iOS 16 exploit lets you set the system font to Comic Sans (and other things)

Enlarge / An indie app can be used to change your iPhone’s default font if you haven’t already installed the latest OS update.Zhuowei Zhang

If you like your iPhone but hate the San Francisco typeface, developer Zhuowei Zhang has posted a neat tool to Github—an app that can temporarily “overwrite” the iOS system font with another one, giving your phone a new, non-Apple-sanctioned look.

The app doesn’t require any kind of jailbreak, but does need “iOS 16.1.2 or below” to work, since it relies on a kernel execution bug (CVE-2022-46689) patched in iOS 16.2. If you’ve already installed iOS 16.2—which

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