Jailbreaking iPhones is a special hobby that requires a special type of person – specifically, it requires the type of person who wields a curious mind that always strives to do more with their rightfully owned handset than Apple intends with its own software out of the box.
The Status Bar is one of the most important informative components of the iOS user interface, containing not only the current time, but also your cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity status, among other things. With that in mind, it’s a head scratcher as to why Apple excluded it from the App Switcher.
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 missed it, Apple Maps, Google Maps, and other United States-based mapping apps renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America following an executive order issued by current United States President Donald Trump.
The palera1n team released an updated beta build of the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based palera1n jailbreak tool this Sunday evening, this time bringing it up to version 2.1 beta 2.
The iDownloadBlog team remains committed to following the latest projects in the jailbreak community and bringing them to your attention so that you can get the most out of your pwned device.
Keeping up with our weekly tradition of recapping all the latest news in the iPhone & iPad jailbreak community, we’re back again this Sunday morning to share with you everything that we covered throughout the past work week to ensure you haven’t missed any important details that could pertain to you.
Interested in a new and nonchalant way to lock your iPhone when you’re finished using it? If so, then make sure you take some time to check out a free jailbreak tweak called GetDown by iOS developer uz.ra.
Perhaps the best way that iPhone owners can add a touch of personalization to their handset is by changing the wallpaper on their device. This could be the Home Screen’s wallpaper or the Lock Screen’s wallpaper, but in either case, there are jailbreak tweaks that can make this experience even more exhilarating.
When watching videos on your iPhone or iPad, you will often be able to close the app currently playing the video and a floating Picture-in-Picture video player will appear on your screen so that you can keep doing other things on your device while the video continues – perfect for multitasking.
If you’re among the flurry of people trying out the DeepSeek AI chat assistant that took the internet by storm this week, then you may have noticed that the return key on your keyboard turns into a send key, preventing you from typing line breaks and formatting your text query the way you might want to before sending your query.