iOS

Get your green thumb on with Flower Power by Parrot

Steffen Reich ∙ October 19, 2016

Flower Power, an iOS app that promises to help you get the best out of your favorite indoor or outdoor plant, has undergone a major face lift this August. The app, developed by Parrot SA has been around since 2013, but both looks and functions have been overhauled in-depth recently. While the app is and has always been free, it requires a hefty upfront investment for the wireless plant monitor itself to supply the app with critical data. So let’s posit you want your beloved indoor plant to live up to its maximum potential - Should you pounce for it?

Facebook enhances 360-degree photos with initial viewport selection, album support & more

Christian Zibreg ∙ October 18, 2016

Facebook yesterday announced some overdue new features designed to elevate the user experience when it comes to posting 360-degree photos, which you have been able to upload to the service since June 2016.

Initially, the experience with these panoramic photos left a lot to be desired: you couldn't upload them to albums nor could you select the area in a 360-degree picture for others to see in their feed.

Both of these omissions have been addressed in the latest version of Facebook for mobile and desktop, the social networking behemoth has confirmed.

Benchmarks reveal how higher capacity iPhone 7 units can be faster

Anthony Bouchard ∙ October 18, 2016

When you go to get your new iPhone every year, do you get the higher-capacity handset to have the best of the best, or do you get the lower capacity handset to save some dime?

If you typically pick the latter choice, you might want to re-think your decision for the iPhone 7 & 7 Plus.

Hortus brings springy animations based on Hooke’s Law to your iOS 9 device

Anthony Bouchard ∙ October 18, 2016

Way back in 2013 when chpwn was still a prominent developer and hacker for the jailbreak community, he released a popular free jailbreak tweak called %hook's law, which added springy animations to your iPhone.

Now a new jailbreak tweak called Hortus is porting these fun and quirky animations over to iOS 9 so you can enjoy them on your modern day jailbroken device(s).

Apple seeds iOS 10.1 beta 4 to developers and public beta testers

Sébastien Page ∙ October 17, 2016

Apple today released a fourth beta of iOS 10.1 to its registered developers and public beta testers. Coming just a week after the previous beta, iOS 10.1 beta 4 has an interesting build number of “14B72 | 14B72b”. Today's release does not, however, appear to contain any outward-facing user features. We'll make sure to update the article with any new information as it becomes available.

One out of five iPhone users in the U.S. have Limit Ad Tracking turned on

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated November 9, 2023

Survey conducted by mobile app marketing platform Adjust says one-fifth of total iPhone users in the U.S. have opted to prevent in-app ads from being targeted at them directly. About eighteen million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in the country have used the Limit Ad Tracking feature to explicitly opt out of targeted advertising, according to the report.

How to export Safari bookmarks from your iPhone or iPad to a Mac or PC

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated July 11, 2025

Learn how to export Safari bookmarks from your iPhone or iPad to save as a backup or import into Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari on a Mac or Windows PC.

I challenge you to try this iOS puzzle game

Anthony Bouchard ∙ October 17, 2016

I recently downloaded a puzzle game called Blackbox on my iPhone because I was bored one night, and I never thought I would get so enthralled in a mobile game.

This is probably one of the more unique games you’re ever going to play because it’s not like most of the games you play on your iOS devices. In fact, it’s not even close.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: No2Theft, Playtopia, & more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ October 16, 2016

It's been a pretty busy week in Cydia for the most part, but those who have jailbreaks on iOS 9 have still had the opportunity to try some new jailbreak tweak releases.

In this roundup, we'll talk about everything that was released in Cydia this week, starting with our favorites and then moving on to the rest.

Reshape the Phone app’s dial pad buttons with PhoneDialReformer

Anthony Bouchard ∙ October 16, 2016

You can now change the look and feel of your iPhone's dial pad buttons inside the Phone app with a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed PhoneDialReformer.

You can use this tweak to mess around with the roundness and corner radius of the dial pad buttons until they match your own personal tastes.

TextCounter displays how many texts you’ve sent and received in the Messages app

Anthony Bouchard ∙ October 16, 2016

TextCounter is a new jailbreak tweak that can help put into perspective just how much you're texting people.

It keeps track of how many sent and received messages you have in your Messages app and then shows them to you in various interfaces in the app.

When iPhone 7 Home button fails, iOS 10 offers a nice software workaround

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 20, 2023

MacRumors forum member “iwayne” has noticed that iOS 10 offers an interesting software workaround for when the iPhone 7's non-moving Home button fails.

Should that ever happen to you, iOS 10 will instantly create a software-based Home button centered at the bottom of the screen.

Not unlike the AssistiveTouch accessibility feature that many iPhone owners in Asia use regularly over fear of breaking the physical Home button, iOS 10's new onscreen button could hint at how a bezel-less iPhone 8 might work without a physical Home button.