Apple released iOS & iPadOS 18.6.2 one week ago, fixing security issues that needed fixing and helping to ensure its users were well-protected from vulnerabilities that may have been actively exploited by bad actors in the wild.
I have spent the last 15 years owning jailbroken iPhones, iPod touches, iPads, and even Apple TVs. At the very beginning, it was my friends who encouraged me to try it. I was always skeptical, thinking it would cause issues with my device or void my warranty with Apple. But after I tried it, I never really looked back.
When you’re in a phone call with somebody that you know and who is in your Contacts app, iOS is supposed to scale the contact’s photo to fill the screen for as long as you’re in the middle of that call. In some cases, it doesn’t.
If you’ve ever used an online signing service to sideload apps on your iPhone before, which is typically a one-year service provided by a third party for a fee, then you’re likely familiar with it becoming revoked. This occurs when Apple finds out the Apple Developer account is being abused and thusly closes the Apple Developer account so that the signing service can’t continue.
Back in May, we showed you a duo of utilities that harnessed Ian Beer’s CVE-2025-24203 vulnerability writeup to bring MacDirtyCow-like tweaks to newer firmware without a jailbreak. One of those tools was called dirtyZero.
Apple stopped signing iOS 18.6 on Thursday, just one week after releasing iOS 18.6.1 alongside watchOS 11.6.1 to enable the Blood Oxygen monitoring feature on Apple Watches that were previously barred from offering the feature to end users under an International Trade Commission ruling – but later circumvented by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection ruling that patent troll Masimo is now once again suing over.
Despite being intended for older device and firmware combinations, iOS developer LukeZGD’s EverPwnage jailbreak tool has been receiving a lot of updates recently with support for more devices and firmware versions.
Have you ever wished for the day when you’d be able to run macOS on your iPhone or iPad? This is certainly a pipe dream for many users, and something Apple never plans to implement, but one hacker has managed to get things working – at least partially.
Do you like to listen to music on your jailbroken iPhone or iPad? If you answered yes to that question, then you might take kindly to a newly released jailbreak tweak called LSLyrics by iOS developer Mysteryexe, which helps bring your music to life by displaying time-synced lyrics on your device’s Lock Screen background.
Interested in a notification experience on your jailbroken iPhone that doesn’t suck? If you answered yes to that question, then you might want to look at a newly released jailbreak tweak called Looky by iOS developer ella89sp, which changes incoming notification behavior on your Lock Screen to a more hands-free approach.
Following in the footsteps of famed Dopamine jailbreak and TrollStore perma-signing utility lead developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev), @alfiecg_dev announced in a post shared to social media platform 𝕏 Friday morning that he will be joining the Cellebrite Labs team next month as a full time iOS security researcher.
Apple on Tuesday officially stopped signing iOS & iPadOS 18.5, one week after releasing iOS & iPadOS 18.6 with bug fixes and security improvements for its mobile platforms.