Another week, another roundup. This one encompasses all the jailbreak tweaks released in Cydia from Monday, November 26th to Sunday, December 2nd.
As usual, we’ll kick things off by talking about our favorite releases and then outline the rest afterward.
Just a few days ago, iOS hacker Pwn20wnd launched a pre-release version of unc0ver v2.0.0 to the public with preliminary support for Cydia Substrate, several useful new features, and a blanket of bug fixes and performance improvements. The next day, he pushed a revamped version of the pre-release to the public with more bug fixes; but it now seems he wasn’t finished yet.
On Saturday, Pwn20wnd announced via Twitter that he had dropped yet another new version of the unc0ver v2.0.0 pre-release with even more bug fixes:
Just yesterday, iOS hacker Pwn20wnd dropped a pre-release version of unc0ver v2.0.0 with preliminary support for Cydia Substrate, a bevy of new features, and a long list of bug fixes and improvements. But he also noted that he would update the pre-release again if bugs were reported.
Pwn20wnd made good on his promise Friday afternoon after he shared an updated version of the unc0ver v2.0.0 pre-release via his Twitter account. As suspected, the new pre-release fixes bugs that were reported in the initial pre-release during the last 24 hours:
As your iPhone accumulates missed notifications, the icons on your Home screen become littered with little red dots indicating the number of missed notifications you have. Apple calls these red dots notification badges.
There’s no way to customize how notification badges look on a stock device, but if you’re jailbroken, then you can take advantage of a new jailbreak tweak called BadgeColors by iOS developer Cole Cabral.
It’s been a little while since we’ve seen any updates for the unc0ver jailbreak tool; the latest update to be released was version 1.1.4, more than three weeks ago. But despite what appeared to be a sudden halt in rapid update releases, it appears that iOS hacker Pwn20wnd has indeed been hard at work on another update for the iOS 11-centric jailbreak tool.
The public beta of unc0ver v2.0.0 has announced by Pwn20wnd via his Twitter account on Thursday, signaling what some might consider to be a major update for the jailbreak and many of its internal mechanisms:
If you’re a frequent Instagram user, then you’ve probably gotten accustomed to the 60-second upload limit that prevents you from sharing longer videos to the platform from your mobile device. Fortunately, jailbreakers can now circumvent this silly restriction with a new free jailbreak tweak called IG Video by iOS developer pxcex.
After you install IG Video, you’ll be able to upload videos longer than 60 seconds to your Instagram account, which means the prompt you see in the screenshot example above no longer has any bearing over what you can upload to Instagram.
Apple stopped signing iOS 12.0.1 on Tuesday, a move that prevents all iPhone and iPad users from downgrading their firmware via iTunes to any version lower than iOS 12.1.
It’s been almost one full month since Apple publicly released iOS 12.1, signaling one of the Cupertino-based company’s longest firmware signing windows in recent memory; most windows only last for about two weeks.
As we conclude the Thanksgiving holiday this weekend, we just wanted to mention how thankful we are to have a jailbreak and to have such wonderful readers like you here at iDB.
In this roundup, we’ll discuss all the jailbreak tweaks released in Cydia from Monday, November 19th to Sunday, November 25th. As usual, we’ll kick things off by talking about our favorite releases and then outline the rest afterward.
At first glance, it might seem like your iPhone has just one volume control that you can change with the volume buttons at the side of the handset, but there are actually nine different volume controls present on your handset.
It can be challenging to discern which volume control you’re adjusting when you press your device’s volume buttons, and so iOS developer midkin just launched a new jailbreak tweak called SmartVolumeMixer to make life a bit easier in this department.
Starting with last year’s iPhone X, Apple nixed the Home Button from its entire lineup of smartphones and replaced it with the software-based Home Bar. The Home Bar resides at the bottom of your display, quietly waiting for upward swipe gestures for unlocking the handset or closing foregrounded apps.
The Home Bar compliments the iOS experience like bread and butter, and it also empowered Apple to achieve the signature edge-to-edge OLED display that many of us know and love, but it’s not without its quirks. Fortunately, a new free jailbreak tweak called XEdgeProtect by iOS developer smokin1337 addresses some of these issues.
Despite the absurd amounts of time and money that Apple pours into security efforts to make iOS one of the most secure mobile operating systems available today, it seems that even iOS 12.1, the latest publicly-available firmware version on the iPhone and iPad, isn’t entirely hack-proof.
At the recent Pwn2Own contest in Tokyo, Richard Zhu and Amat Cama, a duo of white hat hackers, reportedly harnessed the power of a powerful Safari-based 0-day exploit to recover a photograph that was recently deleted from an iPhone X’s native Photos app.
The Lock screen has come a long way in many of the most recent iterations of iOS. Instead of just being a place to tell the time and view your missed notifications, the Lock screen has become a hub for everything that matters, including app-centric widgets that can help you discern important information at a glance.
Depending on how much you utilize these aspects of your iOS device’s Lock screen, a new free jailbreak tweak called Lace 2 by iOS developer Andreas Henriksson can help you take better advantage of it all.