The vast majority of non-developers who jailbreak do it for the tweaks, and use Cydia almost exclusively to find, maintain, and update them.
However, jailbreaking your device brings much more than the ability to install tweaks; its real power lies in granting unfettered access to the filesystem, which allows you to make almost any change you like.
In this article, I’ll go through five of the most interesting and ubiquitous uses for file managers on iOS.
Learn how to delete the Apple Music cache to regain storage space on your iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Mac, or Windows PC.
With the exception of partitions in unreadable formats and certain hidden partitions such as EFI and Recovery HD, the default behaviour of macOS is to mount all partitions of a drive on boot-up, login, or on connecting an external drive.
Whilst this behaviour is useful for the novice or for those connecting a single USB stick to copy some files, it can become unwieldy and even annoying if you have many multi-partitioned drives attached to your Mac.
For example, my desktop Hackintosh has three internal drives, each with at least two partitions, and one of these drives is not even needed when booted under macOS – it is for Windows 10 and Linux. Add to this a couple of external hard drives with partitions for storage, OS installers and Time Machine backups for other computers, and your desktop and Finder sidebar can begin to look a real mess. It also takes time for the drives to mount on every boot and unmount on sleep or shutdown.
This guide will detail how to ensure only the drives of your choosing mount automatically, leaving the rest unmounted within macOS.
Learn how to set up Touch ID on a MacBook or Magic Keyboard, enroll your fingerprints in the system, and use it to quickly unlock your computer, make purchases on websites with Apple Pay, and much more.
Learn how to add your company logo, picture, business card, or other image to your email signature in the Apple Mail app on Mac to improve its aesthetics or enhance functionality.
Have you ever run into this issue where your Mac displays the incorrect date or time? It can throw a lot of things out of whack across all of your apps. But this problem can be pretty easy to fix, and we’ll walk you through how to do that.
Apple’s Calculator app is one of those stock offerings largely flying under the radar for its soberness. It is somewhat overlooked, but then again can be a lifesaver at times. For those who need to crunch numbers on a more regular basis it is presumably nothing but an emergency fill-in, when for the rest of us it definitely more than cuts the mustard for everyday computations.
On the back of such a broad user base with varying skill sets, it goes without saying that there is a large discrepancy in expertise and knowledge about the calculator app itself.
The fact you can still elicit the occasional gasp from an unknowing iPhone user, just by rotating the interface to landscape mode says a lot about the relevance of calculator to many. Yes, it is mostly a plain calculator representation, but Apple did implement more knacks than first meet the eye. Novice or professional, if you are keen to boost your productivity in calculator, continue reading to find out if you are up to speed on the following tricks:
Are you on a capped data plan? In this brief tutorial, we will share a few quick tips to reduce cellular data usage when you use the Facebook app on your iPhone or iPad.
Find out what to do if music and video Home Sharing isn’t working between your Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Windows PC.
Filter out junk notifications and get alerted only about the stuff you care about by turning on the quality filter option in the X app or website.
Learn how to show icons for the internal startup drive, external storage devices, volumes, and partitions on your Mac’s desktop for quick access to the files within.
If you’re an Instagram user and post often, then you probably enjoy the Story feature. You can use photos in your Instagram stories as well as capture short videos. So if you want to make another user a part of your story, you can “mention” them.
Here we’ll show you two easy ways to mention someone in your next Instagram story.