Taking advantage of a unique CoreTrust bug in iOS and iPadOS 14.0-15.4.1, TrollStore allows the user to permanently sideload apps on their iPhone or iPad without the need to re-sign them every seven days, otherwise known as perma-signing.
Follow along as we cover the latest development surrounding TrollStore.
If you utilize tools like LiveContainer or TrollFools to inject hacks and add-ons into your apps for augmented functionality, then you might take an interest in a newly released and free tool called Forte by iOS developer Dr-Sauce.
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.
Back in March, Dopamine jailbreak tool and TrollStore perma-signing utility lead developer Lars Fröder, or perhaps better known in this community as @opa334dev, spoke at a cybersecurity conference called Nullcon Goa 2025 to discuss the state of jailbreaking in 2025.
While most people have either moved on with the fact that the Twitter social media network was re-branded as 𝕏 following Elon Musk’s acquisition, or they’ve simply moved to other platforms such as BlueSky, there remain a small percentage of users who can’t let go of what Twitter used to be and want their experience to remain just the same as it was.
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.
Apple devices utilize a security technique called sandboxing, which isolates apps’ processes into their own protected environments so they can’t access certain parts of the file system that the manufacturer deems sensitive. But it’s possible for apps to circumvent this security mechanism via what’s known as a sandbox escape.
If you’re interested in the deepest dive possible into your iPhone or iPad’s battery diagnostics, health, and more, then I would advise taking a closer look at a free app available for TrollStore-compatible devices called BatteryInfo by iOS developer developlab.
I find it insulting enough that Apple doesn’t trust its own users to choose which version of firmware that they can install on the iPhones and iPads they own. In fact, they actively prohibit firmware downgrades via a signing scheme that either approves or disapproves of firmware installation requests through iTunes or Finder.
While TrollStore is most commonly known as a perma-signing utility that allows for the permanent installation of sideloadable apps via a CoreTrust exploit, a lesser-known fact is that TrollStore’s powerful CoreTrust exploit offers elevated privileges for your iPhone or iPad’s system. This is what makes TrollStore-centric hacks and add-ons that mimic jailbreak tweak-like functionality possible.
TrollInstallerX, a TrollStore installation method that supports iPhones and iPads running iOS & iPadOS 14.0-16.6.1, picked up another update Thursday afternoon that brings the utility up to version 1.0.3.
The RootHide Procursus-based bootstrap, which can be used to inject jailbreak tweaks directly into apps on devices using the TrollStore perma-signing utility, was updated to version 1.2.6 early on Wednesday with a lengthy list of changes.
In case you missed it, there is a new TrollStore installation method that supports not only iOS & iPadOS 15.2-16.6.1, but also iOS & iPadOS 16.7 RC (20H18) and the coveted 17.0. It’s called TrollRestore, and it’s the first TrollStore installation method ever to support iOS & iPadOS 17.0.