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After successfully releasing unc0ver v5.0.0 Saturday evening with full-fledged support for all devices running iOS/iPadOS 13.5, hacker and unc0ver project lead developer Pwn20wnd has followed up this quiet Sunday evening with a minute update that brings additional improvements to the jailbreak experience.
The update, announced just minutes ago by Pwn20wnd via Twitter, has been dubbed unc0ver v5.0.1 and is now officially available to the masses:
I’ll be the first to say that I love how notification banners look on the iPhone in a post-iOS 13 era, but I also think there’s room for improvement in both the aesthetics and the functional implementation to make the user experience a bit better from anywhere in the operating system.
While perusing the New tab in my package manager over the weekend, I happened upon a new jailbreak tweak release dubbed Dayn by iOS developers Devvix and JannikCrack, which appears to offer some serious upgrades to the native notification system found in iOS 13. Curious as I was to better understand how it worked, I decided to give it a try.
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks for jailbreak tweak releases, and that’s one of the reasons why we like to sum everything up in these weekly postings. Not only does it help organize all the chaos, but it helps jailbreakers discover all the best and latest releases.
In this roundup, we’ll discuss all the latest jailbreak tweaks released from Monday, May 18th to Sunday, May 24th. As usual, we’ll kick things off by discussing our favorites first and then wrap things up with an outline of the rest afterward.
Just as promised, the unc0ver Team officially delivered unc0ver v5.0.0 on Saturday with support for the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 13.5 (and iPadOS 13.5), on all handsets capable of deploying it. Apple only just released iOS 13.5 on Wednesday, making this a particularly jaw-dropping release as it's the latest available firmware at the time of this writing.
The announcement that the update was coming took the jailbreak community by storm following more than two months of silence on the unc0ver Team’s behalf, but the wait was unquestionably worth it as jailbreakers now have the ability to liberate the latest iOS release on Apple’s newest handsets for the first time in what feels like forever.
The unc0ver jailbreak is about to be updated to version 5.0.0 with official support for all devices that can run iOS and iPadOS 13.5, and in a silent and rather unexpected undercut, the checkra1n team released v0.10.2 beta of its bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool for macOS Saturday evening with official support for iOS and iPadOS 13.5.
According to the release notes for the updated version of the checkra1n jailbreak, v0.10.2 not only adds support for Apple’s latest mobile firmware versions, but also incorporates a few different bug fixes at that:
Anyone invested in the Apple ecosystem knows just how essential the iconic Dock can be to their workflow. Natively present on the iPhone, iPad, and even the Mac, the Dock is a convenient place to store your most-used apps such that you always have quick access to them when you need them.
As much as we like the Dock on these platforms, it’s worth noting that Apple doesn’t offer much by way of aesthetic customization. Fortunately, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Docktyle by iOS developer Marcel Braun lets jailbreakers customize the aesthetics of the Dock on the iOS platform.
Minimalists rejoice! A newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed NoClutter by iOS developer Quix aims to be a one-stop shop for all your iOS de-cluttering needs.
Learn how to adjust your iPhone or iPad's color settings to invert colors, apply color filters, increase contrast, and more, making the screen more pleasing to your eyes.
If you live right on the border of two different time zones, or you’re close friends with someone who lives in a timezone different than yours, then you may want to stay mindful about the variances in time across several regions as not to come off as disturbing to someone else when you send a text or place a phone call.
If you’re a minimalist, then you may enjoy customizing your jailbroken iPhone, but perhaps not to the extent of installing crazy themes or adding extraneous features and interfaces. One thing you might enjoy doing, however, is making subtle adjustments to iOS’ native user interface.
Anyone who aligns themselves with the aforementioned sentiment will probably enjoy the likes of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Colorful Lines by iOS developer Yulky Tulky. Just as its name implies, this tweak doesn’t do much else other than allow custom colorization of certain line-centric interfaces in iOS.
As you adjust your iPhone’s volume with the physical volume buttons on the left edge of the handset, each button press equates to a tiny amount of adjustment to the volume level itself. If you’re trying to make drastic changes to the handset’s volume all in one fell swoop, then this means pressing the volume button(s) several times in rapid succession until you get it right where you want it.
A newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed VolumeStep13 by iOS developer Randy240 attempts to make this process a little bit easier by allowing jailbreakers to set a custom volume step amount. In a nutshell, this means each button press can have more or less influence over the volume level than it would on a stock handset, and as you might come to expect, the step amount is fully configurable.
Apple yesterday released the iOS 13.5 software for the iPhone and iPod touch alongside iPadOS 13.5 for the iPad. The updates bring out several new features including coronavirus exposure logging, Apple Music sharing and APIs for developers to create privacy-first COVID-19 apps, as well as Face ID and group FaceTime improvements. To help you make the most out of these new software updates, we've tasked our videographer Harris Craycraft with putting together a little hands-on video walkthrough detailing all the changes in iOS and iPadOS 13.5.