Many jailbreakers who enjoy the thrill of installing tweaks and add-ons on their jailbroken device rely on the tvOS 17 beta software profile to prevent over-the-air (OTA) updates from being installed on their iPhone or iPad. This not only prevents updates in the background, but it also prevents the device from nagging you with a persistent badge on the Settings app icon to alert you to pending software updates.
It wasn’t that long ago that we showed you a new jailbreak tweak called CatScript by iOS developer 0x530c, which enabled those with pwned iPhones and iPads to create customized Python automation scrips on-device and then run them remotely, such as from a Mac or PC.
Apple Intelligence will be turned on automatically when you update your iPhone, iPad and Mac to iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3 and macOS Sequoia 15.3.
Back in August of last year, we showed you a fun and quirky jailbreak tweak called Shijima (Shimeji for iOS) by iOS developer pixelomer that brought Shimeji-inspired desktop pets to jailbroken installations of iOS & iPadOS.
If there’s anything we love more than a good Apple story, is the opportunity to report on a new jailbreak tweak or being able to share when there’s a jailbreak launch. Unfortunately, these sorts of things just don’t happen as often as they used to.
I still remember how awesome it was when talented hacker comex released the JailbreakMe website from which iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads running iOS 4.3-4.3.3 could jailbreak their device with the swipe of a slider. Since then, there haven’t been many jailbreaks like it, which is why a newly released jailbreak called Lyncis for 32-bit devices running iOS 7.1.x by iOS developer @staturnzdev is somewhat special.
Apple has added a notable privacy tweak to iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 about cropping out areas from full-page PDF screenshots on your iPhone and iPad.
Due to errors, Apple has temporarily disabled notification summaries for news articles, a prominent Apple Intelligence feature, in the third beta of OS 18.3.
On Monday, Apple stopped signing the iOS & iPadOS 18.2 firmware, which means that anyone who updated their iPhone or iPad to the newest iOS & iPadOS 18.2.1 software that the Cupertino-based company released just last week can no longer voluntarily downgrade the firmware on their device to iOS or iPadOS 18.2.
Jailbreak repositories, which are used by jailbreak tweak developers to host add-ons for jailbroken iPhones and iPads in a large and centralized fashion from the very package managers installed on those devices, have come and gone over the years.
Another week, another bug fix update for the popular Nugget SparseRestore exploit-based device customization utility by iOS developer LeminLimez.
To improve the CarPlay user experience, iOS developer pookjw just this week released a new and free jailbreak tweak called Cauxo that brings a full-fledged App Switcher to the CarPlay user interface.