Tracking down the latest news in the realms of iPhone hacking and jailbreaking comprises of a significant portion of what we do here at iDownloadBlog. For that reason, we cover stories as they happen in real time, but we also try to ensure our readers have a quick and easy weekend digest so that they can get caught up when they miss important news during the busy work week.
On Wednesday, Nintendo announced that the Nintendo Switch 2 would go on pre-order in the United States on April 9th, 2025 with initial unit availability beginning on June 5th. Unfortunately, the video game company had to backtrack a little bit on its pre-order plans in the United States, directly because of tariff changes imposed by the government’s current administration, the BBC reports.
Yes, the Nintendo Switch 2 was just formally announced to go on pre-order starting next Wednesday, but don’t you worry about compatibility with your existing Nintendo Switch games, because they’ll work just fine inside of Nintendo’s new game system.
As you may recall, the Nugget SparseRestore exploit-based device customization utility for non-jailbroken handsets running iOS 17.0-18.4 beta recently picked up an update adding the ability to set animated wallpapers, and it was later reported that video wallpapers were coming soon. Well folks… that update is finally here.
Looking to spice up your jailbroken iPhone’s Lock Screen? If so, then look no further than AniTime, a new jailbreak tweak by iOS developer yandevelop that gives your iPhone’s Lock Screen an animated anime-inspired time display experience.
During a Nintendo Direct on Wednesday, the company officially confirmed that the Nintendo Switch 2 would become available to consumers on June 5th, 2025, with pre-orders starting next Wednesday, April 9th, aligning with a report we shared at the end of last week.
Focus Stacking is a technique that photographers sometimes use to combine several images of the same subject with a slightly different focus point in each image to create a single image with an extended depth of field beyond what might be possible with the aperture setting on any given lens.
It’s April 1st today, and while a lot of brands are out to play jokes for April Fools’ Day, that isn’t the case with Nomad. In fact, our friends over at Nomad were dead serious when they told us all about their limited time site-wide sale, which knocks 15% off select items available for sale on their website.
Apple on Monday released updated firmware for various AirPods models alongside the new iOS & iPadOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4 software updates that bring countless new features and improvements to Apple device owners.
If you have a legacy iPhone or iPad with an A9-A10(X) chip inside, then you might be excited to hear about a new and free firmware downgrading tool called terdus merula for macOS that allows you to downgrade your device’s firmware back to any version you want, in either a tethered or an untethered fashion.
While not talked about a whole lot due to the legacy firmware and devices that it supports, g1lbertJB is an untethered jailbreak that came out in 2023 that supports iPhones 3GS, 4, and 4S, as well as iPad (1st generation) and (2nd generation), and iPod touch (3rd generation) and (4th generation) running iOS 5.0-6.1.2.
It’s no secret that Delta is perhaps the most popular emulator app on the iOS & iPadOS platforms as of right now – after becoming one of the most well-known emulator apps via sideloading even before Apple started allowing it in the App Store, it only skyrocketed in popularity once it officially became available in the App Store. But despite how popular Delta is, one thing has always been missing… online multiplayer.