Apple over the weekend through its official YouTube channel shared a new video in 4K resolution highlighting the video-recording features of the new iPhone 12 camera.
Watch Apple’s Everyday Experiments 4K video showcasing the iPhone 12 camera
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CCCounters adds usage information to iOS’ Control Center toggles
It goes without saying that Control Center would be one of the more advantageous additions to iOS over the years. But despite how great Control Center is, that hasn’t stopped the jailbreak community from tweaking it in imaginative ways to make it better for the end user.
One such example is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak known as CCCounters by iOS developer 0xkuj. Once installed, CCCounters monitors Control Center toggle usage and displays the most recent instance in which those toggles were switched on or off.
Jailbreak tweaks of the week: BigSnooze, iBlockX, Tenmetsu, & more…
The jailbreak community is in a perpetual state of anticipation as we wait for the checkra1n team to expand support for newer devices and for recent exploit developments to be released such that other jailbreak teams may take advantage of them in their tools. That aside, jailbreak tweak releases continue, and that’s why this piece exists.
In this roundup, we’ll talk about all the latest jailbreak tweaks released between Monday, November 9th and Sunday, November 15th. As you might come to expect, we’ll start by discussing our favorite releases first and then we’ll wrap things up with an outline of everything else afterward.
Security researcher Liang Chen demos jailbreak on iPhone 12 Pro running iOS 14.2
The past few weeks have been crazy for anyone heavily invested in the jailbreak community. Not only was the checkra1n jailbreak updated to add support for A10(X) devices and iOS 14.1-14.2, but a new exploit PoC targeting iOS & iPadOS 13.x was released and FreeTheSandbox once again affirmed that a jailbreak with support for iOS & iPadOS 13.5-13.7 would be released in the near future without a definitive ETA.
But the community was in for yet another teaser this week after talented security researcher Liang Chen (@chenliang0817) of Singular Security Lab (@SingularSecLab) demonstrated a working jailbreak on Apple’s brand-new iPhone 12 Pro handset running iOS 14.2 — the latest publicly available firmware at the time of this writing:
Going from iPhone 12 Pro to iPhone 12 mini
For the past several years, flagship iPhones have become ever so slightly larger and heavier. A few grams here, a millimeter there… It’s barely noticeable from one model to the next one, but over the years, it adds up.
As much as I love using the best iPhone money can buy, this year was an inflection point. The slightly bigger and slightly heavier iPhone 12 Pro was the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. This was of course accelerated by the fact that for the first time, Apple released a mini version of a flagship device.
While I have nothing against the iPhone 12 Pro per say, the fact that I could get an almost similarly-spec’ed iPhone but one that is significantly smaller and lighter was very appealing. Hence my move to the iPhone 12 mini!
iOS 14.3 enables support for the PlayStation 5 and Amazon Luma controllers
The iOS 14.3 software update that Apple started testing with developers yesterday expands on existing third-party controller support with two new choices: Sony's latest PlayStation DualSense Wireless Controller that ships with their new PlayStation 5 console and Amazon's Luna controller, pictured above, which was designed for their own Amazon's gaming service.
iOS 14.3 suggests non-Apple apps you might want to download during the setup process
iPhone and iPad owners may be shown third-party app suggestions when updating to iOS 14.3, which released yesterday for developer testing ahead of a public launch later this year.
How to receive vocal typing feedback on iPhone and iPad
Learn how to set up Typing Feedback on iPhone or iPad so the characters and words you type are spoken aloud, which is ideal for people with visual impairments.
iBlockX offers jailbreakers deeper control over incoming notifications than Do Not Disturb
With iOS’ Do Not Disturb feature, you can effortlessly silence all incoming notifications that bombard your iPhone with the flip of a switch. Unfortunately, Do Not Disturb is a bit of an all-or-nothing solution. While you can individually silence contacts in the Messages app as an alternative, this doesn’t quite offer enough control if you use lots of third-party apps to keep in touch with friends and family.
iBlockX is a newly released jailbreak tweak by iOS developers Greg0109 and MeBlackHat that strives to solve the aforementioned dilemma. It does so by handing users a smorgasbord of options for silencing calls and other notifications on a per-contact basis and for several different apps spanning user-configured time-frames whether those apps come preinstalled by Apple or not.
iPhone 12 MagSafe Wallet video hands-on: Should you buy it and why others are wrong?
The MagSafe Wallet is arguably the most polarizing Apple accessory for the latest iPhone 12 family of smartphones, and it takes full advantage of built-in magnets! You've probably seen some negative reviews online and complaints about this case. Our own Harris Craycraft himself has run into several issues on day one and got confused by a few aspects of this case. But when he actually started using it, it became clear to him what Apple was trying to achieve with this wallet accessory. We thought you might like to learn more about why Harris changed his initial opinion about the MagSafe Wallet, so we created a video about it.
A teardown confirms that the iPhone 12 Pro Max battery is only 3,687 mAh
A user in China posted on the country's microblogging site Weibo images of an iPhone 12 Pro Max that has been torn apart to reveal a 3,687 mAh battery inside the device.
FreeTheSandbox discusses its plan for iOS 13.x jailbreak release, no ETA
Those eagerly waiting for a jailbreak with support for the concluding versions of the iOS & iPadOS 13 family before Apple officially released iOS & iPadOS 14 this Fall have two options, with the first being to wait for FreeTheSandbox to release the jailbreak they’ve been teasing for more than a month, or the second being to continue waiting for someone to pick up an exploit like the one just recently released by @_simo36.
If the FreeTheSandbox offering sounds like a better choice to you, then we’ve got some news for you. The official FreeTheSandbox Twitter account shared the following Tweet early Thursday morning to comment on the state of the jailbreak they’ve been working on: