cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/54044619

Ok, so this is hilarious. A few years ago I forget the PIN to my iPad mini 1 and basically everything else about it. When I dredged the device out of its bin, I knew pretty much nothing about it! Like the PIN, iOS version, or even if it had any photos on it. (Well, apparently, I changed the PIN to 123456 to be smart)

Instead of just trying a basic PIN like this, I tried the PINs that I thought it was. Then I tried following some Reddit posts from AsyJAIZ in order to get the device into pwnDFU mode and then creating a ram disk manually... which was misguided. In hindsight, the post from AsyJAIZ just sucks. A lot of what they tell you to do could have been simplified far more than it was.

I waited a few years to pick this up again, and then a week-long journey that required an Arduino Uno R3, USB Host Shield, a fork of checkm8, hacktiv8, the Google Code iphone-dataprotection repository plus some code from AsyJAIZ (and myself), tuanemss/32bit-Bruteforce-Passcode, and developing on MacOSX Yosemite 10.10 with the iOS 8.1 SDK. I decided to eventually just ignore AsyJAIZ's written instructions and instead look into their GitHub repository and apply those patches (which were actually helpful) to a different repository (by dinosec on GitHub), compile it using some SDKs, and then replace files used by tuanemss' shell scripts which then bake a final Ramdisk for me! All I really did was write some C code to try PINs in a different order.

I unlocked the device and it went into iCloud activation lock (which I had to bypass with hacktiv8), then I transferred the three (3) photos off the device. In the end there wasn't much reward for having done all this, besides a few pictures of my dog.

Anyway, it's been an insane journey and I hate myself now. If anything I actually have a good reason now to hate anything Apple makes (at least it pisses off law enforcement). The last apple device I will ever own is my 4 year old SE.

• https://github.com/AsyJAIZ/iphone-dataprotection
• https://github.com/tuanemss/32bit-Bruteforce-Passcode
• https://github.com/bneils/iphone-dataprotection (based on AsyJAIZ)
• https://github.com/overcast302/hacktiv8
• https://github.com/LukeZGD/checkm8-a5

and who upgraded to 27 and what do you think of it?

The app is called Keyboard2 and i bout it back when it was a paid app. It got delisted and popped up again recently. It is super customizable and has longpress shortcuts. (main reason i bought it in the first place.) the swipe-typing is WAY too sensitive though.

I recently got my hands on a 2nd Generation iPod Touch, it’s been definitely an experience

I love its size and how lightweight it is after getting over the bootloop I noticed the beauty of its OS, and the zoom in animation when opening apps is unbeatable

due to the age of the device I needed a way to leave its home button alone, so I jailbroke it

despite its age, I managed to find compatible tweaks and a lot of websites work with a couple of fixes installed

I wonder if there’s a working no-computer way to add media to it, I found PwnTunes, but it tried to fetch a trial license from an already shut down server and did not sync because of that

I also tried IPA Installler CLI, but it seems like this device’s CPU architecture isn’t compatible with that tool, so I couldn’t

for now it’s a tech playground, but I would like to find a use case for it, and if I can’t I would think about selling it, I already own a music device and it’s easier to work with that one

have you ever got an iPod Touch?

I just backed up all 58,000 of my images to my NAS. 24 of them failed to backup. The thumbnail is so small I cannot tell what all of them are. The majority are memes and shit that idgaf about, but there is one that I can tell is from a digital camera by the file name.

Searching for the file name in photos yields no results, is there a way to find this image with nothing more than the file name?

Update: if you have a Mac you can search the file name in photos there and it works.

There is a lot to cover, but the title sums it up. I stopped keeping my photos in the cloud because of money and privacy reasons, but at the same time I couldn’t find a nice software that wasn’t a web app or an Electron web app that would run on iPhones and iPads, and would let me browse the library without headaches.

So I built Raza Photos. Completely written in modern Swift 6, requiring the latest Apple frameworks, needing at least macOS and iOS 26 (sorry), with no Internet connectivity, no telemetry, no phoning home, no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts.

You import the photo folders you want the Mac app. It safely indexes the metadata, leaves the photos exactly where they are, and uses Bonjour to advertise itself on your local network. You can start or stop the server if you want to use the app by yourself or publish the library to the whole family. When you open Raza Photos on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac in the house, it instantly discovers the server. If you have multiple Macs hosting libraries, it finds them all and shows a complete library, with deduplicated filters.

You can browse, filter by date, location, people, albums and events, and you can even edit metadata from iOS while on the couch. The changes can go back to the original files as XMP/EXIF, without touching the image pixels. You can add countries and cities to photos that have GPS data and you can browse them all on a map. Face detection is done locally on the device.

The app is free for now, but it will be a one time purchase of around 20 USD. In the future I plan to add photo transfer from iOS to the Mac server, so you can backup your photos or migrate them away from iCloud. I also plan more photo management features like date taken conflict resolution and better face detection. And I also plan to extract a Swift headless server for Linux which you could put on a NAS, but I am a just solo dev, so bug fixes and features will come at a slower pace. I also plan a video app and a music app with the same features.

It's so limiting because of how locked down iOS is. I can do a lot with an NFC tag but can't make a VCard work. That's the one thing I really want to work! HAHA. Any ideas? Any news on Apple making this work eventually?

I have iphone 16 pro with latest ios (26.3.1) and i usualy have both wifi and 4g turned on all the time. So i expect that it will connect to my home wifi and when i get out it will automaticly disconect and stay on 4g. Which works fine but the problem is when i get back home it doesnt connect to wi fi but spends my MB of 4g and after quiet some time it decides to connect to wifi..

Also when i go to work which is besides my house it doesnt automaticly switch to work wifi with stronger signal, but stays on my home wifi which can bearly reach… Wtf apple???

And this is not new isue, i had same problem with previous iphone in previous house and so on… Wifi just sucks on iphones for some reason..

Howdy yall, I have gripes with the iOS UI and I spent way too long on these edits. Here are my proposed edits.

Option to have an alphabetical grid App Library.

The keyboard should ditch the microphone and globe icons on the bottom, move the keyboard down, and add a number row. The mic and globe can be repurposed in the ui somehow.

I just want to have horizontal brightness and volume sliders.

Apple today seeded revised third betas of the upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming three days after Apple provided the initial beta to developers. Apple has also released a new version of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 for public beta testers.

Registered developers and public beta testers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update.

iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 add multiple new features to the ‌iPhone‌ and the ‌iPad‌. A Playlist Playground feature in Apple Music lets you generate songs for any idea, mood, emotion, or activity using a text-based prompt. There's also a Concerts Near You feature for finding local shows, and a redesigned look for albums and playlists with full-page artwork.

Apple Podcasts is getting native video podcasting capabilities that will make it easier to create, distribute, and monetize video podcast content through the Podcasts app. Video episodes will integrate with existing Apple podcasts features, like personalized recommendations and editorial suggestions.

Apple is testing end-to-end encryption for RCS, which will eventually bring full encryption to text conversations between Android and ‌iPhone‌ users. Apple is testing ‌RCS‌ with iPhone-to-iPhone conversations and iPhone-to-Android conversations. 

Stolen Device Protection is enabled by default, there's a new ambient music widget, new average bedtime metrics in the sleep app, and plenty more. All of the features in iOS 26.4 can be found in our iOS 26.4 beta features guide.

Update: Apple also released a new third beta of watchOS 26.4.