These jailbreak tweaks let you record phone calls with the press of a button

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated August 5, 2024

Have you ever wanted to record your inbound and outbound phone calls from your iPhone? If so, then you’re not alone; in fact, this is quite possibly one of the most highly-requested features that Apple hasn’t natively implemented in the iPhone’s calling interface.

While a slightly convoluted process exists that may or may not work depending on your carrier, those with jailbroken handsets can make this process a whole lot easier by installing one of two recently-released jailbreak tweaks dubbed Call Recorder X+ (iOS 12) and Super Recorder X+ (iOS 12) by iOS developer hacx.

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Apple stops signing iOS 12.1.3, preventing downgrades from iOS 12.1.4

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 18, 2019

Apple appears to have stopped signing iOS 12.1.3 on Monday, a move on the Cupertino-based company’s part that prevents iOS device users from downgrading their device’s installed firmware from iOS 12.1.4 via iTunes.

This move doesn’t impact the jailbreak community very much because the latest jailbreakable firmware at the time of this writing is iOS 12.1.2, which Apple stopped signing more than a month ago. That said, the jailbreak community isn’t particularly rushing to downgrade to iOS 12.1.3 these days.

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Shortcuts Focus: how to delete all your completed reminders in one fell swoop

Christian Zibreg ∙ March 18, 2019

Inexplicably, Apple's Reminders app to this date has not bothered to offer us an option to delete all of the completed reminders at once. It should, at the very least, be able to remove completed items after a set number of days, but even that isn't allowed. Basically, you're left with two choices—either, joy, delete completed reminders manually, one by one, like an animal; or, leverage the power of scripting and iOS automation to your advantage like a boss.

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Apple seeds sixth betas of iOS 12.2, tvOS 12.2, watchOS 5.2 and macOS 10.14.4 to developers

Cody Lee ∙ March 18, 2019

Apple on Monday seeded the sixth betas of iOS 12.2, tvOS 12.2, watchOS 5.2 and macOS 10.14.4 to developers. Registered devs can install the updates via each platform's respective OTA mechanism, or through the Developer Center. Today's releases come one week after beta 5, and one week before Apple's 'It's show time' media event, suggesting we are nearing the public launch.

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After more than a decade, iPhoneOS 1 package manager ‘Installer 3’ has been open-sourced

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 18, 2019

Jay Freeman’s Cydia package manager has long enjoyed being the default platform for installing jailbreak apps and tweaks on jailbroken handsets, but even this renowned piece of software has a predecessor.

Veteran jailbreakers who’ve been pwning their handsets since the iPhoneOS 1 days will do good to remember the original package manager for jailbroken devices – Installer 3 by Ripdev & Nullriver Software – and after more than a decade, the project is now being open-sourced.

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