App developers can make special sideloadable apps that take advantage of the MacDirtyCow bug on iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.7 and 16.0-16.1.2. Apps that exploit this bug can make cosmetic and functional changes to the operating system if it’s within the bounds of memory that a sandboxed app can access.
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It seems to be the week of Status Bar customization. We just showed you an add-on for TrollStore-capable and jailbroken devices called Helium, and it also just so happens that there’s a new add-on for the MacDirtyCow & kfd exploits called Joutai by iOS developer roeegh.
The Misaka package manager app received a major update on Monday to version 3.0, bringing with it a slew of improvements that users and developers alike are going to be especially excited about.
It’s officially Halloween Day, and some iOS developers are expressing their festiveness with Halloween-themed hacks for their iPhones and iPads.
If you’re interested in a new theme for your iPhone or iPad that elevates the aesthetics of your Home Screen, then we’d like to recommend something called InCircle Theme by iOS developers Phuc Do and Dr. Theme.
PureKFD, one of the most popular package manager apps that hosts hacks and add-ons for non-jailbroken devices, was updated to version 4.1 on Monday with an extensive list of changes and improvements.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of years, you would have caught wind about two powerful kernel-level exploits that have been used by iOS developers to release hacks and add-ons for non-jailbroken devices.
PureKFD, a popular all-in-one package manager app for the MacDirtyCow and KFD exploits has been updated to version 4.0 in what is being described in its announcement as a “complete overhaul.”
Lots of MacDirtyCow exploit users are familiar with the Cowabunga add-on that permits all kinds of system customizations that would ordinarily only be possible with a jailbreak. But as many Cowabunga users already know, a Windows-based version of this tool has been under development for quite some time.
How would you like to have something nicer to look at every time you enter your iPhone passcode or dial a phone number in the Phone app?
A popular type of customization among jailbreakers is changing their Status Bar’s carrier radio indicator so that it shows a different connection type, such as 4G LTE instead of 3G, or 5G instead of 4G LTE, and so on.
If you were a huge fan of this past week’s Apple event and loved everything about what you saw and what Apple announced, then chances are you might appreciate a new add-on for the MacDirtyCow & kfd exploits dubbed AppleEvent Lock 2023 by iOS developer Kumiki.
Supervised mode is an important thing for not only prospective jailbreakers, but for folks who want to upgrade to unsigned firmware using the DelayOTA method to take advantage of kernel exploits that make add-ons possible, with two recent examples being MacDirtyCow for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-16.1.2 and kfd for iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.6 beta 1.