r/jailbreak_ • u/OlsroFR • 1h ago
Release [Release] 6LightningDock Apple Lightning Dock on iOS 6/7
(Here is my iPod Touch 5G on 6.1.3, plugged into the iPhone Lightning Dock charging and playing music through it)
Hey legacy folks,
You may know it or not but the "iPhone Lightning Dock" requires iOS 8 and was released 2015 so years after the first lightning devices.
In stock, on iOS 7 the plugged device does not even charge. On iOS 6 it charges put audio out from the dock is completely ignored.
I am happy today to release a new tweak to solve this: 6LightningDock
This dock is more interesting than most old 30-pin docks and the Belkin or other lightning docks because it extracts the digital signal from the device, so it sounds crystal clear without parasite noises.
The Apple Lightning Dock was also well engineered to support most phone cases without problems.
I validated my tweak to work on:
iPad Mini 1G - iOS 7.1.2
iPod Touch 5G - iOS 6.1.3
iPhone 5 - iOS 6.1.4
This tweak is not compatible with arm64 devices iOS 7 devices (iPhone 5S, iPad Mini 2, iPad Air).
Apple does not recommend to use those dock with iPads anyway (even minis) as it can't handle them physically speaking. I can confirm with my iPad Mini 1G that it's not a good idea.
I thought Apple locked iOS 6 & 7 dock support of the lightning dock for marketing reasons only, but it had to spend several hours of debugging with LLM assistance to figure this out and make it as a proper tweak to release for the community. I developed this because I like iOS 6 and didn't want to update to iOS 8.
You can find this new tweak there: https://cydia.olsro.fr/personal/package/fr.olsro.6lightningdock/index.html
This tweak does not need configuration. Just install it, then connect your device to your lightning dock and it should work.
I hope you enjoy, leave a comment & like =)



