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The best folio cases for iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro

This is a list of what we believe are the best folio cases for iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. Folios are cases where, typically, a fold-over flap will cover your handset's display. They often have slots to hold credit cards or cash, but don't necessarily have to. Anyway, here are some of our favorites.

What’s your fondest Apple memory?

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We all have good memories related to Apple. That's the reason we're attached to a brand or a product. At least, that's what science says. Maybe it's the Apple Watch helping you take better care of yourself, or the first time you FaceTimed your crush. These good memories are what make you want to stay on Apple's side, no matter how many times people say the new iPhone has a kitchen stove on its back.

Taille lets you see how much storage space an app is using via 3D Touch

You can determine the amount of storage space that any of your iPhone’s apps are occupying by visiting General > iPhone Storage in the Settings app. Fortunately for those with jailbreaks, there’s an easier way.

Enter Taille, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer MTAC that permits users to ascertain the storage occupancy of any installed app by using a simple 3D Touch (or Haptic Touch where applicable) gesture on its respective Home screen icon.

Chimera v1.3.9 released with boosted exploit reliability on 4K devices

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The Electra Team posted an updated version of the iOS 12-centric Chimera jailbreak tool this week with a focus on jailbreak reliability on older handsets. The latest update brings the Chimera jailbreak tool up to version 1.3.9.

The Electra Team announced the launch of Chimera v1.3.9 via Twitter late last night, noting that it touts a more robust version of the Sock Puppet 3 exploit:

How to change the tempo in GarageBand on Mac and iOS

Change Tempo in GarageBand

The tempo in GarageBand is expressed in beats per minute and is set to 120 by default. But you can change it to match the tempo you need for your song. On iOS, you can change the tempo for your song to a specific value. And on Mac, you also adjust it for the entire song or add tempo points to the Tempo Track so that the tempo changes throughout the song.

This tutorial shows you how to change the tempo for a song in GarageBand.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: Cosmos, Dejavu2, playbacksafari, and more

Apple officially stopped signing iOS 12.4 this week, preventing potential jailbreakers from downgrading to a pwnable firmware. But those who heeded our advice and downgraded when they had the chance can now enjoy one of the best the perks of jailbreaking: installing jailbreak tweaks.

In this roundup, we’ll showcase all the jailbreak tweaks released during the past week from Monday, September 9th to Sunday, September 15th. As usual, we’ll kick things off by discussing our favorites and then wrap things up with an outline of the rest afterward.

This tweak makes the Home Bar display your current battery level

Many of Apple’s latest handsets lack a physical Home button, and instead rely on a software-based Home Bar for App Switcher activation, returning to the Home screen, and unlocking the device. Apart from these functionalities, however, the Home Bar itself is somewhat featureless.

If you’d like to give your iOS device’s Home Bar a welcomed helping of new functionality, then we’d recommend turning your attention to a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called BatteryHomeBar by iOS developer Braxton Anderson.

Retro review: Jetpack Joyride

Jetpack Joyride was one of my favorite games for the iPhone back in 2011. It almost feels like it was yesterday when I played it for the first time. Setting nostalgia aside, this game was well-received by players and reviewers. It wasn't a big surprise, though, giving the fact that it was developed by the studio that brought us Fruit Ninja.

Surprisingly, this game is almost a decade old. Now, there are even plans to make it a tabletop game. As impressive as that is, we need to go back and review Jetpack Joyride to see if it's good for today's standards.

Sileo v1.5.0 beta 1 now available for testing with 2x speed boost and dark mode

The Sileo Team took to the @GetSileo Twitter account early Thursday morning to tease the imminent release of an updated beta version of the Sileo package manager with more than twice the speed performance of the latest public release.

As of just an hour ago, that beta version is now available for testers. Those using the Electra Team’s Chimera or Electra jailbreaks are free to download Sileo Beta v1.5.0 beta 1 from the default repository on each jailbreak: