Pinball, zombies and tower defense meet in “Zombie Rollerz: Pinball Heroes”, a new game for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV that's now available on Apple Arcade.
“Zombie Rollerz: Pinball Heroes” is now available on Apple Arcade
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News Showcase expands to Google News on iOS
If you're a Google News user, you may be able to access paywalled articles from major news sites. According to Google, the News Showcase feature will now start offering people access to paywalled content in partnership with select news publishers.
LongKeys makes it easier to type several instances of the same Emoji
Emojis have quickly transformed into one of the most popular ways to share expressions and reactions via messaging and social media platforms. If you’ve ever wanted to enter several of the same Emoji into a text field, however, then you’d find yourself tapping the Emoji key of your choosing repeatedly until satisfied.
LongKeys is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer maximehip that tries to take the edge off of this user experience by allowing typists to simply tap and hold on an Emoji key of their choosing to input several instances of that particular Emoji into the text field all at once.
Chimera jailbreak updated to v1.5.1 with more bug fixes and improvements
If you’ve been paying attention to the Odyssey Team’s Discord channel or Twitter page recently, then you’ve likely witnessed the sudden priority shift to the iOS 12-centric Chimera jailbreak – a notable departure from the team’s typical precedence, the iOS & iPadOS 13-centric Odyssey jailbreak.
The sudden attention to Chimera is no coincidence, as Chimera Team lead developer CoolStar had long envisioned back-porting the Odyssey Team’s successes with the Procursus bootstrap and libhooker tweak injection to Chimera. The team officially made it happen with Chimera v1.5 this week, and they’re out with yet another update this Wednesday evening in the form of Chimera v1.5.1:
Radio proximity security attack targeting up to iOS 13.5 detailed by Ian Beer
Accomplished security researcher Ian Beer, known for releasing a host of iOS exploits used by modern jailbreak tools, dropped a bombshell on Twitter late Wednesday evening after sharing a detailed blog post about a jaw-dropping radio proximity exploit affecting up to and including iOS and iPadOS 13.5.
The blog post summary goes on to explain that the hacker can remotely trigger kernel memory corruption through the execution of arbitrary code. Furthermore, it can force affected iOS and iPadOS devices in radio proximity to reboot with no user interaction needed or put privacy at risk by breaching user data or utilizing cameras and microphones without the user’s knowledge. Scary indeed…
Look back at your listening habits over the year with Spotify Wrapped 2020
Spotify today announced its annual Wrapped feature, highlighting the music you've been listening to on the service over the year. With Spotify's year-in-review roundup, you can easily see your most listened to songs, artists and albums over the last eleven months in the Spotify app, in a Stories-style format.
Chimera jailbreak updated to v1.5, supports up to iOS 12.4.9 & adds Procursus bootstrap
As iOS 12-using jailbreakers might recall, the Chimera Team issued a new public beta of its Chimera jailbreak tool earlier this week with Procursus bootstrap and full libhooker tweak injection integration and a plethora of backported improvements from the iOS & iPadOS 13-centric Odyssey jailbreak tool.
Early Wednesday morning, however, the Odyssey Team took to Twitter to announce that Chimera version 1.5 had been officially released to the general public without the ‘beta’ asterisk attached to the name:
Apple unveils the best and most downloaded App Store apps and games of 2020
Following its picks for the best books, audiobooks and podcasts of 2020, Apple today unveiled this year's top 20 most downloaded apps and games across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch, as well as its picks for the best titles across those platforms.
Grounded bars access to vital Control Center toggles without authentication
I love how convenient Control Center makes it to toggle my iPhone or iPad’s controls on or off in a pinch, but I’m almost certain that anyone who’d grab my iPhone when I’m not looking might feel exactly the same way. In fact, Control Center makes it far too easy for a thief or mischief-maker to toggle Airplane Mode as a hindrance to handset recovery, and that’s enough to make anyone second-guess the added convenience…
Grounded is a brand new and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer biD3V that’s designed to prevent such issues from living rent-free in your head. The tweak works by allowing users to make certain Control Center toggles unusable as long as your iPhone or iPad is locked, but they become usable the moment you authenticate yourself.
WhatsApp gains per-chat wallpaper with Light/Dark mode support and sticker search
WhatsApp for iPhone was updated on the App Store today with several new features, including sticker search and custom wallpapers per-chat with separate wallpapers in Dark Mode.
Chimera jailbreak for iOS 12 picks up Procursus & libhooker support in latest beta
While much of the modern jailbreak community is currently focusing on current firmware versions like iOS & iPadOS 13 and 14, that hasn’t stopped the Chimera Team from launching a new beta version of its iOS 12-centric Chimera jailbreak tool.
Chimera Team lead developer CoolStar took to the Announcements section of the official Discord channel bright and early Monday morning to share links to Chimera v1.5.0 beta 1 — the latest public beta of the jailbreak tool for iOS 12 devices:
Ekip brings tighter integration between your jailbroken iPhone and your Mac
AirDrop, iCloud, and a bevy of other services provided by Apple have helped to create a nearly seamless user experience for those owning both an iOS device and a Mac. But if you’ve ever wanted a tighter integration than what already exists, then you’d be S.O.L., at least… without the help of a jailbroken handset.
Fortunately for those who do have jailbroken handset(s) at their disposal, a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed Ekip by iOS developer maximehip can upgrade the level of integration that users might come to expect while using their iPhone or iPad and their Mac in the same general vicinity.