iOS tweaks, built in the open — bilingual, native, and written to be read
العربية · English · a working APT source · nine tweaks, seven in one package
📦 Add the source to your package manager
**There is one package to install: com.albrhi, listed as Albrhi.** It carries the
Instagram, YouTube, X and TikTok tweaks and the Settings panel together — one thing to
install, one thing to update, and a new tweak arrives inside it rather than as a second
download.
Tap a button above, or add it by hand:
• Sileo → Sources → ＋ → paste the URL.
• Zebra → Sources → ＋ → paste the URL.
There is one package to install: com.albrhi, listed as Albrhi. It carries the Instagram,
YouTube, X, TikTok and YouTube Music tweaks and the Settings panel together — one thing to install,
one thing to update, and a new tweak arrives inside it rather than as a second download.
1 · Add the source — tap a button above, or Sileo / Zebra → Sources → ＋ and paste:
https://ibrahim2100.github.io/albrhi-repo/
2 · InstallAlbrhi, then respring. The source serves both flavours and your package manager
picks the right one:
Package
For
com.albrhi
Rootless (Dopamine, palera1n)
com.albrhi.roothide
roothide
The two Conflict/Replace each other, so only one is ever active. What makes a package roothide is
its paths, not its control file — they are genuinely different builds, not one relabelled.
3 · Choose what it patches.Settings → Albrhi lists every app with a switch each. The switches
start off: installing Albrhi must never silently patch four apps nobody asked about. Turn one off
again and the package stays installed with its settings intact; reopen that app for it to take effect.
4 · That is all. Nothing to activate: Albrhi is free.
From a GitHub release — download the .deb for your setup from the
Releases page.
The individual packages (com.albrhi.tweak, com.albrhi.youtube, …) are no longer served. They
were frozen at whatever version they last published and could never update, because nothing
publishes them any more. com.albrhi declares Conflicts/Replaces on all of them, so a device
cannot hold both; if you installed one before, installing the suite removes it for you.
🆓 Free
Albrhi is free. There is no licence, no key, no free week and no account; nothing is checked, and
nothing about you or your phone is asked for or sent anywhere in order to run it. Every tweak and every
setting is available from the first launch.
Earlier versions did need a licence. Updating removes that requirement for good — there is nothing to
enter and nothing to renew. An install that has not been updated yet keeps working as it did until it is.
🧭 What is in here
Albrhi is a personal workshop for iOS tweaks that is also a working APT source: it builds itself,
publishes its own releases, and serves a Sileo/Zebra repository from GitHub Pages. It is written for
learning as much as for using — the code is commented to explain why, and the reasoning behind the
awkward parts is kept in CLAUDE.md rather than lost.
Developed by Ibrahim Ismail AL-Rahn (@ibrahim2100).
Nine tweaks. Six ship inside com.albrhi; three stand on their own.
Each is a self-contained Theos project under tweaks/ with its own sources, package identity and
version, and they never meet at runtime: an injection filter binds each dylib to one bundle id, so
the YouTube tweak is never loaded into Instagram. What they share is the build plumbing — the checks,
the build script and the APT index.
com.albrhi is built by tools/make-suite.sh, which picks up every tweaks/*/control automatically.
A tweak stays out of it only by carrying a .no-suite marker — Spotify, NextUp and Watch do.
Albrhi is an educational and corrective derivative of SCInsta
by SoCuul, developed with AI assistance to improve code quality, design, performance and user
experience — while fully respecting the original project, its authors and its licence. Original
authorship is credited in-app, in this README, in the package metadata and in the source headers.
Albrhi for Locket was removed on the owner's instruction to isolate it completely: it left the
suite first, then the project. Albrhi CarPlay was removed because it patched SpringBoard and Camera
and never ran on a device — it is going to be rebuilt from scratch in a repository of its own, since a
wrong hook there takes the home screen with it. Both keep their releases on the releases page as
history, and the source no longer serves them: deleting a tweak does not stop an index built from
published releases from offering it, so their package names are named in WITHHELD_PACKAGES.
✨ Albrhi for Instagram
📥 Downloads
One-tap download button in the post and reel action rows — posts, reels, stories, whole
albums (one slide or all), DM media and HD profile pictures.
Always the best quality your iPhone can save. Some of Instagram's higher qualities come in a format
iOS will not play; Albrhi converts those on your phone, keeping the HDR. Nothing is uploaded.
Download Center — queue, pause, resume, retry, background transfers and history.
Reel audio extraction · silent-video export · a dedicated Photos album.
Stories (including a video story and a music-over-photo story) save as what they are, not as their
poster frame.
✉️ Stories & Messages
Watch stories with no seen receipt. The eye button still marks one as seen when you want it to.
Unsent messages stay. When the other person takes a message back, it stays in the chat and gets
a red trash badge, so you can tell which ones were taken back. Confirmed on Instagram 410.
A deleted-messages log (Settings › Messages) keeps what each one said, who sent it and when — it survives the refresh that clears them from the chat.
Hide your "Active now" status (experimental) · hide the typing indicator · save DM photos and
videos, even view-once, with per-message mark-as-seen · full last-active time as a real date ·
hide the voice and video call buttons · replay visual messages · disable screenshot detection.
🧹 Feed, Explore & Reels
Hide ads, sponsored and suggested posts · suggested users, reels and Threads posts · the stories tray ·
the entire feed · the explore grid · trending searches · the friends map · Meta AI · video autoplay.
Reels: tap-to-pause or mute · an always-on scrubber · auto-advance · anti doom-scrolling · hide the
header and blend button · refresh confirmation.
🔒 Confirmations
Optional prompt before like, follow, repost, call, voice message, follow-request response, Shh mode,
comment, chat-theme change, story-sticker tap and chats refresh (always asked while unsent messages are being kept, since a refresh removes them) — so a mis-tap never becomes a notification.
🎨 Appearance & profile
Custom date & time formats everywhere Instagram writes a time · OLED black · a custom accent
colour · a follow-back badge under the followers count (green follows you / red doesn't) · copy
account info.
🛠️ Interface
Native inset-grouped settings with search · backup & restore to a file · copy a caption by
long-press and a comment from a Copy button added to Instagram's own comment menu · full dark mode · Arabic/English with RTL · tab ordering, hiding and swipe-between-tabs ·
a Diagnostics page that reports what actually attached at runtime, scans the live view hierarchy,
and files an issue with the whole report in one tap.
▶️ Albrhi for YouTube
💾 Save a video — and keep saving it after YouTube updates
Tap YouTube's own download button under a video (Shorts get a save button of their own, beside
like and share). A sheet offers the qualities and, separately, sound only, which is saved as a
proper .m4a with the video's cover art. It lands in the Download Centre with a percentage.
How it gets the file changed in 1.34.0, and the reason is resilience. YouTube no longer hands the
app file links, so anything read out of the app breaks whenever the app changes. Albrhi now asks
YouTube itself, as a client that is still served plain files (the direct route, the method
YTKACE documents), fetches the file in 8 MB pieces in parallel,
checks that every byte YouTube declared arrived, and assembles the .mp4without FFmpeg and without
re-encoding.
It is anonymous. No cookie, no account, no login — only a visitor id YouTube gives anyone who asks.
The trade: a video that needs an account (age-restricted, private, members-only) is refused
there, and the download falls through to the playlist route, which carries the app's own session.
A video that fails once is not asked about twice in a session.
What it offers: H.264 up to 1080p, and AAC. 1440p and 4K come from YouTube only as AV1 (and
VP9), which most iPhones cannot play — so they appear only behind a switch (Offer 1440p and 4K,
off by default), are saved untouched as an .mp4, and say what they need: VLC, Infuse, a Mac, or an
iPhone 15 Pro and later. A second, optional switch (Convert AV1 to HEVC while saving) decodes
the AV1 in software and re-encodes it, so an older iPhone plays the file — in Photos too. It takes minutes
and the app has to stay open; if it cannot finish, the AV1 file is saved as it is. An AV1 file is never
sent to Photos.
