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The best jailbreak tweaks for iOS 11

At iDB, we’ve been covering iOS 11 jailbreak tweak releases since the initial public release of Electra for iOS 11.0-11.1.2. Fast-forward a few months, and Electra picked up support for iOS 11.2-11.3.1, and there have been several more jailbreak tweak releases.

In this roundup, we’ll discuss some of the best jailbreak tweak releases since the original Electra jailbreak release. With a little luck, perhaps you’ll find a gem from the Cydia Store that you never knew about.

Better3DMenus lets you customize your 3D Touch menus

Most modern iPhones support 3D Touch, a means of pressing firmly on your display to reveal additional options or features at a glance. Using a 3D Touch gesture on a Home screen app icon exposes a bevy of shortcuts for that specific app.

As useful as these 3D Touch menus can be, Apple doesn’t let you customize their appearance out of the box. Fortunately, a new free jailbreak tweak called Better3DMenus by iOS developer dpkg_ picks up the slack.

Customize your iPhone’s locking & unlocking animations with Amour

One of our favorite parts of jailbreaking is that you can customize the locking and unlocking animations of your handset. We haven’t seen a jailbreak tweak of this nature for quite some time, but iOS developer Luke Muris is changing that with a new release called Amour.

Once installed, Amour allows you to customize both the locking and unlocking animations of your jailbroken iPhone or iPad. You’ll discover a preference pane in the Settings app where you can configure the tweak however you like:

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Apple will launch a $40 clear case for iPhone XR

Buried in the Sept. 12 Canadian press release announcing the iPhone XR is text mentioning that Apple plans on releasing a CA$55 (US$40) clear case for the new handset. This nugget of information was discovered recently by a Twitter user, aptly named ivanincanada (via AppleInsider).