Apple has made the first iOS 12 public beta, seeded last week to developers, available for testers. Those in the Beta Software Program can download iOS 12 from Apple’s website.
First iOS 12 public beta is now available for testing
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How to see detailed battery usage stats on iPhone
In this brief tutorial, you'll learn to access the built-in battery usage statistics to see how you have used your iPhone battery in the last 24 hours or the last 10 days.
Apple seeds new betas of iOS 11.4.1, tvOS 11.4.1, watchOS 4.3.2, and macOS 10.13.6
Apple on Monday released a round of new betas to developers. The fourth betas of iOS 11.4.1, tvOS 11.4.1 and macOS 10.13.6, as well as the third beta of watchOS 4.3.2, are now available to registered developers. The updates can be installed through Apple's dev center, or via each platform's respective OTA mechanism.
PokeCall brings a classic Pokémon-centric makeover to the incoming call interface
For all those Pokémon aficionados out there, PokeCall is a new jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Frozen Penguin that makes your iPhone’s incoming call interface look more like a battle screen from the classic Pokémon games.
In the screenshot examples above, you can see examples of how PokeCall replaces the stock incoming call interface in iOS with a Pokémon-centric look and feel.
Get haptic feedback when locking or unlocking your iPhone with HapLock
If you like haptic feedback, then HapLock is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer smokion1337 that you won’t want to miss.
Just as the name implies, HapLock makes your handset vibrate whenever you lock it or unlock it.
HapLock, PearlRetry, and a few other jailbreak tweaks to try this weekend
There have been unrivaled amounts of excitement throughout the jailbreak community this week in response to all the hubbub surrounding the Electra Team’s progress on bringing iOS 11.3.1 support to the Electra jailbreak tool. And that’s great for tweak developers.
So with that in mind, we’ll be talking about all the best jailbreak tweaks released this week in this roundup. As usual, we’ll kick things off by talking about our favorites and then outline the rest of them afterward.
A quick look at Siri Shortcuts
In iOS 12, Apple introduces Siri Shortcuts, which lets you pair your daily routines with third-party apps. Better still, Siri learns your habits and make suggestions based on that knowledge.
Hands-on video walkthrough: all the new features and changes in iOS 12 beta 2
Released yesterday, iOS 12 beta 2 packs in several new features and a bunch of tweaks and feature changes, and now you can see them in action in our hands-on video walkthrough.
Apple attempts to deter jailbreaking in new support article
Jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad has long been considered a taboo practice by Apple, the manufacturer of these handsets. And now an updated support page published on the Cupertino-based company’s website discourages jailbreaking in its entirety.
The page, updated on June 15th, targets a bevy of potential side-effects from jailbreaking your device. These include, but aren’t limited to:
Watch HomePod execute Siri Shortcut automation scripts on other devices
Shortcuts, Apple's new vision for Siri and automation on the iOS platform, is a new feature in iOS 12 that many power users and fans of the Workflow automation app will appreciate a lot.
Popular Tropico city-building game coming to iPad this year
One of the hottest video games from early this century is coming to an iPad near year. Tropico, the city-building game set on an island in the Caribbean, is being redesigned and developed for mobile devices. Best of all, when it’s released, it will be a full-priced game with no in-app purchases.
Siri on Apple’s latest OS betas is acting up
According to numerous reports on Twitter and Reddit, iOS 12 beta 2 and other developer OS updates that Apple issued yesterday are causing intermittent availability issues with Siri.