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System Info, UnsplashWalls, and other jailbreak tweaks to check out this weekend

Although there's been a lot of hype regarding the iPhone X lately, that's not to say that many people aren't still clenching onto their older jailbroken handsets. In fact, one hacker just demonstrated the world's first-known iPhone X jailbreak at the POC2017 event this week.

In this roundup, we'll discuss all the jailbreak tweaks released in Cydia during the past week. As usual, we'll start things off by showcasing our favorites, and then we'll outline all the rest of them afterward.

Augment the About page in your iPhone’s Settings app with System Info

If you didn’t already know, you could navigate to Settings → General → About on your iPhone or iPad to discover a plethora of statistics about your device. Nevertheless, Apple limits what you can see and do here.

To change that, iOS developer ARX8x launched a new free jailbreak tweak called System Info. It expands upon the existing out-of-the-box statistics and also adds handy new features to the About page.

Rome: Total War Collection hits iPad

Celebrating the first anniversary of the original Rome: Total War for iPad, developer Feral Interactive on Thursday unveiled its Rome: Total War Collection iPad bundle containing the game itself as well as two content packs: “Barbarian Invasion” and “Alexander”.

KeyFunctions lets you respring, reboot, or invoke safe mode with text-based commands

Because of how frequently I handle jailbreak tweaks on my jailbroken iPhone, I respring my device constantly. While some tweaks have respring buttons baked right into them for convenience, I've found that having a backup method for respringing or invoking Safe Mode on your handset can be particularly advantageous.

A whole host of tweaks in Cydia can help you respring your device in various ways, but one of the latest releases called KeyFunctions by iOS developer AlexK piqued my interest.