handed keyboard action, add ability to hide keyboard settings and one-handed mode switch in the menu of selecting an input method, fix inability to paste in the system build-in Terminal app ($6.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

SwipeToReply v1.1 released: Fix a crash related to gesture (free via P2KDev’s repository)

WANoMessageTicks: Hides the messages previews and the ticks/info receipts in the WhatsApp view (free via YouRepo repository)

YouTube Legacy: Attempts to make old YouTube versions functional and not crash as time goes by (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

YouTube X v1.7.12 released: Make YouTube version 17.x.x/18.x.x functional again (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

YTVideoOverlay v2.2.1 released: Fix incorrect button position in full-screen mode in recent versions of the YouTube app (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

By now, you’ve gotten yourself caught up on the latest news and releases spanning this past week, but with another week coming right up, we implore you to keep it tuned to iDownloadBlog as we continue covering the latest jailbreaking news as happens in real time.

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