iOS

Love Minecraft? This tweak makes your iPhone’s Settings app look more like the game

If you’re a huge Minecraft fanatic, then McSettings is a newly-released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer kushy that you won’t want to miss.

As you might’ve noticed already from the screenshot example provided above, McSettings themes iOS’ Settings app to look and feel like some of the textured resources that appear in the eccentrically popular Minecraft game by game publisher Mojang.

Customize iOS’ various system text strings with Label

As you use iOS, you’ll come to notice a variety of labels throughout the user interface that display redundant or non-useful information, such as the Status Bar's carrier text, the Lock screen’s ‘Press home to open’ text string, and Notification Center’s ‘No New Notifications’ text.

If you aren’t jailbroken, then you can’t customize any of these labels, but if you are, then you can take advantage of a newly-released and free jailbreak tweak called Label by iOS developer archergs to do just that.

Unc0ver v3.4.0 released to support Ned Williamson’s Sock Puppet 2 exploit

It wasn’t that long ago that we shared news regarding the latest updates for the Chimera and ChimeraTV jailbreaks, and as it would seem, Pwn20wnd has been working hard on an update of his own for the unc0ver jailbreak.

The hacker announced the release of unc0ver v3.4.0 via Twitter just a few minutes ago, noting that it would implement @NedWilliamson’s new and improved Sock Puppet 2 exploit in place of Sock Port on older devices, as it seems to offer more reliability:

This tweak turns the Safari app on your Home screen into a real compass

Make the Safari app icon point north like a true compass.

One of my all-time favorite jailbreak tweaks was once LiveClock by iOS developer Ryan Petrich, and while Apple has since implemented its functionality into iOS right out of the box, that never changed my appreciation for small, yet fun and quirky jailbreak tweaks of similar nature.

One of the latest jailbreak tweaks to fall under this category of fun and quirkiness is a new and free release called LiveSafari by iOS developer Skitty. Perhaps unsurprisingly, LiveSafari animates the native Safari app icon on your Home screen such that the compass arrow always points to the North.

PSA: Jailbreakers and aspiring jailbreakers should not install iOS 12.4

After a lengthy beta test period, Apple finally released iOS 12.4 to the public on Monday for iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches alike.

While it can sometimes be tempting to updates to the latest version of iOS to take advantage of the latest new features, performance improvements, and security patches, jailbreakers and aspiring jailbreakers to be will want to steer far away from installing today’s software update.

Unc0ver v3.3.8 released with updated Sock Port exploit for more devices

We can almost always count on the jailbreak community to have something interesting going on during the week, and today is no different. Pwn20wnd released an updated version of the iOS 11.0-12.2-centric unc0ver jailbreak tool on Monday, officially bringing it up to version 3.3.8.

Pwn20wnd announced the update just this morning via Twitter, noting that it would implement an updated iteration of Jake James’ Sock Port exploit:

Iconator2 lets you take control over your iPhone’s Home screen layout

While Apple occasionally slaps a fresh coat of paint on your Home screen’s app icons, the grid-centric Home screen functionality has remained mostly unchanged since the very first iteration of iOS. That said, it should come as no surprise to anyone that changing the layout of the Home screen is one of the most popular things to do with a jailbroken iPhone or iPad.

If you’re one to tinker with the Home screen’s layout, and you’ve recently jailbroken iOS 12 with Chimera or unc0ver, then you might take a liking to a newly-released jailbreak tweak called Iconator2 (iOS 12) by iOS developer Soh Satoh.

Jake James’ Sock Port exploit will soon support all iOS 11.0-12.2 devices

Matrix code hacked iPhone.

If you’ve been paying attention to the slew of jailbreak tool updates in the last couple of weeks, then Jake James’ Sock Port exploit has undoubtedly caught your attention. Pwn20wnd’s unc0ver jailbreak tool for iOS 11.0-12.2 was the first to implement it, but it could only jailbreak A9-A11 devices running iOS 11.0-12.1.4 at the time.

Just this morning, James shared an exciting announcement on Twitter regarding the Sock Port exploit, and as it would appear, oodles of modifications and refinements throughout the past week have made it compatible with all devices running iOS 11.0-12.2, including the A12(X) variety:

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: ExactTimePhone, Honey, Rainbow, and more

It’s been a busy week for the jailbreak community as Chimera and unc0ver have each picked up support for @NedWilliamson’s new Sock Puppet exploit, permitting those with up to iOS 12.3 beta installed to jailbreak their handsets. That said, those folks must be itching for ideas as to what to install on their newly-pwned handsets. Fortunately, we’ve got you covered.

This roundup encompasses all the latest jailbreak tweak releases from Monday, July 15th to Sunday, July 21st. As always, we’ll kick things off by discussing our favorite releases first and then wrap things up by outlining the rest afterward.

Customize various locking and unlocking sounds on your iPhone with SoundLock

The iPhone’s locking and unlocking sounds have received minor revisions over the years, but perhaps not as many as we’d like. Fortunately, those with jailbroken handsets can get around this quandary by setting custom locking and unlocking sounds without Apple’s approval.

A newly-released jailbreak tweak called SoundLock by iOS developer DevelopApple is now available for free in the BigBoss repository, and it lets you configure custom sounds for a variety of locking and unlocking-centric actions that you might perform daily on your pwned iPhone or iPad.