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Page Dots 2 Numbers gives jailbreakers book-inspired Home Screen page numbers

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 28, 2021

At the bottom of your iPhone or iPad’s Home Screen are a series of dots – one for each page on your Home Screen. As you move between pages, a specific dot lights up to represent the page you’re currently looking at.

While I personally enjoy the Home Screen’s page dot indicator as it comes, I can certainly grasp how someone harder at seeing than I am could have more difficulty discerning which page they’re on. For that reason, a new and free jailbreak tweak called Page Dots 2 Numbers by iOS developer MinxterYT seems noteworthy.

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Google is trying to work around Apple’s new privacy permission prompt

Christian Zibreg ∙ January 27, 2021

Google and its ad industry partners are not liking Apple's upcoming tracking prompt in iOS 14. The company's been dragging its feet with adding data privacy disclosures to its iPhone and iPad apps on the App Store. And now, Google says it will stop using a device’s unique IDFA (Identifier For Advertisers) to avoid showing the new privacy permission prompt in iOS 14.

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New libhooker Configurator app updated to v1.0.1 with bug fixes, goes open source

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 26, 2021
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Hot on the heels of an exciting new libhooker update for the Odyssey jailbreak and the subset of checkra1n devices utilizing Odysseyra1n, lead developer CoolStar is out with yet another important update that users won’t want to miss.

The latest update isn’t for libhooker per se, but rather for the brand new libhooker Configurator companion app, which grants users with powerful granular control over how and when libhooker loads its tweak injection methods on a particular device.

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CoolStar updates libhooker to v1.4.0 with new configurator app

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 26, 2021

Jailbreakers taking advantage of the iOS 13-centric Odyssey tool or the checkra1n-based Odysseyra1n bootstrap on iOS 13 or 14 will almost certainly want to launch Sileo and refresh their sources.

In a message bulletin shared to the official Sileo / Odyssey / Chimera Discord channel early Tuesday morning, CoolStar announced the release of libhooker version 1.4.0 with a host of notable improvements for users using either of the aforementioned jailbreaks.

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iPhone 12 mini review: Two months later

Christian Zibreg ∙ January 26, 2021

The iPhone 12 mini, the smallest 5G handset in Apple's lineup, is more pocketable than the iPhone SE and with fewer compromises. Yes, it has the worst battery life of all new iPhones, but that's normal given its small size. In this hands-on video walkthrough, our videographer approaches reviewing the iPhone 12 mini two months later with a pair of fresh eyes.

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