r/LegacyJailbreak • • Aug 03 '26

Megathread [Megathread] Flair Customization Quarantine 6.0

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Most recent documentation change, on 21 September 2026: Socket elevated to untethered jailbreak


If you choose to use bot commands to set your flair:

Using !device is exactly like resetting your flair to a standard template. The oldest version must be at least 4 major versions behind iOS 27.0 — at newest, iOS/iPadOS 16.7.16, tvOS 16.6.0, or watchOS 9.6.4.

The !os command will grant versions at least 4 major versions behind iOS 27.0 — at newest, iOS/iPadOS 16.7.16, tvOS 16.6.0, or watchOS 9.6.4.

Please provide only ONE command per comment.

Please enter commands in the order they appear in the flair: device, jailbreak, iOS. You must set a device to set a jailbreak or iOS version.

Note: You will NOT be assigned a jailbreak after setting the iOS version unless you reset your flair.

Examples:

  • !device iPhone 2G
  • !device ipad pro 12.9 1st gen
  • !jailbreak kok3shi9
  • !os 1.0

r/LegacyJailbreak • • Aug 21 '26

Megathread Activation Megathread: 9900 IMEI (A5/A6), XMM6180 & older, A8/A9(X) iOS 8/9, future issues, etc.

36 Upvotes

Due to recurring issues with activating 9900 IMEI, XMM6180 and older baseband, and A8(X)/A9(X) iOS 8-9 devices, we strongly advise saving activation tickets with Legacy iOS Kit. Resolved issues, and other advice, may be found in the previous megathread.

To our knowledge, the issue on A5(X)/A6(X) devices stems from baseband tickets being rejected for as of yet unknown reasons, which only seems to occur on cellular devices with an IMEI starting with 9900. Courtesy of staturnz and /u/LukeeGD, we believe the list of potentially 9900 IMEI devices is as follows:

  • iPad mini 1st gen (CDMA - Verizon, Sprint) (iPad2,7 - A1455)
  • iPad 3rd gen Wi-Fi + Cellular (CDMA - Verizon) (iPad3,2 - A1403)
  • iPad 4th gen Wi-Fi + Cellular (CDMA - Sprint, International) (iPad3,6 - A1460)
  • iPhone 4S (GSM/CDMA) (iPhone4,1 - A1387)
  • iPhone 5 (CDMA - China) (iPhone5,2 - A1442)
  • iPhone 5 (CDMA - Sprint, Verizon, KDDI Japan) (iPhone5,2 - A1429)

The Apple TV 3rd gen and iPhone 5C are unaffected by this issue. The iPad 2 is also unaffected, but some models are affected by the following problem.


On July 10–11, 2026, new activation issues have appeared for devices with the XMM6180 and earlier basebands. You will likely see "device unknown" or a similar message.

The devices with the XMM6180 baseband are:

  • iPhone 4: iPhone3,1 (GSM) and iPhone3,2 (GSM, rev. A) only
  • iPad 2: iPad2,2 (GSM) only

Another way to say this: for these two devices, you will get the error with an IMEI starting with 01. It should be noted that the CDMA models which have an IMEI starting with 9900 (iPhone3,3 and iPad2,3) use a different baseband, MDM6600, and activate fine.

The devices with earlier basebands are:

  • iPhone
  • iPhone 3G
  • iPhone 3GS
  • iPad

Note that the key determining factor to having a 9900 IMEI is being a CDMA-capable device, rather than GSM-only, as explained by Wikipedia:

TIA also allocates IMEI codes, specifically destined for dual-technology phones, out of the RR=99 range

In addition, A8(X)/A9(X) devices on iOS 8 and 9 also experience activation errors. Possibly affected devices include:

  • iPhone 6/6+, 6S/6S+, SE1
  • iPod touch 6
  • iPad mini 4
  • iPad Air 2
  • iPad Pro 9.7/12.9 inch 1st gen

This is a thread for discussing activation issues and any new information about it. Subreddit-wide rules continue to apply, so please review the detailed hacktivation policy.


