A jailbreak tweak called Discreetify9 lets you filter your incoming notifications based on certain keywords so important notifications are never read by those whom they're not intended for.
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.Notum brings music and a new look to Notification Center
Notum is a new jailbreak tweak that not only enhances the way Notification Center looks, but also adds a new page to it for interacting with your currently-playing music or media.
One of the first things that will stand out after you install this tweak is the new animation you'll see while opening and closing Notification Center on your device.
ArithmeticAlarm9: solve a math problem to snooze your iPhone’s alarm
What's worse than an alarm going off in the morning to wake you up from your comfortable bed? How about being late to work or school because you made it too easy to snooze your wake-up alarm?
With a jailbreak tweak called ArithmeticAlarm9, you can force yourself to have to solve a math problem before you're able to silence your iPhone's alarm.
New Activator extension lets you assign actions to closing apps
Activator is a powerful extension for jailbroken iOS devices that empowers you to make things happen. While it's already a great extension out of the box, other developers are constantly improving on its functionality with add-on tweaks. One of the latest is EventOnAppClose, and it can really come in handy.
LiveIconDisabler disables the Clock app’s icon animation
Starting with iOS 7, Apple officially brought animated hour, minute, and second hands to the Clock app's icon that reflect upon the actual time.
Whether or not you like these animations, a new free jailbreak tweak release called LiveIconDisabler now gives you the power to disable them.
Pro Tip: create an applet to watermark images
Adding watermarks to photos is an invaluable tool for photographers who want to put a company logo or information on a photograph to share the proper credits that made the photo possible.
It can be done manually in a variety of different kinds of photo-editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop or Pixelmator, but in this tutorial, we'll show you how you can create an applet that automatically watermarks photographs for you.
AppDye 2 subtly throws a splash of color across the UI in iOS
Adding a splash of color to the various UI elements throughout iOS 9 has never been as easy as it is with a new jailbreak tweak called AppDye 2.
With this tweak, you can colorize many parts of iOS based off of a single color you choose, or you can color your apps on a per-app basis with individual color schemes. Among some of the things that the tweak can modify the color of are:
Apple launches an official Twitter account
Apple has launched an official Twitter account on Friday. With @Apple, the company now has yet another channel for releasing important announcements and promoting products and events to the public.
Converting a regular video to slow motion with iMovie on Mac
Slow motion videos are one of the fun aspects of using your iPhone for videogprahy. You can record videos in 120 or 240 frames per second and then watch it play back in a much slower manner than it typically would.
On the other hand, if you don't use your iPhone to capture video, getting the video files from your other devices to transform into slow motion is a little trickier. Fortunately, iMovie for Mac can convert your videos into slow motion, and in this tutorial, we'll show you how.
StatusbarVolume is a another type of Status Bar-based volume HUD
Why deal with an ugly and obtrusive volume HUD on your iOS devices when you don't have to?
If you have a jailbreak, there are tons of jailbreak tweaks you can use to relocate the volume HUD to the Status Bar. But perhaps one of my favorites as of late is one called StatusbarVolume.
This tweak lets you keep Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on when you toggle Airplane Mode
With a new jailbreak tweak released by the name of Keep On Airplane Mode, you can now use the feature to toggle only your cellular radios off while keeping your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios active.
Set animated GIF images as your Lock screen wallpaper with GIFLock
A new jailbreak tweak release dubbed GIFLock lets you set any animated GIF image from your Camera Roll as the wallpaper on the Lock screen of your jailbroken iOS 9 device(s).