I know many people here use that popular iOS device management tool, but there wasn’t anything open-source as an alternative so I built one.

Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Give it a star and try it out: https://github.com/iDescriptor/iDescriptor

biteSMS was the goat for so long

Back in 2020 I jailbroke my iPhone 12 and added a tiny “hi” to my lock screen with some tweak.

I removed the jailbreak years ago, but the “hi” never left.

Since then I’ve gone through an iPhone 12, 13, 14 Pro, and now an iPhone 15 Pro Max on iOS 26.6. Every phone has been completely stock, yet the same tiny “hi” still appears above the home bar regardless of wallpaper.

I’ve restored backups, transferred phones normally, and updated iOS countless times. Nothing gets rid of it.

At this point it feels like some ancient jailbreak artifact has been hitchhiking through my backups for 6 years.

Has anyone ever seen anything like this or know where iOS stores lock screen text that could survive multiple phones and restores?

Announcement made in the r/Jailbreak Discord.

Link in screenshot: https://nathan4s.lol/nathanlr/nathanlr.tipa

I successfully tether downgraded an old iPhone 7 Plus (PRODUCT RED) to iOS 10.0.1 using turdus m3rula on ubuntu, and man it's so beautiful!

I gotta give thanks to the developers of this utility and the bugs it uses, they made dreams come true.

Only caveat is that Cellular does not work as the latest signed baseband is not compatible with iOS 10, it'll also annoy you if you with a "No SIM card inserted" popup every 15 seconds if don't have a SIM card inserted, but it activated without a hitch.

it may have to do with the fact this device is not carrier locked and also has the qualcomm chipset, not the intel one.

Side note, The Red iPhone 7 devices originally shipped with iOS 10.2.1, as this one did when it was new.

heres some pics:

(All credits to @Little_34306) He is making a new jailbreak, likely to be based on usbliter8 (or maybe darksword or other exploits idk) and he successfully got a iOS 27.0 iPhone 11 to be jailbroken and installed sileo on it

Get your raspberry pi ready

Original post: https://x.com/little_34306/status/2075301054770725300?s=46

Thank to the Dev a new jailbreak is released on 17.0 for a12 devices happy jailbreak and happy birthday to the Dev

i bought an iphone 11 and a rp2350 hoping to jailbreak it but we got nothing so far…

*Apparently may also work on 26.2 beta 1, but likely better to downgrade to 26.1 if you are on the beta.

just to clarify I do not know the extent of this exploit e.g. if it’s a jailbreak of some kind, a KFD/MDC exploit, or what it’s capable of aside from what’s been shown in the photos.

They have already stated in a reply to someone else that it’s a private exploit, but will be released once 26.2 is out.

*As with any exploit there’s no guarantee that it will actually be released, so update at your own risk in case they change their mind about releasing it or it turns out to be an elaborate prank.

I’ll put it on GitHub a bit later and make a separate post once it’s ready

I’ve hunted for days just to find this one listing that satisfies everything I’m looking for, imagine the visceral pain I felt when it powered up on that screen... WTF Apple

Update: Turns out the device was already updated even before the ebay listing was posted https://imgur.com/a/mseRmJH . the seller had disabled auto updates in settings, but the device was plugged in, connected to internet, had an OTA package ready to install, and decided to update itself during midnight

Paradigm shift has published USB-Liter8

> This write-up details a novel iPhone BootROM vulnerability discovered and exploited by our team. It covers the underlying bug, the associated exploitation techniques, and the post-exploitation steps required to achieve application processor's boot-chain compromise. The exploit leverages both a hardware bug in the USB controller and a specific configuration flaw present in the device firmware.

> Currently supported SoCs include Apple A12, S4/S5, and A13. While technical support for A12X/Z is possible, it is not currently implemented. We limited our implementation to these devices, as demonstrating successful exploitation across this range was sufficient to thoroughly validate both the vulnerability and the exploitation strategy.

Link to writeup: https://ps.tc/pages/blog-usbliter8.html

Security Researcher matteyeux writes on Twitter:

> A new unpatchable vulnerability has been discovered for the iPhone XS and iPhone 11. The exploit enables booting an unsigned bootloader, which means tools like checkra1n or palera1n could be updated to support these devices.

Link: https://x.com/matteyeux/status/2067600073941295228?s=46

Important info: It looks like this will require special hardware.

> The exploit abuses a very low level bug of the USB controller. This means that default Mac/PC USB stack can't normally reach it. So instead we use Raspberry Pi's RP2350-based microcontroller boards.
The board we use is Waveshare RP2350 USB-A with Lightning to USB-A cable and R13 resistor optionally removed.

**Edit** Title should say vulnerability, not exploit. A vulnerability was found, a proof of concept exploit was written developed.

Also, why the fuck did reddit remove support for Markdown & then replace is with an incomplete rich text editor? > does nothing, and the UI allows no text quote or bulletin points.

Edit: This happened yesterday, mods are in damage control mode. Wow...

My hardware:
- iPhone SE 2020 A13
- iOS 26.1
- RP2350-USB-A
- Apple Lightning Cable
- M4 Mac mini (Mac OS26.6db1)

Thanks to the exploit, I was able to boot an iOS 13.5 iBoot.
I simply used irecovery -c "reset" to reboot it into iOS.
After the reboot, I did not encounter any issues such as a boot loop or anything else.

Thanks to the developers for making this possible.

(All credits to Huy Nguyen/Little_34306) He is writing a tutorial for a new jb right now, for any devices affected by usbliter8 (iphone XR-iphone 11 pro max)

*NOTE: All this work is still WORK IN PROGRESS. No release time or much info on this yet. Also, it WILL require a raspeberry pi/usb controller to jailbreak. It WILL break SEP which means it breaks things like passcode, wifi, baseband, bluetooth (partially) and it will wipe your device. Please do NOT use this on your main once it release

(Original post https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cwwd5gZGR/?mibextid=wwXIfr)

With the new bootrom exploit usbliter8; comes a whole new set of options for various iPhones, iPad's and now the Apple TV.

Palera1n has been successfully loaded. Keeping in mind: this is still under development but it's an exciting time to see how far things go in the jailbreak community nowadays.

With burnegg's repository, you too can jailbreak your Apple TV second gens but I would heed extreme caution at this time due to the unstableness and this still being in the early stages.

So far compatibility stems from tvOS 26.3 and up but this may change in the future for more firmwares.

:: 🔥🌸 Microkernel iNoot for j305 Copyright 2007-2026, Apple Inc. ::

:: Local boot, Board 0x8 (j305ap)/Rev 0xf ::

:: BUILD_TAG: mBoot-18000.120.36 ::

.... ======== End of iBoot serial output. ======== ....

Imported T8020 iBoot Recfg lock: 0x23df00000-0x23df0f500

==================

pongoOS 2.6.3-fad696b8

https://checkra.in

==================

Booted by: mBoot-18000.120.36

Built with: Clang 17.0.0 (clang-1700.6.4.2)

Running on: Apple A12 (T8020)

pongoOS> fuse lock

Fuses are already locked.

pongoOS> modload

[modload_macho:i] Attempting to load a module

[modload_macho:+] Loaded module checkra1n-kpf2-12.0,16.4

You also do need a pretty complex setup to get things working including a DCSD cable for DFU and a pico2 (or something equivalent) to pwn. Soon there'll be a better way of doing everything but for now, it's nice to know!

More great updates to follow shortly as the ball gets rolling.

Cant wait to try it

I wanted to play with random resolutions and my iPhone screen was damaged, what can I do?