iOS

BelleVolume: a beautiful volume HUD replacement for jailbroken iOS 11 & 12 devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ February 25, 2019

iOS is a well-polished mobile operating system, but one thing Apple continues to ignore time and time again is that atrocious native volume HUD. There’s no shortage of jailbreak tweaks that aim to improve this experience on the iPhone and iPad, but perhaps one of our favorites to date is a new release called BelleVolume by Luke Muris and Geometric Software.

BelleVolume relocates the volume indicator to the middle of the Status Bar, which prevents it from obstructing your view in various everyday scenarios. On notched devices such as the iPhone X, XR, XS, and XS Max, the volume indicator materializes just below the notch; other devices display the volume indicator where the time would normally appear.

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Modernize your iPhone’s notifications, banners, & widgets with Notifica

Anthony Bouchard ∙ February 25, 2019

Freshly-jailbroken on iOS 12 and looking for a way to spice up your handset’s look and feel? If so, then you might take a liking to a brand-new free and open-source jailbreak tweak called Notifica by iOS developer Nepeta.

Notifica lets imaginative minds run wild with a plethora of aesthetic-centric customization options for your iPhone or iPad’s incoming notifications, banners, and widgets. For starters, Notifica empowers you to do virtually any of the following:

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Unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release revised to beta 33 with notable bug fixes & improvements

Anthony Bouchard ∙ February 24, 2019

It was just recently shared that Pwn20wnd was working on 4K device support (A7-A8) for the unc0ver iOS 12.0-12.1.2 jailbreak, but that hasn’t stopped the hacker from performing routine maintenance to ensure the long-term stability of your jailbreak.

Pwn20wnd has just pushed beta 33 of the unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release with a bevy of bug fixes and improvements concerning the tool’s newfangled iOS 12 support. The hacker announced the update via Twitter Sunday morning:

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Jailbreak tweaks of the week: fastUpRepo, Fiona, and more

Anthony Bouchard ∙ February 24, 2019

There’s been a lot of hype in the jailbreak community these past several weeks as we inch ever so close to a full-fledged iOS 12 jailbreak, but those already pwned on iOS 11 might be wondering what kind of jailbreak tweaks they should install.

This roundup will go over all the jailbreak tweaks released this week in Cydia. It will encompass all the tweaks released from Monday, February 18th to Sunday, February 24th in addition to some others. As always, we’ll kick things off by discussing our favorites first and then outline the rest afterward.

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You can now install Sileo on your non-jailbroken iPhone or iPad as a simple repository browser

Anthony Bouchard ∙ February 23, 2019

Those familiar with jailbreaking have undoubtedly heard about Sileo, a third-party package manager endorsed by the Electra Team that aims to compete with Cydia for market share; but what if we told you that you didn’t need to have a jailbroken handset to give Sileo a try?

Indeed, in an unforeseen turn of events, the Sileo Team released a public .ipa file on Saturday that can be side-loaded onto non-jailbroken handsets via Cydia Impactor or installed directly with online services such as Ignition.

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Pwn20wnd revises iOS 12-compatible unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release with bug fixes and improvements

Anthony Bouchard ∙ February 23, 2019

Hacker and unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd revised the unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release to beta 29 on Friday with official support for iOS 12.0-12.1.1 on A8X-A11 devices, but as you might come to expect, this momentous initial release is being closely trailed by a multitude of bug fix updates to warrant tool stability for the end user.

Two of those updates came as revisions to the unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release on Saturday. Citing a couple of Tweets shared by Pwn20wnd, beta 30 and beta 31 each tie up some of the initial tool’s loose ends and incorporate an important “safety improvement:”

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Unc0ver v3.0.0 beta 29 arrives with support for Cydia on A8X-A11 devices running iOS 12.0-12.1.2

Anthony Bouchard ∙ February 22, 2019

After much anticipation, hacker and unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd has dropped the 29th beta of the unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release with full support for iOS 12. Unlike the ‘partial’ iOS 12 support that unc0ver picked up just under two weeks ago, today’s news means that unc0ver now bundles an iOS 12-compatible version of Cydia and Cydia Substrate.

Important to note right off the bat is that this is a public beta and should be treated as such. The unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release does not yet support every device that can run iOS 12, however, that’s expected to change soon as work on the jailbreak tool continues throughout the public beta.

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Pwn20wnd hints that he’s about to drop the first public beta of his iOS 12 jailbreak

Anthony Bouchard ∙ February 22, 2019

Hacker and unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd is continuing the hype for his upcoming iOS 12 jailbreak on Friday as he inches closer to dropping the first public beta.

Subtle hints made their way to Twitter this afternoon as Pwn20wnd changed his name once again from “Pwn20wnd is preparing unc0ver for iOS 12…” to “Pwn20wnd is preparing to drop unc0ver for iOS 12:”

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Pwn20wnd hypes iOS 12 jailbreak, confirms A12 support imminent

Anthony Bouchard ∙ February 21, 2019

It seems like the calm before the storm as we continue waiting for a public iOS 12 jailbreak with Cydia and Cydia Substrate support to surface, but rest assured, hacker and unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd is on it.

In various subtle updates provided just this week, Pwn20wnd updated his Twitter Bio to say “Jailbroke iOS 11 and iOS 12” and updated his Twitter profile name to say “Pwn20wnd is preparing unc0ver for iOS 12…” seemingly to tease that the iOS 12 jailbreak is nearly complete:

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