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How to install the Sileo package manager on the unc0ver jailbreak

If you haven’t already heard, those rocking Pwn20wnd’s unc0ver jailbreak for iOS 11.0-11.4 beta 3 can now install the Sileo package manager alongside Cydia on their pwned handset.

The choice to install the Sileo package manager on your unc0ver jailbreak is entirely up to you, but if you’d like to move forward with the install, then you’ll find all the steps you need to follow to do so in this tutorial.

How to legally read articles behind paywalls for free in Safari on iPhone and iPad

Read paywall news articles for free without payment or subscription on iPhone

The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, the Boston Globe, and similar big media publications may give you a few free articles monthly before you hit their paywall. Though nothing in this post is illegal, iDB encourages paying for news and publications that matter to you. That said, digital media subscriptions are not everyone's cup of tea due to their usually high price, lack of payment methods, and several other reasons.

Here are three working methods for iPhone and iPad users to freely read articles that are behind a paywall or subscription.

How to see battery percentage when charging Apple Watch in Nightstand mode

No matter how you charge your Apple Watch—either via its magnetic charging cable or charging dock—doing it in Nightstand mode displays a circular indicator on the screen along with a green lightning bolt inside. The outline gets gradually tinted green to visually denote charge progress, but it's a rough estimate of how full the battery is and as such not very accurate. Here's how you can switch to a more precise percentage display.

Shortcuts Focus: getting Dark Mode on virtually any website

Darkened interfaces look good in apps, not so much on websites. The problem is, web content remains a major source of visual inconsistency as far as the popular Dark Mode feature is concerned. Thankfully, you can get a Dark Mode-alike environment on almost any website thanks to a handy Dark Mode V2 shortcut for your iPhone and iPad.

Shortcuts Focus: creating a folder for your shortcuts

With iOS 12's Shortcuts app, power users can easily automate repetitive tasks by chaining multiple actions together. Your shortcuts are managed and organized in the Shortcuts app, but displaying them to the user as a list via another shortcut is quite challenging. This is where Easy Folder comes into play. This awesome shortcut, create by Reddit user “e10withadot,”  acts as a virtual folder to which you can add any number of shortcuts, then easily pick one to execute via a popup menu at run time.