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PowerUp can help jailbreakers charge their iPhones faster

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated December 6, 2021

My iPhone's battery often finds itself scrambling to catch a charge before I leave for the day, whether it’s an all-day outing or a short trip to the grocery store. In any case, it would be helpful if my iPhone could charge faster than it already does out of the box, and it’s axiomatic that most iPhone users would agree.

On stock devices, users could enable Low Power Mode while charging to juice up their handset’s battery faster, but if you’re jailbroken, then you can take advantage of a far more effective solution that comes in a form of a new and free jailbreak tweak dubbed PowerUp by iOS developers Kurrt and Squiddy.

Carrierizer2 can replace your Status Bar’s carrier text with something better

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 25, 2020

Customizing the Status Bar’s carrier text is a modification that hasn’t lost even an ounce of its popularity since the dawn of iPhone jailbreaking more than decade ago. How you go about it, on the other hand, depends entirely on you.

Carrierizer2 is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer CydiaGeek that lets pwned iPhone users customize their Status Bar’s carrier text in more ways than one. Whether you prefer keeping things simple by replacing the carrier text with a custom text string or something more advanced like your IP address or temperature, this tweak brings a lot to the table that might be worth checking out.

How to manage location data access for iPhone and iPad widgets

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated July 15, 2025

Learn how to adjust location access for widgets on your iPhone and iPad and selectively revoke access to your GPS coordinates for a bit more privacy.

Apple supply partner Foxconn may open a factory to build iPhones in Mexico

Evan Selleck ∙ August 24, 2020

Apple itself has already started to branch out as far as its plans to manufacturer iPhones around the globe is concerned. Now, Foxconn and other supply partners are eyeing Mexico as another potential manufacturing location.

How to remove a specific featured image from your Home Screen Photos widget on iPhone and iPad

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated May 18, 2022

The Photos app widget on your iPhone and iPad Home Screen uses artificial intelligence to surface and rotate images that Siri intelligence thinks you might like. But what if the widget pops up an image you don’t like? In that case, follow our brief tutorial as we walk you through removing a specific featured image from the iOS Photos widget.

Lyrication v2 adds slick music lyric support iOS’ Now Playing interfaces

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated October 16, 2024

Music enriches our lives at a spiritual level, and that’s one of the reasons why it can be so enjoyable to turn on the radio when you’re at work or undertaking a menial task. But if you’ve ever listened to a song and couldn’t distinguish its lyrics before, then you’d understand easy access to song lyrics is such an imperative ingredient for the ideal mobile music player, much like your iPhone.

Many music streaming applications already come with lyric functions out of the box, but this only applies to when you’re in that particular app. Apple could and should make the user experience more useful by allowing lyric viewing from the Now Playing widget anywhere in iOS, and that’s one reason why a free jailbreak tweak called Lyrication v2 by iOS developer Marcel Braun exists.

Cydia Substrate updated to version 0.9.7109 with more bug fixes

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 23, 2020

Following a pair of updates released for both the Cydia Substrate and Substrate Safe Mode packages bright and early Sunday morning, it seems that Saurik has pushed a second update for the Cydia Substrate package Sunday afternoon to fix a few bugs that were introduced in the first update.

The latest version of the Cydia Substrate package is now version 0.9.7109, and according to the change log for this release, Saurik notes the following changes in this release:

Cydia Substrate & Substrate Safe Mode receive twin updates with improvements

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 23, 2020

After a brief hiatus from last month’s rush of Cydia Substrate updates, Saurik appears to be at it again. Starting this morning, checkra1n jailbreak users should be able to refresh their sources and see two notable new updates including Cydia Substrate version 0.9.7108 and Substrate Safe Mode version 0.9.6004.

Both packages are especially important for the checkra1n jailbreak, as one drives tweak injection while the other serves as the last line of defense between jailbreak tweak failures and the possibility of a consequential boot loop. Fortunately, these packages work in tandem to permit jailbreak tweak usage in a safe environment.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: Comet, Merriam, and more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 23, 2020

Got a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, but aren't sure what to do next? This roundup will showcase all the latest jailbreak tweaks in an easy-to-digest list so that you can discern what your next install should be.

As always, we'll kick things off by discussing our favorite releases first. Afterward, we'll outline the rest of this past week's releases in alphabetical order.

Add a splash of color to iOS’ dialer and passcode interfaces with DialerGradient

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated December 9, 2021

Apple’s software user interfaces are somewhat notorious for being both streamlined and professional, but they also tend to be on the bland side of things. The company isn’t known for offering much in the customization department, and this can be a serious pain point for those who demand more personality from their iPhone’s user interface. Fortunately, jailbreak tweaks aplenty can help out with this limiting aspect of iOS.

Enter DialerGradient, a newly released jailbreak tweak by iOS developer NaneraManu that lets iPhone users customize virtually any parameter of their handset’s numeric dialer interfaces, whether it’s the Lock Screen’s passcode interface or the Phone app’s dial pad.

CCTime13 adds a time indicator to the Status Bar in Control Center

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 22, 2020

The iPhone’s Status Bar exists to provide users with pertinent information at a glance. Whether you’re checking to see the current time, your handset’s current signal strength, or how much battery life you’ve got left, chances are you look at it somewhat frequently.

One thing that has always sort of bothered me however is that the Status Bar’s time display disappears when you launch the Control Center interface, and that’s a gripe that a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed CCTime13 by iOS developer 0xkuj aims to solve.

App Switcher Controller lets jailbreakers personalize their multitasking interface

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 22, 2020

Chronic multitaskers are apt to use the iPhone’s App Switcher for rapidly moving between recently-used apps more frequently, but wouldn’t it be great if Apple offered at least some form of user customization for what could be considered one of the iPhone’s most-used interfaces?

If you answered yes to the question above, then we invite you to check out a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed App Switcher Controller by iOS developer Tomasz Poliszuk, as it provides iPhone users with a bevy of options for personalizing the App Switcher interface.