The iDB team is always hyper-committed to the cause of ensuring that our readers have the latest jailbreaking information at their disposal.
But when you get busy, you might forget to check in from time to time. That’s why we come at you every Sunday morning with a roundup post like this one so that you can catch up on anything important that you might have missed.
So without further ado, let’s jump into this past week’s extensive list of jailbreak, jailbreak tweak, and iPhone hacking-related news content.
Important stuff from this week
nekoJB Project
A team of developers are trying to make a jailbreak out of the kfd exploit that supports the iPhone X and older, and they’re calling the project ‘nekoJB.’
Since these older devices wouldn’t require a PPL bypass, this might be possible to do and offer more conveniences than the semi-tethered palera1n jailbreak currently does.
You can learn more about the nekoJB project in our full news post.
Misaka v2 beta released
The Misaka package manager app for MacDirtyCow and kfd exploit-based add-ons was updated to version 2 beta this week with a truck load of improvements, especially relating to kfd support for more devices.
You can learn more about the latest updates in our full news posts below:
Notifake
You can spoof incoming notifications from any of your installed apps with the new Notifake jailbreak tweak.
You can not only specify what the notifications say, but you can control when the notifications occur. You can invoke them with Activator on demand, or you can time them to happen at specific times during the day.
You can learn all about Notifake and how it works in our full review post.
CallSilent
A new jailbreak tweak called CallSilent lets you effortlessly mute and/or decline phone calls with simple upside-down iPhone-flipping gestures instead of having to press the volume or lock buttons on your device.
You can even choose to tap at the bottom of the screen underneath the slide to answer slider if you find that to be more convenient.
You can learn more about the new CallSilent jailbreak tweak in our full review post.
Cluckabunga
Enjoy system-wide SpringBoard customization and much more without a jailbreak by way of the kernel file descriptor (kfd) exploit for iOS 16.2-16.5 thanks to Cluckabunga.
This app lets you change the way the Home Screen, Control Center, Folders, Dock, Home Bar, Dynamic Island, Fonts, Passcode buttons, Lock Screen, and many other things look and behave.
You can learn more about Cluckabunga and the new v2.0.1 beta in our full review post.
RootHide
A new project that aims to hide your rootless jailbreak from apps that you’ve installed from the App Store is currently in beta and it’s called RootHide.
This project should prevent apps from being able to tell you’re jailbroken and prevent you from using them as a result.
You can learn more about RootHide and how it should work as it moves through the beta period in our full news post.
FingerLock for rootless jailbreaks
The popular FingerLock jailbreak tweak has been updated to version 3.0.2 to support the latest rootless jailbreaks on iOS 15 and 16, which includes Dopamine and palera1n.
This tweak adds a new button to the Lock Screen to replace the Home Button and/or Home Bar for initiating the device unlock process.
You can find out more about the newfangled rootless support in our full news post.
Pattern_F_ at BlackHat USA 2023
Security researcher @pattern_F_ gave a talk about Files app security at BlackHat USA 2023, including showing off some new attack surfaces in UserFS that could be used in security attacks.
Learn more about this in our full news post.
Everything else from this week
Pale: A beautiful new SnowBoard theme for the Status Bar ($0.99 via Chariz repository — review post)
You’ve reached the extent of new information from this past week, but if you’d like, you can check out last week’s roundup to make sure you didn’t miss anything important from just a week ago.
For anyone who isn’t jailbroken yet, here are some tutorials to get you started:
- How to jailbreak A12-A15 devices on iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 with Dopamine
- How to jailbreak A9-A11 devices on iOS & iPadOS 15.0-16.x with palera1n
If you can’t jailbreak, then consider taking advantage of the MacDirtyCow or kfd exploits instead.
What was your favorite jailbreak-related news tidbit shared this past week? Be sure to let us know in the comments section down below.
