When you place or receive a phone call on your iPhone, the speaker option can be incredibly useful when you don’t plan to hold the handset up to your ear.
SpeakerFirst prioritizes the iPhone’s loudspeaker when tapping the speaker button in a call
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ReplayKit Max removes the screen resolution cap from iOS’ native screen recording feature
Screen recording is a powerful feature that iPhone users once needed to jailbreak to use, but since becoming a native feature in iOS and iPadOS, the tides have turned to jailbreakers enhancing the feature instead of enabling it.
Justin Sherman publishes promised documentation for kernel exploit for iOS 14.7 and below
In mid-October, hacker Justin Sherman took to Twitter to announce that he would soon publish a write-up detailing the likes of a kernel-level exploit for iOS & iPadOS 14.7 and below.
CCDNDTimer lets jailbreakers initiate timed Do Not Disturb sessions from Control Center
Do Not Disturb is one of my most-used features when it comes to my iPhone and iPad. That’s because sometimes I just want to watch a movie, play a game, or get productive without an app pinging me with notifications that would otherwise break my concentration.
Jailbreak tweaks of the week: Batterain, Listening, Sh4dow, and more…
Every Sunday morning, we curate a dedicated list of all the past week’s jailbreak tweak releases and jailbreak-centric news content, and this Sunday will be no different.
Listening auto-cycles between active noise cancellation & transparency modes based on your media playback
If you have any of Apple’s Bluetooth earbud or headphone offerings that support active noise cancellation and transparency mode, then you already know just how useful these features can seem. On the other hand, these features need to be toggled manually by the end user, which takes some of the ‘magic’ out of them.
YTAutoFullScreen automatically kicks any video you play in the YouTube app into full-screen mode
When you begin watching a video in the YouTube app, it first starts playing in the constrained upper-1/3 of ths display in portrait mode. You can then move to a fuller-screen experience in landscape mode by rotating your device.
CalcBrighter cranks your iPhone’s display brightness up to 100% when using the Calculator app
One of the things that I like about iOS is how it automatically brightens the display when showing a coupon or pass from the native Wallet app. While the intent behind this feature was to make scanning bar or QR codes easier, there are other apps where auto display brightness adjustments could be useful.
SpeedrunTime gives you a heads up about your iPhone’s dangerously low battery before it shuts down
It’s absolutely frustrating when your iPhone’s battery dies on you mid-game or while watching the climax of your favorite movie. Having said that, don’t you sometimes wish you had enough of a heads up to run and fetch your charger before that happens?
How to remove the Odyssey jailbreak without restoring your iPhone or iPad
If you jailbroke your iOS or iPadOS 13 device with the Odyssey tool and decided that it’s time to remove your jailbreak, either to revert to a vanilla installation of the operating system or for the purpose of starting over with a fresh jailbreak installation, then the Odyssey app’s built-in Restore RoofFS feature will come in handy.
Sh4dow gives jailbroken iPhones a redesigned Lock Screen that evokes a futuristic appeal
Apple hasn’t done all that much to make the iPhone’s Lock Screen any different in the past several iterations of iOS. Having said that, anyone feeling even slightly thirsty for something different might find a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed Sh4dow by iOS developer sugiuta to be refreshing sight.
Batterain colors your iPhone’s battery level indicator based on your battery percentage
It was only around two weeks ago that we showed you a jailbreak called dubbed Axe that upgraded the Status Bar’s battery level indicator with a slow-shifting color based on the percentage of your battery.