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Apple stops signing iOS 13.5.1, halting downgrades from iOS 13.6
Apple stopped signing iOS & iPadOS 13.5.1 Wednesday evening, a move on the company’s part that effectively prevents iPhone and iPad users from downgrading from the newer 13.6 release that was released to the general public exactly one week ago from today.
The company is notorious for preventing firmware downgrades because it doesn’t want users downgrading to versions that are vulnerable to exploits – whether those exploits are being used maliciously or for the sake of jailbreaking. Compelling users to upgrade to newer firmware when restoring also buffs Apple’s new firmware adoption statistics that the company frequently enjoys flaunting at Keynote presentations.
Apple launches new Security Research Device Program to help researchers find security vulnerabilities
While Apple's software is usually praised for its overall security, there are still vulnerabilities and issues discovered from time-to-time. Making it easier for researchers to discover those issues is a good move, and Apple is doing just that.
Amazon’s Alexa will be able to launch Android and iOS apps using voice commands soon
It's a relatively painless process to use Siri and ask the digital assistant to launch an app on your iPhone or iPad, but for folks who prefer to use Amazon's option, Alexa isn't quite there yet.
Here’s your early look at how iOS 14 may let you change default browser and email apps
iOS and iPadOS 14 bring the ability to choose your favorite third-party web browser and email client systemwide versus being stuck with the stock Safari and Mail apps, and now early screenshots provide an insight into how this long-expected feature might work.
How to customize group chats with photos, Memoji, and more in the Apple Messages app
Learn how to customize group chats with images in Apple's built-in Messages app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to distinguish them in the conversation list.
MusicAlbumScroll Supercharges the Apple Music app with new gestures & more
Apple Music users have a lot to brag about. Not only is it one of the best music streaming experiences on the iOS platform, but it also brings a native user interface with full Siri integration and a ton of other perks. But pleasantries aside, it does have a few shortcomings – namely in the user interface department.
MusicAlbumScroll is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Ethan Whited that improves upon the native Apple Music interface with some much-needed scrolling capabilities. With it, you can scroll horizontally between recently added albums, adjust spacing values, and even give your Apple Music app a rounded artwork aesthetic.
How to pin chats in the Messages app on iPhone, iPad, Mac
Learn how to pin important conversations to the top of the Messages app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to access them quickly without scrolling through a sea of chats.
Cydia Substrate receives another minor update to version 0.9.7106
Not even 24 hours after launching a memory-conscious update for Cydia Substrate, Saurik pushed yet another update on Tuesday, officially bringing the package up to version 0.9.7106.
Citing the official description for this release, Cydia Substrate v0.9.7106 isn’t a particularly large update, but encompasses the following changes:
How to put a face mask over your Memojis in the Messages app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
You can easily put a face mask over your Memojis, and in this tutorial, we'll show you how to do that on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
PinHeads WhatsApp ports iOS 14’s conversation pinning UI to WhatsApp
At the start of the month, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called PinHeads by iOS developer Ahmad that ported iOS 14’s conversation pinning capabilities in the Messages app to pwned iOS 13 devices. It was such a hit in the jailbreak community that we quickly saw competing tweak releases aiming to bring the same functionality to users’ handsets. Unfortunately, conversation pinning for third-party messaging apps seemed to be largely ignored… at least until now.
PinHeads WhatsApp is another new jailbreak tweak, also by iOS developer Ahmad, that brings iOS 14-esque conversation pinning capabilities to the third-party WhatsApp Messenger app. As shown in the screenshot examples above and below, the interface is heavily inspired by iOS 14’s native implementation, and as you might come to expect, the tweak’s behavior can be configured depending on the user’s own personal preferences.
This tweak puts a song counter at the top of each Spotify playlist
Spotify has long been one of my favorite media streaming apps – perhaps even more so than Apple’s native Apple Music platform. But one thing that has always managed to grind my gears is how the playlist interface doesn’t even so much as display the number of songs you’ve added to it.
Fortunately, a solution for this problem now exists in the form of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak subbed SpotifyPlaylistNumberOfSongs by iOS developer Aleksilassila.