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.
Both the Dynamic Island and the Lock Screen’s Now Playing widget display an animated waveform whenever you play any form of media on your device. On both the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen’s Now Playing widget, the waveform normally appears opposite of the album artwork of whatever you’re listening to.
If you have a jailbroken iPhone 14 Pro or 14 Pro Max, then we’d say you have quite the unicorn in your hands. It’s the newest device that you can currently jailbreak, assuming it’s running a supported firmware; and moreover, it’s the only jailbreakable handset with the coveted Dynamic Island.
In a teaser shared in the Cowabunga Discord channel over the weekend, Nugget developer LeminLimez said that an upcoming update to Nugget dubbed version 5.0 would introduce animated wallpaper options to iPhones and iPads running iOS & iPadOS 17.0-18.4 beta via the SparseRestore exploit without any jailbreak being required.
Apple Intelligence unlocks some powerful AI-centric features on the iPhone 15 Pro series and later, with one prominent example being notification summaries. But say you had an older device that doesn’t support Apple Intelligence and wanted notification summaries on your device; ordinarily, you’d be out of luck, but with a new jailbreak tweak called dig3st by iOS developer uncor3, Apple Intelligence-style notification summaries can be had on more devices.
Apple released iOS & iPadOS 18.3.2 last Tuesday to supplement a previously-released patch for a WebKit exploit that may have been actively exploited in the wild against specifically targeted individuals running firmware older than iOS & iPadOS 17.2.
If you’re trying to keep yourself updated on the latest tips, releases, and news in the iPhone and iPad jailbreak communities, then you’ve found your home here at iDB. We not only cover these things in real time, but we come at you every weekend with a roundup just like this one that brings everything together so you can feel assured that you haven’t missed anything important.
Developer and security researcher Lars Fröder released an updated build of his popular Dopamine jailbreak tool for certain iOS & iPadOS 15 and 16 devices on Saturday, officially bringing the tool up to version 2.4.3.
If you’ve ever been in the market to personalize your jailbroken iPhone’s Lock Screen before, then you’ve likely stumbled upon the AIM jailbreak tweak, which can be used on devices running iOS 13 and later. This tweak became well known for bringing the iOS 16 and newer style Lock Screen styles to older devices.
Nugget, a popular device customization utility by iOS developer LeminLimez that uses the SparseRestore exploit instead of a full-fledged jailbreak, is apparently poised to receive an important update in the future.
If you’re interested in the deepest dive possible into your iPhone or iPad’s battery diagnostics, health, and more, then I would advise taking a closer look at a free app available for TrollStore-compatible devices called BatteryInfo by iOS developer developlab.
When you perform a search using the search bar in the mobile Safari web browser, you’ll be presented with potential search results in real time (called Quick Search), which tends to include your recent web searches along with other recommendations.