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In an attempt to make sideloading apps a more positive experience for the end user, iOS developers Exid and Dyllie have created an online application library called Syde from which sideloaders can discover apps and quickly sideload them using whatever utility they might have available for their device.
Just yesterday, we reported on the latest update to the Nugget SparseRestore-based iPhone customization utility for macOS and Windows, noting that it introduced not only several new features, but also bug fixes and improvements.
We’ve seen a lot of different kinds of software that harness the SparseRestore exploit to perform unique hacks on non-jailbroken devices running iOS 17 and even certain versions of iOS 18. Among one of the most popular is Nugget, an app for macOS and Windows by iOS developer LeminLimez.
As a jailbreak tweak tester, it’s not uncommon for me to experience what many jailbreakers would describe as a respring loop after installing a buggy or conflicting add-on. While it can be a major inconvenience, the good news is that respring loops are generally easy to recover from.
With Control Center being one of the most-used interfaces throughout the iOS user experience, it should come as no surprise that we see jailbreak tweak developers trying to make it more convenient for end users. Fortunately, that’s exactly what iOS developer Hitori has done with the release of a new jailbreak tweak called Centra.
Jailbreaking iPhones and iPads is one of our favorite pastimes here at iDownloadBlog, and so you’ll always see a mix of jailbreak-related news content on our website as information surfaces.
If you’ve been jailbreaking iPhones as long as I have, then you may remember a once prominent jailbreak tweak for upgrading what used to be a rather abysmal Messages app user experience called biteSMS.
Jailbreakers who depend on an Apple Watch as a companion device for when their iPhone is slightly out of reach have come to appreciate lunotech11’s Legizmo series of jailbreak tweaks. These tweaks generally allow Apple Watches running certain versions of watchOS to pair with ordinarily unsupported versions of iOS.
One of the things you might discover when trying to find a jailbreakable iPhone or iPad for your personal enjoyment is that if you haven’t preserved a device on the lowest possible firmware yourself, then coming across one can be somewhat of a challenge, especially in this day and age when the jailbreak community seems to be several firmware iterations behind Apple.
Apple on Tuesday officially stopped signing iOS & iPadOS 18.1, more than two weeks after releasing the newer iOS & iPadOS 18.1.1 firmware that was launched to guard users against “actively exploited vulnerabilities.”
Not only do we like jailbreaking iPhones and iPads here at iDownloadBlog, but when jailbreaking isn’t an option, we like sideloading unauthorized apps, installing hacks, and learning all about the latest security research breakthroughs that make these kinds of things possible.
In an interesting bit of news this long holiday weekend, hobbyist hacker @tomitokics took to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Friday to share what appears to be a proof of concept (PoC) for a use-after-free bug known as CVE-2024-44285 that Apple first introduced in iOS & iPadOS 18.0 and later patched in iOS & iPadOS 18.1.