iPhone jailbreakers will always have a home here at iDownloadBlog, and while we cover iPhone jailbreak news throughout the week as it surfaces, we also come at you every weekend with a roundup just like this one ensuring that all our readers never miss the important details that could pertain to them and their jailbreakability.
iOS 16
New gridswitcher jailbreak tweak ports iPadOS’ grid-style App Switcher to pwned iPhones
One of the things that Apple really fell short on when it comes to the iPhone is the App Switcher. I’m not the only one who thinks that the iPhone could benefit from an iPad-style grid-centric App Switcher, which utilizes a grid rather than a card carousel to display recently used apps and to make them easier to return to.
Nugget v6.1 released with support for 20+ new language translations, CarPlay app hash, & more…
iOS developer LeminLimez pushed out an updated build of the Nugget SparseRestore exploit-based iPhone customization toolbox for macOS, Windows, and Linux on Monday, this time bringing it up to version 6.1.
Jailbreak news of the week: Nugget updates, CarPlay wallpapers without a jailbreak, & more…
The iDownloadBlog team loves jailbreaking iPhones, and even as jailbreaks become scarcer as time marches on, that hasn’t stopped talented developers from creating hacks and add-ons that completely sidestep the jailbreaking process to allow users to do interesting things with their devices.
Jailbreak news of the week: iPadOS 26 kills off checkm8 iPads, Pocket Poster, Letterpress, & more…
Despite the fact that there have been no modern jailbreak releases since iOS 16, the team at iDownloadBlog continues to monitor the environment for jailbreaking potential by following leading voices in the community and bringing what we learn back to all our readers.
Flow and Glow are two new jailbreak tweaks that enhance the Facebook and Messenger apps
Jailbroken device users who frequently use the Facebook and Messenger applications could have a lot to gain from using iOS developer dayanch96’s new Flow and Glow jailbreak tweaks.
Letterpress add-on for TrollStore adds audio visualizer effects to your Dynamic Island or Notch
Do you take a liking to audio visualizers? If the answer was yes, then you might take a liking to a new TrollStore add-on called Letterpress by iOS developer 82flex, which can apply unique audio visualizer effects to your iPhone’s Dynamic Island or Notch whenever you have media playing on your device.
Jailbreak news of the week: Aquila, Cellebrite acquiring Corellium, Silque, & more…
Hacking and jailbreaking iPhones & iPads is one of our favorite activities here at iDownloadBlog, so it goes without saying that we follow these spaces very closely and enjoy sharing our findings with our like-minded readers.
Upcoming Silque project strives to offer effortless IPA sideloading & app management without a computer
To this day, AltStore remains the most popular way for iPhone and iPad users to sideload apps, but it has the sometimes-pesky requirement of needing a computer, which isn’t always available when you need it most. For this reason, there have been several attempts to create a computerless sideloading alternative for iPhone and iPad users, such as SideStore.
Scrubble is another tweak that automatically scrobbles songs from other music apps to the Last.fm app
Just yesterday, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called Scrobbit by iOS developer iCraze that could automatically scrobble music from other music streaming apps to the Last.fm app on your jailbroken device. But as it would seem, Scrobbit has some healthy competition.
Scrobbit is an automatic Last.fm scrobbler for any music streaming app on your jailbroken device
Whenever you listen to a song in in the last.fm app, that listen becomes known as a ‘Scrobble,’ which is a fancy way of indicating that you’ve listened to the song before and allowing last.fm to make algorithmic decisions about what to play next based on your listening history.