Thursday December 21, 2023 9:09 am PST by Juli Clover
As we shared this morning, the team behind the Beeper Mini iMessage for Android app has announced a plan that will let Android customers use a jailbroken iPhone to register a phone number with...
Thursday December 21, 2023 5:04 am PST by Tim Hardwick
The developers of Beeper Mini, the iMessage for Android app, are back with another attempt to keep Apple's blue bubbles onside, and this time they will ask users to generate their iMessage...
Hacker group The Odyssey Team has announced an upcoming jailbreak tool called "Cheyote" that will work with devices running iOS 15 for the first time.Sharing the news on Reddit, one of the...
Friday November 20, 2020 3:29 am PST by Tim Hardwick
The team behind the "Checkra1n" jailbreaking tool for iOS claims to have used it to successfully jailbreak Apple's HomePod, although it's unclear what that could mean for the smart...
Wednesday March 3, 2021 10:29 am PST by Juli Clover
When the iPhone first launched in 2007, then Apple CEO Steve Jobs had no plans to allow developers to create native apps for the iPhone, instead suggesting they rely on web apps. Developers...
The team behind the "unc0ver" jailbreaking tool for iOS has announced an upcoming version of its software that can patch "every signed iOS version on every device" using a zero-day...
Tuesday September 22, 2020 3:42 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
The team behind the "Checkra1n" jailbreaking tool for iOS has released version 0.11.0 of its software with support added for iOS 14, but only on a limited number of devices. checkra1n 0.11.0...
Monday December 30, 2019 10:34 am PST by Juli Clover
Apple is currently involved in a lawsuit against Corellium, a mobile device virtualization company that supports iOS. Apple has accused Corellium of copyright infringement because Corellium creates...
Sunday February 28, 2021 8:26 am PST by Frank McShan
The team behind the "unc0ver" jailbreaking tool for iOS has released version 6.0.0 of its software, which can allegedly be used to jailbreak any device running iOS 11.0 through iOS 14.3 using...
Tuesday December 3, 2019 4:05 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Russian President Vladimir Putin today signed new legislation requiring all smartphones, computers, and smart TVs sold in the country to come pre-installed with Russian software, reports...
The team behind the "unc0ver" jailbreaking tool for iOS has released version 5.0.0 of its software that claims to have the ability to jailbreak "every signed iOS version on every...
Monday August 26, 2019 10:05 am PDT by Juli Clover
Apple today released iOS 12.4.1, a minor update that comes one month after the launch of iOS 12.4.The iOS 12.4.1 update is available on all eligible devices over-the-air in the Settings app. To...
Apple in iOS 12.4 mistakenly unpatched a vulnerability that was fixed in the iOS 12.3 update, leading to a new jailbreak available for iOS 12.4 devices, reports Motherboard.Hackers discovered the...
Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 13.5.1, minor updates that come a little over a week after the release of iOS and iPadOS 13.5, major updates that brought the Exposure Notification API, FaceTime...
Following the release of iOS 13.5.1 on June 1, Apple has stopped signing iOS 13.5, which means downgrading to that version of iOS is no longer possible.iOS 13.5.1 included a fix for the vulnerability...
Friday September 27, 2019 7:31 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
A security researcher who goes by "axi0mX" on Twitter today released "checkm8," which he claims is a bootrom exploit for iOS devices equipped with A5 through A11 chips, including the...
Thursday November 23, 2017 9:06 am PST by Joe Rossignol
ModMy today announced it has archived its default ModMyi repository on Cydia, which is essentially an alternative App Store for downloading apps, themes, tweaks, and other files on jailbroken iPhone,...
Wednesday February 28, 2018 1:30 pm PST by Joe Rossignol
In addition to our standalone articles covering the latest Apple news and rumors at MacRumors, this Quick Takes column provides a bite-sized recap of other headlines about Apple and its competitors...
Monday December 11, 2017 2:18 pm PST by Juli Clover
Google security researcher Ian Beer, who works for the Project Zero team, last week highlighted an iOS 11.1.2 exploit called "tfp0," which he believes could be the basis for a future iOS...
Wednesday January 5, 2022 8:33 pm PST by Joe Rossignol
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers today granted Apple's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the company by Jay Freeman, creator of an alternative App Store known as Cydia for...
Apple in iOS 16 is introducing a new Rapid Security Response feature that's designed to make it easier and quicker for the company to deploy security improvements.Security updates will be able to...
Thursday August 4, 2016 10:03 am PDT by Juli Clover
Apple today released an iOS 9.3.4 update for the iOS 9 operating system, just over two weeks after releasing iOS 9.3.3 and less than two months before we expect to see the public release of iOS 10,...
Tuesday October 4, 2022 8:01 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Cydia parent company SaurikIT, LLC has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed the company's antitrust...
Thursday December 10, 2020 8:50 am PST by Juli Clover
Back in 2008, Jay Freeman first released Cydia as an app store designed for the iPhone, offering apps a few months before Apple had its own App Store. Since then, Cydia has served as an app...
Apple has been selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 without the blood oxygen monitoring feature in the U.S. since mid-January, and while we've suspected Apple would be able to...
Wednesday October 14, 2015 5:04 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Chinese team Pangu today released the first untethered jailbreak for iOS 9 devices, including the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.The jailbreak tool is currently available for Windows only, but an OS X...
Tuesday September 22, 2020 4:15 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Following the release of iOS 14 last Wednesday, Apple has stopped signing iOS 13.7, which means downgrading to iOS 13 after upgrading to iOS 14 is no longer possible.Apple routinely stops signing...
Wednesday December 11, 2019 12:41 pm PST by Juli Clover
Apple recently used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to get Twitter to remove a viral tweet that featured an iPhone encryption key, provoking the ire of the security community, reports...
After it was reported last week that Apple's T2 Security Chip could be vulnerable to jailbreaking, the team behind the exploit have released an extensive report and demonstration.Apple's...
Wednesday April 5, 2023 2:23 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Apple's iOS 17 operating system will be compatible with all iPhones that are capable of running iOS 16, claims a previously reliable source with alleged contacts within Apple, contradicting...