Jailbreak news of the week: iPadOS 18 to drop support for checkm8 iPads, Dopamine updates, & more…

Jailbreak news of the week: iPadOS 18 to drop support for checkm8 iPads, Dopamine updates, & more…

You can always count on your friends at iDownloadBlog to brief you throughout the week about the latest jailbreak news as it happens, but to help people who miss out on the action, we wrap things up every weekend.

This piece will do exactly that, recapping the latest news in the iPhone and iPad hacking and jailbreaking spaces spanning the week of Monday, February 26th to Sunday, March 3rd.


Important stuff from this week


iPadOS 18 could drop support for checkm8 iPads

There is a new rumor going around that checkm8 bootrom exploit-vulnerable iPads may not be able to run iPadOS 18.


If true, then this means iPadOS 17 could be the last jailbreakable firmware by way of the checkm8 hardware-based bootrom exploit that has been a thorn in Apple’s side since iOS 12. The exploit, which can’t be patched with software updates, is present in the iPhone X and older.


You can learn more about what this means in our full news post.


Dopamine updates

The Dopamine jailbreak received important updates this past week to help improve the jailbreak’s performance and stability.


You can learn more about these updates below:


palera1n updates

The palera1n checkm8-based semi-tethered jailbreak tool for arm64 devices (A8-A11) received important hot fix updates this week that further improve this powerful tool.


You can learn more about what’s new below:


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