iOS

FreshCydia gives Cydia a redesigned home page with featured packages & repositories

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 15, 2022

While there are several package managers for jailbreakers to choose from today, one of the most widely trusted is Cydia, a tried and true workhorse that has been with us jailbreak after jailbreak for more than a decade. However, all that age is beginning to show as Cydia hasn’t received any real aesthetic upgrades over the years; this continues even as competing package managers such as Installer, Sileo, and Zebra both outperform and look much slicker than Cydia.

Why prospective jailbreakers should always stay on the lowest possible firmware

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 15, 2022

An important piece of advice that we often reiterate for aspiring jailbreakers-to-be is to keep their iPhone or iPad on the lowest possible firmware. You’ve likely read this, or lines just like it, every time we break jailbreak-related news and developments, and there are some critical reasons behind why we do this.

iOS 15 adoption rate is notably lower so Apple has reverted to forcing users to install iOS 15

Christian Zibreg ∙ January 14, 2022

Apple is no longer allowing people who are on iOS 14 to skip the ‌latest iOS 15‌ update, a possible reaction to the company's own numbers showing the number of devices in the wild running ‌iOS 15‌ lags behind the iOS 14 adoption rate at this point after release.

What is Power Reserve on Apple devices? How does it work? What’s it good for?

Christian Zibreg ∙ January 13, 2022

Power Reserve mode allows you to use certain features when the battery is low or the device is completely turned off. It runs your device on low energy until the battery is fully depleted, letting you access features like Apple Pay that don't require the operating system to be up and running. In this guide, we're going to explore how Power Reserve works, see which devices support this handy feature and learn what you can do with it.

This new jailbreak tweak brings landscape orientation support to the Music app

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated August 5, 2022

On an ordinary iPhone, the native Music app is only designed to be used in portrait orientation. But forward-thinking iOS developer ETHN is changing that with a new jailbreak tweak dubbed LandscapeMusic.

iOS 15.3 clarifies what to do when iCloud Private Relay is off due to a network error

Christian Zibreg ∙ January 13, 2022

iOS 15.3 helps resolve iCloud Private Relay error messages by no longer blaming cell carriers when the feature gets inadvertently turned off due to a network issue.

Apple seeds second betas of iOS 15.3, iPadOS 15.3, watchOS 8.4, and tvOS 15.3 to developers

Evan Selleck ∙ January 12, 2022

Back in December of 2021, Apple seeded the first betas of iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3 to developers. Since then, the company went quiet on the beta seeding front. Which certainly makes sense, with the holiday excitement in full swing at the end of the month.

Apple releases iOS 15.2.1 and iPadOS 15.2.1 with fixes for CarPlay, HomeKit vulnerability, and more

Evan Selleck ∙ January 12, 2022

It's been almost a month exactly since Apple launched iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2 to the public. And now the company is back with another software update. However, this one's not as big as the last, focusing rather on a minor uptick to the version number.

Zebra package manager updated to v1.1.23 with new app icons, bug fixes, & performance boosts

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 12, 2022

Good news to all those Zebra fans out there, as it seems the popular alternative package manager app for jailbroken iPhones and iPads has received a sweet update this week.

Some of the best jailbreak tweaks for Apple Watches connected to iOS 14

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 12, 2022

Just like regular iPhone users, a lot of jailbreakers don an Apple Watch and expect to use their jailbreak to enhance its capabilities. While Apple Watch-centric jailbreak tweaks are certainly few and far in between, that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

View the date and time that any Twitter account was created with TwitDate

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 11, 2022

If you’ve ever glanced at someone’s Twitter account only to wonder how old it was, then you’ll be excited to know that a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed TwitDate by iOS developer Saud Alshaman makes that information easier to find.

GrowingBadges causes your apps’ missed notification badges to grow in size as they pile up

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 10, 2022

Sometimes when receiving a slew of iPhone or iPad notifications while you’re away, you might feel inclined to simply ignore them rather than marking them as read. That’s a bad habit that iOS developer wrp1002 hopes to break with the release of a new and free jailbreak tweak dubbed GrowingBadges.