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.
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.
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, 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.
Topaz Photo AI, one of my favorite tools in my photo editing software suite, picked up an important update this week in the form of version 3.6.0 for both macOS and Windows machines.
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.
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.
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.
We’ve been reporting for the past couple of weeks that iOS developer LeminLimez was working on a massive update for the macOS and Windows-oriented Nugget SparseRestore-based system customization utility for iPhones and iPads that would introduce animated wallpapers without the need to jailbreak said devices.
Apple on Monday seeded the release candidate for iOS & iPadOS 18.4, as well as macOS Sequoia 15.4, to developers and public beta testers ahead of the official public release, and according to an announcement made by the Cupertino-based company, some AirPods Max owners can expect quite the upgrade when these updates become available to all Apple device owners next month – indicating an April launch date.
In a teaser shared in the Cowabunga Discord channel over the weekend, Nugget developer LeminLimez said that an upcoming update to Nugget dubbed version 5.0 would introduce animated wallpaper options to iPhones and iPads running iOS & iPadOS 17.0-18.4 beta via the SparseRestore exploit without any jailbreak being required.
Developer and security researcher Lars Fröder released an updated build of his popular Dopamine jailbreak tool for certain iOS & iPadOS 15 and 16 devices on Saturday, officially bringing the tool up to version 2.4.3.