Cydia, the original app store for jailbroken iPhones, has joined a wave of companies and regulators in targeting Apple over antitrust concerns. In a lawsuit it filed on Thursday, it accused Apple of ...

A stable public jailbreak for iOS 26 doesn’t exist, and available tools are inconsistent, device-specific, and potentially ...

For years, iOS users who wanted to use their devices without the constraints imposed by Apple have been jailbreaking their devices in order to install software from outside of the Apple App Store ...

Apple's dubious rejection of applications that are deemed of little utility or duplicative of built-in functionality has drawn harsh developer criticism. In contrast, the jailbroken iPhone software ...

Apple has always held a vice grip on its App Store, and from its inception, only approved apps that meet the company's set of rules have been allowed to enter. Up to this point, getting around this ...

Apple’s iPhones and iPads popularized the idea of app stores, which make it easy to find and install apps and manage updates all from one place. But while competitors like Google, Amazon, and ...

Jay Freeman, the man behind the Cydia app store for jailbroken iPhones, has committed to developing an equivalent jailbreak store for Macs. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

It's been three years since I first covered Delta, which brought near-flawless emulation of NES, SNES, and Game Boy games to iPhone. In the years since, developer Riley Testut has continued to work on ...

For years, Apple has been warning would-be jailbreakers that jailbreaking their iPhones could lead to them getting ripped off. How rich, then, that the latest jailbreaking scam originates in Apple’s ...

UPDATE: I was initially a little surprised by the vociferous reaction to this post about installing Installous, an unofficial App Store for pirated apps. The instructions are a quick Google search ...

Every iOS owner is faced with an important, life-altering decision: to jailbreak their device or not. If you're not a fan of spending a ton of cumulative money on relatively inexpensive app purchases, ...