Two major investors on Monday issued an open letter to Apple, titled “Think Differently About Kids,” to urge the Cupertino company to do more to protect children from smartphone addiction and potentially improve the parental control features on iPhone and iPads.
After missing an initial Fall 2017 target release date, Belkin is finally releasing their Wemo Bridge to bring HomeKit support to their popular line of Wemo smart home products.
myCharge is releasing several new products at CES 2018. The most notable is the All Powerful battery pack that builds in a USB-A port, USB-C port, and an AC outlet. For those with an iPhone X or iPhone 8, there is even a Qi charger on top.
Elgato is adding a pair of new HomeKit accessories to their lineup at CES 2018. These Bluetooth-connected accessories include an updated version of their Eve Room sensor, as well as their first HomeKit button.
Speck has announced a new partnership with Scosche to create a new iteration of their popular Presidio iPhone case that works with Schosche's MagicMount magnetic mounts.
Elgato adds a new product to their Thunderbolt lineup with the Thunderbolt 3 Mini Dock. This miniaturized dock gives you access to DisplayPort, HDMI, USB 3, and Gigabit ethernet ports in a compact size.
DJI has released a pair of new gimbals at CES 2018. The updated Osmo Mobile 2 and Ronin-S are significantly improved over previous iterations.
We are kicking off the new year with Wallpapers of the Week for you, by you. Today we highlight a favorite category of the iDB community, geometry. Combine that category with a fan favorite, Jason Zigrino, who was featured in our Best of 2017 wallpaper collection. In this collection, Zigrino takes the time to hand create a myriad of images for all of your devices.
As most of the jailbreak community patiently awaits some kind of jailbreak solution for iOS 11, there hasn’t been much activity on the iOS 10 side of things. Fortunately, projects are underway, and it’s only a matter of time before Saurik updates Cydia and Substrate for iOS 11.
In the meantime, several developers continue to produce tweaks for jailbroken iOS 10 devices, and this roundup will go over what has been released throughout the course of the past week. As usual, we’ll begin by showcasing our favorites, and then we’ll outline the rest afterward.
Like every Sunday, we get to take a look at some of the most popular posts that were published on iDB during the week that just ended. Whether it is a news item, a new jailbreak tweak, a tutorial, or an app review, we sum it all up in one convenient place for you.
Saurik revealed a couple of weeks ago that he was working on iOS 11 support for Cydia and Mobile Substrate, but a new comment posted on Reddit by the father of jailbreaking himself highlights that there’s a lot more going on under the hood than meets the eye.
One of the major highlights of the comment is how Saurik teamed up with a prominent developer from the jailbreak community to make all this possible. That developer wishes to remain anonymous at this point in time, but we’ll all eventually learn of his or her identity when the time is right.
This week's edition of our Apps of the Week roundup features a new app for reading articles to you, a new calendar app, and a social app that can send messages into the future. And as always, we've selected two great new games for you to check out.