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SongShare generates multi-platform links for music sharing

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 27, 2020

Music enriches our lives, both in terms of entertainment and as an emotional and spiritual release. With that in mind, it may come as no surprise that people often share songs with others. But this can become somewhat challenging when you learn that your friends are using entirely different music streaming platforms than you are.

It may seem like a trifling matter, but it really can be rather annoying when I trying to share a Spotify song link with a friend who uses Apple Music or another platform. Obviously, they won’t be able to use my link since they’re subscribed to a different service, and that’s where a new and free jailbreak tweak dubbed SongShare by iOS developer Jeff Rescignano comes into play.

Video tutorial: How to jailbreak your iPhone on iOS 13.5 with unc0ver in under five minutes

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 26, 2020

Has it been quite some time since you moved onto jailbreaking and stayed in there for a while? If so, you may want to consider pwning your iPhone again because iOS 13.5 has been successfully jailbroken and there still exist at least a dozen very compelling reasons to jailbreak.

How to quickly take screenshot on iPad with Apple Pencil

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated February 6, 2026

Check out this neat trick for taking screenshots on your iPad with the Apple Pencil, without pressing any physical buttons.

The best jailbreak tweaks for iOS 13

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 26, 2020

Now that both checkra1n and unc0ver support iOS/iPadOS 13.5, the latest available firmware from Apple at the time of this writing, it seems more compelling than ever for jailbreak hopefuls to join the pwned life.

If you pulled the trigger and now have a jailbroken handset at your disposal, then there’s only one thing left to do: modify it in ways that will have members of Apple’s controlling software department pulling out their hair by the roots. Not sure what to install just yet? No problem! We’ll show you what we think are some of the best jailbreak tweaks for iOS 13 in this piece.

Photon brings an ambient display to jailbroken devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated May 5, 2022

If you’ve got a jailbroken iOS device at your disposal and you’re in the market for a really cool new display experience for your iPhone, then you should probably take a few minutes to check out this new jailbreak tweak release called Photon by iOS developer cemck.

Photon appears to be a true ambient display experience for the Lock screen on iOS devices, and it displays pertinent information using a variety of different methods and in combination with existing popular Lock screen-centric tweaks such as Complications, Grupi, Jellyfish, Sylph, Xen HTML, and many others.

This tweak displays a notification when your AirPods case gets low on battery

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 26, 2020

Your AirPods are a piece of peripheral hardware with no useful battery indicator on them apart from a few limited features that are built into iOS. For example, you can open your AirPods case to view the battery percentage in the pairing interface, or you can look at the Today widget to see the remaining battery life for any paired AirPods.

These limitations mean that it’s easy to wear your AirPods’ battery down to near-zero, and this includes the charging case you use to keep them kicking all day long. At some point, they’ll just run out of battery, but with a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called AirPods Case Low Battery by iOS developer Jackson Sykes, you can at least receive a low battery notification banner when the charging case’s charge gets too low for comfort.

SwitchConfirm prevents links from automatically redirecting you to other apps

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 25, 2020

There’s nothing I hate more than when I’m trying to enjoy a good article or conversation thread on a web page in Safari, and then I suddenly get smacked in the face with a redirect to another app. Whether it’s the App Store, my Reddit app, or something else, getting forcibly ejected into another app doesn’t feel nice, and it’s downright annoying!

That’s why I’m excited about a new and free jailbreak tweak release called SwitchConfirm by iOS developer P2kDev, as prevents these automatic application redirects from hijacking your user experience by displaying a popup that asks you to confirm if you want to be redirected or not. Snazzy indeed!

Hands-on video walkthrough: Taking iPad Pro to the next level with a truly pro setup

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 25, 2020

Apple's iPad Pro is an extremely capable tablet and it can become so much more with various accessories that extend or improve its functionality — I'm referring beyond the usual Magic Keyboard + Apple Pencil combo. In this hands-on video walkthrough, iDownloadBlog's resident videographer Harris Craycraft is exploring some of the ways he's created what he thinks could be a truly pro iPad Pro setup (depending of your definition of a "pro").

Apple re-releasing app updates amid reports of “This App is No Longer Shared” issue

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 25, 2020

According to multiple user reports on social media, Apple is re-releasing hundreds of updates to the already refreshed iPhone and iPad apps on the App Store, which appears to be its workaround for an odd Family Sharing bug that has affected some people over the weekend.

Playing produces a notification when a Now Playing track changes

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 25, 2020

If you're any bit into music discovery and sometimes find yourself scratching your head about new songs when they begin playing, then we have a somewhat conscious feeling that you’re going to enjoy learning about the likes of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called Playing by iOS developer HyperDev.

Playing aims to keep you in the loop about Now Playing music as one song ends and another begins by displaying a notification banner with informative details about the new track. By default, the tweak shows you the song’s name and artist, but that can be modified with custom text if it isn’t enough to tickle your fancy.

Dynamically modify your iPhone’s Home Screen layout with HomePlus Pro

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated September 21, 2021

One of the hallmark things you can do with a jailbroken iPhone is customize the Home Screen’s app icon layout. Not only does it help break the monotony that you deal with when everyone around you uses an iPhone, but it also lets you enjoy custom formats for themes, widgets, and other extensions not mentioned here.

While there have been a lot of Home Screen layout-based jailbreak tweaks in the past, a new release dubbed HomePlus Pro by iOS developer Kritanta seems to provide one of the sleekest user interfaces we’ve seen. Best of all, it’s entirely dynamic, which means you can make edits on the fly directly from the Home Screen without spending much time in the Settings app.

How the checkra1n and unc0ver jailbreaks compare and contrast

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 24, 2020

The jailbreak community had quite the field day on Saturday when both the checkra1n and unc0ver jailbreak tools picked up official support for iOS 13.5, permitting jailbreak hopefuls to pwn the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system for iPhones and iPads alike. It’s not often that jailbreak tools support a current signed firmware, and it may come as no surprise that these updates attracted many new users to the jailbreak scene.

One of the most frequent questions we’ve seen over the course of the past 24 hours is “what’s the difference between checkra1n and unc0ver?” Albeit obvious to more seasoned jailbreakers, we wanted to take a moment to discuss the differences and similarities between the two for those who are just entering the jailbreak community's territory for the first time. Without further ado, let’s get started: