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As many iMessage users know, there are certain keywords that you can send to others to trigger animations during special events. For example, sending “Congrats” triggers a confetti animation, sending “Happy Birthday” triggers a balloons animation, and sending “Happy New Year” triggers a fireworks animation.
Monday was a day of updates for the RootHide bootstrap, a special bootstrap that lets users install and use jailbreak tweaks from a package manager app like Sileo just as they can on a jailbroken device, but without a full-fledged jailbreak and all the privileges that come with it.
Apple officially released iOS & iPadOS 18.4 last week, bringing Priority Notifications to Apple Intelligence, a dedicated Vision Pro app, new Emojis, and other under-the-hood improvements to modern iPhone and iPad owners.
While the stock Notification Center on your iPhone or iPad might be enough for viewing missed notification and interacting with them, iOS developer iamdega wanted something a bit more, and as a result, their gift to the community is a new jailbreak tweak called NotificationHub that we think is worth taking a closer look at.
Tracking down the latest news in the realms of iPhone hacking and jailbreaking comprises of a significant portion of what we do here at iDownloadBlog. For that reason, we cover stories as they happen in real time, but we also try to ensure our readers have a quick and easy weekend digest so that they can get caught up when they miss important news during the busy work week.
As you may recall, the Nugget SparseRestore exploit-based device customization utility for non-jailbroken handsets running iOS 17.0-18.4 beta recently picked up an update adding the ability to set animated wallpapers, and it was later reported that video wallpapers were coming soon. Well folks… that update is finally here.
Looking to spice up your jailbroken iPhone’s Lock Screen? If so, then look no further than AniTime, a new jailbreak tweak by iOS developer yandevelop that gives your iPhone’s Lock Screen an animated anime-inspired time display experience.
If you have a legacy iPhone or iPad with an A9-A10(X) chip inside, then you might be excited to hear about a new and free firmware downgrading tool called terdus merula for macOS that allows you to downgrade your device’s firmware back to any version you want, in either a tethered or an untethered fashion.
While not talked about a whole lot due to the legacy firmware and devices that it supports, g1lbertJB is an untethered jailbreak that came out in 2023 that supports iPhones 3GS, 4, and 4S, as well as iPad (1st generation) and (2nd generation), and iPod touch (3rd generation) and (4th generation) running iOS 5.0-6.1.2.
Nugget, an iPhone customization utility by iOS developer LeminLimez that utilizes the SparseRestore exploit to enable various forms of jailbreak-like customization without a jailbreak, received two important updates in the past couple of days that all users should be taking advantage of.
The iDownloadBlog team covers iPhone and iPad jailbreak news as it breaks, but we also review jailbreak tweaks, write about important updates to software, and discuss our opinion on the state of events on a regular basis. But for those who can’t keep up, we have these convenient weekend roundup pieces that pull everything together into a newspaper-like compilation so you can see everything at a glance.
Just yesterday, we reported on one of TrollStore perma-signing utility developer Lars Fröder’s posts on Bluesky sharing that some banking apps available in Apple’s App Store as of this writing utilize a 0-day sandbox escape technique to find out if certain unfavorable apps or services are installed on the end user’s device.