Apple has recently released a new batch of updates for legacy devices:

  • iOS 12.5.8 released. checkra1n, Chimera, and TNSv2 confirmed working.
  • iOS/iPadOS 15.8.6 released. Dopamine confirmed working.
  • iOS/iPadOS 16.7.13 and iPadOS 18.7.4 released. palera1n confirmed working.

More importantly, this was provided in its release notes:

This update extends the certificate required by features such as iMessage, FaceTime, and device activation to continue working after January 2027.

The IPSW diff reveals new functions in /usr/libexec/trustd including _ApplePlatformBackportECCRootG1, _ApplePlatformBackportECCRootG1Hash, _ApplePlatformBackportRSARootG1, _ApplePlatformBackportRSARootG1Hash, and corresponding new certificates in .der format issued on 12 December 2024 19:20:34 and 19:21:32 UTC-5. It is speculated based on the release notes that failure to have these certificates may result in issues with on-device activation, and unclear whether PC-based activation will be impacted.


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 2h ago

Question Does this look like iOS 7?

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Tried my best at making iOS 10 look like 7, and I think that it is quite perfect! Just not very proud of the control center... but I did what I could (And for those who wanna know, yes, the power off slider is rectangular).


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 10h ago

Release YTM Legacy 1.1 - Good way to listen to your music on your old device

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128 Upvotes

Youtube Music client for your old iDevice. It works the best on iOS 6 but you can use it all the way up to iOS 10. If you want to learn more about it visit my website: ytmlegacy. If your song doesn't want to play just reset the app (kill it in the app switcher). Also "install on this iPhone" button doesn't work right now but you can download the .ipa file. I will try to fix it as soon as possible. If the app has any other issues please let me know in the comments.

YTM Legacy is free, but you can donate if you want


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 4h ago

Collection Couple of oldies. iPod Touch 1st 8GB and iPhone 3GS 32GB

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15 Upvotes

Both still fully functional (3GS had a battery swap about a decade ago and has survived a trip through the washing machine).


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 8h ago

Upcoming Multiple major projects I've been working on for a year coming soon!

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28 Upvotes

Around 2 years ago I released AIM for iOS, my first reverse engineering project aimed at iOS, was relatively simple, just a binary patch to connect the old client to NINA servers, but to this day I still receive DMs on Reddit for people asking for the ipa file. Over these past couple years I've been studying reverse engineering, digital forensics, cybersecurity and other related topics within the field (both as a hobby and as something towards future prospects). As someone who's also been a retro Apple enthusiast for a very long time, I decided to put my skills into practice on personal projects, which over time have become genuinely groundbreaking stuff for legacy iOS (and Mac OS X too!) that I have plans on releasing in the near future. I am planning on releasing some of my work within this month and November. Expect things long gone from iOS (and iPhoneOS [yes, I've done a ton of work on the forbidden iPhoneOS 2]) to come back resurrected as they once were. If you want a hint for my biggest release, look at the image I've uploaded.

If you guys wish, I could make a discord server to centralise and organise any upcoming releases or updates, rather than simply relying on Reddit posts.

Expect my first release to come within this week, a smaller tweak that I'm currently finalising and testing.

"Exchange for the rest of us" - SJ @ WWDC 2008


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 18h ago

Question Sealed iPhone 5 ios 6

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120 Upvotes

How much is it worth if i want to sell it?

Thank you


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 13h ago

Release DarkSix, a dark mode tweak for iOS 6 release!

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47 Upvotes

Obligatory AI warning DarkSix was developed hand in hand with Claude, so if you dont wanna use it thats fair

DarkSix is released! Along with it, a repo! you can add my repo through cydia https://hingedhooligan687.github.io/repo/
Add BOTH the DarkSix tweak and DarkSix settings to get the easy on/off toggle and to change around the settings.
Above are some images of how it looks and its variants (any garbled text is because its personal stuff)
Currently working apps are:
Settings
Mail
Music
Contacts
iMessage
If theres any feedback or adjustments I can make let me know!
Currently NOT working:
iPad contacts app (kinda)
iPad Music App


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 7h ago

Release Snaploria/Snapchat revival 7.x - 10.0 is OUT!

