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Rollectra/SemiRestore11 receives another update with safer execution methods

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 4, 2018

Hot off the heels of a Rollectra/SemiRestore11 update this Labor Day weekend, developer and ex-Electra Team member Pwn20wnd has released another update to the un-jailbreaking tool on Tuesday. The latest update brings the utility’s version number up to 1.1.2.-1.

In case you’re in need of a refresher, the update that dropped on Labor Day weekend added support for iOS 11.3-11.4.X devices that had been jailbroken with Electra. Furthermore, it added a new option for un-jailbreaking your handset without losing your user data.

Windmill implements a fancy new toolbar on jailbroken iOS 11 devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 4, 2018

Looking for a new way to spice up that iOS 11 jailbreak? Then perhaps you should try a new jailbreak tweak release called Windmill by iOS developer LaughingQuoll.

Hot off the heels of the latest Cydia source refresh, Windmill brings a customizable toolbar to the iOS platform. With it, you can quickly get to your Home Screen, access the App Switcher, and return to your most-recently-used app in a jiff.

WhatsApp gains image and GIF previews in notifications, suspicious links feature & more

Christian Zibreg ∙ September 4, 2018

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is rolling out its notification extension support, as well as other improvements including Wallet support, a suspicious link feature and more.

Skype removes Highlights because users couldn’t care less about Snapchat copying

Christian Zibreg ∙ September 3, 2018

Microsoft's decided that a major Snapchat-style redesign for Skype, released a year ago, was perhaps too much for users so it's removed the Stories-like Highlights feature from the app.

NotificationsUnleashedXI, VoiceChanger X, and more jailbreak tweaks to try this weekend

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 2, 2018

The jailbreak community hasn’t missed a beat since the Electra Team released its Electra1131 jailbreak tool. That said, we’ve seen several exciting jailbreak tweak releases.

This weekly roundup will encompass all the jailbreak tweaks released from August 27th to September 2nd. As usual, we’ll kick things off by talking about our favorite releases first and outline the rest afterward.

ColorFlow 4 brings album artwork-centric color schemes to iOS 11’s Now Playing interface

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 2, 2018

A handful of jailbreak tweaks have been released in recent memory that colorize the Now Playing interface in iOS 11, but one of the newest is ColorFlow 4 (iOS 11) by iOS developer David Goldman.

With ColorFlow 4 installed, the Now Playing interface adopts new color schemes that match the dominant colors of your album artwork. The animated GIF above depicts a few examples of how the tweak works on both the Lock screen and the native Music app.

Rollectra/SemiRestore11 update brings support for iOS 11.3-11.4.x, adds improvements

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 1, 2018

Electra is the primary way to achieve a jailbreak on iOS 11 these days, but it’s still a great idea to have an un-jailbreak tool handy just in case something goes wrong. Rollectra/SemiRestore11, released in July by former Electra Team member Pwn20wnd, quickly filled these shoes. It utilized APFS snapshots to revert any device pwned with Electra to a stock state.

As of this week, however, Pwn20wnd released an updated version of the tool. Version 1.1-2 is available both as an upgrade in Cydia and as a separate jailed package that can be side-loaded even when you aren’t in a jailbroken state.

Configure any animated GIF image as your respring screen with YouRespring

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 1, 2018

If you’ve gone through the trouble of jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad and are perusing for a fun and quirky way to customize it, then look no further than a new free jailbreak tweak called YouRespring by iOS developer Dev4i.

YouRespring lets you give your handset’s respring screen a fresh coat of paint. It replaces the traditional black screen with the central white spinner you see above with any animated GIF that you might fancy having as your respring screen.

Google’s iPhone keyboard introduces multilingual typing

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 31, 2018

Gboard, Google's software keyboard for iPhone and iPad with gesture-based typing, search, GIFs, emoji and more, was updated Friday on App Store with a new multilingual typing feature.

All App Store apps must have a privacy policy beginning October 3

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 31, 2018

Beginning Wednesday, October 3, all new App Store submissions are required to have a privacy policy, according to yesterday's change to the section 5.1.1 Data Collection and Storage of Apple's official App Store Review Guidelines.

View how many characters you’ve typed in the Notes app with countingNotes

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 31, 2018

The iPhone’s native Notes app has received a multitude of changes in some of the most recent iterations of iOS, but one thing Apple always falls short of adding is a character counter.

Most of the text editors and word processors available today incorporate some form of fundamental support for character or word counting, and so it’d be nice if the Notes app fell into that category. Fortunately, a new free jailbreak tweak called countingNotes by iOS developer CydiaGeek can make it happen.

Apple’s ‘Gather round’ iPhone event will be live-streamed

Bryan M. Wolfe ∙ August 30, 2018

Apple plans on offering a live stream to next month's "Gather round" iPhone event. As with past events, the stream will be available across multiple devices and platforms.