The remux is our own, because AVFoundation was measured reading these fragmented files with every
timestamp doubled (a 19-second clip reporting 37.9). The boxes are read directly and the frames are
written with their own timestamps. Checked on a 19 s clip, a 3:33 song and a 10:35 1080p60 film.
📁 The Download Centre
A tab of its own, beside Home and You — not a panel over the app. YouTube draws the tab itself, so
it has a real label, a real selected state and its share of the width. Inside: everything you have
saved, video and audio, in a player written for the job — landscape fills the screen, double-tap to
jump ten seconds, picture in picture, speed, a sleep timer, AirPlay, and it remembers where you
stopped, days later and across restarts. A mini bar keeps the sound going while you browse; the
lock screen gets the artwork, a draggable scrubber, and next/previous through your own list. Rename,
share, or send anything to Photos. Simultaneous downloads are a setting.
🗂️ Arrange the tab bar
Settings › Interface › Tab bar — drag to reorder, drag across to switch a tab off, hide the +,
and add History as a tab. The bar holds six; one screen enforces that for everything at once.
Every decision is made on a tab's identifier, never its position.
🚫 No ads
Blocked where they arrive — the app stops asking for them, promoted rows are dropped from the feed
(through all three doors the feed fills by, so a pull-to-refresh cannot bring one back), and the player
refuses ads before, during and inside a video. Extra gates for the player response, the Shorts list and
subscription pop-ups are installed at runtime only where the running build declares them, and each
one counts its own hits in the report.
⏭️ SponsorBlock, background playback, and the rest
Skip the sponsored parts using segments other viewers submitted. A short line names what was
skipped and offers an undo; each segment is coloured on the progress bar. Eight categories, each
with a switch. Which video you are watching is never sent — the private lookup is used.
Background playback for YouTube's own video and anything you saved.
Playback-error recovery. The "an error occurred" screen reloads the player and resumes from the
same second — with a budget of three reloads per video, so a video that truly cannot play is handed
back to YouTube's own error rather than looped forever.
A quality ceiling separately for Wi-Fi and mobile data, plus the full quality list.
Silence the update prompt (updating would remove the tweak).
⚙️ Settings & diagnostics
Hold two fingers anywhere. Arabic and English with RTL, and a card saying whether everything
attached to your build. The report is written when you ask for it (Settings › General), plus once
if the launch guard has to step in — nothing writes itself on every launch, and a file that can grow has
a 1 MB ceiling. A launch guard stands the expensive hooks down if the app has not become active
eight seconds after the tweak loaded, and says so: a tweak may cost a feature, never the app.
Hooked on YouTube's model and service layer, never its views — view classes get renamed between
releases and a tweak that hooks them quietly stops working.
🐦 Albrhi for X
💾 Save anything
Hold any photo or video, or use the button on the video itself. One capture point serves the
timeline, full screen, quoted posts and DMs, because all four build the same media model. The in-video
button is yours to place: drag it, pin it, and it stays put on every card and every device — stored
as a fraction of the room it has, never as points, so it cannot walk off screen.
🎛️ What X does, under your control
X asks one place what the app may do, and Albrhi records every question it is asked — so the Switches
page is built from your own use, not a table copied from elsewhere — with named features on top.
Among them:
No ads, Promote button, Grok, Premium nags, less tracking, a faster launch.
Links: copied x.com links lose the s and t parameters, a t.co can show where it really
goes, links can open in Safari.
Between the posts: hide who-to-follow, topics and trend videos, Spaces (hidden, never forbidden —
a Space somebody sends you still opens), view counts and the bookmark button.
Privacy: no search history (queries and accounts, refused at the write), X behind Face ID
with the cover up before the prompt.
A post as a picture (long-press share), correctly laid out for right-to-left and not mirrored.
Ask before a like or a follow — never before an unlike or an unfollow. Communities and Profile tabs
in the bottom bar.
app_attest_* is deliberately not offered. Those keys are how X proves to its servers that the
device is unmodified; answering them falsely is an account risk, not a privacy setting.
