Apple has fixed the reversed Finder icon and transparency in the iPhone's Control Center with the latest iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe betas released yesterday.
Crisis averted: Apple fixes the Finder icon and transparency in the Control Center
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Vertex exploit gets updated to support all versions of iOS 14 and 15
In case you haven’t been paying attention to the jailbreak scene, security researcher @alfiecg_dev recently used a custom kernel exploit called Vertex to tease the Apex jailbreak for select iOS 14 devices.
Pocket Poster v2.0 released with support for video wallpapers, improved UI, & translations for 21+ languages
In addition to launching Nugget v6.1 on Monday, iOS developer LeminLimez also pushed out an update to Pocket Poster, bringing up to version 2.0 with a plethora of bug fixes and new features that will enhance the user experience for all users.
iOS 26 is bringing the Audio Mix features from Photos to third-party apps
Apple is expanding the audio mix controls from the built-in Photos app to third-party apps on the iPhone, iPad and Mac this fall.
Jailbreak news of the week: Nugget updates, CarPlay wallpapers without a jailbreak, & more…
The iDownloadBlog team loves jailbreaking iPhones, and even as jailbreaks become scarcer as time marches on, that hasn’t stopped talented developers from creating hacks and add-ons that completely sidestep the jailbreaking process to allow users to do interesting things with their devices.
Tapbacks on CarPlay 26: Now you can crash with feeling while reacting with emoji
Apple is bringing Tapbacks to Messages on CarPlay. Now you can react to chats with emoji while driving because what could possibly go wrong?
Listen to a new version of the default “Reflection” iPhone ringtone hidden in iOS 26
Listen to an updated version of “Reflection” on iOS 26, which has been the default ringtone sound since the iPhone X was released in 2017.
iOS 26 brings massive WebKit changes that power a ton of new Safari features
Apple has added a bunch of new capabilities to WebKit that power many new features in its Safari browser on iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26.
What is CarPlay sports mode? How does it work?
Learn everything about sports mode on CarPlay, which lets apps display real-time stats for live sporting events on the Now Playing interface while streaming audio.
26 features iOS 26 ‘borrowed’ from the jailbreak community
As with every major iOS & iPadOS release, there’s usually some overlap with new features that Apple announces and some pre-existing functionality that jailbreakers have had on this platform for years (or even as much as a decade) thanks to jailbreak tweaks. The same can even be said about Apple’s upcoming iOS & iPadOS 26 updates, which the Cuperinto-based company announced at WWDC 2025.
Software tinkerer gets iOS running on a first-generation Nintendo Switch via QEMU
While the Nintendo Switch 2 has been all the rage lately with respect to headlines, we car across something on social media platform 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) this week involving the original Nintendo Switch that may have some of you doing a double take, and rightfully so.
iOS 26: Safari opens every bookmark added to the Home Screen as a web app
In iOS 26, every website you add to your iPhone's Home Screen opens as a web app by default, but you can change it to open as a regular bookmark instead.