A dramatic escalation in President Trump's war on China unfolded this past weekend as Reuters reported that Google has abruptly rescinded Huawei’s Android license, effective immediately, in a move that has restricted the Chinese company to using an open-source version of Android called the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
All notched handsets, including the iPhone X, XR, XS, and XS Max, ditch the traditional Home Button in lieu of the new Home Bar, which is a software-centric ‘grabber’ that lives at the bottom of your display. The Home Bar is used to unlock your handset, return to the Home screen, and access the App Switcher, but that’s about it.
It seems like the Home Bar could be made to do so much more, and that's why we were particularly fascinated by the release of a new free jailbreak tweak called HomeBarMediaProgress by iOS developer Jordan Koch (eskimo_dev), as it aims to give the Home Bar an added purpose. More specifically, the tweak transforms the Home Bar into a status indicator for any Now Playing media that might be playing in the background.
Most people use the Dock on their Home screen for fast access to their favorite apps, but that isn’t the case for everyone; some jailbreakers, for example, run custom Home screen setups and may prefer to hide the Dock altogether.
If you fall into the latter group above, then you may take an interest in a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed DockRemover by iOS developer Blake Boxberger. As you've probably inferred from the name already, DockRemover hides the Dock from your iOS device’s Home screen, offering a cleaner overall aesthetic.
It was just over a week ago that the Electra Team released Chimera version 1.0.5 to improve the jailbreak’s stability and tie up loose ends, but the update was later pulled until further notice when several users reported issues after using it.
Sunday evening, the Electra Team announced the release of Chimera version 1.0.6 to the general public via Twitter. The update appears to address the issues introduced in version 1.0.5 in addition to incorporating important bug fixes:
Is that fancy iPhone screen looking too clean? Maybe you just don't want every single pixel to be crispy and perfect. Each Sunday, the iDB Wallpapers of the Week collection strives to bring you photo quality, high clarity images for your Home and Lock screen. Today, we break that promise.
These incredible, intentionally granulated images are the best contrast to our normal installment. Grunge wallpaper highlights your rebellious side, while still showing some class.
We’ve witnessed an unprecedented number of high-quality jailbreak tweak releases in the last several weeks, and for that reason, we like to cap off each weekend with a roundup to ensure that you don’t miss anything good.
In this roundup, we’ll showcase all the most notable jailbreak tweaks released from Monday, May 12thto Sunday, May 19th. As usual, we’ll discuss our favorite releases first and then outline the rest afterward.
Update: This guide is now outdated, and simpler methods are available. We recommend that Apple TV 4K users now do Step 2) of this guide to find their ECID, and then use our simpler guide on saving blobs with TSS Saver instead. This guide will remain up for advanced users, who may still want to use it to save beta blobs, or incremental blobs which are not saved by TSS Saver.
In this week's edition of our Apps of the Week roundup we have an innovative note-taking app, a wicked insult generator and a cross-platform playlist. And as always, we've selected two great new games for you to check out.
Apple works hard to make each incremental iOS release look spiffier, but some places that don’t receive as much attention as they should include the native power down menu and volume HUD interfaces, just to name a few.
With a newly-released jailbreak tweak called Modernize by iOS developer tylerd3v, you can change that. Just as the name implies, it can make the aforementioned interfaces more useful and aesthetically pleasing.
One of the weakest links in iOS’ native multitasking capabilities is the clipboard management system, and perhaps unsurprisingly, there’ve been a lot of jailbreak tweaks released in recent memory to address this problem, such as CopyLog and Copypasta to name a few.
As for those who favor the classics over newer and more lightweight releases, Pasithea 2 by iOS developer Cannathea can provide a more full-fledged clipboard-access experience, and with native keyboard integration at that.
Springtomize is a name that veteran jailbreak enthusiasts should be firmly familiar with. Not only is Springtomize one of the most popular all-in-one tweaks ever conceived in the history of the community, but it’s still being maintained to this very day.
iOS developer Janosch Hübner (sharedRoutine) released an updated version of Springtomize 4 in the Packix repository on Friday with full support for iOS 11.0-12.1.2, and as you might come to expect, this update incorporates support for A12(X) handsets.
You can easily send your Mac screen to your Apple TV and either mirror it or use it as a second display. So, if you want to show something you have on your iPhone or iPad up on your Apple TV, this is just as simple.
You can use AirPlay if you have a video on your iPhone you want to show everyone in the room. And if you want to see a bigger picture of something on your device and interact with it, you can use Screen Mirroring.
Here’s how to both AirPlay and mirror your iPhone or iPad display to Apple TV.