Anthony Bouchard joined the iDownloadBlog.com team in 2016 after originally covering Apple and iPhone jailbreak news at ModMyi.com. As an experienced editor, he brings more than 15 years’ worth of jailbreaking knowledge to our in-depth guides, opinion pieces, and news articles. His passion for device customization and user choice sparks his strong push to empower readers with the tools they need to explore and enjoy the freedom that comes with jailbreaking. Anthony blogs about not only jailbreaking, but also Apple software & accessories, drones & photography, and Nintendo gaming systems. Anthony honed his advanced technical knowledge over the years with hands-on projects ranging from gaming PC builds to engine repair mechanics. His never-ending hunger for knowledge is why you’ll always find him tinkering – tearing things apart and putting them back together to understand what makes them tick.
On an ordinary iPhone, the native Music app is only designed to be used in portrait orientation. But forward-thinking iOS developer ETHN is changing that with a new jailbreak tweak dubbed LandscapeMusic.
Good news to all those Zebra fans out there, as it seems the popular alternative package manager app for jailbroken iPhones and iPads has received a sweet update this week.
Just like regular iPhone users, a lot of jailbreakers don an Apple Watch and expect to use their jailbreak to enhance its capabilities. While Apple Watch-centric jailbreak tweaks are certainly few and far in between, that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
If you’ve ever glanced at someone’s Twitter account only to wonder how old it was, then you’ll be excited to know that a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed TwitDate by iOS developer Saud Alshaman makes that information easier to find.
Sometimes when receiving a slew of iPhone or iPad notifications while you’re away, you might feel inclined to simply ignore them rather than marking them as read. That’s a bad habit that iOS developer wrp1002 hopes to break with the release of a new and free jailbreak tweak dubbed GrowingBadges.
YouTube is one of, if not the, best online video platforms in existence today, but most of the people I talk to share the same complaint: it’s infested with ads, with some disrupting playback so intensely that they play back-to-back without a skip option. God help us all...
The calm before the storm continues as jailbreakers eagerly await developments for iOS & iPadOS 15. But in the meantime, exciting things continue to circulate for pwned iOS & iPadOS 14 and earlier users.
One of the things that many Mac owners have come to appreciate over the years is the computer’s boot-up sound. Sadly, Apple doesn’t offer this feature on its mobile devices.
While there hasn’t been any discernible movement lately with respect to jailbreaking iOS & iPadOS 15, the good news is that a lot of different potential exploits now exist in the wild, putting the ball instead in jailbreak developers’ courts. In fact, it seems that another could be on the brink of development at the time of this writing.
You can watch saved videos in the iPhone’s Photos app just as easily as you can peer at saved photographs, however the playback speed of said video will be limited to the speed it was recorded in.
Whether you’re a power user or a developer and advanced features matter to you more than the average Joe, a free jailbreak tweak dubbed 3Developer by iOS developer hearsedev could prove to be rather a handy add-on for you.
Upon receiving notifications from any of your iPhone’s apps, iOS displays the relevant app icon inside the banner. It’s a good way to identify what all the notification came from at a glance, but it falls short in sharing the entire story.