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NotificationsHeader CustomText, NotificationXI, and other jailbreak tweaks to check out this weekend

There’s been a lot of ramped up excitement regarding the jailbreak community recently, especially since Saurik broke the news that he’d be updating Cydia for iOS 11. That said, many people (developers and users alike) are merely waiting and watching to see what happens.

In this roundup, we’ll go over all the new jailbreak tweak releases from the past week. As usual, we’ll begin by outlining our favorites and get to the rest of them afterward.

NotificationXI brings iOS 11-style notification banners to jailbroken iOS 10 devices

Countless jailbreak tweaks can help make your iOS 10 device look and feel more like it’s running iOS 11, and now you can add a new free release called NotificationXI by iOS developer Squ1dd13 to that list.

From the screenshot examples above, you can discern how NotificationXI does away with the two-tone look of iOS 10's incoming notification banners. Instead, it carries over the headerless single-tone style you would expect to see in iOS 11.

Specbreak circumvents jailbreak detection in the Spectrum TV app

If you try to load the Spectrum TV app on your jailbroken device, you won’t have much luck. Just like a handful of other apps from the App Store, Spectrum TV performs a jailbreak check before loading to see if your device has been tampered with in any way. If it comes back positive, then the app displays the screen you see above.

As bothersome as these jailbreak checks can be, talented developers almost always find ways around them, and a new free jailbreak tweak called Specbreak by iOS developer Tatsh happens to fall into that category.

This tweak lets you customize the Notification Center header text

Anyone still rocking a jailbroken iOS 10 device regardless of the possibility of an iOS 11 jailbreak in the not-too-distant future will be happy to know that some developers continue to make jailbreak tweaks for iOS 10.

One of the latest releases is NotificationsHeaderCustomText by iOS developer CydiaGeek, and as the name implies, this tweak lets you customize Notification Center's header text string, as shown above.

Don’t forget to vote in the 2017 Jailbreak Awards

It’s that time of the year again, and avid jailbreakers who haven’t already participated in the first round of the Jailbreak Awards 2017 poll are strongly encouraged to do so.

For those who don’t already know, the Jailbreak Awards poll is a community-hosted event intended to give recognition to some of the best and worst of the jailbreak community throughout the year – in this case, that’s 2017. Anyone can participate in this poll, whether they’re a jailbreak user, developer, hacker, etc.

3 ways to find the GPS coordinates of any location on iPhone

Many apps you use on your iPhone are tapping your location to provide services or data based on where you are. While everything happens in the background, all these apps are actually using your GPS coordinates on your iPhone to pinpoint your location in the most precise way.

While an average user will never have to deal with GPS coordinates, knowing how to obtain and understand them can be valuable for some. I'm thinking about outdoorsy people or those into geocaching, for instance. If you're one of these people, or if you just want to learn something new, here's how to view GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) on iPhone.