If you follow everything what is happening in the jailbreak community then you must be aware with the happenings and quick activities happening in terms of jailbreak. Recently, a 0 day bug was found in iOS 11.3 raising speculations of a possible jailbreak. Thereafter, a tool to jailbreak iOS 11.3 named as ‘H3lix’ was released. However, it didn’t climb the charts due to certain issues and bugs present in it. Cool star is recommending everyone to stay on iOS 11.2.6 – iOS 11.2 as they will be releasing a jailbreak for it soon. It has become increasingly difficult to keep track of the events happening in the jailbreak community. The latest event which is in news is of ‘Houdini for iOS 11.4.’
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Hacker Abraham Masri, pasted a teaser video of Houdini for iOS 11.4 claiming that the tool brings semi experience of jailbreak to the iOS devices without actually resorting to jailbreak. In short, it brings certain features which could be enjoyed only with a jailbreak. iOS 11.4 hasn’t been released yet; but you can download iOS 11.4 Beta without needing a developer account to do the same.
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Houdini ‘Semi-Jailbreak’ for iOS 11.4 | Features
Houdini is not a jailbreak tool like Electra; instead it brings a semi-jailbreak experience to the users on iOS 11.4 by offering a wide variety of jailbreak features such as:
- Modify icon shapes.
- Ads blocker that can be implemented system-wide.
- Fonts of emojis can be altered.
- Boot logo can be modified.
- In case you have an iPhone X you can add your face to the Animoji.
- Certain themes which are available only to jailbreak users.
- Label of the applications installed by users can be changed or kept as hidden.
- In Houdini you can access more themes by adding Cydia sources.
- Cache of all applications can be cleared at once.
- Modify the display resolution of the device.
- 3D Touch’s icons for iPhone 6S and above can be hidden or renamed.
- The suggestion list of Siri can be edited.
- The badges for different icons can be set to different colors and resized too.
- Theme lock screen music control as well as a theme control center.
Houdini ‘Semi-Jailbreak’ for iOS 11.4 [Release Update]
I bet you must be really excited reading the above-mentioned features as these features are exclusive to jailbreak users. But! Thanks to Houdini; now even users who don’t jailbreak their iOS device can enjoy a semi-jailbreak experience without actually resorting to jailbreak their iOS device.
The latest version of Houdini which is a Beta 2 supports iOS 11- iOS 11.1.2. Abraham launched a teaser video of Houdini on iOS 11.4 which is the Beta 3 version and is expected to be released when iOS 11.4 is made available to the public. Please stay tuned with this post as we will be updating here as and when more news for Houdini Beta 3 comes up and iOS 11.4 is released to the public.
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