Hold two fingers anywhere for settings.
🎵 Albrhi for TikTok
⬇️ A download button in the feed
A blurred disc with a down arrow, above the profile picture on every video, riding with TikTok's own
rail. It saves the clip you are watching, because the video is read from the controller the button
sits inside at the moment you tap it.
Quality is measured, not guessed: every link TikTok offers is collected and weighed by what it
actually is — a watermarked copy loses to a clean one, audio loses to video, and only then does size
decide. Optionally HD can be fetched from an outside service; that switch is off and stays off until
you turn it on, with its cost written on its own row (it tells that service which video you are
watching).
🖼️ Photo posts · 📅 the publish date · 💬 comments
Photo posts save as photos, and it asks first: the picture you are on, or all of them. A
single picture can also be saved as a short video with the post's own sound.
The publish date sits above the download button — the day, the month by name, the year, and the
time beneath.
Save media from a comment — a Save row in TikTok's own long-press sheet when a comment carries
a picture, sticker or animation.
🚫 Ads · ✋ Confirmations · 🔒 Privacy
An item TikTok's own server marked as an ad is refused as the object is built — and the launch splash
ad with it. Ask before a like or follow (off until you turn it on; if the question cannot be shown, the
tap goes through rather than "liking is broken"). Three separate privacy switches — a story's seen
mark, a message's read receipt, a profile view — because they are three different reports to three
different places. What shows on your own screen is never touched.
🧩 Extras
More logged-in accounts · messages taken back stay visible and are marked as such · a record of
profile visitors, kept as TikTok delivers them · the seek bar kept visible · the jailbreak answered for
as an unmodified phone would.
Profile background(off until you turn it on) — TikTok has a profile-background editor built in and keeps
it switched off from the server. This asks for it. It tells TikTok your device is on that test list, which is
not true, so whether it works depends on TikTok for your account; the row says so.
🎛️ The settings screen
Rebuilt in 0.20.0: an identity card, a two-column grid of categories, and a card per option with an icon,
what it does, and its switch. The full diagnostic report is one row away and copyable in a tap. Hold
two fingers anywhere.
🎼 Albrhi for YouTube Music
🎤 Synced lyrics, with the current line lifted out. Six sources are asked and the best answer wins
(LRCLib, Genius, MusixMatch, NetEase, the video description, YouTube Music's own); a wrong match is
discarded rather than shown. CJK romanisation, selectable text, a pinned source, timing nudges, and
optional translation with a key you supply yourself.
💾 Save a track through the download button YouTube Music already draws — without FFmpeg — with a
Downloads tab where the Upgrade tab used to be, and a player that behaves like the app's.
🚫 No ads, the Premium advertisement and Upgrade tab hidden, background playback without the
upsell notification, no autoplay radio, casting, and a true-black theme.
The speed control the app already has and hides, seek buttons, and SponsorBlock for the one
category a music app has (music_offtopic, off until you switch it on).
A lyrics feature asks outside services what is playing. There is no version of it that does not — it is
on because it was asked for by name.
This does not unlock Premium. The tweaks these hooks come from tell YouTube Music the account is a
paying one; that is the single thing not carried over.
Verified, not only compiled:tweaks/ytmusic/tests/host/run.sh runs the pure-logic parts (LRC parser,
matching pipeline, caches, romaniser, extractors) on the build machine in about a second.
The hooks are not this project's work. They are
YTMusicUltimate by dayanch96 and
YTMEnhanced by py233, both GPLv3 — the licence Albrhi ships
under, which is what makes carrying them over lawful. Every ported file is kept diffable against
upstream, with each edit written where it is.
🎧 Albrhi for Spotify
No ads — and no Premium. Audio and display ads are refused where Spotify asks for them, the home
feed's sponsored rows are filtered out of the JSON before the screen is built, and the "go Premium"
popups are dropped as they are presented.
This does not unlock a paid subscription. It does not touch your account, does not report you as a
subscriber, and does not raise the audio quality — those are account attributes the server decides, not
switches inside the app. The settings page says so above its own switches.
