Just days after confirming that it’s possible to jailbreak and Apple device running iOS 5.1, pod2g has confirmed that the jailbreak also works on iOS 5.1.1. It’s already possible to jailbreak some devices running iOS 5.1.1, but there are two big differences in pod2g’s upcoming tool. First, it will support newer devices including the latest iPad and iPhone models. Second, it’s an untethered jailbreak, which means… Read more »

Shortly after Apple released iOS 5.1.1 users discovered they could jailbreak Apple’s latest operating system. But the current jailbreak tools only work on older iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad models — and it’s a tethered jailbreak which means you need to connect to a PC and run the software again every time you reboot. Now iOS hacker pod2g is demonstrating an untethered jailbreak that works on devices… Read more »

An upcoming version of redsn0w will allow users to downgrade an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad from one version of iOS to an earlier version. Redsn0w is one of the most popular tools for jailbreaking iOS devices, but the utility also includes a number of other tools which let you save SHSH blobs, get out of recovery mode if your phone or tablet is stuck,… Read more »

Apple released iOS 5.1.1 today. It fixes a number of bugs in iOS 5.1, but doesn’t add any major new features. Unless you’ve jailbroken your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad there’s no reason not to upgrade. But if you do have a jailbroken device, upgrading to iOS 5.1.1 will remove your jailbreak. The good news is that you can already re-jailbreak Apple’s latest mobile operating… Read more »

When Apple released iOS 5.1 in March, it took almost no time at all for hackers to figure out how to jailbreak older iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad models running the new operating system. But at the time there was no support newer devices with Apple A5 processors — and the jailbreak was tethered, which means you have to connect your device to a computer… Read more »

The iPhone Dev Team has released an updated version of the popular redsn0w all-in-one jailbreak utility. While there’s still no way to jailbreak a new iPad or any other device running iOS 5.1 (yet), you can now use the latest version of redsn0w to jailbreak just about anything else. Jailbreaking an iOS device allows you to access settings and files that are normally protected. This… Read more »

A group of hackers figured out how to jailbreak the 3rd generation iPad the day it was released, although the tools haven’t yet been released to the public. But that was a tethered jailbreak, which means you would have had to connect your iPad to a computer and run the software again every time you wanted to reboot it. Now it looks like an untethered jailbreak… Read more »

ChevronWP7 Labs offered a limited jailbreaking tool for phones running Windows Phone 7 for a brief period of time. The tool didn’t give you complete access over your phone’s software the way that rooting an Android phone or jailbreaking an iPhone does. But it did make it possible to install apps that were not downloaded from the official Windows Phone Marketplace. Now the folks behind… Read more »

The Apple TV is a small $99 box that you can stick by your TV and connect to your home internet network to stream internet video, music, and other content to your TV. But if you’d like to do even more with the Apple TV, you can jailbreak it. The folks at Firecore have just released tools to jailbreak the latest version of the Apple… Read more »

Apple added limited support for multitasking to its mobile devices way back with the launch of iOS 4.0. But if you’re not a fan of switching between apps by opening a dock and swiping between icons, there’s another way. CardSwitcher is an app for jailbroken iOS devices that lets you view actual previews of currently running apps. Instead of looking at icons representing games, apps,… Read more »