When you’re in a phone call with somebody that you know and who is in your Contacts app, iOS is supposed to scale the contact’s photo to fill the screen for as long as you’re in the middle of that call. In some cases, it doesn’t.
Back in May, we showed you a duo of utilities that harnessed Ian Beer’s CVE-2025-24203 vulnerability writeup to bring MacDirtyCow-like tweaks to newer firmware without a jailbreak. One of those tools was called dirtyZero.
Have you ever wished for the day when you’d be able to run macOS on your iPhone or iPad? This is certainly a pipe dream for many users, and something Apple never plans to implement, but one hacker has managed to get things working – at least partially.
Do you like to listen to music on your jailbroken iPhone or iPad? If you answered yes to that question, then you might take kindly to a newly released jailbreak tweak called LSLyrics by iOS developer Mysteryexe, which helps bring your music to life by displaying time-synced lyrics on your device’s Lock Screen background.
Interested in a notification experience on your jailbroken iPhone that doesn’t suck? If you answered yes to that question, then you might want to look at a newly released jailbreak tweak called Looky by iOS developer ella89sp, which changes incoming notification behavior on your Lock Screen to a more hands-free approach.
When you’re looking at your iPhone’s Home Screen, you’ve always been able to swipe all the way over to the leftmost page to find your Today widgets. Unfortunately, most people find the Today widgets lacking in capability, if not utterly useless.
For as long as I have been jailbreaking iPhones, and that’s well over a decade now, users have been using jailbreak tweaks to expand the number of app icons that they can fit in the Home Screen’s Dock from just four to at least five, or more.
The iDownloadBlog team has long advocated for the rights of iPhone and iPad users to jailbreak their devices, and that’s because we love what jailbreaking allows device owners to do – take full control of their device and break free from the parameters set by Apple to control what you can do on the device you own.
If you’re a jailbreaker on iOS 16 or earlier, then you might be a little bit frustrated that you can’t install and use the ChatGPT app on your device because it requires iOS 17.0 or later. Even worse, you can’t just downgrade to an older version of the app, because the ChatGPT developers plague you with the following nonsense pop-up:
While the iOS Messages app supports a typing indicator within conversations, it’s possible with a jailbreak to have a system-wide typing indicator that you can see from anywhere in iOS when someone begins typing to you, even if you’re not currently using the Messages app.
One of my all-time favorite Lock Screen jailbreak tweaks, Analog by iOS developer Ginsu, has been updated to version 2.0 this week with official support for iOS 16. But more than simply supporting new firmware, Ginsu made this update particularly special in several ways.
While it’s my opinion that there’s no question iOS & iPadOS 26 drew inspiration for the new Liquid Glass aesthetic from ideas that have floated in the jailbreak community for more than a decade (just take a look at the classic GlasKlart theme to see why I feel that way), it’s typical of Apple to do things their way.