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13 Upvotes

We have been working on Snapchat for a while now and we are happy to say we are finally releasing newer Snapchat. Snapping, chatting, stories, adding friends and all of the basic features now work. You will be able to download the new IPAs at https://valoria-social.com ! You will not need to apply to join Snapchat as that is only for musical.ly.


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 15h ago

Release Mesh - encrypted messenger with running over Nostr and Tor on iOS 6.

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39 Upvotes

I have been working on this for a while. Mesh usually works without a server. However, iPods are not capable of this. Also works on 5.

https://github.com/SecondTrack/mesh


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 2h ago

Question [Question] I have problems installing iOS 6 on my iPod touch 3G

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3 Upvotes

I have problems installing iOS 6 on my iPod touch 3G that I have got from eBay recently and it keeps on getting an error unable to restore the device. I am using macOS 12 on a Hackintosh. Is there a way to resolve this?


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 5h ago

Question How do I fix this?

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5 Upvotes

I have a Wifi connection (I don;t have 3G cause I'm in Canada) but I can't get in what do I do?


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 3h ago

Question Downgrading ipod

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2 Upvotes

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Hello I've been using my ipod on the latest ios for 7 months and I heard that downgrading it is better so I tried everything to downgrade it I even looked up wikihow and stuff and I refuse to ask Ai like chat gpt or Gemini but im stuck on this screen and dont know what to do from here. On the wikihow article this is part 3 step 3. I did everything as it was said but I dont know whats the problem so any help is welcomed.

Thank you and this is the wikihow articles link:

https://www.wikihow.com/Downgrade-to-iOS-8.4.1-Using-plist

(Edit:typo)


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 8h ago

Release 1.6 GDPS (modded: custom songs & more) [iOS 4.3-10.3.3]

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This is Geometry Dash 1.6 connected to a private server and having several new features, most notably the support for custom songs. While modern GD uses Newgrounds, this GDPS uses Muzmo, which offers a much greater music library. If you think of any song, chances are it's there! Other useful features, many being backported from newer versions, are:

  • Account creation and authorization
  • Saving and loading progress (warning: loading completely reverts your save data to the last save)
  • Copying levels
  • Rate menu for moderators
  • Level completion's progress shown as a percentage label
  • Setting a song offset for your level
  • RGB color picker in the editor
  • Removed the border at 1000 blocks in the editor
  • Exporting and importing gmd files (compatible with 2.2's GD Share)
  • Level length is shown in level settings

This GDPS has been running since 2019, now having over 4000 levels. A month ago the modifications listed above started to be introduced for Android (2.2+), and now there's also legacy iOS support.

To search for a custom song, go to https://en.muzmo.cc/. If you get the 403 error, you'll need to install an extension which can override HTTP response headers for specific websites, such as ModHeader V3 for Chromium based browsers. The header you want to override is "Accept-Language", set it to "ru". If it still doesn't work, you'll have to resort to using VPN. A good way to check is to search for a song by its ID in-game (you can see some IDs on one of the screenshot attached), since the mod uses that header value for requests.

Discord: https://discord.gg/t7DVGua2zw
Github: https://github.com/N3xtery/1.6-GDPS


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 17h ago

Question Is the App Store on iOS 10 dead?

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26 Upvotes

Sorry for writing in Japanese, but I can't seem to log in to my App Store account on iOS 10... I'm pretty sure it was working up until around last year... By the way, the device is an iPad Mini 2.


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 16h ago

Question How rare is an iPad Air 4 on iOS 14?

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My old iPad Air 4 on iOS 14.1. I wonder if this is quite rare given that there aren’t any posts about iPad Air 4 on iOS 14. I saw a few iPhone 12 posts on iOS 14 though.


