In the wake of all the iPhone throttling drama, iFixit has announced that it is dropping the price on all of its DIY iPhone battery fix kits to $29 or less. The news follows Apple's own announcement yesterday that it is going to be discounting out-of-warranty battery replacements to $29 in 2018.
If you wake up every morning to several unread notifications, then you probably know what it’s like to have a Home screen littered with unsightly red notification badges. Over the years, I’ve seen people refer to the experience as having a bevy of little red eyes staring back at you, and it's not difficult to understand why.
Anyone looking for a subtler way to acknowledge their apps' unread notifications might enjoy new free jailbreak tweak dubbed AppColorBadges by iOS developer Cole Cabral. This tweak color-matches your badge notifications to the app icons they sit on top of.
An Italian apparel company has won the right to use the name Steve Jobs, reports Italian site la Repubblica Napoli (via The Verge). After a lengthy legal battle with Apple, the clothing co can now freely use the name of the iPhone-maker's beloved founder in its designs.
Apple on Thursday posted an apology letter to its website regarding its slowing down of older iPhones. In addition to the apology, the company says that it wants to clarify what it's really been doing to older handsets and it even makes a peace offering for disgruntled customers: $29 out-of-warranty battery replacements for the next year.
Apple CEO Tim Cook earned just over $100 million this year, Bloomberg reports. The news was spotted in the company's latest proxy statement, which was filed Wednesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of its February shareholders meeting.
The Korea Communications Commission has asked Apple for an explanation regarding its practice of slowing down older iPhone models, reports The Korea Herald. It's not a formal investigation yet, but it could be indicative of things to come.
If you’ve ever looked at an older jailbreak tweak in Cydia and wondered whether it’d work on your version of iOS, then a new free release called tweakCompatible by iOS developer treAson might be of use to you.
This tweak lets you confirm whether a tweak works with your version of iOS before you install it on your device. In doing so, you can avoid potential conflicts that might cause problems with the stability of your jailbreak down the line.
Semi-untethered jailbreaks like H3lix, Yalu102, Phœnix, and LiberIOS put an app icon on the Home screen so you can boot into a jailbroken state after your device restarts, but that’s really the only time you'll ever use these apps.
Whenever you’re in a jailbroken state already, these apps seem pointless to have on the Home screen. That said, a new free jailbreak tweak called Hid3x by iOS developer ipad_kid can hide these apps whenever you’re in a jailbroken state, as shown above.
If you didn’t already cast your votes in the first round of the 2017 Jailbreak Awards, then here’s your second chance. The second round of the 2017 Jailbreak Awards is now open, and polling has officially started.
Jailbreak community members manually typed responses to questions into a form to create a pool of contestants during the first round of the 2017 Jailbreak Awards. The second round narrows that pool down into finalists, letting voters pick from the best of the best for each category.
While Apple continues research into what should one day result in its own rumored non-invasive continuous glucose reader for Apple Watch, industry watchers have cautioned that the Cupertino tech giant is probably years away from a commercial product.
Even though Touch ID could be used to authorize family purchases, an increasing number of parents who bought an iPhone X are discovering that they're unable to approve their kids' iOS purchases and downloads with the handset's new Face ID facial recognition system.
Apple has filed for a pair of new figurative trademarks potentially indicating that many more health devices will be released in the future that will integrate seamlessly with Apple Watch.