Jailbreak

Zephyr, an awesome Cydia tweak from iOS developer Chpwn which brings gesture based multitasking to iPhone and iPod touch allowing users to swipe between applications using left or right swipes and seamlessly move between applications, has just been updated to version 1.1. The latest update brings improved stability and bug fixes as well as a couple of...

Another Siri exclusive Cydia tweak called Lingual has just been released by the CodeThemed team that extends Siri's functionality to voice translation. Lingual allows translation from English to over 30 languages. The developers have said that they're also looking to include translation to English in a future update. The tweak pulls in results using Microsoft's Bing Translate API...

An update has been updated for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak tool, Absinthe. The popular tool has by now exceeded over 1 million downloads in about three days. Version 0.3 has been released and has been updated to include a version for Linux users, as noted by Chronic Dev Team member @pimskeks. As...

The iPhone Dev Team has released some official A5 jailbreak numbers in detail, as noted in a recent post titled 'Welcome new A5 Jailbreakers!'. Earlier, we noted the numbers mentioned by Chronic Dev Team member @p0sixninja, and these numbers are similar but in more detail: Here’s a quick breakdown of how many A5 owners have...

Update 1: @MuscleNerd has tweeted over 205,000 new A5 Cydia installs took place Sunday morning. The Absinthe jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 has exceeded over 1 million downloads in 24 hours, notes @p0sixninja from the Chronic Dev Team to Cult of Mac. The monumental download number was achieved on the first day of the...

Every iPhone 4S owner is excited about yesterday's untethered iOS 5.0 / 5.0.1 jailbreak release for A5 devices in the shapes of GreenPois0n Absinthe (Chronic Dev Team) and Absinthe CLI (iPhone-Dev Team) which opens a whole new world of iOS tweaks and customizations. When I jailbroke my own iPhone 4S, one of the first tweaks that I installed...

The iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak dream team has been doing a great job of keeping the rest of the jailbreak community in the loop as to the progress of the impending tool's status. This morning, or evening depending on where you are, the most definitive and shortest ETA yet along with the upcoming...

Only a couple of days back, @iH8sn0w released his Windows exclusive sn0wbreeze jailbreak tool’s two-year anniversary update incorporating pod2g’s iOS 5.0.1 untether exploit along with some new features like an IPSW Downloader, GUI Improvements and support for older firmwares up to iOS 3.1.3. Today, he has pushed another update labelled sn0wbreeze 2.9.1 which brings a couple of minor fixes. Here is the tweet regarding the update: @iH8sn0w: "Just a bump...

The iPhone 4S jailbreak is currently being worked on for a release by @pod2g and his hacker 'dream team'. So far, we have seen teasers of the A5 jailbreak as images of jailbroken iPad 2 units have been posted by online by @pod2g and @planetbeing. Now, @p0sixninja from the Chronic Dev Team has tweeted another...

Update Hider for iOS 5 is a new, completely re-written Cydia tweak by Will Homer (@WillFour20). Unlike the old Update Hider, this one has been designed specifically for iOS 5 and allows you to easily hide App Store updates, also removing their annoying badges. You can also make the hidden updates appear again as easily....

The second generation Apple TV recently received an untethered jailbreak for 4.4.4 using Seas0nPass, as released by Firecore. Now, iOS developer @stroughtonsmith has posted a video of an Apple TV 2 hacked to run multiple iOS apps natively: Using @TheMudkip's MobileX window manager for iOS, and @chpwn's MobileLaunchpad launcher to go with it, we now...

The following is an updated tutorial to assist you in achieving an untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch using redsn0w 0.9.10b3. The untethered jailbreak is currently for non-A5 devices only (will not work with iPhone 4S or iPad 2). Warning: do not proceed if you're unsure about what you're doing....