Sponsored segments in podcasts are skipped from SponsorBlock's database, with a note saying which
one. Off until you turn it on: it asks a third-party server about what is playing.
Written in Swift and Orion, the only tweak here that is. That costs things a Logos tweak does not:
the constructor is not called for you, a hook group must be activated behind a check that its target
exists, and SwiftUI cannot be compiled against the pinned SDK at all.
The ad blocking and SponsorBlock are not this project's work. They are
EeveeSpotify by Eevee and the
SideloadLabs team, under GPLv3. Every ported file is kept diffable against upstream; Albrhi adds the
gate, the settings page and the bilingual interface.
🎛️ Albrhi Panel
Settings › Albrhi. The front door.
A switch per patched app, opt-in, and a page for each tweak that has more to say than a switch.
One master switch above all of them. When an app update breaks something, it stands every Albrhi
tweak down on the next launch without changing a single setting below it.
A guide built from the device: every tweak on this phone, what it does, the app version it was
verified against and the version actually installed — built from the same scan as the main page, so it
cannot describe a tweak that is not there.
Your settings, out and back through the share sheet (a file written beside the preferences it
copies would be destroyed by the very event it exists for). What it holds is stated; a file that is not
ours is refused whole.
An update check, on a tap — never on page load — that asks Albrhi's own source and keeps could not
be reached distinct from you are up to date.
⏭️ Albrhi NextUp
A row under the now-playing controls — the next track's title, artist and cover — on the Lock Screen,
in Control Center and in the Dynamic Island. Tap the cover to play it now, or skip it, without
opening the app that is playing.
App
Support
Apple Music
Full
Apple Podcasts
Full
YouTube Music
Full — built against 9.28.4
YouTube
Full — built against 21.32.4. A playlist has a real queue; a standalone video shows YouTube's own autoplay suggestion, which is playable but not skippable
Spotify
Full — built against 9.1.62
SoundCloud
Added with NextUp 3 1.2
Each row shows what that app itself would play next, read from its own queue — not a guess. The version
beside an app is the build its reader was written against; when a row goes blank after an update, that
number is the first thing to check.
Settings › Albrhi › Albrhi NextUp — a master switch, one per surface, one per app. Changes apply
immediately. The master is off until you turn it on (this port's own change), since it injects into
SpringBoard and five media apps. The log is compiled in and off by default, with a 128 KB ceiling per
process.
A port, not an original. Albrhi NextUp is NextUp 3 by Yves,
under the GNU GPL v3. The design, the private-API research and very nearly all of the implementation are
Yves's work; this port replaced the Settings pane with a page of its own and rebranded the package.
Its changelog lists every change rather than letting it read as original.
It injects into SpringBoard. A wrong hook there takes the home screen with it — have a way back in
(SSH, or a package manager reachable from safe mode) first. On a jailbreak with per-app injection, the
media apps need injection enabled too, or the row stays empty.
⌚ Albrhi Watch
Pair a watch iOS does not expect. iOS refuses to pair with an Apple Watch whose watchOS is newer than
it expects. Watch answers those compatibility questions the way a supported pairing would — the pairing
gate, the declared capabilities, the companion-app runtime check — so setup completes and apps install.
Confirmed on a device.
Hold watchOS 26 back — a filter, not a blanket refusal: the version is read from the update
itself, so watchOS 26 and newer is withheld while security updates for the version your watch is on are
still offered. An update whose version cannot be read is let through. Nothing can start a held update: the
scan result, the install button's two actions, the download and the installation are each refused
separately — and the Software Update page says Albrhi is the reason, and names the switch that undoes
it, instead of iOS saying "up to date" in a sentence the tweak caused.
Settings › Albrhi › Albrhi Watch. The master is off until you turn it on. A pairing change is applied by
a full userspace restart, not a respring — measured on a device.
The pairing core is not this project's work. It is watched by
34306, under the MIT licence — carried over as code, with its notice shipped inside the package.
It injects into SpringBoard. Have a way back in before installing any build.
