iOS 13

LSTweak gives your iPhone a snazzy new Lock screen interface

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 28, 2020

The Lock screen is the first thing you get to look at every time you pick up your iPhone and begin using it, and with that in mind, it’d be useful if Apple provided some kind of flexibility by way of user-configurable aesthetics and functionality.

While non-jailbroken handsets don’t have much to offer in this department, a newly released jailbreak tweak called LSTweak by iOS developer neoney empowers avid jailbreakers with the ability to have a sleek Lock screen interface like the one depicted above.

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CoolStar to release open-source Chimera13 jailbreak in memory of @s0uthwes

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated April 21, 2020
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Just over two weeks ago, Electra Team lead developer CoolStar announced that the Chimera13 jailbreak wouldn’t be released to the general public. But due to some rather unfortunate circumstances that transpired this past week, that mindset appears to be changing.

From what we can gather, @s0uthwes a respected and talented developer of the jailbreak community and a maintainer of the popular TSSChecker and futurerestore utilities, has passed away. He was fighting incurable aggressive leukemia, and unfortunately, succumbed to the ailment.

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Fluide adds music controls to the iOS 13 volume HUD

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 26, 2020

The iPhone features a market-leading music consumption experience, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. The jailbreak community knows this all too well, and that’s why many jailbreak tweaks focus on iOS’ music-centric interfaces.

A newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Fluide by iOS developer maximehip is just one example of such an augmentation, and as depicted in the screenshot example above, this tweak integrates music controls directly into iOS 13’s native volume HUD interface.

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New kernel bug POC raises hopes for an iOS 13.3.1 jailbreak

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 26, 2020
Matrix code hacked iPhone.

Jailbreak tools like unc0ver rely on frequently-released exploits to extend firmware support as Apple launches new versions of iOS. In the past couple of months, unc0ver has picked up support for iOS 13.0-13.3, leaving iOS 13.3.1 users in the dust. Now that iOS 13.4 is publicly available, the golden jailbreaker’s rule that is to ‘stay on the lowest possible firmware’ comes into focus again.

At the time of this writing, the lowest possible firmware that Apple continues to sign is iOS 13.3.1, but unc0ver doesn’t yet support this version of iOS. Fortunately, a promising new kernel bug proof of concept supporting iOS 13.3.1 has been shared by Twitter user @_simo36, and while it remains to be confirmed whether this bug can achieve tfp0 (read/write into the kernel memory), it can purportedly be accessed from sandbox.

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SITUM lets you initiate a search engine query from anywhere in iOS

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 25, 2020

If you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re reading an article or website and want to know more about whatever it is you’re reading about, then you might feel fired up to launch a web browser and begin a search engine query by way of Google, DuckDuckGo, or another search engine of your choosing. But what if you didn’t need to bother opening another app to do this?

That’s the idea behind a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called SITUM by iOS developers R0wDrunner and MegaDev, and as you might’ve discerned for yourself in the screenshot examples above, this tweak lets you initiate a search engine query from virtually anywhere in iOS via the native Action Menu that appears when you begin highlighting a string of text.

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Dyadic combines Control Center and Today widgets into one interface

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 24, 2020

Two of the most useful on-demand interfaces in all of iOS are Control Center and the Today widget page, and if you’re any bit familiar with how iOS works, then you’d know that these interfaces are entirely separate from one another. But they don’t have to be… at least not anymore.

Enter Dyadic a newly released jailbreak tweak by iOS developer nicho1asdev that combines the two interfaces into one for a slicker user experience. What’s more is the tweak works seamlessly on both iPhones and iPads alike, ensuring a seamless ‘just works’ experience across all your jailbroken iOS devices.

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CPUTool lets iOS jailbreakers underclock their CPU and GPU

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated March 28, 2022

Apple doesn’t provide much by way of power savings on the iOS platform apart from the Low Power Mode feature and the use of general common sense with regard to reducing battery drain. Fortunately, those looking for more than what Apple seems willing to provide out of the box might be in luck as of this week.

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