Nugget, an iPhone customization utility by iOS developer LeminLimez that utilizes the SparseRestore exploit to enable various forms of jailbreak-like customization without a jailbreak, received two important updates in the past couple of days that all users should be taking advantage of.
Download iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4 to get new Apple Intelligence features and other improvements on your iPhone, iPad and Mac.
The iDownloadBlog team covers iPhone and iPad jailbreak news as it breaks, but we also review jailbreak tweaks, write about important updates to software, and discuss our opinion on the state of events on a regular basis. But for those who can’t keep up, we have these convenient weekend roundup pieces that pull everything together into a newspaper-like compilation so you can see everything at a glance.
With the latest version of the Google Maps app available in the App Store, EU iPhone owners can set it as their default navigation app instead of Apple Maps.
Just yesterday, we reported on one of TrollStore perma-signing utility developer Lars Fröder’s posts on Bluesky sharing that some banking apps available in Apple’s App Store as of this writing utilize a 0-day sandbox escape technique to find out if certain unfavorable apps or services are installed on the end user’s device.
Read the full iOS 18.4 release notes from Apple to learn about the new iPhone features, quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes available in this update.
In a surprise turn of events, Google Project Zero security researcher Ian Beer took to social media platform 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) this week to share an in-depth write-up on the 0-click NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit that had actively been exploited in the wild before being patched by Apple in iOS & iPadOS 16.6.1 on September 7th, 2023.
Apple devices utilize a security technique called sandboxing, which isolates apps’ processes into their own protected environments so they can’t access certain parts of the file system that the manufacturer deems sensitive. But it’s possible for apps to circumvent this security mechanism via what’s known as a sandbox escape.
Apple’s CarPlay feature in iOS 18.4 includes a new API for sports apps, which splits the Now Playing screen to display scores for each side.
Just yesterday, iOS developer LeminLimez released version 5.0 of their popular Nugget SparseRestore exploit-based iPhones and iPad customization utility for macOS and Windows, introducing highly anticipated animated wallpapers without a jailbreak and a variety of improvements for existing users.
iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4 bring a visual countdown timer for verification codes in Apple's built-in Passwords app.
When you rock a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, one of the cardinal rules you follow is staying on the lowest possible firmware (or the newest jailbreakable firmware) at any given time. When you do this, software updates will quickly outpace you, and some App Store apps may require you to actually update for device’s firmware to use them.