⚠️ Instagram and roothide Bootstrap
On roothide Bootstrap, Instagram 442 and newer crashes when you
change your profile picture. It is not caused by Albrhi, and no version of Albrhi can fix it.
That reads like every tweak author blaming the loader, so here is how it was established. The fault was cut
in half, then in half again: every feature removed — crash; every hook installed with every setting
answering false — crash; a dylib of one file that logs a line, no hooks, no classes, no load-time
work — crash; the same tweak merged by hand into the app with no jailbreak injecting it — no crash.
An empty 128 KB library is enough, and the identical code injected differently does not crash at all.
What you can do: turn Albrhi off for Instagram while changing a picture, or use a manually merged build.
Tested on 21.30.5 (the direct route does not depend on the app version)
X / Twitter
Tested on 12.15
TikTok
Tested on 46.4.0
NextUp
Confirmed on 16.1 — Music, Podcasts, YouTube 21.32.4, YT Music 9.28.4, Spotify 9.1.62
Watch
Any watchOS the pairing gate is asked about
The tested versions are the newest builds the developer's own phone accepts. They are not a ceiling:
nothing is pinned to a version number, every class is looked up at runtime, and anything absent is
skipped rather than crashed on. If one is not found, the Diagnostics page shows what the tweak can
actually see on your phone and reports it in one tap.
📲 Sideloading
Instagram, YouTube, X and TikTok are also built as standalone dylibs (Albrhi*.dylib) attached to each
release, for injecting into a decrypted IPA with LiveContainer, Sideloadly or cyan — or with
tools/ipa-inject.html in a browser. A sideloaded build has no Settings panel, so
it is simply on: it asks nothing and needs nothing entered. A dylib and the suite can never be injected
twice: the suite declares Conflicts/Replaces on them.
🔨 Building
Requires Theos with an iOS SDK (the pinned iPhoneOS 16.2), GNU make, ldid
and dpkg.
git clone https://github.com/ibrahim2100/albrhi-repo.git
cd albrhi-repo
git submodule update --init --recursive
export THEOS=$HOME/theos
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/make/libexec/gnubin:$PATH" # GNU make; Apple's fails Theos
python3 tools/check.py # always first — seconds, not a five-minute compile
./build.sh youtube rootless # result lands in tweaks/youtube/packages/
Swap youtube for instagram, twitter, tiktok, ytmusic, spotify, panel, nextup or watch,
and rootless for roothide, rootful or sideload. roothide needs a second Theos (the roothide
fork) — the flavour is chosen by which Theos stages the package, never by the control file:
It proves the flavour from the staged paths rather than the filename, and refuses to copy out a mismatch.
See BUILD.md for the checks, the roothide flavour and what CI does.
Pure logic is run, not only compiled. Parsers, rankings and decision rules (the YouTube Music lyrics module,
the YouTube transport, Instagram's deleted-messages log and copy rules, X's timeline filter, TikTok's link ranking,
the panel's version check) build against the macOS SDK and execute on the build machine — and CI runs them before
it will build a release:
bash tools/run-host-tests.sh # every tweaks/*/tests/host/run.sh
A hook needs a device and there is no way around that. A parser does not.
Layout
tweaks/<app>/ a complete tweak: Makefile, control, filter plist, src/, CHANGELOG.md
suite/ com.albrhi — the combined package, and the preinst that clears the old ones
shared/ Theos flags, build modes and the panel gate every tweak shares
docs/ investigations — what was measured, in what order, and what turned out wrong
tools/ source checks, APT index, depictions, signing, .deb editing, the browser tools
modules/ vendor/ third-party code, shared
extra-debs/ drop a .deb here and the source publishes it
Adding a tweak means adding a directory under tweaks/ — tools/check.py finds it, ./build.sh <name>
builds it, and make-suite.sh pulls it into com.albrhi automatically. Staying out takes a .no-suite
marker, and a tweak with nothing to do with the suite gets a publishing workflow of its own.
