The gods aren't gone. They just got hired by Apple, or they got tired of fighting an annual cat-and-mouse game. They now sit in quiet GitHub repositories, waiting for the day Apple locks the garden down again.
Why? Because Apple killed the need for them. iOS now has widgets, file managers, shortcut automations, clipboard history, and native call blocking. The walled garden has grown so many internal doors that breaking the walls feels unnecessary for 99% of users. ios gods
But as iOS has matured, the definition of an "iOS God" has fractured. Today, the term means three very different things to three different tribes of Apple users. In the beginning, iOS was a walled garden with no gates. You couldn’t change your wallpaper, send files via Bluetooth, or install third-party keyboards. Enter the first true iOS Gods: George Hotz (geohot), Jay Freeman (saurik), and the evad3rs team. The gods aren't gone
