iOS 14

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: BattRate, FleetingChances, Fuji, & more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 22, 2020

There’ve been a lot of exciting announcements in the jailbreak community these past few weeks, from checkra1n getting support for A10(X) devices, to the release of a new exploit encompassing iOS 13.5.1-13.7 and the jailbreak tools that received support thereafter. These announcements make it that much more exciting for us to showcase jailbreak tweak releases as they become available.

In this roundup, we’ll show you all the latest jailbreak tweaks released from Monday, November 16th to Sunday, November 22nd. As usual, we’ll kick things off by talking about our favorite tweaks first and then wrap things up with an outline of the rest afterward, where we’ll also give you a summarized outline of all the most exciting jailbreak news from this past week.

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Fuji brings desktop-like windowed multitasking to jailbreakers at no extra charge

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 21, 2020

Apple has improved the multitasking experience on the iPad by leaps and bounds over the years – quite literally going from an iPhone-style App Switcher to side-by-side apps over the course of just a few years. But for whatever reason, multitasking on the iPhone still bestows upon users what some might consider to be a cumbersome experience.

Those wishing that they could simply run windowed applications on their iPhone just as they can on their Mac or Windows PC might take a liking to a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called Fuji by iOS developer dcsyhi, because as depicted in the series of screenshot examples above, that’s precisely what this tweak allows iPhone users to do.

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Checkra1n jailbreak update adds Safe Mode improvements, partial HomePod support, & more

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 20, 2020

Hot off the heels of everything going on with the Odyssey jailbreak and the newly released exploit for iOS 13.5.1-13.7, the checkra1n team seemingly appeared from out of nowhere Friday evening with an unexpected update for its bootrom exploit-powered jailbreak tool, checkra1n.

The checkra1n team announced the release of the new update, dubbed version 0.12.1, via Twitter just minutes ago:

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Jailbreakers who have trouble seeing tiny website text may find SafariReader useful

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 20, 2020

Those suffering from impaired vision may find it more challenging to read web pages in the Safari web browser on the iPhone and iPad. While pinch to zoom offers a viable short-term solution, it doesn’t necessarily make reading websites with tiny text any less cumbersome because users would still need to pan and scroll around on the website to keep zoomed text in sight while reading.

SafariReader is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer ljinc that sets out to offer a more ideal solution to the aforementioned qualm. It does so by empowering the user to adjust the website’s text zoom level with nothing more than a double-tap.

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Sileo and Zebra package managers each get updates with improved iOS 14 support

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 18, 2020

Checkra1n is the only public jailbreak tool capable of pwning iOS & iPadOS 14 at the time of this writing, and regardless of whether you use it as it comes or you use the Odyssey Team’s Odysseyra1n bootstrap, a few notable package manager updates are now available as of Wednesday evening that you probably won’t want to miss, assuming they apply to you.

No, the aforementioned updates aren’t for the pre-installed Cydia package manager, but instead for competing package managers that have gained a lot of traction in the past couple of years. We’re talking of course about Zebra, a popular Cydia alternative that can be installed with the native checkra1n bootstrap, and Sileo, the default package manager that comes pre-installed with the Odysseyra1n bootstrap.

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Eliza gives the Status Bar’s battery icon a wider array of colors to use

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated May 11, 2023

Apple makes it easy to discern the state of your iPhone’s battery, not only with a convenient icon in the Status Bar that depicts the current charge level, but also with unique colors that hint about its current condition. For example, a green battery icon indicates a good charge, while a yellow battery icon means that Low Power Mode is turned on and a red battery icon suggests a low charge.

Apple has used the same colors to depict battery states for as long as I can remember, and so it tends to be somewhat monotonous. Fortunately, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Eliza by iOS developer WilsontheWolf provides the Status Bar’s battery icon with a wider range of colors to help it express your current battery state.

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