Back in March, we showed you a cool app for macOS called Cowabunga Lite that exploited Apple’s device backup/restoring feature to make system customizations to their iPhone or iPad over wire.
The Taurine jailbreak is a work of the Odyssey Team that supports most iPhones and iPads running iOS & iPadOS 14.0-14.8.1, but as some M1 chip-equipped iPad Pro owners have pointed out, getting the jailbreak to work on those devices has been something of a struggle.
The past couple of months have been an interesting time to be a part of the iPhone and iPad jailbreaking community. With iOS & iPadOS 17 now available, and still no public iOS & iPadOS 16 jailbreak for arm64e devices, a slew of kernel exploits and wind about a PPL bypass have raised hopes that we may see another season of jailbreaking.
PureKFD, one of the most popular package manager apps that hosts hacks and add-ons for non-jailbroken devices, was updated to version 4.1 on Monday with an extensive list of changes and improvements.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of years, you would have caught wind about two powerful kernel-level exploits that have been used by iOS developers to release hacks and add-ons for non-jailbroken devices.
Apple released iOS & iPadOS 17 in September, and a lot of people are still caught in the echo chamber that is people saying “we still don’t have an iOS & iPadOS 16 jailbreak yet!”
When Apple released iOS & iPadOS 17.0.1 just over a week ago, we also touched on comments made by TrollStore lead developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev), who claimed that a bug possibly similar to the one used by TrollStore had been patched in iOS & iPadOS 16.7 and 17.0.
Get ready for a blast from the past; only, this is actual news in 2023. When we received a tip email about a new iPhone 4 jailbreak coming out, our staff looked at it cross-eyed for a moment, but we quickly realized that it was a serious tip.
If you’ve been following along so far, then you wouldn’t heard about how the Odyssey Team’s iOS 14-centric Taurine jailbreak recently picked up support for iOS & iPadOS 14.4-14.8.1 thanks to the kfd exploit, but a few things have happened since then.
At the start of the week, the Odyssey Team released an updated version of the Taurine jailbreak to add support for iOS & iPadOS 14.4-14.8.1.
If you were a huge fan of this past week’s Apple event and loved everything about what you saw and what Apple announced, then chances are you might appreciate a new add-on for the MacDirtyCow & kfd exploits dubbed AppleEvent Lock 2023 by iOS developer Kumiki.
Supervised mode is an important thing for not only prospective jailbreakers, but for folks who want to upgrade to unsigned firmware using the DelayOTA method to take advantage of kernel exploits that make add-ons possible, with two recent examples being MacDirtyCow for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-16.1.2 and kfd for iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.6 beta 1.