A satellite messenger for iOS
With Saftellite, you can send SMS-like messages using the satellite connectivity of your iPhone 14 or newer on iOS 16. It works in all countries that support satellite connectivity and Find My location sharing over satellite. No iMessage over satellite or iOS 18 is required.
You need an iPhone 14 (or newer) with a jailbreak on it. At the time of release, you can jailbreak the iPhone 14 up to iOS 16.5.1 using Dopamine. At best, the recipient also uses a jailbroken iPhone with the Saftellite app installed. The recipient does not need to have an iPhone with satellite connectivity as messages can only be received over the internet.
All friends with whom you share your location over Find My can receive messages. We use Find My location updates over satellite to send your message instead of a location.
We don't offer a Cydia/Zebra/Sileo package at the moment. The easiest way is to build the app using Xcode, then resign the binary with the necessary entitlements: Run the $ create_ipa.sh script.
Then share the .tipa or .ipa to your jailbroken and install it on your jailbroken iPhone using TrollStore.
To send satellite messages, you will need a tweak that hooks into the satellite connectivity system.
Get the tweak binary which is the .deb file in SendStewieMessageTweak/packages. Then install it by opening it on your iPhone with Sileo or using dpkg.
You can also build the tweak with theos by running the make file in the SendStewieMessageTweak folder.
Apple has limited the length to 82 bytes, aka 82 characters (in ASCII).
In theory yes, but we didn't integrate it as it would need more bytes.
We could not come up with a better name and we got tired... But also Apple uses SFT as a short term for satellite related messages and we found it funny.
- Jiska Classen, Research Group Leader @ HPI Potsdam
- Alexander Heinrich, Security Researcher @ SEEMOO, TU Darmstadt