Sébastien Page

Sebastien is the Founder and Editor in Chief of iDB. Once a BlackBerry user, Sebastien instantly fell in love with the iPhone when it was first announced in 2007. Shortly after, he decided to start sharing his knowledge of the iPhone and its nascent ecosystem, which led to the creation of this blog. Sebastien currently owns 14 iPhones, 4 iPads, a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, a MacBook Air, 2 Apple Watches, 3 Apple TVs, countless HomePods and AirTags as well as a few pairs of AirPods.

Let’s Be Friends On Twitter

I've been thinking about that for a while but for some reason I never got to go ahead with it. I just created a list of iDB readers on Twitter. If you read this blog and if you're on Twitter, then you should be on the list!

So far I have only 3 people in this list. That's because I don't know your Twitter username. To get on the list, simply ask me to add you on Twitter by sending a tweet such as "@SebastienPage Hey add me to your iDB list"...

Only 23% of AT&T Customers Would Switch for a Verizon iPhone

A new survey by Credit Suisse shows that only 23% of AT&T customers would be willing to switch to Verizon if the carrier got the iPhone. The good old talk about a Verizon iPhone. Sigh. It seems I am the only believing there won't be a Verizon iPhone next year.

According to this survey, 23% would switch to Verizon, 3% would switch to Sprint, and only 2% would switch to T-Mobile. 9% are not sure what they would do. If you do the math, that leaves 63% of people staying with AT&T, most likely because they are satisfied...

Apple Makes 3% of All Smartphones but Takes 39% of All Profits

With the Apple stock flying at a all-time high these days, this new report shows that not only Apple is able to make great products that sell like hot cakes, but most importantly, they are making tons of money on each product sold.

According to Michael Walkley of the Canaccord Genuity Group, Apple made about 3% of all the smartphones in the first half of 2010, but it actually raked in 39% of the industry's profits...

How to Fix A Broken Home Button on Your iPhone

Do you have a broken or malfunctioning home button on your iPhone? If so, this trick that was sent to me by Evan on Twitter will allow you to still use your iPhone even if the home button doesn't work properly.

Now before you get too excited, this is just a workaround and it won't actually fix the button, but if your iPhone is jailbroken, this is your best chance at getting control over this broken home button again...

RedSn0w 0.9.6 Beta 1 Also Works on iOS 4.2 Beta

This morning we reported that the Dev Team had released RedSn0w 0.9.6 beta 1 and that this tool could be used to jailbreak an iPhone 3G running iOS 4.1.

MuscleNerd confirmed earlier today that this version of RedSn0w can also be used to jailbreak iOS 4.2 beta on an iPhone 3G, but this doesn't come without risks as they are many bugs...

How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 3G iOS 4.1 with RedSn0w

This step by step guide and tutorial will show you how to use RedSn0w 0.9.6 Beta 1 to jailbreak your iPhone 3G iOS 4.1. So far, this only works for the iPhone 3G and the iPod Touch 2G, and is a Mac only tool (although a Windows version is coming).

Before we start the tutorial, make sure you read and understand this. Once you have read this article through, come back here and let's work on jailbreaking your iPhone 3G iOS 4.1 with RedSn0w...

RedSn0w 0.9.6 Beta 1 Jailbreak for iPhone 3G IOS 4.1 Released

The Dev Team released RedSn0w 0.9.6 Beta 1 a few hours ago. This latest update to the popular jailbreak tool will only work with the iPhone 3G iOS 4.1 and iPod Touch 2G.

According to the Dev Team, RedSn0w 0.9.6 Beta 1 uses the same pwnage2 DFU-mode exploit that has been around for a couple years. It does not use the SHAtter exploit discovered by pod2g, so there is nothing really new here...

How to Downgrade iPad 3.2.2

This step by step guide and tutorial will show you how to downgrade your iPad iOS 3.2.2 to a previous iOS version. In order to downgrade your iPad from 3.2.2 to 3.2.1, you will have to have your SHSH blobs on file on Saurik's servers. If you do not have these SHSH blobs on file, you will not be able to downgrade.

Downgrading iPad iOS 3.2.2 

Wow! This App Lets You Identify Planes in the Sky

There are a few apps that I like to use to show people what the iPhone can do. Star Walk has always been my favorite show off app but it seems that it's going to be dethroned by Plane Finder AR.

Plane Finder AR uses the iPhone augmented reality capability of your iPhone to show you information about planes flying around you. Simply point your iPhone at a plane flying by and you will see the flight number, aircraft registration, speed, altitude and how far away it is...

Enable Private Browsing on Your iPhone with Covert

Covert is a new jailbreak application by Chpwn that lets you enable private browsing on Safari. Let's imagine you want to browse those favorite dirty sites of yours but you don't want your girlfriend to snoop in your browser history and realize you've been watching 2 girls and a cup for the 50th time, then Covert is for you.

I certainly hope that's not what you will use Covert for, but at least you get my point. This being said, this is how to use Covert...

RIP Rock Your Phone

About 2 weeks ago we told you that Rock Your Phone had been acquired by Cydia. While I wasn't very excited about it, there was nothing I could do but wait to see Rock die slowly.

And the day has come. Today Rock Your Phone is dead. I just updated Rock via Cydia and all I can see now when launching the app is this...

Apple Launches Games Site

If you weren't sure whether Apple thought gaming was a good market to target or not, I'm sure this will change your mind as the company recently added a Games Section to their website, which you can see it at www.apple.com/games.

The website doesn't only cover iPhone and iPad games. It also features many games for everything Mac...