While we report on the latest iPhone hacking and jailbreaking news as it happens throughout the week, we also curate weekly roundups just like this one so that busy individuals can still catch up on everything they might’ve missed throughout the work week.
In today’s roundup, we’ll be recapping everything that happened this past week, spanning Monday, March 20th to Sunday, March 26th. These topics are listed in no specific order, however we will separate important content from everything else for your viewing pleasure.
Important stuff from this week
palen1x-surface for Surface PCs
The palen1x-surface project is a derivative of the palen1x project that allows even Microsoft Surface PC users to jailbreak their A9-A11 chip-equipped iPhones and iPads running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-16.x via palera1n-c like any other Windows PC user using palen1x would have been able to.
This project includes important components that make a Surface PC’s mouse and keyboard respond when booting into palen1x, which is required to complete the jailbreak process.
You can learn more about palen1x-surface in our full news post.
palera1n-c v2.0.0 beta 5 released
The palera1n-c jailbreak tool for A9-A11 chip-equipped devices was updated to version 2.0.0 beta 5 on Wednesday with a long list of improvements for end users.
You can learn more about everything new in his update in our full news post.
AltStore v1.6.2 released
The AltStore Team released AltStore v1.6.2 on Wednesday to address an error message lots of users were receiving with respect to Reprovisioning profiles.
The update must be installed manually via AltServer from a Mac or PC, which means you can’t simply install this update over the air using the AltStore app on your device as you can for most other updates.
You can learn more about this important AltStore update and what it fixes in our full news post.
LiNUZE
LiNUZE is a game-changing app for jailbroken iPhones and iPads that will allow users of those handsets to manage non-jailbroken devices over a simple USB connection.
While it can currently query a connected device and kick it in and out of Recovery mode, future updates to this app should allow users to jailbreak connected devices from DFU mode and much more.
You can learn more about LiNUZE and what it hopes to be in our full review post.
Cowabunga v10 released
Cowabunga, the insanely popular all-in-one system customization app for TrollStore and MacDirtyCow devices running iOS & iPadOS 14.0-16.1.2 was updated to version 10 on Thursday.
This update brought with it an extensive list of new features and improvements that give users more ways to personalize their non-jailbroken device.
You can find out more about what’s new in Cowabunga v10 in our full news post.
Swika
Swika is a unique gradient-based theme that can be used to make your Home Screen’s app icons pop against the darkest of wallpaper backgrounds.
You can find out more about Swika, how it looks, and where you can get it from in our full review post.
Everything else from this week
Comet: A SwiftUI Prefs framework (free via Chariz repository)
Hazmat: Masks the album artwork from your favorite Now Playing apps (free via Havoc repository — review post)
JellyLock Reborn: An advanced app launcher for the Lock Screen of jailbroken handsets (free via Havoc repository — review post)
Telega Icons: Replaces the Telegram app icon (free via Lizynz’s repository)
vkShortcuts: A Quick Action for VK (free via Lizynz’s repository)
WANoVoiceStatusRecord: Disables the WhatsApp Messenger app’s voice status recording (free via BigBoss repository)
That brings us the end of everything that happened during this past week, but if you’re looking for even more news and jailbreak content, then we highly recommend tuning into iDB throughout the coming work week as we dive into more interesting topics.
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Here are some other jailbreak tweak roundups that you might find interesting:
- Tweaks for 3D Touch & Haptic Touch
- Tweaks for AirPods
- Tweaks for All-in-One lovers
- Tweaks for Android UI
- Tweaks for Animations
- Tweaks for App Icons
- Tweaks for Apple Pay & Wallet
- Tweaks for Apple Pencil
- Tweaks for Apple Watch
- Tweaks for App Library
- Tweaks for Audio
- Tweaks for Battery management
- Tweaks for Calls
- Tweaks for CarPlay
- Tweaks for CCSupport
- Tweaks for Cellular connectivity
- Tweaks for Clock and Time
- Tweaks for Colorization
- Tweaks for Contacts
- Tweaks for Control Center
- Tweaks for Convenience & Accessibility
- Tweaks for Conversation Starting
- Tweaks for Dark Mode
- Tweaks for Data Spoofing
- Tweaks for Display
- Tweaks for Emergencies
- Tweaks for Gaming
- Tweaks for Haptic Feedback
- Tweaks for the Home Screen
- Tweaks for iOS 16 Features
- Tweaks for iPads
- Tweaks for the Keyboard
- Tweaks for Location Services
- Tweaks for the Lock Screen
- Tweaks for macOS
- Tweaks for the Messages app
- Tweaks for Minimalism
- Tweaks for Mood Boosting
- Tweaks for Morning Routines
- Tweaks for Motivation
- Tweaks for the Notch
- Tweaks for Notes
- Tweaks for Notifications
- Tweaks for Novelty
- Tweaks for Nuisance Pop-ups
- Tweaks for Organization
- Tweaks for palera1n
- Tweaks for Passcodes
- Tweaks for the Now Playing interface
- Tweaks for Package Managers
- Tweaks for the Phone app
- Tweaks for Photography
- Tweaks for the Photos app
- Tweaks for Porting Features
- Tweaks for Productivity
- Tweaks for Reachability
- Tweaks for Respringing & Rebooting
- Tweaks for Security
- Tweaks for Sensors
- Tweaks for Shortcuts
- Tweaks for Social Media
- Tweaks for Sounds
- Tweaks for the Status Bar
- Tweaks for Time Management
- Tweaks for Typing
- Tweaks for Utilitarianism
- Tweaks for Volume
- Tweaks for Wallpapers
- Tweaks for Weather
- Tweaks for Web Browsing
- Tweaks for Widgets
- Tweaks for Windows
- Tweaks for Wi-Fi
- Tweaks for YouTube
What was your favorite jailbreak-related topic to be discussed in today’s roundup? Be sure to let us know in the comments section down below.
