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If you're like most jailbreakers, then you're probably foaming at the mouth for something new to install on your device right now. While the iOS 10 jailbreak has been slow lately, we've seen some fairly impressive releases this week.
In this roundup, we'll show you all the jailbreak tweaks that launched in Cydia throughout the past work week. We'll start with our favorites and move on to the rest of them afterward.
I’ve said it many times before, and I’ll say it again: the volume HUD in iOS is a ridiculous mess, and it's in need of a facelift.
A plethora of jailbreak tweaks in Cydia can help with the situation, but after trying a new release called Castro by iOS developer candoizo, I’m convinced that this just might be one of the best looking alternatives to date.
Apple's developers yesterday received a surprise iOS 11 beta 9 update (along with tvOS 11 beta 9), coming just four days after the previous beta build was seeded— signaling the public release isn’t that far away.
Apple's augmented reality framework has emerged as one of the biggest new features of iOS 11. Here's another awesome use case for ARKit: a Find My iPhone-style app for finding your lost or misplaced devices in augmented reality.
SSH is a powerful tool that lets you access your jailbroken handset’s filesystem on the fly, but one of the things I don’t like about it is how there’s no indication when an SSH connection is initiated.
A new free jailbreak tweak called SSHIcon by iOS developer Sticktron solves this problem by putting an icon in your Status Bar any time you or someone else uses SSH to access your device.
Apple on Thursday seeded iOS 11 beta 9 to developers. The release comes just days after beta 8 of the software was rolled out, suggesting that either a significant bug or security issue was discovered, or that Apple is charging hard down the final stretch of beta testing in an effort to finish the update on time for public release next month.
iOS 11 beta 9If you're a registered developer with a device already running a previous iOS 11 beta, you can upgrade to the latest build (15A5370a) over the air using the Software Update mechanism in the Settings app.
Given the short lead time between beta 8 and beta 9, we don't expect many (if any) user-facing changes. But here are the new things we spotted in beta 8:
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tvOS 11 beta 9Developers with the appropriate configuration profile on their Apple TV (4th gen) can install today’s beta (build number 15J5378a) by visiting Settings > System > Software Update.
Otherwise, it requires you to hook up your Apple TV to your Mac via a USB-C cable and a quick trip to the Dev Center. tvOS 11 has shown to be a modest update, with just a handful of user-facing improvements.
As always, if you see something notable in the new betas you think we’ve missed, feel free to tell us about it in the comments below, or on Twitter @iDownloadBlog.
Microsoft on Thursday said that Mixer Create for iOS has exited beta and is now available to download from App Store. The app that lets you chat and stream live gameplay of iPhone and iPad games on the go, similar to how Mixer can stream games on PC and Xbox One.
Facebook Watch, a new platform for original television shows on the social network, is going to roll out to all users in the US over the next few days, the company said Thursday.
One of the biggest challenges for iPhone owners today is keeping the battery at a reasonable level by the day’s end.
No one likes seeing a critical alert about how the battery level is low, but with a new free jailbreak tweak called SmartLowPower by iOS developer NoisyFlake, you can save more power than ever before.
Learn how to change the playback speed of YouTube videos so you can speed up (up to 4.00x) or slow down (up to 0.25x) the clip to a pace that’s suitable for you. The steps here apply to iPhone, iPad, Android phone, and computer browsers.
If you share your iPhone or iPad with multiple people, then new apps probably appear on the Home screen while old apps go missing all the time. iOS comes with restriction features to prevent app deletion, but enabling this solution will only get in your own way too.
A new free jailbreak tweak called HideDeleteBox by iOS developer NeinZedd9 takes a simpler approach; it makes the “x” button that typically appears after entering ‘jiggle’ mode on your iPhone or iPad invisible.
Instagram today announced that its swipeable carousel album format, which was introduced in February, now supports both portrait and landscape photographs and videos in galleries.