The jailbreaking landscape has changed dramatically over the last few years, and this episode is the perfect illustration of it all.
Let’s Talk Jailbreak 168: Put on a hiatus
Disable Waze’s menu-based swipe gesture with FarewellGestureWaze
Waze is one of the most popular third-party navigation apps for the iOS platform, but some users find that the interface isn’t without its quirks. For example, the swipe gesture you might use to access the app’s built-in menu could potentially clash with other gestures.
If you experience this problem yourself, then a new free jailbreak tweak called FarewellGestureWaze by iOS developer CydiaGeek should remedy the problem. After installation, it prevents this gesture from launching the Waze app’s built-in menu.
watchOS 4.2 release notes
On December 5, 2017, Apple released the watchOS 4.2 software update, bringing the new Apple Pay Cash peer-to-peer payment feature to your wrist and adding other new capabilities.
iOS 11 adoption rate now at 59%
As per Apple's official stats available on its App Store webpage, the various iOS 11 versions are now installed on 59 percent of compatible iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices in the wild.
Pixelmator Pro squashes a bunch of bugs following last week’s debut on Mac App Store
The Pixelmator team released a new app called Pixelmator Pro last week.
It's their latest and greatest machine learning-powered image editing software for Mac computers, wrapped in a beautiful one-window interface, that supports all the latest and greatest core technologies in macOS.
Consumer Reports ranks iPhone X below iPhone 8 due to battery life and durability
Consumer Reports does some of the most thorough testing before making a determination on whether consumers ought to buy a particular product. Today, Consumer Reports is out with their final review and test results regarding Apple's new iPhone X.
watchOS 4.2 has been released with Apple Pay Cash support
Roughly a month after the last major Apple Watch software update, Apple has released watchOS 4.2, bringing support for Apple Pay Cash, among other changes.
Apple Pay Cash officially launches today after appearing for some users yesterday
Apple has announced that Apple Pay for Messages and the Apple Pay Cash card are officially launching today. Yesterday, some users had begun to see the feature appear, but now it is widely available for everyone who is running the latest iOS 11.2 update.
These new emojis could be coming to iOS soon
The Unicode Consortium, the governing body that decides which emoji to support, has released a beta list for the Emoji 11.0 update set to debut some time next year. The list includes several frequent requests including party face, redheads and the teddy bear.
Drucker ranks Apple second best-managed company
In the latest ranking from the Drucker Institute, Apple came in #2, placing it squarely below Amazon and above Google. According to The Wall Street Journal today, this is the first ranking of US companies based on the principals of Peter Ducker, a renown business export.
Instagram rolls out Highlights and Archive for your Stories
Instagram on Tuesday announced it's rolling out a pair of new features in its popular mobile app for iPhone that make it easy and fun to hold on to your favorite moments from Stories and share them in ways that help you express yourself better than before.
tvOS 11.2 release notes
Released on December 4, 2017, the tvOS 11.2 software update brought a pair of new HDR viewing options for Apple TV 4K owners along with access to a brand new Sports tab within Apple's TV app and assorted under-the-hood changes and fixes.