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@kolbicz kolbicz released this 04 Oct 21:09
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Supported: iPhone / iPad on iOS/iPadOS 17.0 – 18.7.1 or 26.0 – 26.0.1.
Not supported: iPhone 17 (A19 / A19 Pro) and M5 — Memory Integrity Enforcement.
Any other device on a supported version works. Details

Cyanide 1.7.0

New: Process Viewer. A live look at everything running on your device — and the ability to end it.

New

  • Process Viewer (Settings → Process Viewer). A live process list, à la CocoaTop:

    • Every running process with CPU and memory, live-refreshing.
    • A count of active vs suspended processes at the top.
    • Suspended (parked) apps are dimmed, and apps currently in the App Switcher are marked, so you can see what's really doing work.
    • Kill a process — a gentle Quit (SIGTERM) or a Force Quit (SIGKILL). Sandboxed apps that your own process can't signal are terminated through a privileged path, so Force Quit lands on anything.
    • Works on iOS 17 and iOS 18.

    Why a Force Quit takes a moment. The first kill shows a spinner for a second or two while Cyanide sets up a privileged kernel session. Further kills in the same sitting are quick.

Improvements

  • The kernel read/write primitive now survives backgrounding and sleep. When you leave Cyanide it hands the primitive to the system and re-attaches on return, so re-opening recovers in a couple of seconds instead of re-running the full exploit chain.
  • The log is quieter — the verbose RemoteCall internals are kept out of it. If you hit an issue worth reporting, turn on Settings → Process Viewer → Verbose logging before reproducing it, then share the log: that restores the full detail we need to look into it.

About A18 / M4

On A18 / M4 devices a run has about a 50/50 chance of rebooting the device (a
kernel "panic") instead of succeeding — a known limit of these chips that can't
be fully fixed. It's a coin flip, so if it reboots, just try again; a few
attempts usually gets there. Once a run works, it stays working until your next
restart.

If you keep hitting panics, Settings → Launch Options has four knobs for the
A18 chain — exploit path (pe_v1 / pe_v2), memory shaping, interleaved search
and bounded search. Defaults are unchanged in this release; other combinations
may do better on your device. Each applies to the next fresh run.

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