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Personalize your handset’s notification & widget appearances with Velvet

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 9, 2020

If you like personalizing the aesthetics of your jailbroken handset, as most jailbreakers do, then we’d strongly recommend taking a few moments out of your busy day to check out a newly released jailbreak tweak called Velvet by iOS developers NoisyFlake and HiMyNameisUbik.

Velvet imbues jailbreakers with the freedom of customizing and theming their handset’s floating notification banners, Lock Screen notification banners, and Now Playing media player with just about any appearance they can imagine. A few examples of the tweak at work are depicted in the screenshots embedded above and below.

Cydia Substrate updated to v0.9.7102 with improved hooking & more

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 8, 2020

Depending on the type of jailbreak you’re using, your handset might depend on Cydia Substrate for tweak injection. This will be the case if you’re using checkra1n, but it may also apply to unc0ver users who aren’t using A12 or newer handsets since Cydia Substrate was never updated to support Apple’s latest lineup because of unforeseen complexity challenges.

If your jailbroken handset does use Cydia Substate for tweak injection, then you may want to launch Cydia and refresh your sources. An updated version of Cydia Substrate was released on Wednesday with improvements, officially bringing the package up to version 0.9.7102.

Video: hands-on with all the changes and new features in iOS and iPadOS 14 beta 2

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated June 11, 2025

Apple yesterday seeded second betas of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14, watchOS 7 and macOS 11.0 Big Sur. With most of the attention focused on the iOS and iPadOS software, we thought you might appreciate a little hands-on video walkthrough showing you all the major new features and enhancements that we've managed to discover in the second betas so far.

Alexa for iPhone gains voice activation, but it’s hardly hands-free as Amazon is calling it

Christian Zibreg ∙ July 8, 2020

Amazon is allowing users of its Alexa mobile app to use the smart assistant without having to touch the Alexa button at the bottom control bar for voice control. However, the online retail giant calling this feature "hands-free" voice activation is stretching it a bit.

Unc0ver jailbreak updated to v5.2.1 with bug fixes & improvements

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 8, 2020

Hot off the heels of a heated DMCA battle between the Electra Team and the unc0ver Team Tuesday evening, the unc0ver jailbreak has received its first update in nearly a month, officially bringing the jailbreak tool up to version 5.2.1.

The update was announced via the unc0ver Team’s official Twitter account early Wednesday morning, and from what we can gather, it mostly appears to be a bug fix update.

Odyssey jailbreak GitHub slapped with DMCA claim ahead of release

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 7, 2020

Jailbreakers who’ve been paying close attention to Twitter and /r/jailbreak over the past couple of days likely witnessed the creation of the official Odyssey Twitter account and a plethora of teasers showcasing the Electra Team’s upcoming iOS 13-centric jailbreak tool in action. As it would seem, however, the energized release is a far cry from being a drama-free one.

Odyssey jailbreak co-developer Hayden Seay, also known by many in this community as Diatrus, took to Twitter Tuesday evening to share that unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd had filed a DMCA takedown request targeting the Electra Team’s upcoming Odyssey jailbreak.

Second developer betas of iOS/iPadOS/tvOS 14, watchOS 7 and macOS 11.0 Big Sur available

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated June 14, 2024

Apple today seeded second developer betas of the iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11 Big Sur, watchOS 7 and tvOS 14 updates ahead of public testing opening later this month. The latest betas arrived more than two weeks following the inaugural developer releases, which became available following Apple's successful virtual WWDC 2020 keynote talk, held on June 22.

Odyssey jailbreak for iOS 13 nears release as official Twitter account comes to life

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 6, 2020

It was only a couple of weeks ago that CoolStar began teasing the imminent release of the upcoming Odyssey jailbreak for iOS 13 (previously referred to as Chimera13). The jailbreak still hasn’t been released at the time of this writing, but things appear to be falling into place rather quickly, and it’s attracting a lot of attention.

A brand-new Twitter account was created for the Odyssey jailbreak Monday afternoon, and that very same account began Tweeting a bevy of useful information regarding the devices that Odyssey would support out of the box and the features that the jailbreak would provide for its users.

6 ideas to arrange Home Screen icons on iPhone or iPad

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated February 5, 2026

Are you looking for the best iPhone Home Screen app arrangement? Explore some simple ways to arrange your Home Screen on iPhone and iPad, for a perfect mix of productivity and aesthetics.

Hands-on video walkthrough: 8 cool new things you can do with your Apple Pencil in iPadOS 14

Christian Zibreg ∙ July 6, 2020

The iPadOS 14 software brings nearly a dozen cool new handwriting features with the Apple Pencil, including Scribble for iPad. Here's our video walkthrough of what we think are the eight most compelling Apple Pencil improvements available with the iPadOS 14 update.

Control iOS clipboard access on a per-app basis with NoClipboardForYou

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 6, 2020

I have a hard time trusting apps with my privacy as it is, but my worries run deeper when they’re realized by app makers that seemingly have zero interest in conserving user privacy, but rather harvesting user data for the sake of profit or surveillance.

Examples that struck irritating chords with me included learning that popular apps like LinkedIn and TikTok snooped on users’ clipboards without their permission. Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 update makes users more aware of app-centric clipboard access, but if you don’t plan to update because you’re jailbroken, then you can use a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called NoClipboardForYou by iOS developer shiftcmdk instead.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: Astrid, Bongwater, PinHeads, and more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated July 10, 2020

It's been a captivating time for the jailbreak community. Not only have we seen Apple scalp several of the community's innovations just to turn around and implement them into iOS 14, but the jailbreak community only continues to innovate.

In this piece, we'll discuss all the latest jailbreak tweaks released from Monday, June 29th to Sunday, July 5th. As usual, we'll kick things off by discussing our favorite releases first and then wrap things up with an outline of the rest afterward.