Despite the fact that there have been no modern jailbreak releases since iOS 16, the team at neveropen continues to monitor the environment for jailbreaking potential by following leading voices in the community and bringing what we learn back to all our readers.
In this week’s piece, we’ll be covering everything new in the iPhone and iPad hacking communities spanning the week of Monday, June 9th to Sunday, June 15th. As usual, we’ll kick things off by discussing some of the most important topics first before wrapping up with a roundup of the latest jailbreak tweak updates.
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Important stuff from this week
iPadOS 26 kills checkm8 jailbreaks
Apple’s upcoming iPadOS 26 software update, launching this Fall, will not support the iPad (7th generation) – the final device that currently supports the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based palera1n jailbreak.
This means that there will be no way of jailbreaking iPadOS 26 or later without the release of an entirely new jailbreak, which at this point in time, seems increasingly unlikely.
You can learn more about this in our full news post.
Pocket Poster
Pocket Poster is a new add-on that iPhone users on iOS 17 and later can use in conjunction with the Nugget device customization toolbox app on their computer to apply custom animated PosterBoard wallpapers to their device without a jailbreak.
This tool currently only supports .tendies files, and it’s a great way to make others’ mouths water over your ability to set animated wallpapers they don’t have access to. There’s a huge community database of wallpapers users can download from the internet.
You can learn more about Pocket Poster in our full review post.
Nugget and Pocket Poster confirmed working on iOS 26 beta 1
Nugget developer LeminLimez said on Monday that both Nugget and Pocket Poster are working as expected on iOS 26 developer beta 1, which is surprising.
It remains to be seen if these features will continue to work through the beta process and on to the public release of iOS & iPadOS 26, or if Apple will patch these features.
Nugget was also updated to version 5.2.3 to add support for Pocket Poster.
You can learn more about this in our full news post.
WebKit re-jailbreak utility for iOS 12
Security researcher @wh1te4ever has demoed a WebKit-based re-jailbreaking utility for iPhones and iPads running iOS 12.
What this means is that the end user could potentially re-jailbreak their already jailbroken device (via Chimera) with a button on a website instead of using a jailbreak app that needs to be re-signed all the time.
You can learn more about this in our full news post.
Steps to unofficially upgrade iPad (6th generation) to iPadOS 18 published
Security researcher Nick Chan, a developer with the palera1n jailbreak team, has shared the unofficial steps to upgrade an iPad (6th generation) to iPadOS 18.
This device does not officially support iPadOS 18, but the hardware closely enough matches the iPad (7th generation) that it can work with some caveats.
You can learn more about this in our full news post.
Letterpress
Letterpress is a new add-on for TrollStore that allows you to add audio visualization effects to your iPhone’s Dynamic Island or Notch.
The app is highly configurable and comes with options to configure the visualization effect and which apps it works with.
You can learn more about Letterpress and where you can get it from in our full review post.
IMRead
The IMRead jailbreak tweak can automatically mark unread text messages as read when you clear their corresponding notification banners from either the Lock Screen or from Notification Center.
Thanks to this, it will no longer feel like you have to clear unread notifications twice – once from the Lock Screen or Notification Center and once from the Messages app itself.
You can learn more about IMRead in our full review post.
Flow and Glow
Flow and Glow are two separate, but closely-tied jailbreak tweaks that enhance the Facebook and Messenger social media apps with new features and functionality.
You can learn more about what you can do with these jailbreak tweaks, as well as where you can get them from, in our full review post.
Everything else from this week
AniTime v1.0.2 released: You can now apply a color tint filter to the clock’s characters ($1.99 via Havoc repository – review post)
ChatGPTWebLegacyCompat: Makes ChatGPT website more accessible on iOS 15.0-15.3 by injecting CSS with unsupported syntax removed (free via PoomSmart’s repository)
HelloKeyboardAI v3.6.1-2 released: Colorize the candidate words for the native Chinese keyboard, fixed the initial color issue ($5.99 via Havoc repository – review post)
IMRead v1.0.5 released: Removed unnecessary code, simplified things to avoid potential bugs, increased the loop iteration count in hopes of more reliable message retrieval from the cache, fix SpringBoard freezing for a second sometimes when clearing a notification or notification stack, change minimum version in Control to iOS 16 until it can be tested on lower versions, temporarily remove iOS 14 and 15 capabilities hook (free via Havoc repository – review post)
Polyfills v1.8.0 released; Spoofed the user agent to iOS 18.5, added polyfill for RegExp lookbehind feature, fixed websites always loading in desktop mode, fixed broken polyfill for RegExp lookbehind, fixed spoofing user agent not working on non-Safari browsers, added Polyfill for BroadcastChannel API, restricted WebStreams API polyfill to iOS 14.1 and lower, downgraded spoofed iOS version to 16.0 to improve compatibility on old devices, restricted certain polyfills to execute only on the maximum unsupported iOS version and lower, added polyfill to Array.toReversed, fixed polyfill compatibility with iOS 13.0 and lower (free via PoomSmart’s personal repository)
SFSymbols v1.0.10 released: Improved icon compatibility on iOS 15 (free via PoomSmart’s personal repository)
TapMediaConfirm: Confirm before tapping play or pause on the Shazam media button (free via BigBoss repository)
That brings us to the end of this week’s roundup, but we’ll be right back again at this same time next Sunday morning with a fresh roundup of all our latest findings.
Miss last week’s roundup? Aquila, Cellebrite acquiring Corellium, Silque, & more…
For those wanting to discover new jailbreak tweaks for their existing pwned handsets, these roundups could help:
- 18 features that iOS & iPadOS 18 ‘borrowed’ from the jailbreak community
- Best Bluetooth jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Multitasking jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best UI-enhancing jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Accessibility jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Conversation-starting jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Novelty jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Sound & Volume jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Notification jailbreak tweaks for iOS 16 & 16
- Best iOS 18 feature-porting jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Display-enhancing jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best YouTube jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Lock Screen jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Home Screen jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Music jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Wallpaper jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
And here are some tutorials that can help the uninitiated in their quest to get jailbroken or to start using hacks on their device for the first time:
- How to jailbreak A9-A16, M1-M2 devices on iOS 15 & 16* with Dopamine
- How to jailbreak A12-A15, M1 devices on iOS 15.0-16.5.1 with Xinam1ne
- How to jailbreak A12-A15 devices on iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 with XinaA15 v2
- How to jailbreak A9-A11 devices on iOS & iPadOS 15.0-16.x & iPadOS 17 with palera1n
- How to install the RootHide jailbreak detection bypass for Dopamine
- How to install TrollStore on iOS 14.0-16.6.1 with TrollInstallerX
- How to install TrollStore on iOS 14.0-15.6.1 with TrollHelperOTA
- How to install TrollStore on iOS 15.2-17.0 with TrollRestore
- How to install the RootHide bootstrap on iOS 14.0-17.0 with TrollStore
- How to remove the RootHide bootstrap
- How to install the Serotonin “semi-jailbreak” on iOS 16.0-16.6.1
- How to remove the Serotonin “semi-jailbreak”
- How to sideload apps with SideStore
- How to fix a respring loop after installing a buggy jailbreak tweak
- How to install the tvOS 18 beta software profile to block OTA updates
What has been your favorite jailbreak tweak release and/or news tidbit from this past week? Be sure to let us know in the comments section down below.
