iOS

Tune provides a sexier Now Playing interface for pwned iPhones

Anthony Bouchard ∙ December 13, 2019

Those who listen to a lot of music on their iPhones are probably accustomed to looking at what seems like the same Now Playing interface Apple has provided for years. But if you’re like me and you’re looking for something a bit more eccentric, then you might enjoy using a newly released jailbreak tweak called Tune by iOS developer s1ris.

As depicted in the screenshot examples above, Tune can replace the traditional Now Playing interface with something a lot more aesthetically pleasing. At this time, the tweak supports two different styles, including Helius (left) and Spin (right).

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Rogue DMCA takedowns wrongfully targeted the jailbreak community [updated]

Anthony Bouchard ∙ December 11, 2019

It’s never a dull moment for the jailbreak community, and this week, the spotlight isn’t so much on jailbreak tool releases as it is on a series of baseless DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) take-downs that appear to be targeting jailbreak-oriented software and iOS security research.

All the hubbub began with a simple Tweet shared by respected community hacker @siguza, which contained an iPhone encryption key. This key was comprised of a long string of randomized letters and numbers and would have appeared as gibberish to most common folk. Shortly after the Tweet fell victim to one of these requests, threads on the popular /r/jailbreak subreddit regarding checkra1n and unc0ver became victimized by similar activity:

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Juice introduces limitless battery icon customization to jailbroken iPhones

Anthony Bouchard ∙ December 11, 2019

If you’re freshly jailbroken on iOS 13 by way of checkra1n, then you may want to do yourself a favor and follow a project called Juice, a new public beta jailbreak tweak by iOS developer SparkDev that permits users to customize the appearance of the Status Bar’s battery indicator in a satisfying way.

The concept of customizing iOS’ native battery indicator certainly isn’t new, but Juice is in a league of its own. An intuitive interface coupled with seemingly endless options spells out a user experience that seems unparalleled by anything else we’ve seen to date.

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iOS 13.3 restores the ability to keep a trimmed clip alongside the original video

Christian Zibreg ∙ December 10, 2019

The iOS 13.3 software update that dropped today brought a bunch of bug fixes to iPhones and iPads around the world along with new features like Screen Time Communication Limits, a handy Memoji Stickers toggle for the stock keyboard and more. But there's one particular feature that we'd like to highlight because Apple has tucked it away as a side-note in the bug-fixes section of the iOS 13.3 changelog. I'm talking about trimming videos in Photos.

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Unc0ver jailbreak picks up support for iOS 12.4.1 in latest public beta

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated May 27, 2020

Pwn20wnd updated the unc0ver jailbreak tool at the start of last week with seemingly negligible bug fixes and improvements, but as it would seem, the hacker didn’t stop there.

We learned from an announcement via Twitter late Sunday morning that Pwn20wnd had been working on iOS 12.4.1 support on devices as new as A12, but a shortage of beta testers due to the Cydia Impactor problem inevitably delayed a public beta launch in the past week. Fortunately, that update finally appears to be ready to public testing:

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Supercharge aims to redefine tweaking on jailbroken & non-jailbroken devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ December 8, 2019

Tweaking your iOS device may soon become significantly easier with the introduction of an exceptionally captivating project dubbed Supercharge led by iOS developer Kabir Oberai and designer Alessandro Chiarlitti, and contributed to by others.

Supercharge aims to become a platform that will make the process of tweaking your iPhone or iPad easier, whether you’re jailbroken or not. The work is being advertised as an innovative new tweak editor that will empower users with the ability to create and modify tweaks without writing a single line of code. Moreover, users will be able to share their works with other Supercharge users.

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Jailbreak tweaks of the week: Maple 2, Watermelon, and more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ December 8, 2019

The checkra1n team is currently developing the first public jailbreak for iOS 13, and for those already taking advantage of the public beta during its initial public testing phases, we’d totally understand if you wanted to find some interesting jailbreak tweaks to trick out your newly liberated handset. The same goes for those who are already enjoying jailbreaks on Chimera, Electra, or unc0ver.

In this roundup, we’ll talk about all the latest jailbreak tweaks released from Monday, December 2nd to Sunday, December 8th. As usual, we’ll kick things off by talking about our favorites first and then wrap things up with an outline of the rest afterward.

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Make iOS’ Rotation Lock less cumbersome with Oriental

Anthony Bouchard ∙ December 7, 2019

The ability to switch between landscape and portrait orientation on the iPhone can be godsend in certain situations, but in certain situations, it can be a real pain in the (redacted) — especially when in bed and your iPhone thinks laying on your side means that you want landscape orientation.

Apple combats this problem with iOS’ optional Rotation Lock feature, but this necessitates an additional step on the user’s part. For that reason, iOS developer Ubik has made a new and free jailbreak tweak called Oriental, which aims to make display rotation smarter for the iOS platform in general.

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