Apple on Monday seeded seventh betas of iOS 11, macOS High Sierra 10.13, watchOS 4 and tvOS 11 to developers.
Apple seeds beta 7 of iOS 11, macOS High Sierra 10.13, watchOS 4 & tvOS 11
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Yes, your iPhone can snap photos of today’s eclipse without a special solar filter
You can take photographs of today's solar eclipse with your iPhone without having to buy a special solar filter to protect the lens, a company spokesperson recently told USA Today.
iOS 11 squashes a bug which let a $500 guessing box crack iPhone 7 passcodes
Apple has already patched a widely reported vulnerability which made it possible—albeit under some very, very specific circumstances—to crack an iPhone 7 passcode using a dedicated $500 hardware guessing box, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch last weekend.
WSJ: iPhone 8’s deep-sensing 3D scanner works in complete darkness
iPhone 8 is said to pack in sophisticated 3D sensors on its front and back capable of scanning a user's face within “millionths of a second”. The Wall Street Journal has now learned that the phone's deep-sensing scanners work in low-light situations, even in complete darkness.
iPhone 8’s new 3D sensors can reportedly sense a face within millionths of a second
According to a new report Monday from the Korea Herald, those 3D sensors said to be coming to iPhone 8 will be capable of scanning a user's face within the millionths of a second.
Claimed Apple A11 chip for iPhone 8 shown on blurry images
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the sole supplier of Apple's new A11 processor, recently kicked off mass production of the upcoming chip and last week leak aggregator SlashLeaks posted a pair of blurry images claiming to depict the new processor.
Alleged iPhone 8 OLED display assembly and internal components leak
Following our first iPhone 8 component leak in the form of a purported inductive wireless charging printed circuit board last week, more alleged parts for the handset were photographed and posted on Sunday to the Chinese microblogging service Weibo.
Make your Status Bar’s Breadcrumb links look better with Croutons
One of the more useful features Apple integrated into iOS is the Breadcrumb link function, which is accessible from the Status Bar. With it, you can go back to previously-used apps more quickly after you’re redirected to another on your device.
Despite how handy it is, people aren't so fond of their Status Bar getting cluttered up with extra text. Fortunately, iOS developer Sticktron found an aesthetically-pleasing way to improve your Breadcrumb link trail in his new free jailbreak tweak dubbed Croutons (iOS 9/10).
3Edgy5Me, Get Me Home, and other jailbreak tweaks to check out this weekend
Every Sunday, we curate a roundup of all the jailbreak tweaks we show you throughout the work week, and this Sunday is no different.
In this roundup, we'll showcase this week's jailbreak tweak releases, starting with our favorites. We'll move on to all the other tweaks afterward.
Blacken your Status Bar’s background and colorize its text with this tweak
Back in the day, the Status Bar never used to be the same color as the background behind it. Things changed drastically after the major iOS 7 redesign and stayed that way up until now.
If you miss the dual-tone Status Bar look and feel, then you can use a new free jailbreak tweak called Black Status Bar (System Wide) by iOS developer Justin Petkovic to satisfy your needs.
Apple won’t release a fix for Secure Enclave’s exposed decryption key
Following the exposure of the decryption key protecting the firmware software running on the iPhone 5s's Secure Enclave coprocessor that was posted on GitHub yesterday, an Apple source has reportedly said that any customer data securely stored in the cryptography coprocessor remains protected and that the company does not intend to roll out a fix at this time.
EmojiType inserts relevant Emoji in the place of plain text characters
As you type with your iPhone's keyboard, standard plain text characters appear on the screen, but that's not always enough if you're a heavy Emoji user. To insert Emojis, you need to visit the Emoji keyboard and tap on them manually, while the predictive keyboard suggests relevant Emoji from time to time. Nevertheless, it won’t automatically-insert them for you.
If you wish things worked a little differently, then a new free jailbreak tweak called EmojiType by iOS developer Adriano Junior is now available that automatically replaces certain text characters with relevant Emoji characters.