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How to stop iMessage photos from showing in Photos app

Ankur Thakur ∙ Updated September 12, 2024

Learn how to stop the pictures you received in the Messages app from showing up in the Photos app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

View the date and time that any Twitter account was created with TwitDate

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 11, 2022

If you’ve ever glanced at someone’s Twitter account only to wonder how old it was, then you’ll be excited to know that a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed TwitDate by iOS developer Saud Alshaman makes that information easier to find.

How to find out if someone blocked you on iPhone

Ankur Thakur ∙ Updated September 2, 2024

Learn how to find out if a person blocked you on iMessage, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, X (Twitter), and more.

Speculation has Apple unveiling 5G iPhone SE, new iMacs and more via a Spring event

Christian Zibreg ∙ January 10, 2022

Apple could unveil a third-generation iPhone SE with 5G networking, along with an Apple silicon update to the Intel-based 27-inch iMac, via a virtual Spring event in March or April.

GrowingBadges causes your apps’ missed notification badges to grow in size as they pile up

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 10, 2022

Sometimes when receiving a slew of iPhone or iPad notifications while you’re away, you might feel inclined to simply ignore them rather than marking them as read. That’s a bad habit that iOS developer wrp1002 hopes to break with the release of a new and free jailbreak tweak dubbed GrowingBadges.

Frustrated with the YouTube app’s back-to-back ads? This jailbreak tweak can help

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 10, 2022

YouTube is one of, if not the, best online video platforms in existence today, but most of the people I talk to share the same complaint: it’s infested with ads, with some disrupting playback so intensely that they play back-to-back without a skip option. God help us all...

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: QuickActions, SeeYa Pro, SlowMo & more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated January 31, 2022

The calm before the storm continues as jailbreakers eagerly await developments for iOS & iPadOS 15. But in the meantime, exciting things continue to circulate for pwned iOS & iPadOS 14 and earlier users.

BootSound makes any jailbroken iPhone play a custom sound on boot

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 9, 2022

One of the things that many Mac owners have come to appreciate over the years is the computer’s boot-up sound. Sadly, Apple doesn’t offer this feature on its mobile devices.

Hacker Justin Sherman shows off exploit that works on iOS 15.2, albeit with a poor success rate

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 8, 2022

While there hasn’t been any discernible movement lately with respect to jailbreaking iOS & iPadOS 15, the good news is that a lot of different potential exploits now exist in the wild, putting the ball instead in jailbreak developers’ courts. In fact, it seems that another could be on the brink of development at the time of this writing.