Anthony Bouchard

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.

DynaWall lets you make custom Dynamic/Live wallpapers, Lite version now available

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated June 27, 2022

iPhone and iPad users know exactly what it means to use Dynamic or Live wallpapers. Both forms of wallpaper come pre-installed by Apple from the factory, but herein lies the problem – it’s rather difficult to make your own custom Dynamic or Live wallpapers. That’s why a utility dubbed DynaWall by iOS developer The_Lucifer recently came to fruition in the jailbreak community.

With DynaWall, users can create custom Dynamic and Live wallpapers directly on their device using images gathered from their Camera Roll or from third-party image sites such as Bing, Reddit, or Unsplash. Once those images are selected, the app processes them and stores them in the native Wallpaper library to be applied by the end user.

SleepSaver brings screensavers to your jailbroken iPhone or iPad

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated May 24, 2020

Screensavers are a standard feature on most Macs and PCs that compel the display to loop a constant motion graphic to mitigate the effects of screen burn-in. The need for screensavers isn’t as great on mobile handsets like smartphones and tablets however, since the display typically turns off automatically when it isn’t in use to preserve battery life – a constraint that wired Macs and PCs don’t need to worry about.

While you don’t really need a screensaver on your smartphone or tablet, that doesn’t mean you can’t have one regardless. Apple doesn’t allow this on their brand of mobile handsets out of the box, but if you’re jailbroken, then you can take advantage of a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed SleepSaver by iOS developer iCraze to circumvent this restriction.

Nougat is an Android-inspired Notification Center for iPhones

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated February 21, 2022

Upon launching your favorite package manager on your jailbroken handset and refreshing your sources this weekend, you should find a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed Nougat by iOS developer Shade Zepheri in the changes tab list. And trust us when we say that this is something you’ll almost certainly want to check out.

As you might’ve discerned for yourself already in the screenshot examples above and below, Nougat brings an Android-inspired Notification Center interface to jailbroken iPhones, and it quite literally performs just as good as it looks.

TapMe plays custom sounds when launching iPhone apps

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated December 27, 2021

Feeling a bit bored with the app-launching experience on your iPhone? We wouldn’t blame you… Apple doesn’t offer much by way of customization in this department, and it’s not like much has changed since the iPhone initially launched in 2009 apart from some rather insignificant animation adjustments.

If you’re jailbroken and you’re looking for a way to spice things up on the Home screen, then we think you’ll come to appreciate a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called TapMe by iOS developer alex_png. This tweak can be used to supplement the app-launching experience on your iPhone with custom sounds and haptic feedback.

Waqt adds the date to your iPhone’s Status Bar

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 18, 2020

Apple programmed iOS in such a way that the iPhone’s Status Bar would display the current time. But unlike the iPhone’s larger cousin, the iPad, its Status Bar doesn’t display other pertinent time-centric information like the date.

Fortunately for jailbreakers, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Waqt by iOS developer P2KDev can change this apparent shortcoming on Apple's part.

These tweaks can improve the YouTube & YouTube Music experiences on iOS

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 18, 2020

Both YouTube and YouTube Music are among some of the most popular entertainment apps available for the iOS platform, but that fact alone doesn’t mean that the services themselves are flawless. Many users share similar gripes when it comes to using these apps, whether it’s too many ads or lack of user configuration.

Fortunately, there are add-ons that can augment the user experience in these apps, and a newly released set of free jailbreak tweaks dubbed YouTube Music Reborn and YouTube Reborn by iOS developer SarahH12099 are absolutely worth checking out if you align yourself with either of the aforementioned complaint cases.

PowerBar is a BottomToolBar extension that displays battery and power info

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 17, 2020

We’ve covered a plethora of extensions for the popular BottomToolBar tweak including Weather-BottomToolBar and Activity-BottomToolBar among others, but as time goes on, more and more options appear to present themselves in the form of novel BottomToolBar extensions.

The latest of such is a new and free release dubbed PowerBar by iOS developer XCXiao, which much like the name implies, brings a power-centric widget to the BottomToolBar interface.

Aphrodite is an iOS 13-centric asset catalog editor for jailbreakers

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 17, 2020

Jailbreaking has long been regarded as a means of taking control of your iOS device from Apple. Whether you achieve this by tweaking, theming, or tinkering with the very filesystem itself, there’s a little something for everyone. But sometimes, being handed this much freedom over your device in one fell swoop can seem just a teeny bit complicated, if not downright intimidating.

A new beta project dubbed Aphrodite by iOS developer Joey GM aims to make more complex system tinkering more approachable for jailbreakers, whether they’re novices or veterans.

This new tweak lets jailbreakers colorize iOS’ system toggle switches

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 17, 2020

If you’re jailbroken and looking for a fast and easy way to add a splash of custom color to the iOS user interface, then you just might come to appreciate a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Color Switch by iOS developer ahmedmakls.

Most will probably be able to infer what Color Switch does from the name itself, but for those who are still scratching their heads, the tweak effectively lets you choose the colors for toggle switches used throughout iOS for saving settings.

How to connect your Joy-Con controllers to play video games on your Mac

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated June 29, 2023

Some games are just easier or more fun to play with a controller. And if you happen to own a Nintendo Switch, you can use the Joy-Con controllers from it to play games on your Mac. You can take them out of the Switch, connect them to Mac, and then pop them into the Joy-Con Grip in just a few minutes.

This tutorial shows you how to connect your Joy-Con controllers to your Mac so the gaming can begin!

This tweak brings iPad-style tabbed web browsing to the iPhone

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 16, 2020

One of my favorite parts of browsing the internet on my iPad is having a near-desktop-class web browser at my fingertips. Unfortunately, many of the features that make the iPad version of Safari so convenient to use aren’t present in the iPhone version, such as tabbed browsing.

While you can certainly have more than one web page open at once on the iPhone, switching among them isn’t quite as satisfying as it is on the iPad. Fortunately, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Safari Features by iOS developer HurouofTech brings the iPad’s incredible tabbed browsing experience to jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches.

FlatURL helps mobile Safari users embrace minimalism

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 16, 2020

To all those jailbreakers out there that are looking for a spicy new way to tech out their mobile Safari web browser, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called FlatURL by iOS developer MTAC just might satisfy your cravings.

FlatURL is a relatively simple interface-centric tweak that, as depicted in the screenshot examples above, gives the Safari app’s search/URL bar a minimal aesthetic by removing its background and making it appear totally unified with the header itself.