One of the major new features to ship with Apple’s iOS & iPadOS 17 mobile operating systems this year was the addition of interactive Home Screen widgets, which now offer more usability directly from the Home Screen so that you aren’t forced to launch an app and then close it once finished with your activity.
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Why does the App Store still list Elon Musk’s X app as “Twitter” after rebranding?
Elon Musk recently changed Twitter's logo and name, nuking the famous bird icon and rebranding the iOS and Android app as "X."
The StoreSwitcher 2 jailbreak tweak makes switching between multiple Apple IDs in the App Store effortless
While the vast majority of people are only using one Apple ID on their device, some people are using one or more. For example, I use more than one Apple ID on my jailbroken device so I can keep a separate roster of apps for work as opposed to my personal library.
Pycopaste is a powerful multi-platform clipboard manager app with streamlined features
The name Foxfort Mobile might seem familiar if you’ve jailbroken an iPhone before. This developer is known for their quality jailbreak tweaks, such as Checkl0ck, which enables passcode and biometrics on iPhone X devices pwned viacheckra1n or palera1n. But did you know that Foxfort Mobile makes App Store apps too?
iOS 17’s App Store download timer tells you how long until the download completes
iOS 17's new App Store download timer automatically appears when downloading something from the store that'll take more than a few seconds.
Tweak that revives classic app download progress bar updated to support rootless jailbreaks
When you download apps from the App Store, you’re going to see a pie graph-style progress indicator that depicts the stage of the app’s download and install completion in real time.
iOS 17 said to enable sideloading and third-party app stores
Ahead of new EU regulations next year, Apple's iOS 17 software will reportedly pave the way for app sideloading and alternative app stores on the iPhone.
Update your old devices to avoid losing access to Apple services in May
Update your Apple devices to a newer software version to continue using the App Store, Maps, Apple TV+ and other services beginning next month.
IPA Ranger utility for downloading app .ipa files from App Store goes free & open source
At the start of the month, we showed you a utility dubbed IPA Ranger by iOS developer 0xkuj, which is a graphical user interface for the ipatool command line-based utility that lets users download the .ipa files of owned apps from the App Store directly via their Apple ID.
Microsoft could launch a dedicated iPhone app store for Xbox cloud gaming in 2024
After the EU’s new rules come into force in March 2024, Microsoft will have legal ground to launch a new iPhone app store dedicated to Xbox games.
IPA Ranger is a GUI for the ipatool utility that lets you download .ipa files from the App Store
Back in January, we showed you a nifty command line-based tool for macOS, Windows, and Linux called ipatool that allowed users to obtain the raw .ipa files of any apps their Apple ID owned via the App Store.
Geekbench 6 brings new benchmark that better gauges multi-core performance via modern software usage models
Software firm Primate Labs on Tuesday announced the launch of Geekbench 6, the latest iteration of one of the world’s most popular multi-platform benchmarking programs.