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iPhone jailbreak hack puts Facebook Messenger all over iOS

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 18th, 2013)

The Verge is reporting that a new jailbreak tweak to the Facebook iOS app enables the chat heads feature to run on iOS the same way it does on Android. In other words, chat heads can now permeate the entire iOS UI if you simply can't get enough ...

Tweetbot for iOS outs pirate users

by Steven Sande (Feb 27th, 2013)

A lot of us at TUAW use Tapbots' wonderful Tweetbot iPhone app to feed our mobile Twitter habit. The US$2.99 price tag is apparently off-putting to some iPhone users who want the excellent features of Tweetbot, but would rather pirate the app ...

evasi0n jailbreak tool updated to support iOS 6.1.2

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 19th, 2013)

iOS owners with a jailbroken device will be happy to know that the latest iOS 6.1.2 update is safe for them to install. iOS 6.1.2 may fix the Exchange calendar issue, but it does not close the exploit being used by the evasi0n ...

Hack brings all iPhone notifications to Pebble watch

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 14th, 2013)

Pebble watch owners have a good reason to jailbreak their iOS device. A new jailbreak app from developer Conrad Kramer lets the smartwatch accept all incoming notifications, not just the ones from native iOS apps, like messages and phone calls. ...

FireCore releases updated Apple TV jailbreak tool

by Steven Sande (Feb 14th, 2013)

Jailbreak provider FireCore announced yesterday that it has released an update to the Seas0nPass jailbreak tool and aTV Flash (black) Apple TV software. The update supports the 5.2 Apple TV software released by Apple on January 28, 2013, which ...

Evasi0n used to jailbreak 7 million devices in less than a week

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 8th, 2013)

Forbes talked to Jay Freeman, aka Saurik, who confirmed that the recent Evasi0n jailbreak is the most popular jailbreak in iOS history. According to Saurik, the utility was used to jailbreak more than 7 million devices in the four days since it ...

Untethered iOS 6.x jailbreak evasi0n now available

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 4th, 2013)

The Evad3rs Jailbreak Team has made the evasi0n jailbreak available, and it is capable of jailbreaking the iPhone 5, 4, 4S, 3GS, iPad mini, all full size iPads, and 3rd, 4th and 5th-generation iPod touches running iOS 6.0 and 6.1. The jailbreak ...

iPhone 5 jailbreak release expected very soon (Updated: Jailbreak now available)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 4th, 2013)

Last night while the US was watching football, the evad3rs jailbreak team was putting the final touches on its untethered iOS 6.1 jailbreak. Early speculation suggested the tool would be released during Sunday's Super Bowl, but the evad3rs ...

iOS 6.1 jailbreak almost ready for prime time

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 31st, 2013)

The newly formed evad3rs are close to completing their work on the latest iOS 6.1 jailbreak. The team, made up of @MuscleNerd, @pod2g, @Planetbeing and @pimskeks, have created a website for their jailbreak and are updating it with progress ...

Untethered iOS 6.1 jailbreak to land on most Apple mobile devices (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 28th, 2013)

MuscleNerd is the bearer of potentially good news for iOS device owners. According to a report in iDownloadBlog, MuscleNerd has said that the upcoming untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.1 will support most iOS devices. This would include the ...

Why you can't have an iPhone 5 jailbreak yet

by Randy Nelson (Jan 21st, 2013)

TechCrunch has put together a really great post covering the current iOS jailbreak scene, along with a bit of history behind the quest to find exploits in Apple's devices. For iPhone 5 owners, the piece contains some news that should be very ...

Hackulous iOS app community closes

by Steven Sande (Dec 31st, 2012)

Jailbreakers and users of cracked iOS apps have one less thing to be happy about this New Year's Eve. Hackulous, the cracked app community for iOS, shut down as of yesterday. Along with Hackulous, Apptrackr -- which was a web-based index of ...

Want to replace Siri with Google Search? You can via jailbreak

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 9th, 2012)

Google's latest version of its voice-enabled Search app may not have the personality of Siri, but it is as good, if not better, than Siri at pulling up relevant search information. If you want to replace Apple's personal assistant with Google's ...

iOS 6.0.1 jailbroken

by Steven Sande (Nov 2nd, 2012)

iOS 6.0.1 has only been out for about 24 hours, but now jailbreakers can rejoice -- the newest iteration of the iPhone Dev Team's Redsn0w can be used to jailbreak certain iOS 6.0.1 devices. The news comes from Redmond Pie, which tested the ...

Redsn0w updated with tethered use of Cydia

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 15th, 2012)

The iPhone Dev Team released a new version of RedSn0w late last week that includes several major new features. At the top of the list is the inclusion of Cydia in the tethered jailbreak for A4-equipped iOS devices. Previously iPhone 4/3GS owners ...

How-to posted for jailbreaking iOS 6 on A4-powered iPhones, iPods

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 20th, 2012)

Once the gold master version of iOS 6 landed in the hands of developers, the iPhone Dev Team was quick to release an iOS 6-compatible version of its Redsn0w jailbreak tool. Now that iOS 6 is available to the public, select iPhone and iPod touch ...