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Location Faker makes it easy for jailbreakers to spoof their location

Location spoofing is one of the hallmark reasons that someone might be willing to jailbreak their device. In fact, it was one of the arguments we mentioned in the top ten reasons to jailbreak your iPhone in 2020. But finding reliable location spoofing tweak can be a challenge, and that’s why we’re particularly excited to share with you a new and free jailbreak tweak release called Location Faker by iOS developer Jonathan Seals.

As shown in the screenshot examples above, Location Faker is powerful enough to trick most of your system’s location-based services into thinking you’re somewhere you’re not. In this example, we’ve pinned our location somewhere in Japan and both the Maps and Weather apps appear to believe that this is our true location even though it isn’t.

HSWidgets is a beautiful and free way to add widgets to your Home Screen

The iPhone is still one of the only mainstream smartphones on the market today that doesn’t offer a way to place widgets directly beside your Home Screen icons. Most Android handsets can already do this, and from what we can gather, Apple may be working on something similar to this for iOS 14. Unfortunately for those on vanilla iOS 13 and earlier, swiping over to the Today page is as close as you’re going to get to this experience.

Fortunately for jailbreakers, these silly boundaries are easy to break. A brand new and free jailbreak tweak called HSWidgets by iOS developer DGh0st lets users inject all sorts of widgets directly into the Home Screen interface, effectively having them ‘snap’ into place alongside the bevy of app icons that you might already have.

Nintendo wallpapers for iPhone

Nintendo iPhone wallpaper mockup

Nintendo iPhone wallpapers are a great way to cross your two digital experiences. Everyone loves the Nintendo Switch. In fact, it has been so popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers continue to be sold out. Of course, your iPhone is also your window to the outside while sheltering-in-place.

Combing these two digital worlds, we have our new Wallpapers of the Week post. With more than ten impressive Nintendo locations, spanning from Animal Crossing to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild wallpapers, check out the collection.