Back in early October, user @Sentry_NC from The Verge forums came up with this unique app switcher concept. It made iOS app switching look much better than it does now in iOS 6. Now, that app switching concept has come into real life and will soon be released in Cydia. Called Auxo, the finished product...
For those running a tethered iOS 6.0 jailbreak on their iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 4th gen, a new tweak has arrived in Cydia to allow you to set the latest Google Maps for iOS app as the default map app (it also works for those on iOS 5) for links. MapsOpener is a...
A team touting itself as 'DreamJB' teased the world for the past week or so about its upcoming jailbreak for all devices on iOS 6. We had a hunch it wasn't going to be real and subsequently skipped reporting it altogether. Sure enough, our intuition was right as DreamJB has turned out to be a...
Team FireCore has just published a blog post explaining the current state of Apple TV 3 jailbreak. The posts notes that while they were pretty optimistic about jailbreaking the device when it came out back in March, things have "not progressed as quickly as anyone would have liked". Sadly, the team has also confessed that the security related expertise required to...
According to Canadian iPhone hacker @planetbeing, the iPhone 5 jailbreak is still "missing critical pieces" and is not releasable yet, as he explained today on twitter: https://twitter.com/planetbeing/status/268125859725074432 This was after he called out the fake IntelliScreenX app in the App Store we first told you about on the weekend, a tweak he personally helps make....
iH8Sn0w has just updated its popular Sn0wbreeze jailbreak tool that is used by Windows users to support the latest iOS 6 firmware. Sn0wbreeze v2.9.7 is for all Windows users (Window 8 included) who want to jailbreak their A4 devices -- iPhone 3GS/4 -- running iOS 6 and iOS 6.0.1. (more…)
An iPhone 5 jailbreak is far away, and there are more important things keeping Joshua Hill (or p0sixninja) busy lately. But what is more important -- you may ask just as others have -- than jailbreaking the latest iPhone? Read on to find out. p0sixninja recently tweeted that he is working on something more important...
The latest iOS 6.1 beta build was recently seeded by Apple and it has already been jailbroken using the latest version of redsn0w 0.9.15b3. However, this doesn't work for all devices as it is pre-A5 only. This means you can only obtain a tethered jailbreak on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G running...
The iPhone Dev Team released redsn0w 0.9.15b3 a couple days ago (when iOS 6.0.1 was released) with improved bug fixes and also includes the ability for new iPad mini and iPad 4 users to save their iOS 6.0 blobs to Cydia. Muscle Nerd recommends users to stay at 6.0, but of course this is nothing new...
A few days back, Dev-Team updated RedSn0w jailbreak tool with ability to restore to older firmwares which are no longer being signed by Apple including iOS 5.x, as well as untethered 6.0 jailbreak & hactivation on old-bootrom 3GS and direct restore option for pre-A5 devices to earlier firmware. Today, another update has been released i.e RedSn0w 0.9.15b2 that addresses a few issues with the previous...
The Dev-Team has today pushed a major update to its iOS jailbreak tool RedSn0w, taking it to version 0.9.15b1 that introduces a bunch of new features including the option to restore to older firmwares (including iOS 5.x) which are no longer being signed by Apple. Other new options include untethered 6.0 jailbreak & hactivation on old-bootrom 3GS, hactivation on any...
JailbreakCon 2012 took place this weekend, and a Canadian contingent was present there amongst the iOS hacking community. One of them was 17 year old Steven a.k.a. @iH8sn0w from Toronto. He has been known for his releases of popular jailbreak tools sn0wbreeze, iREB, iFaith and f0recast. Check out his presentation on stage talking about downgrading iOS...
