It wasn’t too long ago that we showed you a jailbreak tweak called Oneko that added a pet cat to your iPhone’s screen that would follow every tap you made in virtually any interface.
Most people regard the iPhone as one of the most accessible mobile devices out there, and this is because Apple puts a lot of time and effort into its user interface design so make it as easy to use as humanly possible. That said, it astounds me that jailbreak tweak developers always find ways to improve on it.
Just last week, we told you about a fork of the Serotonin semi-jailbreak called NathanLR by iOS developer Nathan (@dedbeddedbed) that improves compatibility with rootless-oriented jailbreak tweaks and uses a more reliable exploit — the same one used by TrollInstallerX.
Aemulo, one of the most comprehensive jailbreak tweaks for tinkering with the Near Field Communications (NFC) capabilities of jailbroken iPhones, has apparently moved from the Chariz to the Havoc repository in a move that developer Amy While (@elihwyma) says is primarily motivated by the need for alternative payment options.
While the jailbreak community certainly isn’t bustling with a new jailbreak every few months like the glory days, there are still tons of developers maintaining jailbreaks and tweaks to further the dream.
Sideloading apps has become a popular pastime for iPhone & iPad owners because it allows them to install apps that are otherwise restricted from being distributed on the App Store. Unfortunately, installing apps in this manner can be a double-edged sword because you’re limited to sideloading a certain number of apps with a free Apple developer account.
Before the Dopamine v2 jailbreak came out, the Serotonin semi-jailbreak was all the rage because it allowed users to install and use various forms of jailbreak tweaks without the full jailbreak environment. Serotonin remains relevant on iOS & iPadOS 16.5.1-16.6.1 even today because these firmware versions aren’t yet jailbreakable on arm64e devices. Serotonin, on the other hand, does support them.
What do you get when you combine beautiful gradient-based wallpapers with animations? Eye candy; but that answer should be obvious, of course.
In what can only be described as big news for the AltStore PAL community, the AltStore Team announced in a post shared to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday that Epic Games has provided the platform with a MegaGrant grant that will be used to cover Apple’s Core Technology Fee from now on.
I’ve long been a user of the SF Symbols app that Apple offers for macOS because it lends an extensive library of more than 6,000 unique symbols that Apple’s many operating systems use and that blend seamlessly with the San Francisco system font of those systems.
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It looks like it isn’t just the palera1n jailbreak tool getting updates this weekend. A few hours after our announcement post about palera1n v2.0.1 being released, Dopamine jailbreak project lead developer Lars Fröder shared that Dopamine version 2.2.2 had been officially released.