Jailbreak news of the week: Lars Fröder discusses iOS 17 18 jailbreak challenges, iOS 18.4 impacting JIT, more…
If you’re into jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad, then you have a home here at iDownloadBlog, where many of our staff share the same tenacity for the hobby of customizing their devices well outside of the stock bounds provided by Apple.
In today’s piece, we’ll be discussing all the latest jailbreak tweak releases and jailbreak-related news tidbits that we’ve covered throughout the past work week, spanning Monday, February 24th to Sunday, March 2nd. This is to recap recent news and to ensure that all our readers stay up to date on what’s happening as it happens, just in case it slipped past them throughout the busy work week.
Important stuff from this week
Lars Fröder discusses iOS 17 & 18 jailbreak challenges
Security researcher, Dopamine jailbreak developer, and TrollStore perma-signing utility developer Lars Fröder took the stage at Nullcon Goa 2025 to share the state of jailbreaking in 2025 as it pertains to iOS & iPadOS 17 and 18.
You can learn more about what he had to say in our full news post.
palera1n works on iPadOS 18.4 developer beta 1
Nick Chan of the palera1n development team confirmed that the jailbreak does indeed still work on the latest iPadOS 18.4 developer beta 1 seeded to developers on Friday of last week.
This is not much of a surprise considering how the palera1n jailbreak uses the unpatchable checkm8 hardware-based bootrom exploit, but still cool to see. This only works on the iPad (7th generation).
You can learn more about this in our full news post.
JIT compilation dead on iOS 18.4?
Apple has officially ended the ability for sideloaded apps to use JIT compilation in iOS & iPadOS 18.4, which could impact the performance of certain sideloaded apps, such as game emulators.
JIT allowed programming languages to be compiled into machine code in real time during code execution, which meant better performance in some cases where software intended for one system would run on another.
You can learn more about this in our full news post.
K2geIsland
K2geIsland is a new jailbreak tweak for iOS 16 devices that lets users customize their Dynamic Island in new and inspiring ways.
You can also use the K2geIsland jailbreak tweak with DynamicCow if you’re enabling Dynamic Island-like features on a notched iPhone.
You can learn more about K2geIsland in our full review post.
Everything else from this week
Dynamic120hz v3.2.0 released: Optimize code structure and fix known issues, new setting for preferred frame rate added ($5.99 via Havoc repository – review post)
GitHubWebLegacyCompat v1.0.3 released: Add polyfill for Array.prototype.at so that Issues page can be loaded, add stub value for HTMLDialogElement interface so that GitHub Search feature can work, add com.apple.WebKit to the tweak .plist file so that it works on App Store browsers (free via PoomSmart’s repository)
IPARanger v2.0 released: Resolve all known issues, align utility with the latest ipatool (free via YouRepo repository – review post)
NoWAChannelsViewCell v1.0.3 released: Updated for latest WhatsApp version, improved and fixed the functionality of the Tweak, general unnecessary code cleanup (free via BigBoss repository)
SFSymbols v1.0.3 released: Fix the tweak not working on iOS 17 and later (free via PoomSmart’s repository)
Single Mute v1.5 released: Rebuilt with RootHide support (free via Havoc repository – review post)
Write Now v2.1 released: Update built-in endpoint ($3.99 via Havoc repository – review post)
YouTube X v1.7.11 released: Fix YouTube video comments section not loading on old YouTube app versions (free via PoomSmart’s repository – review post)
This is the end of this week’s roundup, but we encourage our readers to not only keep it tuned to iDownloadBlog as we report on news and releases throughout the week, but also to look forward to next week’s roundup where we’ll follow a similar format, albeit with updated content reflecting the week we’re about to set foot in.
Miss last week’s roundup? Dopamine anniversary update, Windows Phone Hackintosh, SwishBar, & more…
If you’re looking for additional jailbreak tweaks that might be of interest to you, then we recommend browsing the following roundups:
- 18 features that iOS & iPadOS 18 ‘borrowed’ from the jailbreak community
- Best Bluetooth jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Multitasking jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best UI-enhancing jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Accessibility jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Conversation-starting jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Novelty jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Sound & Volume jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Notification jailbreak tweaks for iOS 16 & 16
- Best iOS 18 feature-porting jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Display-enhancing jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best YouTube jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Lock Screen jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Home Screen jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Music jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
- Best Wallpaper jailbreak tweaks for iOS 15 & 16
Additionally, you can learn more about how to jailbreak or hack your device by visiting the detailed step-by-step tutorials outlined below:
- How to jailbreak A9-A16, M1-M2 devices on iOS 15 & 16* with Dopamine
- How to jailbreak A12-A15, M1 devices on iOS 15.0-16.5.1 with Xinam1ne
- How to jailbreak A12-A15 devices on iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 with XinaA15 v2
- How to jailbreak A9-A11 devices on iOS & iPadOS 15.0-16.x & iPadOS 17 with palera1n
- How to install the RootHide jailbreak detection bypass for Dopamine
- How to install TrollStore on iOS 14.0-16.6.1 with TrollInstallerX
- How to install TrollStore on iOS 14.0-15.6.1 with TrollHelperOTA
- How to install TrollStore on iOS 15.2-17.0 with TrollRestore
- How to install the RootHide bootstrap on iOS 14.0-17.0 with TrollStore
- How to remove the RootHide bootstrap
- How to install the Serotonin “semi-jailbreak” on iOS 16.0-16.6.1
- How to remove the Serotonin “semi-jailbreak”
- How to sideload apps with SideStore
- How to fix a respring loop after installing a buggy jailbreak tweak
- How to install the tvOS 18 beta software profile to block OTA updates
Do you have a preferred jailbreak tweak release from this past week, or a news post that moved you? Let us know in the comments section down below.
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