Apps

InstaNotifyFilter hides extraneous in-app notifications from Instagram

If you frequently use the official Instagram app on your jailbroken iPhone, then you might have something to gain from using a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed InstaNotifyFilter by iOS developer midkin.

As you might have already inferred from the tweak’s name, InstaNotifyFilter filters some of the more extraneous notifications you might receive in the Instagram app, and citing the tweak’s description, it specifically targets the following:

Apple highlights “Best of 2018” in its App, Books and iTunes stores

Apple this morning issued a press release, announcing the "Best of 2018." For those unfamiliar with the tradition, every year around this time, the company highlights popular content across its various media apps and stores. Now you can see these lists for yourself in their respective apps—Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple Books and iTunes—but we've rounded up the top picks below.

Organize your Home screen’s app icons into stacks with Zenith

Perhaps one of my favorite jailbreak tweaks of all time was Apex 2, an organization mod for your iPhone’s Home screen that permitted you to have nested app icons instead of folders.

Apex 2, was unfortunately never updated for iOS 11, and so iOS developer Muirey03 took things into his own hands. The result? A brand-new jailbreak tweak called Zenith is now available in Cydia.

Electra Team confirms that the Sileo ‘Cydia replacement’ is still under development

Given everything that’s been happening lately with the unc0ver jailbreak for iOS 11.0-11.4 beta 3, it can be easy for some to forget about Electra and some of the noteworthy developments that were in the works for it.

One that struck us in particular was Sileo, a full-blown package installer that was supposed to replace Cydia on jailbroken iOS 11 devices. Five months ago, the Electra Team teased that Sileo would be “coming soon.” Fast-forward to today, and it’s still not available; so… where is it?

Colorize your Home screen’s notification badges with BadgeColors

As your iPhone accumulates missed notifications, the icons on your Home screen become littered with little red dots indicating the number of missed notifications you have. Apple calls these red dots notification badges.

There’s no way to customize how notification badges look on a stock device, but if you’re jailbroken, then you can take advantage of a new jailbreak tweak called BadgeColors by iOS developer Cole Cabral.