Apple could market its rumored second-generation iPhone SE as "iPhone 9," not "iPhone SE 2".
iPhone SE 2 might be named iPhone 9
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Bloomberg: Samsung Galaxy S11 to sport a 108-megapixel sensor, 5x optical zoom
Samsung reportedly plans on countering Apple's improved camera system on the latest iPhone 11 series with a "giant photographic arsenal" strapped to the back of its 2020 flagship phones.
How to fix apps not updating on iPhone or iPad
Are some of your App Store updates getting stuck? Here are a few things you can try to help get things moving again.
How to instantly remove all Apple Pay cards from your device at once
You can remove a payment or transit card from Apple Pay at any time, but the option to remove all cards at once from your device is hidden in plain sight. But worry not, girls and boys, iDownloadBlog comes to the rescue. Just follow this step-by-step tutorial to learn how you can remove all Apple Pay cards from your Apple device in one fell swoop.
People are beginning to wonder whether Apple is engaged in constant location surveillance
A recent probe by US lawmakers has poked holes in the elevated privacy features that are available on the iPhone and iPad with the iOS 13 software, including notifications when apps such as Google Maps are tracking your location, deeming those changes “anti-competitive”.
iPhone 11 Pro reportedly collects location data even when told not to
Apple's latest iPhone 11 Pro model has been found to continuously collect and transmit your location data even when specifically told not to.
Watermelon brings Apple Watch Complications to iOS
One of the reasons I love my Apple Watch so much is having the ability to glance at my wrist to see information from Complications. On the other hand, I spend most of my time using my iPhone as opposed to my Apple Watch, and it’d be nice to have watchOS-like Complications present on my iOS devices.
If you’re thinking along the same lines I am, then you might be interested in a newly released jailbreak tweak called Watermelon by iOS developer LaughingQuoll.
This tweak makes YouTube videos look nicer on notched iPhones
When watching videos in the YouTube app for iOS, those with notched handsets can view them one of two ways when the handset is in landscape orientation: 1) zoomed out such that the notch remains hidden in the video’s black side border; and 2) zoomed in such that the notch physically cuts into the video frame. Switching between these modes is as easy as using a pinch gesture while a video is playing.
As you might have noticed by now, some YouTube videos take better advantage of the wider display canvas, filling the display up to where the notch begins. This usually depends solely on the aspect ratio of the videographer’s filming equipment, but with the help of a new jailbreak tweak called UniZoom by iOS developer Lavie Gariv, users can synthetically impose similar scaling effects on virtually any video on YouTube.
How to use Express Transit to quickly pay for rides via Apple Pay on iPhone and Apple Watch
Thanks to the Express Transit feature that's available through Apple Pay, you can hop on the tube, buses, trams, light rail and overground rail in major cities and pay for your public transit journeys just by holding your iPhone or Apple Watch close to the contactless NFC terminal, no need to press any buttons or verify with Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode whatsoever.
Maple 2 brings configurable AirPower-like charging aesthetics to jailbroken handsets
Before Apple abandoned its plan to release a first-party all-in-one wireless charging station slated to be called AirPower, the company also showed off some rather appealing charging banners and animations to accompany it. Sadly, those quirky bells and whistles died with AirPower, and Apple never bothered to enable them for other Qi-enabled wireless charging solutions.
Jailbreakers don’t have to do without, however. Maple 2 is a newly released jailbreak tweak by iOS developer LaughingQuoll that brings these fantastic charging features to pwned devices, and even better, the tweak can be customized more profoundly than Apple ever would have permitted out of the box in a native implementation.
Unc0ver jailbreak updated to v3.7.0 beta 4 with minor changes
Despite all the hype surrounding the checkra1n jailbreak in recent memory, hacker and unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd is reminding everyone that he’s still around with a new public beta release of his renowned iOS 11 and 12-centric jailbreak tool Monday evening.
Pwn20wnd didn’t share any status updates on Twitter about the new unc0ver public beta v3.7.0 beta 4, and perhaps unsurprisingly, that’s because this appears to be a relatively minor update dealing with Cydia and tweak injection methods.
Apple halts downgrades from iOS 13.2.3 by unsigning iOS 13.2.2
Apple systematically stops signing older mobile software releases as newer ones become available. Given the company’s track record in this regard, it should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the matter that Apple has stopped signing iOS 13.2.2 Monday evening, a move that effectively averts firmware downgrades from the newer iOS 13.2.3 that Apple released approximately two weeks ago with miscellaneous bug fixes.
There are two primary reasons why someone would want to downgrade their firmware in the first place, with the first being to revert back to an older version of iOS after a new release breaks functionality or introduces unwanted bugs, and the second being to restore the device to a jailbreakable firmware after a software update patches the necessary exploits used by a tool.