Track your journey, get updated ETAs and see where to make your next trip with Google Maps—right on your iPhone’s lock screen, without opening the app.
Google Maps is gaining proper lock screen directions with Live Activities support
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How to delete the leftover Sileo and Substitute app icons after removing the palera1n jailbreak
So you’ve just removed the palera1n jailbreak from your iPhone or iPad, only to find that the rootfs restore left behind some unwanted icons on your Home Screen; namely Sileo and Substitute, which are the package manager and tweak injection apps that are installed by palera1n when you jailbreak your handset with it.
5 new WhatsApp Status features
Meta has unveiled five new WhatsApp Status features, including reactions and link previews, to help boost the usage of this Stories-like ephemeral feature.
How to star (★) messages on WhatsApp on iPhone
Learn how to use WhatsApp’s Star feature (★) to bookmark important messages for quick and easy access later.
How to find serial number of your Apple devices (even if lost)
Learn why you may need the serial number of your Apple device and how to find it for your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple Pencil, and Vision Pro, even if the device is lost, stolen, or not powering on.
SixteenMusic brings a configurable iOS 16-style Now Playing Lock Screen UI to jailbroken iOS 14 & 15 handsets
If you look at the Lock Screen’s Now Playing media interface on an iOS 16 device beside an iOS 15 device, then you should notice some aesthetic differences.
See how much iPhone storage system files are taking up
Find out how much of your iPhone’s storage space is lost to system files and how much of it is taken up by the iOS operating system itself, and then follow a quick trick to reclaim some space!
Stop iPhone texts and calls from appearing on your Mac
Learn how to prevent your iPhone messages, Phone & FaceTime calls, emails, and app notifications from showing up on your shared Mac to enhance your privacy.
Create and use custom Live Activities on iOS 16 with the ActivityBuilder app
Live Activities are a feature introduced by Apple in iOS 16 to make your iPhone display useful information via the Lock Screen. Live Activities are interactive notifications that may show information such as your Uber progress, sports scores, or a wide array of other information types.
Meta is working on letting you pinch to zoom on Instagram stories
Zooming in on Instagram stories with the familiar pinch gesture will make it easier to discern tiny text and examine image details in people's stories up close.
Jailbreak news of the week: TrollStore v1.5.0, AltStore v1.6, Genesis 3, & more…
You’ve made it to iDB’s weekly roundup of the latest iPhone and iPad hacking news, where we show you what’s new in the jailbreak community, bug and exploitation developments, and anything else that may interest you if you enjoy these kinds of stories from this past week.
StatusMagic permits Status Bar customizations without a jailbreak via TrollStore or MacDirtyCow
Jailbreaks are hard to come by these days, which is why so many people currently use TrollStore on iOS 14.0-15.4.1 (and some 15.5 and 15.6 betas) or the MacDirtyCow bug (on iOS 15.0-16.1.2) to enjoy a subset of must-have system mods.