On Tuesday, Apple pulled the plug on signing iOS 9.3.5 for its entire iOS device lineup, and since it was the last iOS 9 release since iOS 10’s launch last month, that means you can’t downgrade your firmware anymore.
It’s worth also mentioning that the signing process was also killed for iOS 10.0.1, which means anyone who tries to restore their device(s) in iTunes will be forced to install iOS 10.0.2 or later (10.0.3 is only for iPhone 7 & 7 Plus).
Everyone who’s used a jailbroken iPhone before knows what the respring screen looks like. It displays a black screen with a white Apple logo if you have a black device, or a white screen with a black logo if you have a white device. On the other hand, if you’re jailbroken, then why have the same old screen everyone else has? You can customize it!
A new free jailbreak tweak called Springy is going to give you more options to go down this road if you like customization.
Way back in 2013 when chpwn was still a prominent developer and hacker for the jailbreak community, he released a popular free jailbreak tweak called %hook's law, which added springy animations to your iPhone.
Now a new jailbreak tweak called Hortus is porting these fun and quirky animations over to iOS 9 so you can enjoy them on your modern day jailbroken device(s).
It's been a pretty busy week in Cydia for the most part, but those who have jailbreaks on iOS 9 have still had the opportunity to try some new jailbreak tweak releases.
In this roundup, we'll talk about everything that was released in Cydia this week, starting with our favorites and then moving on to the rest.
You can now change the look and feel of your iPhone's dial pad buttons inside the Phone app with a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed PhoneDialReformer.
You can use this tweak to mess around with the roundness and corner radius of the dial pad buttons until they match your own personal tastes.
TextCounter is a new jailbreak tweak that can help put into perspective just how much you're texting people.
It keeps track of how many sent and received messages you have in your Messages app and then shows them to you in various interfaces in the app.
Although you've always been able to set music as the alarm sound for the alarms you wake up to every morning via your iPhone or iPad, you've never been able to set entire music playlists as your alarm sound.
Looking at the bright side, however, a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed PlaylistAlarm changes that.
No2Theft is a new jailbreak tweak release that helps you keep your iPhone from getting stolen when you plug it in for a quick charge in unfamiliar places.
Many folks who love using their iPhones to listen to music seem to take a liking to mini player-like jailbreak tweaks, and a new release called Playtopia is the latest to join the lineup of mini player competition.
If you have a jailbroken device with a Touch ID Home button, then you're probably all too familiar with the fact that you can't immediately use Touch ID to unlock your device right after you respring it.
Touch ID Respring Fix is a new free jailbreak tweak that fixes this problem, and it's available in Cydia right now.
Normal behavior for the volume level in iOS is for it to adjust one step at a time, up or down, depending on the button you press on the side, but a new free jailbreak tweak called SmallVolumeStep can change that
There are all kinds of swipe gestures you can access on the Lock screen, such as opening Control Center or Notification Center and even using the camera grabber to quickly take a point-and-shoot photo.
While some people like these little shortcuts, not everyone wants them there all the time, so a new free jailbreak tweak called NoLockGestures lets you easily disable all these swipe gestures on demand.