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Chapters lets iPhone users name individual Home Screen pages

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated July 22, 2021

The iPhone’s Home Screen has always been somewhat bland. The introduction of folders in iOS 4 brought with it a new dimension of app icon organization, but even to this day, I still find myself asking for more on my iOS 13 devices.

If you’re on the same page as me and looking for an interesting new way to organize your Home Screen’s app icons, then we think you’ll enjoy a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Chapters by iOS developer Kritanta. Simply put, this tweak lets users label each one of their Home screen’s pages.

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How to save photos, videos and scans taken in Notes to Photos on iOS

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated November 15, 2022
Settings Notes iPhone Table

If you use the Notes app on your iPhone or iPad for not just note-taking but capturing photos, videos, and scans to reference within your notes, you can also save those items to your Photos app.

This means that if you want to use that capture for something else, you can find it easily in Photos rather than opening the Notes app for it. Maybe you thought this was happening all along, only to discover recently that it’s not.

Here’s how to automatically save photos, videos, and scans taken in Notes to Photos on iPhone and iPad.

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ColorMyHome lets jailbreakers add a fresh coat of paint to the Home Bar

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 14, 2020

If you have an iPhone newer than the iPhone X, except for a few select budget handsets, then you probably have a Home Bar instead of a Home Button. Apple designed it to be omnifunctional, providing users with a means of getting to the App Switcher, Home Screen, and navigating between recently used apps; but one thing they seem to have forgotten is customization.

Fortunately, jailbreakers don’t need to put up with a bland Home Bar experience. That’s because a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called ColorMyHome by iOS developer TheLazyITGuy enables Home Bar colorization on liberated handsets.

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BetterQueuing unlocks powerful music-queuing features in Apple Music

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 14, 2020

If you use Apple Music as your primary means of media consumption, then you might find yourself somewhat limited by the options presented when you perform a Haptic Touch gesture on songs in a particular playlist, especially in the song-queuing department.

BetterQueuing is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Arandomdev1 that brings improved song-queuing capabilities to this particular interface, and as shown in the screenshot examples above, it provides users with a myriad of new ways to interact with their queued playlists with little effort overall.

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This tweak adds a Music widget to iOS’ Reachability interface

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 14, 2020

Earlier in the week, we showed you an add-on for jailbroken handsets called WeatherModule that could add an informative weather display to your Reachability interface via the Carbonite jailbreak tweak. But if you’re not crazy about checking the weather every five minutes, then you were probably wondering what other options might be available to you.

Yet another newly released add-on called MusicModule is now available for free compliments of iOS developer Antique. Just as the name implies, this add-on adds a functional music control widget to your Reachability interface with the help of Carbonite’s existing framework.

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The 5 best free BMI calculators for iPhone and iPad

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ May 13, 2020
BMI Calculators for iPhone - aktiBMI

Not sure if you’re overweight, underweight, or just right? Using a Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator, you can see exactly that. Enter a few details and then check to see if your current weight is on target. You can also use the calculator find out what the normal weight is for your height and (sometimes) your age.

Some are simple BMI calculators while others offer extra features. So if you’re ready, here are the best free BMI calculator apps for iPhone and iPad.

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MessageUnread lets users mark read messages as unread in iOS

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 13, 2020

Raise your hand if you’ve preemptively tapped on an unread conversation in your Messages app by accident before, only to find yourself too busy to read or respond to the message and later forget to look back at it because the notification indicator had disappeared as a result. *Raises hand slowly*

If you joined me in the hand raise of shame, then don’t fret because we’ve all been there before. Fortunately, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed MessageUnread by iOS developer Greg0109 can remedy this unfortunate experience by letting users mark read conversation threads in the Messages app as unread instead.

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LetMeScrub improves the Now Playing widget’s music scrubber experience

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 13, 2020

One of the things that has always irked me about the Lock screen’s Now Playing widget in iOS is the difficulty of scrubbing through music from the interface to position myself somewhere else in the song. Fortunately, jailbreakers now have an easy way around this tedious feat.

Say hello to LetMeScrub, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer TheLazyITGuy that not only enhances song scrubbing on the Lock screen via the Now Playing widget, but also brings customizability to the scrubber’s grabber itself.

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