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Review: Willgoo case keeps your Apple Pencil charged and its accessories within easy reach

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 21, 2018

I'm always forgetting to charge my Apple Pencil in a timely fashion, which can be annoying when I'm out and about without any dongles or cables. And because of its design, I refrain from stowing the Apple stylus in my bag or backpack out of fear it might break without any protection. Apple's leather case and others I've tried weren't very helpful. But Willgoo's handy stylus carrying box with a built-in battery has solved my Pencil woes in one fell swoop.

Hackers demonstrate 0-day exploit on iOS 12.1 at recent Tokyo-based Pwn2Own contest

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 21, 2018

Despite the absurd amounts of time and money that Apple pours into security efforts to make iOS one of the most secure mobile operating systems available today, it seems that even iOS 12.1, the latest publicly-available firmware version on the iPhone and iPad, isn’t entirely hack-proof.

At the recent Pwn2Own contest in Tokyo, Richard Zhu and Amat Cama, a duo of white hat hackers, reportedly harnessed the power of a powerful Safari-based 0-day exploit to recover a photograph that was recently deleted from an iPhone X’s native Photos app.

Lace 2 provides jailbreakers with more control over the Lock screen

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 21, 2018

The Lock screen has come a long way in many of the most recent iterations of iOS. Instead of just being a place to tell the time and view your missed notifications, the Lock screen has become a hub for everything that matters, including app-centric widgets that can help you discern important information at a glance.

Depending on how much you utilize these aspects of your iOS device’s Lock screen, a new free jailbreak tweak called Lace 2 by iOS developer Andreas Henriksson can help you take better advantage of it all.

Editing an entire video on iPad Pro

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated February 27, 2020

YouTuber Jonathan Morrison has taken it upon himself to edit an entire video on his new iPad Pro. He went in skeptical but came pleasantly surprised by the powerful combination of the unreal A12X Bionic processor and the excellent LumaFusion app.

RomanLockscreenTime converts the Lock screen’s time to Roman numerals

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 21, 2018

Looking to spice up your iPhone’s Lock screen a bit? If so, then you might take an interest in a new free jailbreak tweak called RomanLockscreenTime by iOS developer Cole Cabral.

As you may have gathered already from the tweak’s name, RomanLockscreenTime replaces the standard numeric time display on your Lock screen with Roman numerals, as shown above.

Google Assistant now supports Siri Shortcuts

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 21, 2018

The Internet giant Google yesterday refreshed its Assistant app for iPhone and iPad with support for Apple's new Siri Shortcuts feature which made its debut in iOS 12.

This tweak removes ads from Facebook Stories, in-app videos, and more

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 21, 2018

If you use the Facebook app on your iPhone or iPad, then you probably noticed that the social platform has started injecting advertisements in everything you do, from watching videos to perusing Stories, etc.

Advertisements are a necessary evil because they help drive revenue, but too many in one place tend to become a nuisance for the end user. With that in mind, iOS developer Rishanan created a new jailbreak tweak called FacebookAdBlocker that aims to revitalize your Facebook experience.

Review: Minimal Cal for iPhone brings focused, beautiful & clean calendar experience

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 20, 2018

Created by the app maker Rational Design, Minimal Cal is a new calendar app for iPhone which declutters the experience of managing your events and settings by incorporating great typography, minimal design and easy navigation. Can you calendar app do that?

Review: second-generation Apple Pencil—is it worth it?

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 20, 2018

The new, second-generation Apple Pencil is here, but is it worth it? At $129, the improved Apple stylus is a bit tough on the wallet. Then again, it works so well with the new iPad Pro. So is the new Pencil really worth the premium? iDownloadBlog's Harris Craycraft investigates.

Switches lets you theme your iPhone’s universal toggle switches

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 20, 2018

Toggle switches have been present in iOS since its conception, and apart from the significant redesign post-iOS 7, these toggle switches have kept mostly the same appearance over the years.

Enter Switches, a new jailbreak tweak by iOS developer c1der that resolves this problem by letting you put a custom spin on your jailbroken handset’s system-wide toggle switches.

StackXI brings iOS 12’s stacked notification system to jailbroken iOS 11 handsets

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated January 28, 2019

Apple’s iOS 12 update brought several changes to the company’s mobile operating system, but perhaps my favorite of those is the new grouped notification feature that keeps your Lock screen and Notification Center interfaces free of unwanted clutter.

While this feature was initially native to iOS 12, those sporting jailbroken iOS 11 devices can now enjoy a similar notification grouping feature with a new free jailbreak tweak called StackXI by iOS developer Ominousness.

Google Photos now lets you adjust bokeh blur and focal point of your Portrait mode shots

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 19, 2018

Some cool new features are coming to Google Photos for iOS, including Portrait mode bokeh editing and changing the focal point of the blur, as well as leaving the subject of your photograph in color whilst changing the background to black and white.