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From the latest news to the most comprehensive tutorials, learn how to get the most out of your iPad with our step-by-step guides and expert tips.

How to create custom Home Screen widgets on iPhone and iPad

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ September 21, 2020
Widget Wizard and Widgetsmith Home Screen Widgets

If you’ve been enjoying the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 feature for adding widgets to your Home Screen, then maybe you want to take that a step further. Among apps with Home Screen widgets are apps that let you customize your own widgets!

You can create your own Home Screen widgets and have them look exactly as you like. This gives you even more flexibility than you probably expected for personalizing your device. Here’s how to create custom Home Screen widgets on iPhone and iPad and tools you can use.

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How to use compact calls on iPhone and iPad

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 11, 2023

By default, incoming phone and FaceTime calls appear as a compact banner at the top of the screen of your unlocked iPhone. It doesn't take up the whole screen.

However, if you or someone with access to your iPhone switched it back to a full-screen interface, then you can easily revert to the default, compact style. In this tutorial, we'll show you how.

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Review: WT2 Plus translation earbuds bring us one step closer to a Babel Fish type experience

Christian Zibreg ∙ September 21, 2020

If your foreign language skills leave a lot to be desired, these specialized earbuds from a Chinese brand, called TimeKettle, provide near real-time translation from one language to another, with 95 percent translation accuracy and support for enough language pairs to cover more than 80 percent of the world’s population. Here’s how they work in real life.

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Wander v1.2 adds speed & UI improvements, cellular support, and more

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 20, 2020

If you’re an Odyssey jailbreak user and you aren’t taking advantage of the Wander extension for Apple’s native Shortcuts app on your iPhone or iPad, then you’re seriously missing out. Wander lets you quickly install or update the Odyssey jailbreak on your iOS or iPadOS 13 devices with only a few taps via your favorite installation method, and it was updated Sunday evening to version 1.2 with a few notable improvements.

Wander developer BurritoSoftware announced the new Wander v1.2 update via Twitter, and from what we can gather, this isn’t an update you’ll want to miss:

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Jailbreak tweaks of the week: BTManager+, Crash, Lumi, and more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 20, 2020

Jailbreak-centric developments have unquestionably slowed down in recent weeks, an unfortunate side effect of the impending hardware unveilings and software updates that Apple has in store for us around this time of the year. On the other hand, jailbreak tweak releases are still a regular thing.

In this roundup, we’ll be discussing all the latest jailbreak tweaks to be released from Monday, September 14th to Sunday, September 20th. As usual, we’ll start things off by talking about some of our favorite releases from this past week and then wrap things up with an outline comprised of everything else afterward.

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ExplosiveIcons makes it fun to delete apps from a jailbroken iPhone

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 18, 2020

If you’re rocking a jailbroken iPhone or iPad and are looking for fun and exciting ways to spice up the user experience, then you should definitely consider taking a minute out of your day to check out a newly released jailbreak tweak called ExplosiveIcons by iOS developer Wes.

Just as the name implies, ExplosiveIcons makes it fun to delete apps from your iPhone or iPad by providing users with an exciting animation upon doing so. Below, you’ll find an animated GIF depicting the newfangled animation in all its glory:

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BTManager+ gives jailbreakers more control over Bluetooth peripherals

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 17, 2020

iOS is a very user-friendly platform when it comes to Bluetooth device connectivity. On the other hand, ease of use comes with certain trade-offs, such as the scope of configurability and advanced settings and/or features.

If you walk among the plethora of iPhone power users out there, and you use a lot more Bluetooth devices than the average Joe, then we think you might benefit from the likes of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed BTManager+ by iOS developer Beckett O’Brien.

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Odyssey jailbreak updated to v1.1.1 with memory leak & freezing fixes

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 16, 2020
Odyssey jailbreak tool for iOS 13.0-13.7.

It’s been an action-packed week for Apple, especially with all the recent hardware unveilings taking place, but that hasn’t stopped the folks over at the Odyssey Team from dropping an updated version of the iOS 13-based Odyssey jailbreak.

In an announcement shared to Twitter Monday afternoon, the Odyssey Team noted that it had released Odyssey version 1.1.1 with vital bug fixes and performance improvements:

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