Like every Sunday, we get to take a look at some of the most popular posts that were published on iDB during the week that just ended. Whether it is a news item, a new jailbreak tweak, a tutorial, or an app review, we sum it all up in one convenient place for you.
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Deals
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Accessories
- Some great alternatives to the Apple Watch Nike+ band
- Nomad’s Silicone Strap for Apple Watch is both durable and comfortable
Hello Again event
- This is Apple’s new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Touch ID & more
- Apple launches new ‘TV’ app
- 20 cool things you can do with the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar
- 15″ MacBook Pro can drive four external 4K displays in addition to built-in Retina screen
- The 5K LG UltraFine is the external display Apple didn’t want to make
- Apple discontinues 11-inch MacBook Air
- New MacBook Pro starts at $1,499, some models available today
- Apple’s new T1 chip that drives MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar runs “eOS”, a variant of watchOS
- Apple did not say a lot about the MacBook Air, but it spoke volumes
Apple & related news
- Apple releases iOS 10.1 with Portrait mode and other improvements
- Apple releases macOS Sierra 10.12.1, watchOS 3.1 and tvOS 10.0.1 with bug fixes and improvements
- Hands-on with exclusive Apple Watch Nike+ watch faces and complications
- Hands-on with Apple Watch Nike+
- Apple’s Q4 2016 earnings: 45.5M iPhones and 9.3M iPads sold, revenue down to $46.9B
- Apple now has $237.6 billion and other highlights from the Q4 earnings call
- Nikkei: all iPhone 8 models to have all-glass design, new 5″ model in the works
- New report rebuffs claim that Apple will release 5-inch iPhone in 2017
- Apple says AirPods aren’t ready yet, pushes back release date
- Apple’s created mockups of iMessage for Android, including one with pure Material Design
- Why Apple should be more bullish on Virtual Reality
- AT&T announces buying Time Warner as it looks to compete nationwide with cable companies
Jailbreaking
- Browse the web from your Lock screen with LockBrowser
- Crypto lets you encrypt any text on the fly
- ArtworkUpNext queues songs in the Music app when you tap on its album artwork
- PlayDismiss hides the controls in the iOS video player the moment you tap Play
Apps
- Back in full swing: try these Walking Dead Apps to celebrate the return of Season 7
- Apple’s free app of the week: Sonic CD
- FabFocus kinda brings Portrait Mode to other iPhones
- Conquer the sea in easyBoat, an arcade style shooter game for iPhone and iPad
Tips
- How to download your entire music library to your iPhone or iPad
- How to change your daily Move Goal units from Calories to Kilojoules
- How to look back at your weekly Move goals progress in the Activity app
- How to use Live Tune-In feature on Apple TV
- How to enable Messages effects even when Reduce Motion is on
- How to snap Picture-in-Picture videos anywhere on your Mac
- How to quickly create fun GIFs in iMessage using the Tumblr app
- How to turn VoiceOver off
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