If you’re among the flurry of people trying out the DeepSeek AI chat assistant that took the internet by storm this week, then you may have noticed that the return key on your keyboard turns into a send key, preventing you from typing line breaks and formatting your text query the way you might want to before sending your query.
For some people, being able to charge their iPhone’s battery up as quickly as possible is important, especially when you’re crunched for time. For example, leaving the house and wanting every last drop of power deposited into your iPhone’s built-in battery before your wife yells, “come on, we’re going to be late!”
Everyone who shares our common interest of jailbreaking iPhones and iPads will find a home here at iDownloadBlog. We not only share news relating to hacks and jailbreaks, but also new developments in iPhone and iPad security research that could pave the way for future jailbreaks.
If you’re looking to take the aesthetics of your iPhone or iPad to the next level, then we think you might want to take a closer look at a newly released theme and icon pack called Premium UI by abdullahbassas and maxpatchs.
Many jailbreakers who enjoy the thrill of installing tweaks and add-ons on their jailbroken device rely on the tvOS 17 beta software profile to prevent over-the-air (OTA) updates from being installed on their iPhone or iPad. This not only prevents updates in the background, but it also prevents the device from nagging you with a persistent badge on the Settings app icon to alert you to pending software updates.
It wasn’t that long ago that we showed you a new jailbreak tweak called CatScript by iOS developer 0x530c, which enabled those with pwned iPhones and iPads to create customized Python automation scrips on-device and then run them remotely, such as from a Mac or PC.
Back in August of last year, we showed you a fun and quirky jailbreak tweak called Shijima (Shimeji for iOS) by iOS developer pixelomer that brought Shimeji-inspired desktop pets to jailbroken installations of iOS & iPadOS.
If there’s anything we love more than a good Apple story, is the opportunity to report on a new jailbreak tweak or being able to share when there’s a jailbreak launch. Unfortunately, these sorts of things just don’t happen as often as they used to.
I still remember how awesome it was when talented hacker comex released the JailbreakMe website from which iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads running iOS 4.3-4.3.3 could jailbreak their device with the swipe of a slider. Since then, there haven’t been many jailbreaks like it, which is why a newly released jailbreak called Lyncis for 32-bit devices running iOS 7.1.x by iOS developer @staturnzdev is somewhat special.
We’ve previously discussed the importance of changing your device’s root password after jailbreaking so that unauthorized individuals can’t exploit the default password to SSH into your handset and make potentially malicious changes unbeknownst to you.
On Monday, Apple stopped signing the iOS & iPadOS 18.2 firmware, which means that anyone who updated their iPhone or iPad to the newest iOS & iPadOS 18.2.1 software that the Cupertino-based company released just last week can no longer voluntarily downgrade the firmware on their device to iOS or iPadOS 18.2.
Jailbreak repositories, which are used by jailbreak tweak developers to host add-ons for jailbroken iPhones and iPads in a large and centralized fashion from the very package managers installed on those devices, have come and gone over the years.