Cydia has been the hub of the iPhone gray market for some time now, but developer Jay Freeman is planning on turning the jailbroken app manager into a questionably ...

When you jailbreak an iOS device, you are given access to Cydia, the wild west frontier of tweaks, themes and apps you can’t get in Apple’s own App Store. Jailbreaking gives you the freedom to ...

The iOS 9 jailbreak was released earlier this month, but it was only available for Windows. Today, the jailbreak’s available for Mac. The jailbreak works the same as it does on Windows, so it’s a ...

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Cydia is the top app directory and store for apps you can install on jailbroken iOS devices. But while Cydia will let you download and install apps that aren’t available from Apple’s App Store, Cydia ...

The release of a revised open-source toolchain for compiling unofficial iPhone applications and the advent of a jailbreak method for the iPhone 3G and iPhone OS 2.0 have breathed new life into the ...

First the U.S. Copyright Office gave smartphone jailbreaking the green light. Not long after, JailbreakMe emerged. Now, Apple iPhone users can add whatever apps they ...

Apple’s iPhone 4S and iPad 2 proved particularly difficult to jailbreak, but the hackers have finally prevailed. The so-called Corona A5 jailbreak is the first “untethered” hack for the iPhone 4S and ...

Limera1n was released yesterday. Yes, I know GreenpoisOn has been delayed but I would be curious about your experience with jailbreaking on iOS 4.1 (before I risk turning my expensive toy into a brick ...

At this point, Apple has locked iOS down enough that a full jailbreak—unlocking a device to install whatever you want on it—of current releases is extremely rare. When such a capability does exist, it ...