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.
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.
The Dynamic Island is something that first debuted on the iPhone 14 Pro series of handsets to replace the notch-based TrueDepth camera system that debuted with Face ID when Apple launched the iPhone X, and it’s designed to integrate all of the TrueDepth camera system into a blacked out region of the OLED display that integrates tightly with system animations and notifications to provide the illusion that it’s a part of the display.
Around a week ago, we reported about the implications that iOS & iPadOS 18.4 developer beta 1 had on the use of just-in-time (JIT) compilation for iPhone and iPad apps used outside of the native debugger, which would affect its use inside of sideloaded apps with the help of utilities like AltJIT, SideJIT, and Jitterbug, among others.
Another week, another intriguing write-up by the young and talented hobbyist security researcher @alfiecg_dev, who just this weekend published a blog post about a new deterministic kernel exploit called Trigon that is based on CVE-2023-32434, the same bug that the Kernel File Descriptor (KFD) exploit utilized with puaf_smith and was patched in iOS & iPadOS 16.5.1.
Speaking at a cybersecurity conference called Nullcon Goa 2025, Dopamine jailbreak and TrollStore perma-signing utility lead developer Lars Fröder, also more colloquially known around these parts as @opa334dev, took the stage to discuss the state of jailbreaking iPhones and iPads at present time.
If you’ve been following along in the app sideloading and game emulation communities for the iPhone and iPad, then you might have heard of something called JIT, which many app developers have been particularly excited about because it can boost performance in certain situations by recompiling code extemporaneously.
Apple seeded its first iOS & iPadOS 18.4 developer betas on Friday to set the groundwork for major upgrades in Apple Intelligence and other things. But as most jailbreakers already know, none of these firmware updates post-iOS 16.5.1 can be jailbroken on any arm64e (A12 and later) device.
You’ve likely heard of the term Hackintosh, which is essentially the term of endearment given to a personal computer that was built to run Windows but instead runs a modified build of Apple’s macOS desktop operating system that makes use of the non-Apple hardware within.
This Sunday, February 16th marks the 1-year anniversary since Dopamine jailbreak developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) released Dopamine v2 with support for the Kernel File Descriptor (KFD) exploit, which introduced support for up to iOS & iPadOS 16.5 on arm64e A15-A16 devices, iOS & iPadOS 16.5.1 on arm64e A12-A14 devices, and up to iOS & iPadOS 16.6.1 on arm64 devices.
Jailbreaking iPhones can be one of the most exciting endeavors that we can pursue as enthusiast-level end users, and because of that, you can count on the iDownloadBlog team to follow and deliver the latest news pertaining to this hobby as it happens and to have detailed step-by-step guides outlining the processes.
In case you weren’t already aware, there was a Safari-based remote code execution (RCE) bug in the wild that Apple patched in a rapid security update for iOS & iPadOS 16.5.1 dubbed CVE-2023-37450, and ENKI WhiteHat is credited with the original proof of concept (PoC) showcasing the bug. But what if we told you someone made an exploit out of it? Interestingly enough, that seems to be exactly what has happened.