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 1h ago

Question What Do These Errors Mean?

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Hey I’m new to jailbreaking and tried to update these two tweaks (GSAPort and Skyglow Notifs) and got these errors. Has anyone else got these errors with these tweaks? does anyone know how to fix it? any info will help! thanks yall!


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 13h ago

Question Crashing IPA

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8 Upvotes

r/LegacyJailbreak • • 16h ago

Upcoming DarkSix, a dark mode tweak for iOS 6

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14 Upvotes

Obligatory AI warning, this tweak was developed with much assistance from Claude, if you don't want to use the tweak because of that I do not blame you.

The last post seemed to really get people excited so ive been working really hard to get this tweak to look great. As a commenter suggested I returned Apples famous Pin Stripes to settings, in the DarkSix flipswitch toggles you can toggle them on or off if you like the full black look or want the Pin Stripes, theres also an optional "Apple Linen" toggle which adds the linen background to iMessage conversations just incase you want that for funsies. Still no repo, once the tweak is finished ill get to work on setting up a repo so you can add it!


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 1d ago

Discussion Nostalgia! iPod Touch 4G on 4.1!

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62 Upvotes

Dug up my ol' iPod Touch 4g 32GB & successfully downgraded from 6.1.5 to 4.1 with Legacy IOS Kit.
It's nice to see the original shipped firmware jailbroken. I would've loved to see wallpaper tweak with live animated themes but unfortunately the repo is down & I wasn't able to find archives of the deb file anywhere. If someone does have it that'd be awesome!


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 2h ago

Question Does anyone know how to fix this

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So I was trying to fix Pinterest but after I signed in and fixed it from crashing my phone (iPhone 4s iOS 6) but when I open it I can’t get out of the homepage or even scroll cuz there is this popup that says “connect to iTunes to use push notifications” evey time I close it it just pops up again and the app is unusable. I’m asking g if anyone knows how to fix this someone else had this same problem but it was less severe and someone told them to get a tweak called push fix I tried it and it doesn’t work


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 9h ago

Question Help finding a tweak

3 Upvotes

I remember seeing a post where you can download something and it will add a tab to the music app on iOS 6 and allow you to download music straight from the tab into your iTunes library, anyone know what tweak this is?


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 9h ago

Discussion I have this iPad Air but it doesn’t charge at all

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Hi yall so yesterday I found my old broken iPad on a basement and I found this one the touchscreen are completely broken however it doesn’t charge even on his original usb cable


r/LegacyJailbreak • • 1d ago

News iPhone 5c untethered downgrade to iOS 6

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182 Upvotes

r/LegacyJailbreak • • 4h ago

Question Why does DFU Fail keeps happening?

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primepwn by LukeZGD

Acquiring device handle.

based on SHAtter exploit (segment overflow) by posixninja and pod2g

Resetting USB counters.

Getting 0x40 bytes of data from device.

Performing USB port reset.

Releasing device handle.

Acquiring device handle.

Requesting image validation.

Performing USB port reset.

Releasing device handle.

Acquiring device handle.

Getting 0x2c000 bytes of data from device.

Releasing device handle.

Acquiring device handle.

Resetting USB counters.

Getting 0x140 bytes of data from device.

Performing USB port reset.

Releasing device handle.

Acquiring device handle.

Requesting image validation.

Performing USB port reset.

Releasing device handle.

Acquiring device handle.

Sending 0x1cc bytes of data to device.

Getting 0x2c000 bytes of data from device.

Releasing device handle.

Acquiring device handle.

Acquiring device handle.

Acquiring device handle.

Acquiring device handle.

Acquiring device handle.

ERROR: Unable to connect to device

[Log] Checking for device

ERROR: Unable to connect to device

ERROR: Unable to connect to device

[Log] CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz

[Error] Failed to enter pwnDFU mode. Please run the script again.

Why does this keep happening in my aspire e1472g Linux mint?

I tried several times by placing the USB in ehci and same thing happens

And i even drained the battery and same effect

Why?