Despite being shut down more than a year ago, the Apollo Reddit client remains somewhat active today by jailbreakers to couple hacks and a Reddit API key to trick Reddit’s servers into allowing the app to work.
While Sileo remains the most popular package manger app for modern jailbroken devices by far, alternative package managers do exist that give jailbreakers more options for managing their jailbreak tweaks and other packages.
The Delta emulator app for the iPhone and iPad picked up another update this week, officially bringing it up to version 1.6.1. The update comes just under two weeks after Delta added official iPadOS optimizations and a bevy of other enhancements that have been on users’ radars for some time.
It was only yesterday that we reported about the palera1n team’s latest update to the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool for up to A11 devices, which officially added support for iPadOS 18 for the first time.
The palera1n team officially announced in a post shared to X (formerly Twitter) on Monday that the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool had been updated to version 2.0.
Back in April, Delta emulator app developer Riley Testut teased that Delta would eventually come for the iPad despite originally only being available for iPhone-sized devices when it first became available in the iOS App Store. Before that, Delta for iPhone could have been sideloaded – a means of bypassing the App Store and using one’s Apple ID to sign the app on the host device.
While AltStore works great for sideloading apps onto iPhones and iPads from Mac and Windows PCs with AltServer installed on them, Linux users find themselves with no official support, and many third-party forks exhibit Wi-Fi reliability issues. This is a major problem considering AltServer’s dependence on Wi-Fi.
Cowabunga Lite, a popular system customization utility that exploits Apple’s backup and restore feature to apply changes to the user experience over wire, received updates to both its macOS and Windows-based applications Wednesday afternoon.
Gone are the days in which most jailbreak tweaks are hosted on one or two large and centralized repositories. Instead, jailbreakers are likely to need to add several third-party repositories to their package manager app to find jailbreak tweaks, many of which are hosted by the tweak developers themselves.
Apple on Tuesday released firmware updates for the company’s entire lineup of AirPods products spanning nearly every generation, including the AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max. The only exclusion, of course, being the first-generation AirPods.
The ChatGPT desktop app for macOS has been available for some time, but that didn’t mean everybody could use it. In fact, the ChatGPT desktop app experience was very much a phased roll-out, which meant that despite being downloadable by anyone, only select users could sign in and use the service on the desktop, regardless of whether they already used the mobile app or not.
As we first showed you back in 2022, iOS developer PoomSmart has long dabbled with the rear-facing flash on iPhones to see what could be possible by way of jailbreaking. But in more recent times, TrollStore-based add-ons have increased in popularity, especially when many people had access to TrollStore, but were waiting for a jailbreak to launch before Dopamine v2 hit the shelves.