iOS 16.0 was a surprisingly buggy release. But Apple heard your pain—iOS 16.1 squishes a bunch of bugs while bringing a few cool new features to your iPhone.
iOS 16.1 video walkthrough: 9 new features and a lot of bug fixes
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iOS 16.1 brings adaptive transparency mode to the first AirPods Pro and AirPods Max
Apple's brought its adaptive transparency mode to the original AirPods Pro with iOS 16.1 beta 3 after this handy feature debuted on the second-generation model.
Apple stops signing iOS 16.0 & 16.0.1, halting downgrades from iOS 16.0.2
Just last Thursday, Apple publicly released iOS 16.0.2 with a patchwork of bug fixes for the company’s latest mobile operating system – iOS 16. Just some of the remedies included with the update were a solution for the freaky camera vibration when using third-party apps and a resolution for the excessive clipboard permission prompts users would get upon pasting text copied from one app to another, among other things.
TrollStore update with bug fixes brings the perma-signing utility up to version 1.1.1
We’ve been talking a lot about TrollStore lately, and for good reason. In the absence of a jailbreak for iOS & iPadOS 15, it’s the closest thing we’ve got. That’s because it lets users perma-sign apps on their iPhones and iPads with elevated privileges that come eerily close to the capabilities of jailbreak tweaks – see Cardio, Filza, Legizmo Kincaid, and Mugunghwa as just a few different examples.
New Cardio app for TrollStore lets users customize Apple Pay card images without a jailbreak
Another developer appears to be taking advantage of TrollStore for iOS & iPadOS 14.0-15.4.1 beta 4 devices to tinker with parameters of these operating systems that wouldn’t ordinarily be customizable without a jailbreak. The latest attempt comes by way of a new app called Cardio by cisc0disco.
iOS 16.1 lets apps like games fetch downloadable content before first run
The new In-App Content toggle in iOS 16.1 lets iPhone apps such as games preload data after being downloaded from the App Store so they're ready on first launch.
8 changes, fixes and new iPhone features available with iOS 16.1 beta 3
The changes in iOS 16.1 beta 3 include new iPhone features such as Live Activities for live sports scores and a demo for the iPhone 14's satellite connectivity feature.
Some of the best data-spoofing jailbreak tweaks for iOS 14
There’s always a subtle urge by jailbreakers to have the ability to spoof information on their iPhone, whether it’s their location, a phone call, or something else of potential significance.
TIGI Software releases Filza v3.9.5 with support for TrollStore on iOS 15.x
If you’ve been jailbreaking iPhones or iPads for any number of years, then you should be at least somewhat familiar with Filza, which is perhaps the most popular file manager app available today.
DrainCheck battery monitoring tweak receives full Swift re-write & total redesign
iPhone users take their battery drainage very seriously, and that’s one reason why iDB previously showed our readers a jailbreak tweak called DrainCheck by iOS developer Ginsu.
YTShortsProgress forces the YouTube app to display a progress bar when watching Shorts
If you watch any ordinary video in the YouTube app, then a progress bar appears at the bottom of the video player to display your progress in the video in real time. For some reason, the same isn’t true about YouTube Shorts.
Jailbreak tweaks of the week: ClassicFolders 3, DontEatMyContent, SMSStats 3, & more…
Jailbreaking gives iPhone and iPad users a lot of different reasons to get excited. For instance, you can add new features and customizability to a device that stock handset owners could only dream of.