iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 bring a new Improve Location Accuracy toggle that helps your iPhone or iPad resolve a precise location more quickly.
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New emoji characters just hit your iPhone and other Apple devices
iOS 18.4 and other recent software updates brought new emoji, including a face with bags under the eyes, to the iPhone, iPad and other Apple devices.
iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 may not be compatible with these iPhones and iPads
A leaked device compatibility list suggests that Apple’s iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 updates could lose support for some older iPhones and iPads.
Apple finally launches its Find My network in South Korea
Apple announced today that iPhone customers in South Korea can at long last track their devices, items and friends using the built-in Find My app.
New turdus merula SEP exploit-based firmware downgrading tool now available for A9-A10(X) devices
If you have a legacy iPhone or iPad with an A9-A10(X) chip inside, then you might be excited to hear about a new and free firmware downgrading tool called terdus merula for macOS that allows you to downgrade your device’s firmware back to any version you want, in either a tethered or an untethered fashion.
g1lbertJB untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0-6.1.2 updated with support for Windows machines
While not talked about a whole lot due to the legacy firmware and devices that it supports, g1lbertJB is an untethered jailbreak that came out in 2023 that supports iPhones 3GS, 4, and 4S, as well as iPad (1st generation) and (2nd generation), and iPod touch (3rd generation) and (4th generation) running iOS 5.0-6.1.2.
Delta emulator app updated to v1.7 with online multiplayer support for Nintendo DS games, & other changes
It’s no secret that Delta is perhaps the most popular emulator app on the iOS & iPadOS platforms as of right now – after becoming one of the most well-known emulator apps via sideloading even before Apple started allowing it in the App Store, it only skyrocketed in popularity once it officially became available in the App Store. But despite how popular Delta is, one thing has always been missing… online multiplayer.
Nugget updated to v5.0.3 with Windows-oriented fixes following v5.0.2 over the weekend
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.
Rumor: Apple is developing M5 MacBook Air, M6 iPad Pro and a new budget iPad
New MacBook laptops and iPad tablets featuring the unreleased Apple M5 and M6 processors are reportedly in the early stages of development.
Jailbreak news of the week: Banking apps using sandbox escape, Ian Beer’s BLASTPASS writeup, Nugget v5, & more…
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.
Technical analysis by Verichains confirms sandbox escape use by certain banking apps to detect TrollStore, jailbreak apps
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.
iPadOS 18.4 release notes: Ambient Music, Priority Notifications, Mail Categorization, Photos tweaks and other changes
Read the full iPadOS 18.4 release notes from Apple to learn about new iPad features and improvements such as Ambient Music, automatic mail categorization and more.