New Delhi: A strange but fascinating video has been trending inside the iOS modding community this week. A video has surfaced showing an iPhone 17 Pro Max running iPad style multitasking, floating windows, the iPadOS dock and even Stage Manager. For many long time Apple users, this brings back memories of the old jailbreak (RedSn0w, Cydia, etc) days, when people would tinker with their devices just to unlock features Apple never intended to offer.

This time, though, it is not a classic jailbreak. What is happening now is tied to a newly discovered exploit affecting iOS 26.1 beta and below. And it uses a part of the system most users have never heard of.

The first big demo came from developer Duy Tran, who posted a clip of an iPhone behaving almost like an iPad. In the video, the phone shows app windows, a full iPadOS dock and Stage Manager. The trick was made possible using a maliciously crafted downloads.28.sqlitedb file that lets users write to system paths that are normally protected.

One of these paths is the MobileGestalt.plist file. This file has been known inside jailbreak circles for years. It stores device identity and capability info,........

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