This little Jailbreak tweak brings 3D Touch to older iPhones, sort of

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

3D Touch was one of the major highlights of the announcement of the iPhone 6s, even though analysts don’t consider this feature to be hot enough to make this phone sell like hot cakes. That said, there’s no denying that the idea of being able to perform actions on an app without needing to launch it is nifty, so we don’t blame you for being excited if you are. Those of you who couldn’t pre-order an iPhone 6s to give this a try might be in luck with an older iPhone though.You know the ...

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iOS 8.4.1 release patches jailbreak, fixes Apple Music

Posted on by Jules Wang

We’ve been tracking some major bugs with Apple Music as it has rapidly grown its user base. But while plenty of attention has been on the streaming music platform and its viability (much less the viability of the whole streaming industry at-large), we can’t forget that the iPhone holds a multitude of features. Some of ...

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iOS 8.3 untethered jailbreak for iPhone and iPad released

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Jailbreaking is not be as popular as it once was, and that’s mainly because iOS has kept maturing, and in the processs, providing users with most of the features they would jailbreak their phones for. That said, there is still a community focused on making this a thing, and if you’re still interested in some hacking fun, a new update has just arrived.TaIG has just released an untethered jailbreak for iOS 8.3 on both the iPhone and iPad, so long as your device is compatible with this version of the operating system. The service only works for Windows computers at the moment ...

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TaiG jailbreak arrives for iOS 8.1.2

Posted on by Rithvik Rao

It was just yesterday we were talking about Apple releasing iOS 8.1.2 as a security and bug-fixing update for its line of iOS devices, so we weren’t expecting to be back so soon letting you know that the software has already been jailbroken, this iOS 8.1.2 jailbreak brought to you by team TaiG.Early indications from prominent jailbreakers after the update dropped were that the vulnerability TaiG used as a jailbreak injection mechanism had remained untouched, which ...

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A Jailbreak for iOS 8.1.1 and iOS 8.2 beta gets released

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Jailbreaking iOS products used to be extremely popular before iOS 4, and that was mainly because the functionality that iOS provided to users before then was extremely limited. If you wanted to do basics like multi-tasking, or even having a notifications tray, your only solution was to jailbreak. Today the Jailbreak community is much smaller than it used to be, again since iOS has matured over the years, ...

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iOS 8.1.1 jailbroken in video, but it’s not for everyone

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Just like there’s a daring community of users that can’t live without rooting an Android phone, there’s also another community that still believes in the need of an iOS Jailbreak. So far, jailbreaking devices isn’t getting any easier, and at the same time, the community has slowly lost its importance as Apple keeps addressing the needs for people to Jailbreak. If you’ve accidentally upgraded your iOS device to iOS 8.1.1, there’s ...

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Jailbreak arrives for all iOS 8.1 devices

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

It has been entirely too long since we had the opportunity to talk about an iOS jailbreak, last touching base with jailbreak progress back when iOS 8 was still a developer beta. We’ve come a long way since then, with Apple releasing the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, iPad Air 2, and iPad mini 3, as well as making iOS 8 – and now iOS 8.1 – publicly available. Sometimes the arrival of new hardware and new software like that (not to mention new SoCs) can ...

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Jailbreak efforts for iOS 8 beta are off to a good start

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Let’s face it, Jailbreaking isn’t as popular as it used to be, and that’s mainly because a lot of what you couldn’t do with your iPhone so many years ago, you can now do as Apple has polished its mobile operating system more and more. That said, there is still a vibrant community of hackers out there working hard, and even though iOS 8 is still months away from being launched, there is already progress in getting it Jailbroken.Famous hacker I0n1c tweeted yesterday that “initial tests show that iOS 8 beta does not fix anything,” which we assume refers to the ...

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An untethered Jailbreak reaches iOS 7.1.1 (video)

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Even though we’re just a couple of weeks away from Apple’s probable launch of iOS 8 at WWDC 2014, that doesn’t mean that the Jailbreak community hasn’t been hard at work at doing something about iOS 7.1.1. Ever since the launch of Apple’s current mobile operating system, it wasn’t possible for you to Jailbreak it through conventional and easy means. Today we do see some significant progress in the matter, but not necessarily for everyone. Today we’ve seen both photos and videos of iOS 7.1.1 being jailbroken on devices like the iPhone 5c and even ...

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iOS 7.1 was also Jailbroken on the iPhone 4s

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Recently we saw how iOS 7.1 was jailbroken, but judging by the video that we caught, we understood that this was only applicable to the iPhone 4 running on Apple’s legacy A4 chip. Obviously the difference in processor architecture poses an additional challenge to developers in finding exploits, and thus makes jailbreaking difficult across the the whole iOS line-up of products. Today we hear new progress for jailbreaking iOS 7.1 which we’re sure will make many of you happy. In a response on Twitter, developer iH8sn0w confirmed that his iPhone 4s is Jailbroken on iOS 7.1. Given ...

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iOS 7.1 untethered Jailbreak shown on video, but there’s a catch

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Things haven’t been the same lately when it comes to the iOS hacking community. Years ago people turned those developers that were able to crack Apple’s code into famous movie stars, and lately all that has seemed to just fade away as iOS has evolved into solving the many complaints that gave people a reason to jailbreak. Still, the community exists, and even if Apple patched the exploit that allowed you to use Evasi0n on iOS 7.1, there’s already progress in fixing that.

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iOS 7.1 beta 5 patches all the Evasi0n Jailbreak exploits

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Even though Jailbreaking has become less and less popular with the launch of iOS 7, up to the point where even Cydia spent some time not being optimized for it, you could still do so with Evasi0n if you were running iOS 7.0.4. Sadly, if you’re interested in keeping your Jailbreak for longer, things are about to get more complicated. We heard recently that Apple’s iOS 7.1 beta 4 effectively patched the kernel in a way that would partially cripple Evasi0n, though there was still a way to do it. Sadly that ...

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Google-Audi Android cars, Asus CES teaser, WP8 Jailbreak & more – Pocketnow Daily

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Our apology for the late upload. Sadly we’ve experienced some bad technical difficulties that just got fixed. Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Samsung’s new Exynos S processor, and what this could mean for their smartphones in 2014. We then talk about Samsung’s new mobile RAM chips to power 64-bit processors as well. Then we talk about Asus as the company has already begun teasing its smartphone line-up for CES. Windows Phone 8 returns to the news as we’ve seen a Jailbreak for the Lumia 920 being teased. We end today’s show by talking about ...

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Windows Phone 8 jailbreak teased on Lumia 920

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Windows Phone has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past few years, and for all the ways we’ve seen the platform mature, it still hasn’t really picked up a vibrant underground dev community. While we’ve seen the availability of some custom ROMs, the platform’s lacked an easily accessible, iOS-like jailbreak – or, at least not since Microsoft got to the ChevronWP7 guys. That may all soon be changing, ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 076: inbox zero

Posted on by Michael Fisher

The end of the year in tech is already dominated by lists – best of, worst of, top 5, bottom 50 – you get the picture. So rather than foist another array of numeric bullet points upon you on ...

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