🧰 The tools
Everything under tools/ is meant to be run by hand as well as by CI.
check.py
Twenty-six source checks, run before Theos. Every rule comes from a build or a device that actually broke — unbalanced %hook/%end, a hooked class touching self without an @interface, a fragile %orig, a missing localisation key, a %new parameter carrying an attribute, and -valueForKey: probing (which runs the app's own code and cannot be made safe by @catch). Run from the root it re-runs itself once per tweak.
objc-classes.py
Prints a class's real methods, declared property types, ivars and type encodings straight out of a Mach-O's ObjC metadata; --find-method / --find-ivar answer "who answers this selector / owns this field". A framework-wide selector dump says a name exists, never on which class — this project lost releases to that gap.
make-suite.sh
Merges every tweak without .no-suite into com.albrhi, and refuses a staged tree that does not match the scheme it was asked for.
make-repo.sh · fetch-published-debs.sh
Build the APT index from the published releases (so several workflows can rebuild one index safely), with an explicit WITHHELD_PACKAGES list — because building the index from releases means silence removes nothing.
make-depiction.py
Sileo depiction and HTML fallback generated from the changelog, so they cannot go stale.
inject-dylib.py · ipa-inject.html
Put a dylib into an IPA, with entitlements read first and handed back.
deb-edit.py · deb-edit.html
Edit .deb metadata from a terminal or browser (served at …/deb-edit/).
build-local.sh · build-dylibs.sh · build-dav1d.sh
📖 Usage
Instagram — hold the ☰ button at the top right of your profile (with Settings quick-access on,
holding the home tab works too). Download with the inline button; long-press a post to zoom; search any
setting from the bar at the top.
YouTube — hold two fingers anywhere. It is deliberately not in YouTube's own settings: two attempts
at that crashed the app, because a settings entry must satisfy tables the tweak cannot reach. Tap YouTube's
own download button to save; saved videos live in their own tab.
X — hold two fingers anywhere, the same gesture for the same reason. Hold a photo or video to save
it; drag the in-video button where you want it and pin it.
TikTok — the download button is in the feed, above the profile picture. Hold two fingers anywhere
for settings; Advanced → Status report copies every number behind every feature, which is the fastest way
to report something that is not working.
Everywhere — Settings → Albrhi is the one page listing every app Albrhi patches, with a switch
each. Turn one off and that tweak stops loading entirely, without uninstalling anything or losing its
settings. Reopen the app for the change to take effect.
When something does not work: open the tweak's diagnostics → read what actually attached → (on
Instagram) the magnifier scans the live view hierarchy → send the report. That loop replaced several rounds
of guessing.
🧠 How it is made
A few habits run through the whole repository, because each was paid for:
Measure before hooking. What a class is declared to have is read from the app's own metadata
(objc-classes.py), what a method's signature is is read from the runtime, and a hook is installed
only where the running build agrees — a %hook on a method the class does not declare does not politely
do nothing, it adds one.
Count the attempt, not only the result. A diagnostic that reports the last event instead of a tally,
or a counter on a path that never runs, sends you fixing what is not broken. Reports say what was
attempted, what succeeded, and what stood aside.
A tweak may cost a feature; it may not cost the app. Launch guards, reload budgets, and work on a
layout path that is free the second time.
Nothing writes itself. Reports are written when asked, every file that can grow has a ceiling and says
so when it is hit.
Credit and licence are not optional. GPLv3 sources are carried over with their authorship; unlicensed
references are read for architecture only, and the line between a device tweak and a paid subscription
is one this project does not cross.
The accumulated reasoning — what broke, why, and what was learned — lives in CLAUDE.md.
