Last Updated on July 13, 2022 by Mathew Diekhake
Starting with version 22.0, the Magisk and Magisk Manager apps are merged into one file, eliminating the need to source both different versions to get root access to Android.
Magisk was always a little complicated. First of all, it wasn’t as easy to get root access with it compared to its predecessors that utilized SuperSU, such as CF-Auto-Root. But the tool itself was also confusing, with there being a Magisk and Magisk Manager as separate packages.
Now the developer of Magisk, John Wu, has merged both the Magisk and Magisk Manager into the one file to make things easier.
The new all-in-one Magisk package is also a flashable zip recognized by TWRP. Not all rooting methods with Magisk require a custom recovery image, but some of them do.
Magisk is a systemless root method that modifies the boot image to get root access rather than the typical system files previous rooting methods needed. This is said to be part of the magic in how Magisk manages to hide from apps as they try to detect if the Android operating system has been granted rooting permissions. Apps such as Google’s Google Pay in particular were a big reason for Android’s security changes that led to older rooting tools such as SuperSU no longer working.