Jailbreak news of the week: AltStore & Dopamine updates, XXTouch Elite, HarlemShake Reborn, & more...

Jailbreaking iPhones and iPads comprises of a significant portion of what we do here at iDownloadBlog, and as such, we cover news in this space as quickly as it comes about. On the other hand, we also know that it can be hard to keep track of new developments when you’re busy during the work week with a job, school, and family obligations. But don’t worry; we got you.

Each weekend, we make a roundup piece just like this one that summarizes everything you may have missed throughout the work week. We start off with an overhead view of the most important topics first and then wrap things up with an outline of the latest jailbreak tweak releases and updates, as well as roundups and tutorials that can help any aspiring or existing jailbreaker.

In today’s piece, we’ll be taking a look at everything new in the iPhone & iPad jailbreaking and hacking communities spanning the week of Monday, April 14^th through Sunday, April 20^th.

Important stuff from this week

Dopamine Updates

The Dopamine jailbreak tool received important updates this past week that improve the jailbreak and its user experience for all users.

You can learn about the latest versions of Dopamine to be released during this past week below:

Dopamine v2.4.4 & 2.4.5 released

AltStore Updates

The AltStore sideloading utility for iPhones and iPads received an update this week that adds new features and improvements for all users after originally only being available as as beta to a select group of users.

You can learn more about what’s new in the latest AltStore updates below:

AltStore v2.2 released

AltStore PAL anniversary

The AltStore team also announced that to celebrate the utility’s 1-year anniversary, users can now install a notarized version of AltStore Classic directly through AltStore PAL.

This means that AltStore Classic will no longer count against the sideloading limit of 3 apps, it never expires, and it doesn’t require a PC to be installed or updated.

You can learn more about the new AltStore announcement in our full news post.

XXTouch Elite

XXTouch Elite is a powerful full-fledged automation framework for jailbroken devices running iOS 14 and later. It’s jam-packed with features that can benefit developers, power users, and regular users alike.

Because there’s so much you can do with XXTouch Elite, we would strongly recommend taking a look at our full review post to learn more about what you can do with it.

HarlemShake Reborn

The HarlemShake Reborn jailbreak tweak breathes new life into a popular jailbreak tweak from 2013 in which users could invoke an incredible chaotic slew of animations on their device while the Harlem Shake played on their device.

The new remake is almost just as detailed as the original, and can be invoked with a simple shake of your device.

You can learn more about HarlemShake Reborn and where you can get it from in our full review post.

Everything else from this week

CopyVault v1.9.0 released: Fix some cases on iOS 16 where the window interferes with the keyboard during a search, add advanced setting whether to display search bar automatically when returning to the top, add advanced setting whether to display the time or application icon by default in simple mode, menu on upper left corner of the window can now get a temporary switch to show the time or icon in simple mode ($6.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

HarlemShake Reborn v1.0.1 released: Added alert the handles a stop mechanism and of the HarlemShake, bug fixes and improvements (free via pkgFiles repository – review post)

Lonie v4.9.1 released: Add and update more app icons ($2.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

NotificationHub v1.0.5 released: fixed and issue with empty notification list, fixed an issue with database can not be accessed in some cases, improved support for various environment types, adjusted some of the app’s UI to reflect internal changes, fixed an issue causing application’s filter to crash the app on launch, fixed an issue with notification list only showing the last 1000 rows, improved UX and UI on several app functions (free via iamdega’s repository – review post)

SquidExtender v3.7.4 released: Add new function for scripts, $util.jbpath(path), to get real full jailbreak path ($6.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

TikTokPhotoComments: A tweak enable the Photos and Stickers in comments function in the TikTok app if you don’t already have it (free via Nathan’s repository)

TrollRecorder JB v3.4-614 released: Fixed the issue where the app would sometimes fail to start ($6.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

Twemoji 16.0 (EFM) v16.0.0 released: Updated to Unicode 16.0 (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

XXTouch Elite v5.1 released: Fix device needs to respring message loop, fix lua functions app.front_bid and app.front_pid, OpenAPI now works flawlessly with Axios ($9.99 via Havoc repository – review post)

YouSlider v1.1.3 released: Added vi localization, fixed setting slider color not working in Subscription and You tabs (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

YouTube Legacy v1.4.2 released: Removed NoYTPremium tweak as a dependency and included some of its code inside this tweak to work around uYou tweak’s strict outdated requirements (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

YTUHD v1.6.1 released: Updated spoof version to 15.8.4 (for iOS 14 and lower), updated pl localization (free via PoomSmart’s repository)

Now that you’ve made it this far into today’s roundup, we can say with confidence that you’re relatively up to speed. If you think you missed last week’s roundup, then we’d advise you check that out too. You’ll find a similar link in the piece where you can delve down the rabbit hole of information.

Here are some jailbreak tweak roundups that can help you discover amazing add-ons for your pwned handset:

And here are some tutorials that can help you get started with iPhone or iPad hacking, jailbreaking, or some other form of entertainment:

What has been your favorite jailbreak tweak release or news tidbit from this past week? We’d love to hear from you in the comments section down below.