🗺️ Roadmap
Done recently
YouTube direct download route — survives app updates; own fragmented-MP4 remux, no FFmpeg; confirmed on a device
Licensing removed — Albrhi is free; no key, no trial, no check
Six tweaks in one package, and Spotify, NextUp and Watch as their own, each with its own settings row
Albrhi for YouTube Music — lyrics, saving tracks, Downloads tab, no ads
Instagram: story-seen hiding fixed on 439, unsent messages kept and marked
YouTube: arrangeable tab bar, History tab, playback-error recovery, extra ad gates
X: fifteen features, a draggable in-video button, Face ID cover
TikTok: Albrhi as a native section of TikTok's own Settings, an update screen that shows once per release, save media from comments
Instagram: copy a caption by long-press, and a Copy button in the comment menu
Tests that run on the build machine for six tweaks — and CI runs them before it builds a release
Next
Confirm the deleted-messages log on a device — which message shape Instagram's update stream really carries decides whether text is captured
Hiding the reels seen mark (write_seen_state still goes out)
Host tests for what still has none — the DASH remuxer (SCIYTFragments) and TikTok's link comparator
Instagram 450 and newer: thirty-one hooked classes exist there only under Swift-mangled names (checked, not yet supported)
Spotify publishing from its own workflow
Albrhi CarPlay, rebuilt from scratch in its own repository
Settings profiles · crash protection that disables a faulting feature rather than the whole tweak
🤝 Contributing
Issues and pull requests are welcome.
Fork and branch from main.
Keep one feature per file under the tweak's src/Features/<Category>/; in Instagram a settings page
registers itself in +load under src/Settings/Pages/, and defaults go in that tweak's src/Tweak.x.
Add both Arabic and English strings to the tweak's src/Localization/SCILocalize.m — never hard-code
user-facing text (tools/check.py enforces parity).
Follow the SCI prefix and Objective-C style; run python3 tools/check.py and build before opening the PR.
Bump the version in controlandSCIVersionString together, add a changelog entry — and bump
suite/control, or nothing ships.
By contributing you agree your work is licensed under the GPLv3.
🙏 Credits
SoCuul — author of SCInsta, the project Albrhi is derived from.
YTKACE by itzzace (MIT) — the direct download method and several ad gates; YTPlaybackFix by Mark02 (MIT) — the playback-error recovery approach.
iSponsorBlock by Galactic Dev (GPLv3) — the coloured progress-bar markers; SponsorBlock by Ajay Ramachandran — the segment database (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
YTMusicUltimate by dayanch96 and YTMEnhanced by py233 (GPLv3) — the YouTube Music hooks and synced-lyrics module. Their Premium claim deliberately is not carried over.
EeveeSpotify (GPLv3) — the Spotify ad blocking, without its Premium unlock.
NextUp 3 by Yves (GPLv3) — Albrhi NextUp is a port of it; the design and nearly all of the implementation are his.
watched by 34306 (MIT) — the Apple Watch pairing core.
LightMessaging by Ryan Petrich and libSandy by opa334 — the messaging and sandbox profile NextUp needs.
Albrhi is a derivative work of SCInsta, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0
(LICENSE). The source stays open, modifications are documented, and original authorship is
preserved as the licence requires. The released builds are free to run.
Albrhi is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Instagram, Meta Platforms, Inc., Google, YouTube, X Corp., TikTok or Spotify.
pair a newer watchOS than iOS expects, and hold watchOS 26 back — an MIT port
Local suite builds, the standalone dylibs, and the AV1 decoder.
release-notes.py · make-logo.py · repo-index.html
Release bodies from a changelog, the repo icon in pure Python, and the landing page.
NeoFreeBird by orionblur (GPLv3, a BHTwitter fork written against X 12.31) — Albrhi for X carries over its timeline section filter, the typing-indicator and screenshot-detection approach, the quote/repost and whole-number counts, and a set of interface switches and feature-switch keys; its premium unlock, age-verification bypass, web login and posting, account-location lookup and Tenor GIF swap are deliberately not taken (see the X changelog).
BHTikTok by BandarHL and the fork by al3raQe, and BHTwitter — read for where an app is hookable, never for code (as is ProfileBanner by Nasser | NoTimeToChill, the small tweak that showed the profile-background editor was reachable); two compiled TikTok tweaks were read the same cautious way.
JGProgressHUD by Jonas Gessner (MIT) · dav1d by VideoLAN (the AV1 decoder) · FLEXing (runtime debugging).
Ibrahim Ismail AL-Rahn — the Albrhi rebuild, bilingual layer, download and transcode engine, and design.
