It was only a couple of days ago that the RootHide team seeded two public betas of the RootHide bootstrap for iOS & iPadOS 14.0-17.0 devices with A8-A17 and M1-M2 chips. Fortunately, things went well since the beta testing didn’t last that long.
The RootHide team has officially released version 1.4 of its RootHide bootstrap on Wednesday, citing an announcement shared via the team’s 𝕏 account on Wednesday.
According to the change log published on the project’s GitHub page, RootHide bootstrap version 1.4 includes the following changes and improvements when compared with the previous public release:
– Improved uicache to avoid broken tweak-enabled apps causing dpkg failures
– Automatically run varClean for jailbroken apps and tweak-enabled TrollStore apps
– Added “Hide all jailbroken/TrollStore apps” button
– Reimplemented prefs-hook to keep var clean
– Add built-in RootHide manager app
– Update built-in Sileo
If you paid any attention to our previous news piece describing the RootHide bootstrap v1.4 betas 1 and 2, then these changes should look eerily familiar. Because this is an official public release and not a beta build, we can safely recommend it to all users, both existing and prospective.
If you aren’t sure how to use the RootHide bootstrap, but you’re interested in getting started with it, then we’d gladly point you in the direction of our step-by-step tutorial, where you can learn all about it. You can also acquire the latest version of the RootHide bootstrap from the project’s GitHub page.
The RootHide bootstrap isn’t a jailbreak, but it does allow users to use a jailbreak-centric package manager like Sileo on their device to install and use jailbreak tweaks with system-wide tweak injection. Moreover, it can be installed and perma-signed with TrollStore.
If you already have a jailbreak, then you don’t need the RootHide bootstrap. The RootHide bootstrap does, however, support more firmware than modern jailbreaks do, supporting up to and including iOS & iPadOS 17.0, allowing for jailbreak-like functionality on newer firmware than even the Dopamine jailbreak supports. For this reason, the RootHide bootstrap has grown in popularity among users who can’t jailbreak.
Are you running the latest version of the RootHide bootstrap? Let us know why or why not in the comments section down below.