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.
Apple has added a bunch of new capabilities to WebKit that power many new features in its Safari browser on iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26.
As with every major iOS & iPadOS release, there’s usually some overlap with new features that Apple announces and some pre-existing functionality that jailbreakers have had on this platform for years (or even as much as a decade) thanks to jailbreak tweaks. The same can even be said about Apple’s upcoming iOS & iPadOS 26 updates, which the Cuperinto-based company announced at WWDC 2025.
In iOS 26, every website you add to your iPhone's Home Screen opens as a web app by default, but you can change it to open as a regular bookmark instead.
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.
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.
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.
One of the things about incoming message notifications on Apple’s mobile platforms that has always sort of ground my gears is the fact that dismissing a missed message notification doesn’t automatically mark those messages as read.
Apple couldn't bring windowed multitasking to older iPads with the responsiveness you've come to expect from the iPad's multitouch interface.
Apple has updated parental controls in iOS 26 and other operating systems with new child safety features, including permission to text new numbers.
Apple's iPadOS 26 operating system enhances multitasking with new capabilities while removing the existing Split View and Slide Over modes.
Over the weekend, Nugget developer LeminLimez released a new add-on called Pocket Poster for iPhones running iOS 17.0 and later that allowed users to apply custom community-made animated wallpapers to their device. These wallpapers could be downloaded from a community wallpapers page hosted by the developer.