If you take advantage of the alarm feature on your iPhone or iPad as often as I do, then a new free jailbreak tweak called CCAlarmETA by iOS developer LonestarX may come off as intriguing to you.
Precisely as the name implies, CCAlarmETA puts an ETA indicator inside of the Control Center-based alarm shortcut any time there's an active alarm on your handset.
You might have noticed that your iPhone displays a spinner-like animation in the Status Bar whenever you access the internet or perform functions in specific apps. This spinner, which is commonly referred to as the activity indicator, lets you know that your device is actively doing something.
For the most part, the activity indicator doesn’t get much attention, but a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed KITTLoader by iOS developer LonestarX gives it an entirely new look and feel.
Apple on Monday seeded the fifth betas of iOS 11.4, macOS 10.13.5, watchOS 4.3.1 and tvOS 11.4 to developers. Registered developers can download the new betas through Apple’s dev center, or they can be installed using each platform’s respective OTA updating mechanism.
HTML rendering flaws discovered in Apple Mail for iOS and macOS were detailed this morning, allowing unscrupulous attackers to derive decrypted plain text from your encrypted emails.
As we move into mid-2018, many are wondering about the future of the iOS 11 jailbreak and when Saurik will come forth with official Cydia and Substrate support for it. Nevertheless, several developers continue crafting interesting jailbreak tweaks for iOS 11.
In this roundup, we’ll discuss all the tweaks that have been released in some of Cydia’s most significant repositories. As usual, we’ll kick things off by showcasing our favorite releases and then wrap everything up by outlining the rest afterward.
How cool would it be if you could play your Steam library of games on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV? Thanks to the upcoming Steam Link and Steam Video apps, local streaming of your Steam entertainment library is coming soon to iOS and tvOS.
Unicode bugs are what Lock screen exploits used to be in the past—no matter what Apple does, there's seemingly always a new text handling issue lurking around the corner.
Cowbell is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer LaughingQuoll that displays your device’s current battery level in the Low Power Mode toggle button located inside of Control Center in iOS 11.
Shown above, you can see how the text string indicating your current battery level percentage appears just below the glyph shown on the toggle button.
Jailbreak tweaks explicitly designed for the iPhone X are few and far in between, but now you can add a new release called Swae by iOS developer NeinZedd9 to that list.
Swae is a cosmetic-oriented tweak that lets you customize the font of the text displayed your iPhone X’s Status Bar. As shown above, it impacts elements such as the time and cellular signal information, among other things.
A spark of good news seems to be circulating in the jailbreak community this week after an iOS 11.2.x-based kernel exploit became publicized.
And if that news wasn’t good enough in and of itself, a Tweet shared by renowned iOS developer and Electra jailbreak tool creator CoolStar underscores interest in toying around with it:
iOS 11.4 packs in a new feature called USB Restricted Mode that was designed to help defeat physical data access by forensic firms like Cellebrite and hacking tools such as GrayKey.
Face ID currently does not work in landscape orientation, but iOS 12 could change that.