Not as easy as it once was. Security was beefed up with every iteration after iOS 10, in the hardware (post-iPhone X) and the software. 10 was the last good time of jailbreaking ease, where a jailbreak.me type of exploit was released. It’s pure luck now. Most talented developers have either left the scene due to ungrateful people, sadly, or joined Apple’s Bounty program. You can’t tell what version a brand-new boxed iPhone is on because Apple obfuscated the serial numbers. iOS 15 introduced SSV (Sealed System Volume) meaning no touching root, forcing a halt which was eventually solved with “rootless” jailbreaks. They made it harder to downgrade to a jailbreakable version due to SEP (Secure Enclave Processor), and Blobs are useless now because of cryptex1, introduced in iOS 16. This means no downgrades to unsigned firmwares at all except within patch versions (like 16.3 and 16.3.1). iOS 17 could be even worse, time will tell.

Those days are long gone, I’m afraid. It’s not as simple as patching an IPSW like it used to be. The jailbreak scene has been pushed to the edge of a cliff by Apple with each update, especially after iOS 10. iPhone 8/8+/X and lower are jailbreakable for life due to an unpatchable bootrom exploit (checkm8), but it doesn’t mean much now that those devices won’t get iOS 17. Recently, Apple added another security measure (cryptex1) to make it near impossible to downgrade. It’s pure luck these days if/when a jailbreak gets released & for what iOS version. Oh and it’s been so long since the last untethered jailbreak, I can’t remember the name of the last one. All of them are Semi-Untethered (sideload an app with the exploit, but you would have to resign it every 7 days in case your phone reboots unless you own an Apple Dev Account)

Activator - I use this to automatically enable LPM when a charger is connected or when I leave my house, holding Vol Up for Next Song/Vol Down for Prev. Song, Hold Vol Up & Down to Pause, Hold top-right of Status Bar for a custom App Drawer from any App

CCSupport - I mainly use this for putting something that should already be in the Control Center toggles, a damn location button!!

AppStore++ - Let’s you downgrade any app to any version you wish & block app updates

BetterCCXI - Make the CC Music Module display the Now Playing song/video Album Cover/Art without holding it down

ChromaHomebarX - Customize homebar color to your liking or do a RGB animation at what ever speed you prefer

Facebook/Messenger/Instagram/Twitter No Ads - Self Explanatory, and allows downloading pics/videos

DLEasy - Downloading of pics/video from even more apps

EvilScheme - A more powerful Default Apps picker

MYbloXX - A more powerful Ad Blocker than any App Store equivalent bc Apple doesn’t allow hosts file editing on stock iOS

Rose - Haptic Feedback on not just Keyboard, but almost anywhere of your choosing. For example, when I change songs or the volume I get haptic feedback.

Shortmoji - Replace prediction bar with sliding emoji drawer or Cut/Copy/Paste/etc functions or add either between the Emoji & Dictation buttons. Can even customize keyboard color or make it an animated RGB keyboard

This is just a few I can remember off the top, but there’s a whole lot more. A lot of iOS “features” originate in the Jailbreak scene. Screen recording functionality/code was in iOS 8 by Apple, but wasn’t introduced/enabled until iOS 11. JB Tweaks to do that existed before then.

With Apple

Took them long enough, they know they were wrong for that

Jailbreaking my iPhone because stock iOS is boring and there are so many QOL features I’m used to, I can’t imagine using iOS without them

Thank you for this! Many have doubted me when I said this would happen, it’s always nice to have options!

Some version of Ubuntu around the time they were doing the Ubuntu phone

I stopped wearing pants almost a decade ago. Joggers & sweats have taken over lol

Meta/Threads/Facebook can’t sit at the table with us. Defed. Let them collect data & profit off of their own users.

This is beautiful, and a perfect example post you used there. I know it’s not a release but it makes me wish I had an Android phone to test it anyway lol

jailbreak, PS4deals/PS5deals

2011!?!? Lmfao

The perfect Apollo 1:1 wefwef migration dream is dead then. That sucks.

DNS is what translates www.website.com into an IP address that allow clients to load content from those websites. Most people use the DNS that come with their ISP. NextDNS is an alternate “translator” with built in Firewall/Adblock options (like a Pi-Hole). I figured after the Clear Safari Data trick didn’t work for me, it was because of NextDNS blocking something that required wepwep to function. I think it was related to that CORS and wepwep proxy thing that was fixed a while ago, but I switched it back on after reinstalling wepwep and it’s all good!

For me, it was because I had NextDNS enabled but it worked fine with it on up until now. Wonder what happened. Replying from iOS.

I wouldn’t say left behind, wefwef has the best UI/UX through it’s Apollo DNA. I believe it will catch up once the App Store version releases.

Seal the doors! Mark/Meta’s obsession over user base and data control has to be put in check. They’re like a social culture vulture. Riding the next wave but the attempt ends up being stale, killing the mood for everyone that just wanted to enjoy something to themselves.

By “game-changer”, I meant in the sense of having the most functional lemmy client with the best UI in the App Store so soon after what happened to Apollo. PWAs are cool (good for small startups, less cost, faster update deployment, cross-platform thru web-browser engine), but they can’t or don’t leverage the strengths of the hardware/platform they run on to achieve that without a wrapper or native code. Spotify is a PWA, for example. I just logged into mobile Spotify and most of the core functionality is there, but the experience is better using the native app from the App Store. (I can’t even view my Library with mobile Spotify) Scrolling is buttery smooth, animations for transitions instead of sudden “pop-ins” and “pop-outs” or loading a page (like a web browser). Same with Twitter, or a majority of sites/services with an already established app. There’s a reason they all push you to use the native app instead of the web-browser version. It’s just better, and wefwef can only benefit from it. As a PWA, it’s a good solution until it’s mature enough to be native.

I just drag the homebar up a little and it’s back to normal