Star Wars fan wallpaper creations

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Our Wallpapers of the Week collection is a selection of reader submitted wallpapers, posted every Sunday. We receive a wide arrange of submissions, from original digital artwork to fan art and everything in between. This week is a hodgepodge assortment of Darth Vader, R2D2, Yoda, and Obi Wan Star Wars wallpapers.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: AirWave, EZBatteries, TabBlocker, & more

A lot has been going on in the jailbreak community as of late, and it's no surprise that developers continue to build jailbreak tweaks that can help you trick out your iPhone or iPad so it stands out from the crowd.

In this roundup, we’ll discuss all the jailbreak tweaks released from Monday, February 11th to Sunday, February 17th. As usual, we’ll kick things off by discussing our favorites and then wrap things up afterward.

How to hide the emojis you never use with Smojis

Using Smojis on iPhone Keyboard

We all love to use emojis. Happy faces in our emails, hearts in our text messages, and even checkmarks in our notes; there’s an emoji for everything, everywhere. But it’s getting to the point that there are too many emojis to pick from and the list keeps growing. You look for one and have to sift through hundreds of others. What if there was a way to hide those emojis that you never, ever use?

Enter Smojis, a cool app that lets you hide single emojis or complete categories. So, if you never use flags or objects, hide them. If you only use specific smileys, hide the others. It’s all up to you! So, here’s how to hide the emojis you never use with Smojis.

Pwn20wnd gets jailbreak tweaks working under Cydia Substrate on iOS 12

Team unc0ver has been working exceptionally hard in the past several weeks to fully jailbreak iOS 12, and while co-creator Sam Bingner teased a functional Cydia app on iOS 12 just this week, he also noted that there was still a lot of work to be done before it’d be ready for the general public.

Fortunately, hacker and unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd dropped a bombshell Saturday morning when he Tweeted that he had successfully gotten jailbreak tweaks to run with the help of Cydia Substrate on iOS 12:

WorkFFS: A tweak made to resolve freezing and crashing issues with certain apps

If you've ever been unfortunate enough to encounter unwanted freeze-ups and crashes when launching specific apps, then you aren’t alone. As it would seem, iOS developer Muirey03 was getting tired of experiencing similar problems, thus a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed WorkFFS was conceived.

Citing the developer, WorkFFS fixes an issue where some apps would freeze up on the splash screen at launch and do absolutely nothing for nearly 20 seconds before inevitably crashing. Apps that are purportedly known to exhibit this problematic behavior include:

Apple acquires voice app startup Pullstring

Apple has agreed to purchase voice app startup Pullstring, according to a report from Axios. The San Francisco-based company was founded by a group of former Pixar executives in 2011 and its technology has been used in everything from interactive voice apps for toys, to Amazon Echo and Google Assistant products.