Earlier this week, we shared a story about how palera1n team developers Nick Chan (@riscv64) and @mineekdev successfully ported iPadOS 18 to the natively unsupported iPad (6th generation). With this feat, it joins the iPad (7th generation) as one of only two checkm8 bootrom exploit-vulnerable devices capable of running Apple’s latest firmware.
In case you weren’t already aware by now, the iPad (7th generation) is the only checkm8 bootrom exploit-susceptible device in Apple’s lineup that can run the latest available firmware – iPadOS 18. That said, it also just happens to be the only jailbreakable device on iOS/iPadOS 18 at this time. But what if that could change?
Another day, another bit of exciting news for legacy iOS devices and firmware versions. There appears to be a new jailbreak tool on the block for 32-bit devices running iOS 8.0-9.0.2, and it’s being called EverPwnage by the developer, LukeZGD.
Apple on Monday released its first developer beta of iOS & iPadOS 18.3, meaning that developers have begun testing what will eventually evolve into a major software update for all normal iPhone and iPad users around the world.
It’s been a hot minute since the year 2012, which is when Apple announced the seventh-generation iPod Nano. In fact, despite the fact that the iPod was one of Apple’s most successful products, the company doesn’t even sell iPods anymore.
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.
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.
iOS developer LeminLimez released an updated version of the Nugget Mobile on-device SparseRestore exploit-based iPhone customization utility this week, this time bringing it up to version 2.0.1.
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.
One of the biggest pet peeves that jailbreakers contend with is when the apps they depend on regularly detect that their iPhone is jailbroken and then block usage of the app as a result. One way around this is with a jailbreak bypass, but not all jailbreak bypasses are created equally, and your mileage may vary.
In an announcement shared via the Cowabunga Discord channel on Saturday, iOS developer LeminLimez revealed an updated version of Nugget, a device customization utility that makes use of the SparseRestore exploit to make jailbreak tweak-like changes to iPhones and iPads without a jailbreak.