If you somehow manage to overlook the plethora of notification banners that stack up on top of one another on the Lock Screen, then you’ll be met later on with a myriad of red notification badges from the moment you authenticate and arrive at the Home Screen. But whoever said iOS’ notification experience needed to be so bland? Ah yes… Apple did.
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Spori makes it easier to use Siri to dictate music playback in Spotify
If you’re jailbroken on iOS 13 and use Spotify as your primary music streaming app, then chances are you might find yourself wishing that Siri worked as smoothly with Spotify as it did with Apple Music. Fortunately, a free jailbreak tweak called Spori by iOS developer udevs can make that happen.
Siri can already play tracks via the Spotify Music app if you specifically articulate that you’d like to play that song in Spotify, but who wants to waste their time adding those extra words to each and every Siri command? I, for one, certainly don't.
Checkra1n jailbreak picks up support for iOS 14 on A8-A9X devices
Not even one week after Apple officially released iOS and iPadOS 14 to the general public, the checkra1n team has released checkra1n version 0.11.0 with support for Apple’s latest and greatest mobile operating system (albeit with a catch).
The checkra1n Twitter page shared the announcement late Monday night, followed closely by commentary from Todesco himself:
Zefy makes Spotify behave more like a default media player on jailbroken iPhones
Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services available for the iOS & iPadOS platforms apart from Apple's own Apple Music streaming service. But if anything’s painfully obvious, it’s the fact that Apple nerfs the functionality of third-party apps and services that compete with its own by limiting what they can do on their platform; this effectively makes Apple’s own services look better by comparison, and intentionally so.
If you’re an avid Spotify user and you also have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad at your disposal, then you could probably benefit from the likes of a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed Zefy by iOS developer udevs. This tweak implements a few handy workarounds for iOS to make Spotify feel more like a native music player than just a third-party alternative to Apple’s.
How to create custom Home Screen widgets on iPhone and iPad
If you’ve been enjoying the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 feature for adding widgets to your Home Screen, then maybe you want to take that a step further. Among apps with Home Screen widgets are apps that let you customize your own widgets!
You can create your own Home Screen widgets and have them look exactly as you like. This gives you even more flexibility than you probably expected for personalizing your device. Here’s how to create custom Home Screen widgets on iPhone and iPad and tools you can use.
How to use compact calls on iPhone and iPad
By default, incoming phone and FaceTime calls appear as a compact banner at the top of the screen of your unlocked iPhone. It doesn't take up the whole screen.
However, if you or someone with access to your iPhone switched it back to a full-screen interface, then you can easily revert to the default, compact style. In this tutorial, we'll show you how.
Review: WT2 Plus translation earbuds bring us one step closer to a Babel Fish type experience
If your foreign language skills leave a lot to be desired, these specialized earbuds from a Chinese brand, called TimeKettle, provide near real-time translation from one language to another, with 95 percent translation accuracy and support for enough language pairs to cover more than 80 percent of the world’s population. Here’s how they work in real life.
Apple’s AirPods Studio headphones may use the U1 chip to determine how they’re being worn
Apple's rumored over-ear headphones, dubbed AirPods Studio, are said to use the company's U1 chip for spatial awareness to determine how they're being worn.
Apple said to market its upcoming compact 5.4-inch iPhone model as “iPhone 12 mini”
Apple is expected to release four new iPhone models later this year with three screen sizes: 5.4 inches, 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches (measured diagonally). The 5.4-inch model should become the company's new king of compact smartphones, and now a source has claimed that Apple will market that particular device as "iPhone 12 mini".
Apple adds a second mini-LED supplier ahead of tech’s debut in future iPads and Mac notebooks
For years now Apple has been rumored to have been working with its network of Asian suppliers on the commercialization of mini-LED display technology, and now it seems the company may have already found a way to boost production.
“The Morning Show” scores Apple TV+ its first primetime Emmy award
The Apple TV+ streaming service has won its first primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Billy Crudup's performance in "The Morning Show" which stars actresses Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.
How to add your symptoms to the Apple Health app on iPhone
Note symptoms in the iPhone or iPad Health app so you can keep track and use them when diagnosing the problem.