The enthusiast changed the font on the iPhone beyond recognition: how to repeat

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Custom fonts installed on iPhone. Photo: 9to5mac.com

A special application for rewriting the font was introduced by Zhuowei Zhang (Zhuowei Zhang). It works on the basis exploit CVE-2022-46689 that affects devices running iOS 16.1.2 and earlier OS versions. It has already been fixed in iOS 16.2, writes 9to5Mac.

Recall that now the standard iOS font is San Francisco. The system uses it by default. The enthusiast decided to experiment and uploaded new fonts instead. Among them were DejaVu Sans Condensed, Serif, Mono and Choco Cooky. The last one is perhaps the most interesting. Previously, this scribble font was preinstalled on Samsung smartphones.

The developer clarifies that the change only affects some of the text on iOS, since other parts of the system use different fonts. Everyone can repeat his actions. The process is safe and is carried out without hacking the device, but just in case, before replacing the system font, it is worth making a backup copy of the smartphone.

This is what Choco Cooky looks like. Photo: community.samsung.com

How to repeat

Though Zhang’s app doesn’t require a jailbreak, and running it on an iPhone or iPad isn’t easy. This is because you either need to compile the Xcode project yourself or manually sign the IPA file with a developer certificate in order to install it on your device.

More information regarding the project, including its source code, is available on GitHub (link here).

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