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With the arrival of the iPhone 12 came an alphabet soup of abbreviations and different 5G icons in the iOS status bar, ranging from 4G masquerading as 5G to 5G Ultra Wideband. Follow along with our tutorial to learn the meaning of all those iPhone 5G icons.
Learn how to apply bold, italics, title, heading, bullet, numbered list, and other formatting options using quick styles in the Apple Notes app on your iPhone or iPad.
We’ve all been in those awkward social situations where our manners get the best of us. Sometimes we stick around and talk to people even though we really need to get going, and sometimes we’re approached by someone that we really don’t want to be approached by. In any case, it’s a good idea to have slick a way out.
We’ve all heard of butt or pocket-dialing – the act of accidentally calling someone with your phone as it sits in your pocket. In theory, this seems a lot less likely on modern devices that require Face ID or Touch ID authentication to function; nevertheless, it still seems to happen to some people either because they don’t lock their device before pocketing it or because of some other mind-bending anomaly.
Despite how seemingly impossible butt-dialing or inadvertent smartphone operations on a pocketed phone might be at first glance, those who experience these anomalies for one reason or another can now take advantage of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called PocketProtector by iOS developer Brady Holland (Squiddy) to prevent them from happening, once and for all.
Once you've decided to pick up the new iPhone 12, the last thing you want to do is get a big bulky case that's going to hide that beautiful refreshed design. But what if I told you there was a case that was so thin, you could barely tell it was on the handset?
There is, and it's made by Totallee. You've probably heard us mention this California-based brand a lot on this site over the years, because we're huge fans. Their cases are ultra-thin, branding and pattern-free, and they've been updated to fit the new iPhone.
A substantial number of veteran jailbreakers who relied on Cydia’s ‘Log in with Facebook’ mechanism to access their previous jailbreak tweak and extension purchases were met with frustration after the feature appeared to stop working last June.
Fortunately, the problem now appears to be fixed, as noted by a couple of Tweets shared just this weekend by Cydia creator Jay Freeman, also known more colloquially to the jailbreak community as Saurik:
Avid jailbreakers who are looking for the latest and greatest jailbreak tweaks to install on their pwned handsets have come to the right place, because it’s here that we’ll be going over all the latest tweak releases in one convenient place.
This roundup will focus on the tweaks released from Monday, October 19th to Sunday, October 25th. As always, we’ll talk about our favorite releases first and then wrap things up with an outline of the rest afterward.
Last September, talented hacker and security researcher iBSparkes made headlines after becoming one of the first to crack the A13-equipped iPhone 11 Pro lineup with a working tfp0 exploit.
Just this afternoon, however, the jailbreak community was touched with an ounce of déjà vu after iBSparkes Tweeted a teaser of what appeared to be successful pwnage of Apple’s shiny new A14-equipped iPhone 12 lineup.
Apple's new MagSafe charger for the iPhone 12 family doubles the wireless charging speed but is still slower compared to the wired solution. Concretely, the Wall Street Journal's Joana Stern found out in her video review of the new iPhones that the magnetic charger charges an iPhone 12 more than 2x slower than a 20-Watt USB-C charger with fast-charge support.
With the iPhone 12 mini, Apple is introducing a brand-new size to it smartphone lineup. Thanks to its compact, easily pocketable form factor, we think the iPhone 12 mini will become a hot seller. That being said, we thought you might be interested in the essentials of the iPhone 12 mini before buying it so we've asked our videographer Harris Craycraft to put together a video in which he discusses several things you need to know about the iPhone 12 mini.
If you’re harder on your iPhone than most, then you might be somewhat familiar with the low power alert that appears when your battery level drops to a certain percentage. For what it’s worth, Apple is a large company with vast resources, and so it’s somewhat thought-provoking to think that this alert hasn’t received much of a redesign over the years.
Fortunately, jailbreakers won’t need to wait for Apple to take action. Electrifying a newly released jailbreak tweak by iOS developer SouthernGirlWhoCode that brings a redesigned low power alert to the iOS platform, complete with user-configurable features to personalize the interface however you might see fit.
The Settings app on your iPhone was provided by Apple as a way to access all of your handset’s options in one convenient place, and while it definitely gets the job done, some users still demand more in terms of the user interface to make it more fun and user-friendly.
Thankfully, iOS developer SouthernGirlWhoCode has just released a new jailbreak tweak called Riveria that redesigns the Settings app’s user interface to be both modular and user-configurable.