Apple on Monday released iOS & iPadOS 18.1 beta 5 — the latest iteration of the pre-release of iOS & iPadOS 18.1 firmware with minor tweaks and enhancements for end users. But one other thing that hardly went unnoticed was that it patches the SparseRestore exploit.
Just last week, iOS developer LeminLimez teased Nugget Mobile, an on-device SparseRestore-based device customization utility for iOS 16.0-18.1 beta 4 that does not require a jailbreak to use. But as of this week, it is officially available to the masses.
The palera1n checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool for arm64 (A11 and older) devices running iOS & iPadOS 15 and later, received a minor update early Monday morning, officially bringing it up to version 2.0.2.
PureKFD, the once popular package manager app that utilized the Kernel File Descriptor (KFD) and MacDirtyCow (MDC) exploits to enable jailbreak tweak-like hacks on non-jailbroken devices, has received a major update this weekend to version 6.0.
Jailbreaking iPhones and iPads runs deep in our culture here at iDownloadBlog, and for that reason, we dedicate much of our time and attention to this hobby for fellow users like us that want to get the most out of their handset without being under Apple’s thumb.
For the first time ever, iOS & iPadOS 18 offer a feature in the Photos app that users have wanted for a long time: looped video playback. This means that when previewing a video in your Photo Library, it will restart from the beginning and play again once the playback reaches its end for a continuous playback that never ends until you swipe away from it.
Starting with iOS 18, iPhone users can finally tap a pause button to temporarily suspend video recording in the Camera app while in the middle of capturing video. They can then easily resume video recording to build upon the existing video file instead of making an entirely new one.
If you utilize widgets on your Home Screen at all, then you probably value seeing information at a glance. But what if you also value seeing your wallpaper? Unfortunately, the size of iOS’ Home Screen widgets can sort of… get in the way.
iOS developer LeminLimez has been hard at work on their popular Nugget system customization tool for iOS & iPadOS 17.0 and later, not only enabling a full-blown graphical user interface (GUI) to replace the less popular command line interface (CLI), but also attempting to remove the computer element entirely.
It was only a few weeks ago that we first showed you MisakaX, a project by iOS developers @straight_tamago and @Little_34306 that made use of the SparseRestore exploit (the same one used by TrollRestore to install TrollStore on iOS & iPadOS 17.0) to modify iPhone and iPads via system backups.
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Starting with iOS & iPadOS 16, Apple’s mobile operating systems have a somewhat nagging way of asking whether you want to share pasting rights with certain apps and interfaces or not when copying/cutting something and move to another app or interface to paste it.