With more 1.5 million jailbroken iPhones out there by some estimates, a new alternative to Apple’s App store launched over the weekend to great interest in the iPhone community. Cydia Store, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jailbreakers out there should already know pretty well that when you’re updating to new iOS firmware, you’re kissing your jailbreak goodbye. Now, thanks to Saurik, Cydia’s newest feature lets you ...

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/ ...

I'm trying to understand the right steps to get this done. I currently have an iPhone 4S and iPad 3rd Gen, both jailbroken on iOS 5.1.1. The new evasi0n jailbreak was released earlier today and I was ...

Regret upgrading to iOS 5.1 and losing your jailbreak? Yeah, me too. But thankfully, Pod2g and his team of iOS hackers have now discovered all of the exploits required for the iOS 5.1 jailbreak. Never ...

Do you consider the iPhone's app-sorting option tedious? Tired of fussing with app sorting in iTunes 9 because the number of apps you have exceeds the display capacity of your iPhone? If you answer ...

All this week, Macworld editors have picked their favorite iPhone apps of the past year. And while these apps cover a diverse array of categories— entertainment, creativity, productivity, and so ...

OS jailbreaking in 2026: here's why it's probably not worth the hassle to liberate your iPhone from Apple's shackles anymore.