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TapMe plays custom sounds when launching iPhone apps

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated December 27, 2021

Feeling a bit bored with the app-launching experience on your iPhone? We wouldn’t blame you… Apple doesn’t offer much by way of customization in this department, and it’s not like much has changed since the iPhone initially launched in 2009 apart from some rather insignificant animation adjustments.

If you’re jailbroken and you’re looking for a way to spice things up on the Home screen, then we think you’ll come to appreciate a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called TapMe by iOS developer alex_png. This tweak can be used to supplement the app-launching experience on your iPhone with custom sounds and haptic feedback.

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Waqt adds the date to your iPhone’s Status Bar

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 18, 2020

Apple programmed iOS in such a way that the iPhone’s Status Bar would display the current time. But unlike the iPhone’s larger cousin, the iPad, its Status Bar doesn’t display other pertinent time-centric information like the date.

Fortunately for jailbreakers, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Waqt by iOS developer P2KDev can change this apparent shortcoming on Apple's part.

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These tweaks can improve the YouTube & YouTube Music experiences on iOS

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 18, 2020

Both YouTube and YouTube Music are among some of the most popular entertainment apps available for the iOS platform, but that fact alone doesn’t mean that the services themselves are flawless. Many users share similar gripes when it comes to using these apps, whether it’s too many ads or lack of user configuration.

Fortunately, there are add-ons that can augment the user experience in these apps, and a newly released set of free jailbreak tweaks dubbed YouTube Music Reborn and YouTube Reborn by iOS developer SarahH12099 are absolutely worth checking out if you align yourself with either of the aforementioned complaint cases.

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PowerBar is a BottomToolBar extension that displays battery and power info

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 17, 2020

We’ve covered a plethora of extensions for the popular BottomToolBar tweak including Weather-BottomToolBar and Activity-BottomToolBar among others, but as time goes on, more and more options appear to present themselves in the form of novel BottomToolBar extensions.

The latest of such is a new and free release dubbed PowerBar by iOS developer XCXiao, which much like the name implies, brings a power-centric widget to the BottomToolBar interface.

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Aphrodite is an iOS 13-centric asset catalog editor for jailbreakers

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 17, 2020

Jailbreaking has long been regarded as a means of taking control of your iOS device from Apple. Whether you achieve this by tweaking, theming, or tinkering with the very filesystem itself, there’s a little something for everyone. But sometimes, being handed this much freedom over your device in one fell swoop can seem just a teeny bit complicated, if not downright intimidating.

A new beta project dubbed Aphrodite by iOS developer Joey GM aims to make more complex system tinkering more approachable for jailbreakers, whether they’re novices or veterans.

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This new tweak lets jailbreakers colorize iOS’ system toggle switches

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 17, 2020

If you’re jailbroken and looking for a fast and easy way to add a splash of custom color to the iOS user interface, then you just might come to appreciate a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Color Switch by iOS developer ahmedmakls.

Most will probably be able to infer what Color Switch does from the name itself, but for those who are still scratching their heads, the tweak effectively lets you choose the colors for toggle switches used throughout iOS for saving settings.

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Rumor: the new iPhone SE may have 3GB RAM and 1,821mAh battery

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 16, 2020

According to a Chinese carrier listing, the second-generation iPhone SE that Apple announced yesterday likely includes three gigabytes of RAM versus two gigabytes in the original model. Moreover, the new handset is believed to pack in a bigger 1,821mAh battery than the original iPhone SE, which launched in 2016 with a 1,624 mAh cell.

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This tweak brings iPad-style tabbed web browsing to the iPhone

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 16, 2020

One of my favorite parts of browsing the internet on my iPad is having a near-desktop-class web browser at my fingertips. Unfortunately, many of the features that make the iPad version of Safari so convenient to use aren’t present in the iPhone version, such as tabbed browsing.

While you can certainly have more than one web page open at once on the iPhone, switching among them isn’t quite as satisfying as it is on the iPad. Fortunately, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Safari Features by iOS developer HurouofTech brings the iPad’s incredible tabbed browsing experience to jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches.

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FlatURL helps mobile Safari users embrace minimalism

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 16, 2020

To all those jailbreakers out there that are looking for a spicy new way to tech out their mobile Safari web browser, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called FlatURL by iOS developer MTAC just might satisfy your cravings.

FlatURL is a relatively simple interface-centric tweak that, as depicted in the screenshot examples above, gives the Safari app’s search/URL bar a minimal aesthetic by removing its background and making it appear totally unified with the header itself.

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BetterWidgets offers more customization for iOS’ Today widgets

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 16, 2020

Lots of iPhone and iPad users take advantage of iOS’ Today widget system to snag a glance at pertinent information without needing to launch and navigate complex apps. But Apple doesn’t provide much in terms of widget customization.

If you have a jailbroken handset at your disposal, then you can take advantage of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called BetterWidgets by iOS developer ShadowDev to get the customization options that Apple has deprived you of since the Today widget system came to be.

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