Jailbreak Apps & Tweaks

These are the latest jailbreak apps and tweaks available for your iPhone or iPad. We save you time by highlighting only the best tweaks.

Add useful new options to your Home screen’s 3D Touch menus with 3DTools

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 19, 2019

Whether you have a handset that already supports 3D Touch or Haptic Touch out of the box or you’re using a jailbreak tweak to simulate similar features on an unsupported handset, chances are you’ve used the Home screen-centric app icon menus at least once in your travels.

This interface is somewhat lacking on a bone-stock handset, but with the help of a newly released tweak called 3DTools by iOS developer smokin1337, you can add several useful new items to these menus that promise to augment your Home screen usage exponentially.

BottomToolBar makes it easier to access your iPhone’s most important features

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated March 11, 2020

Those sporting jailbroken iOS devices understand what those without jailbroken iOS devices don’t: the seemingly endless itch to customize and improve your device’s software beyond what Apple designed it to be. Fortunately, we’ve got a tweak that fits this necessity quite well.

Enter BottomToolBar, a newly released jailbreak tweak by iOS developer XCXiao that puts an easy-to-summon shortcut bar at the bottom of your display with fast access to useful shortcuts and information.

SmartBattery can help improve your jailbroken handset’s battery life

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 19, 2019

Apple touted significant gains to battery life with the brand-new iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max handsets at this year’s Keynote, but for those still handling older devices, every drop of precious battery juice is vital to a full days’ worth of digital enjoyment.

If you’re jailbroken and looking to improve your battery life throughout daily usage, then you might want to turn your attention to a newly released jailbreak tweak called SmartBattery by iOS developer elias. Like countless other tweaks before it, SmartBattery plays on iOS’ native Low Power Mode feature while adding oodles of additional options to make it right for you.

Upgrade your iPhone’s Camera app with smoothCamera

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 18, 2019

Apple’s smartphones tend to be top-notch in terms of mobile photography, but if there’s one thing I can’t stand about the iPhone’s native Camera app, it would have to be its black and boxy appearance, which in my opinion, feels particularly constraining.

If you’re interested in upgrading the appearance of your iPhone’s native Camera app, then you just might enjoy a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed smoothCamera by iOS developer CydiaGeek.

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

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 17, 2019

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.

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

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 15, 2019

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

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 15, 2019

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.

This jailbreak tweak lets you play videos in the background via Safari

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 11, 2019

While refreshing my sources in Cydia this week, I happened upon a particularly interesting jailbreak tweak dubbed playbackSafari by iOS developer CydiaGeek. Intrigued by the name and the brief description provided in Cydia’s ‘Changes’ tab, I tapped on the tweak to learn more about it, and I’m glad that I did.

With playbackSafari, you can begin playing a video in the Safari web browser and then close the app or lock your device without experiencing interruptions to the playback. While leaving the app would prevent you from watching the video, it’s worth noting that the audio continues playing in the background.

NoDNDBanner disables the Do Not Disturb banner on iOS 12’s Lock screen

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 10, 2019

If you’re using any of the latest versions of iOS, then you’re probably familiar with the Do Not Disturb banner that rears its ugly head on the Lock screen whenever you have this feature turned on.

While it’s nice to be reminded that Do Not Disturb mode is toggled on, I find the banner to be somewhat intrusive in that it takes up space on the Lock screen and must be manually dismissed. Fortunately, a new and free jailbreak tweak called NoDNDBanner by iOS developer MrGcGamer does away with it automatically.

Cosmos is an excellent all-in-one SpringBoard customization tweak

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 9, 2019

One of the best ways to take advantage of your jailbroken iOS device is to download an all-in-one SpringBoard customization jailbreak tweak. These kinds of tweaks often combine the functionalities of several standalone tweaks into one, giving you the most bang for your buck.

Springtomize is perhaps one of the most well-accepted all-in-one SpringBoard customization tweaks ever made, but it’s not the be all and end all of iOS tweaking; many others, including the more recently released Cosmos tweak by iOS developer Sirius24, are worth taking a look at.

This tweak prevents you from adding duplicate tracks to Music playlists

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 9, 2019

If you take advantage of Apple’s native Music app to enjoy songs from your favorite artists, then you probably already know just how easy it is to add the same song to a playlist more than once.

Although Apple hasn’t integrated any safeguards against duplicate songs in your playlists, iOS developer Frozen Penguin is here with a solution in the form of a new and free jailbreak tweak called Dejavu2.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: CCBrightnessExtended, Docky, Storage3D, and more

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 8, 2019

If you're happily jailbroken on iOS 11 or 12, then you're likely wondering what you should install on your device to make it less boring. Fortunately, this jailbreak tweak roundup can help.

In this roundup, we’ll talk about all the jailbreak tweaks released from Monday, September 2nd to Sunday, September 8th. As usual, we’ll kick things off by discussing our favorites and then wrap everything else up in an outline afterward.