Wanna boost your messaging game? How about spicing up your Animoji karaoke videos? iOS 11.3 has you covered with four distinctively new Animoji characters in the Messages app.
Video: 4 new Animoji characters in iOS 11.3—lion, dragon, bear & skull
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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.
A closer look at expanded health record integration coming to iOS 11.3’s Health app
As part of the iOS 11.3 preview, Apple today announced it's enhancing the Health app's fairly limited Health Records feature, which debuted in iOS 10, to make it easier for patients to access and control detailed medical information from the palm of their hand.
Apple previews iOS 11.3: battery management, new Animoji, vertical ARKit & more
Apple today previewed some of the new features and enhancements coming to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch this spring with iOS 11.3, including a new battery health section, the ability to disable CPU throttling and adjust power management features, and much more.
Google is now selling audiobooks on Play Store, available on iOS as well
Google today announced that it's Play Store is now carrying audiobooks in addition to existing content such as apps, movies, music, TV shows and electronic ebooks.
Kernel exploit for iOS 11.2-11.2.1 surfaces
Security researcher Ian Beer made headlines last year after finding and releasing a tfp0 exploit for iOS 11.0-11.1.2, which powers jailbreak tools like Electra and LiberiOS, just to name a few. But now there’s a new kernel exploit in town, and it impacts later iterations of iOS.
Citing Apple’s security content web page, Tuesday’s iOS 11.2.5 update patches a kernel-level exploit discovered by security researcher Russ Cox, and it purportedly works on iOS 11.2-11.2.1.
How to use Siri News on iPhone & iPad
If your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch runs iOS 11.2.5 or later, Siri in hands-free mode can read out the news to you. You can even ask your smart digital assistant to read aloud news stories limited to specific domains, such as sports, business or music, here's how.
Video: hands-on with Siri News, HomePod support & other changes in iOS 11.2.5
Ahead of HomePod's February 9 launch, Apple today released the iOS 11.2.5 software update.
iOS 11.2.5 release notes & security fixes
On Tuesday, January 23, 2017, Apple released iOS 11.2.5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Apple announces that Siri is now actively used on over half a billion devices
In spite of criticism, Siri is the most popular personal digital assistant out there.
CoolStar releases beta 7 of the Electra jailbreak tool for iOS 11.0-11.1.2
If you’ve been keeping up with the latest jailbreak trends, then you might have heard about CoolStar’s Electra jailbreak tool for iOS 11.0-11.1.2. It doesn’t install Cydia or Mobile Substrate like a typical jailbreak tool would, but you could still use this jailbreak to install third-party extensions on your device via SSH.
A constant flow of updates since Electra’s initial release has provided the tool with necessary bug fixes. This week, users can take advantage of beta 7, which makes the jailbreak more stable and offers additional bells and whistles out of the box.
How to copy an SMS, MMS or iMessage on your iPhone and iPad
Learn how to copy SMS texts, MMS messages or iMessages from Apple's Messages app on iPhone and paste the whole message or some text into another app.
KeyUtilities, PullToClear, and other jailbreak tweaks to check out this weekend
While there weren’t many new jailbreak tweak releases to speak of last week, we did see a bit of a resurgence this week. Some of that extra activity may have been propagated by the release of the G0blin RC1 jailbreak tool for A7-A9 devices running iOS 10.3.x.
This roundup will cover all the new jailbreak tweaks that launched in Cydia this week. As always, we’ll start by featuring our favorites and then outline the rest afterward.