Prospective jailbreakers everywhere are wondering when the next jailbreak might drop, and while we don’t yet have a definitive answer to that question, we continue to monitor the latest developments in the community for this very reason.
In today’s roundup, we will showcase the latest trends in jailbreaking, tweak releases, iOS security, and similar topics from this past week, spanning Monday, December 5th to Sunday, December 11th.
Important tidbits from this week
How to remove the palera1n jailbreak
We previously showed you how you can jailbreak iOS or iPadOS 15 on checkm8-susceptible devices such as those with A9-A11 chips inside of them with the palera1n jailbreak. But what if you want to remove the jailbreak?
Good question. We respect your decision, and fortunately, iDB has created a step-by-step tutorial to walk you through that simple process.
Dynamic Peninsula
We’re all familiar of the now infamous Dynamic Island naming scheme that Apple used to describe the animations surrounding the iPhone 14 Pro & 14 Pro Max’s hole punch camera cutout. But notched iPhones unfortunately didn’t get the same kind of love from the company that made them.
Jailbreakers can now use the new Dynamic Peninsula jailbreak tweak by Elias Limneos to get Dynamic Island-like animations and effects for the notch on iOS 13 and 14.
You can learn more about the Dynamic Peninsula jailbreak tweak and how it works in our full review post.
Get advanced photography options on older jailbroken iPhones on iOS 15
Older iPhones such as those susceptible to the checkm8 bootrom exploit have a somewhat antiquated Camera app interface when compared to the likes of newer handsets such as the iPhone 11 and later.
The 11Cam15 jailbreak tweak ports many of those features over to these older devices so that they may feel just as capable as newer handsets offered by Apple at no additional cost to the end user.
You can learn more about 11Cam15 in our full review post.
Enable Quick Notes on unsupported iPads
Quick Notes Enabler is a new and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer PoomSmart that enables the Quick Notes feature of iPadOS 15 on unsupported iPads.
With it, users can stop minding Apple’s silly software-based hardware barrier and go about using new features on older hardware, as it’s clearly capable of handling.
You can learn more about the Quick Notes Enabler jailbreak tweak in our full review post.
Get a blurred Settings app
The Settings app looks a heck of a lot nicer with the free BlurredPreferences add-on for jailbroken iOS 15 devices.
With it, both dark and light mode are complemented with aesthetically pleasing blur effects that many users agree should have come stock rather than the plain black or white background.
You can read more about BlurredPreferences and where you can get it from in our full review post.
High profile tweaks add iOS 15 support
A lot of jailbreak tweaks that I consider staples for my user experience while jailbroken have started adding support for iOS & iPadOS 15 amid the existence of palera1n for A9-A11 devices and XinaA15 for A12-A-15 devices.
You can learn more about those jailbreak tweaks in our full news post.
Best holiday jailbreak tweaks
Lazyroar has curated a list of what we believe are some of the best jailbreak tweaks for getting into the holiday mood this season.
While there aren’t very many, a little can go a long way into sprucing up your device to suit the time of the year we’re in.
You can check out our full list for more details.
iOS & iPadOS 16.1 unsigned
After initially releasing iOS & iPadOS 16.1.1 three weeks ago, Apple has finally pulled the plug on iOS & iPadOS 16.1, which makes it impossible to downgrade using ordinary means.
Downgrades are generally used by jailbreakers to install a pwnable firmware, but other reasons to downgrade firmware also exist.
You can learn more about the ramifications of this change in our full news post.
Other tidbits from this week
AddProfileInstallButton: Adds a button to Install Profile to the “Profile Downloaded” alert (free via dhinakg repository)
Advanced Map Enabler: Enables the use of advanced Maps app features on jailbroken iOS 15 devices taking advantage of palera1n (free via PoomSmart’s repository – review post)
BetterCamX: iPhone 11 Camera features ported to the iPhone X and older (free via Michael Melita’s repository)
BetteriPad14: Enhances the iPad Air 2/iPad Mini 4 (free via Michael Melita’s repository)
Miss last week’s roundup? iOS 16.1.2 released, enable Live Text on unsupported handsets, & more…
Here are more jailbreak tweak roundups you might like:
- 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 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 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
iDB will continue to monitor for news about jailbreaking as this coming week comes into focus, but we’ll also return next Sunday with a roundup just like this one so you won’t miss a beat.
What has been your favorite jailbreak-related news tidbit from this past week? Be sure to let us know in the comments section down below.
