If you’ve ever disabled your iPhone’s “Simple Passcode” in the Passcode Lock section of the Settings.app, then you’re no doubt familiar with the black keyboard that’s hidden within iOS.

Most of the folks I know stick to the simple numeric passcode as a means to protect their iPhones, thus they’re not aware that a black keyboard even exists.

The sad news is that besides the lock screen, you’re unable to use the black keyboard anywhere else; that is, until now.

Black Keyboard is a new jailbreak tweak available for the iPhone that allows you to enable the elusive black keyboard anywhere… Read More

I don’t believe there’s one feature on the iPhone that angers me as much as auto correct. It’s always misinterpreting what I’m trying to type, usually with ridiculous results.

Auto correct on the iPhone will turn a phrase like “Let’s go have lunch” into “Keep on step eagle.” I know, that makes no sense whatsoever, and that’s my point.

Fortunately for us, the jailbreak community has had enough of this utter nonsense as well, as evident by the release of ManualCorrect…

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I’ve always believed that the iPhone’s most frustrating issues surrounded around composing long messages or filling out exceptionally long forms. Not only is the auto correct particularly troublesome, but I find myself from time to time typing uppercase letters when I meant to type lowercase, and lowercase letters when I meant to type upper case.

It’s a particularly frustrating affair culminated by the fact that Apple has decided to keep uppercase letters on their keyboard’s keys regardless of your actual case. That’s where a tweak like ShowCase comes in handy…

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