Apple over the weekend shared a new video advertisement for its music-streaming service featuring artists like Billie Eilish, Orville Peck and others.
Apple Music shares colorful new ad featuring Billie Eilish, Orville Peck and other artists
How to remove a specific featured image from your Home Screen Photos widget on iPhone and iPad
The Photos app widget on your iPhone and iPad Home Screen uses artificial intelligence to surface and rotate images that Siri intelligence thinks you might like. But what if the widget pops up an image you don’t like? In that case, follow our brief tutorial as we walk you through removing a specific featured image from the iOS Photos widget.
How to do a group video call with up to 8 people on Instagram
Learn how to make a group video call with up to 8 people on Instagram and spice up the call with effects, backgrounds, and more. These steps work for both iPhone and Android users.
How to use curated city guides in Apple Maps on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Learn how to use curated city guides (a part of Detailed City Experience) in Apple Maps on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to explore places of interest when you're traveling to a new major city.
Lyrication v2 adds slick music lyric support iOS’ Now Playing interfaces
Music enriches our lives at a spiritual level, and that’s one of the reasons why it can be so enjoyable to turn on the radio when you’re at work or undertaking a menial task. But if you’ve ever listened to a song and couldn’t distinguish its lyrics before, then you’d understand easy access to song lyrics is such an imperative ingredient for the ideal mobile music player, much like your iPhone.
Many music streaming applications already come with lyric functions out of the box, but this only applies to when you’re in that particular app. Apple could and should make the user experience more useful by allowing lyric viewing from the Now Playing widget anywhere in iOS, and that’s one reason why a free jailbreak tweak called Lyrication v2 by iOS developer Marcel Braun exists.
Cydia Substrate updated to version 0.9.7109 with more bug fixes
Following a pair of updates released for both the Cydia Substrate and Substrate Safe Mode packages bright and early Sunday morning, it seems that Saurik has pushed a second update for the Cydia Substrate package Sunday afternoon to fix a few bugs that were introduced in the first update.
The latest version of the Cydia Substrate package is now version 0.9.7109, and according to the change log for this release, Saurik notes the following changes in this release:
Editor’s Desk: iOS 14 beta 5 changes, AAPL hits $2 trillion, Epic vs. Apple and more
Epic Games has escalated its fight against Apple, which is all about the money. Apple, meanwhile, continues perfecting iOS 14 and other OS updates with new betas issued to developers and public beta testers. And on Wall Street, AAPL became the first publicly traded US company to hit a whopping $2 trillion market valuation, after Saudi Aramco.
Pastel wallpapers for iPhone and iPad
There is a simplicity in singularity, a oneness with uniformity, consistency in completeness. This collection of pastel wallpaper is all of those things. A single, subtle color gradient spans the entirety of your favorite iOS device screen. In fact, the gradient is so subtle I had to use a dropper tool to measure the hex code in different parts of the image to ensure it was actually a gradient. In today's Wallpapers of the Week curation, I am floored by the rich pervasive color in this collection.
Cydia Substrate & Substrate Safe Mode receive twin updates with improvements
After a brief hiatus from last month’s rush of Cydia Substrate updates, Saurik appears to be at it again. Starting this morning, checkra1n jailbreak users should be able to refresh their sources and see two notable new updates including Cydia Substrate version 0.9.7108 and Substrate Safe Mode version 0.9.6004.
Both packages are especially important for the checkra1n jailbreak, as one drives tweak injection while the other serves as the last line of defense between jailbreak tweak failures and the possibility of a consequential boot loop. Fortunately, these packages work in tandem to permit jailbreak tweak usage in a safe environment.
Jailbreak tweaks of the week: Comet, Merriam, and more…
Got a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, but aren't sure what to do next? This roundup will showcase all the latest jailbreak tweaks in an easy-to-digest list so that you can discern what your next install should be.
As always, we'll kick things off by discussing our favorite releases first. Afterward, we'll outline the rest of this past week's releases in alphabetical order.
Add a splash of color to iOS’ dialer and passcode interfaces with DialerGradient
Apple’s software user interfaces are somewhat notorious for being both streamlined and professional, but they also tend to be on the bland side of things. The company isn’t known for offering much in the customization department, and this can be a serious pain point for those who demand more personality from their iPhone’s user interface. Fortunately, jailbreak tweaks aplenty can help out with this limiting aspect of iOS.
Enter DialerGradient, a newly released jailbreak tweak by iOS developer NaneraManu that lets iPhone users customize virtually any parameter of their handset’s numeric dialer interfaces, whether it’s the Lock Screen’s passcode interface or the Phone app’s dial pad.
CCTime13 adds a time indicator to the Status Bar in Control Center
The iPhone’s Status Bar exists to provide users with pertinent information at a glance. Whether you’re checking to see the current time, your handset’s current signal strength, or how much battery life you’ve got left, chances are you look at it somewhat frequently.
One thing that has always sort of bothered me however is that the Status Bar’s time display disappears when you launch the Control Center interface, and that’s a gripe that a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed CCTime13 by iOS developer 0xkuj aims to solve.