These are the latest jailbreak apps and tweaks available for your iPhone or iPad. We save you time by highlighting only the best tweaks.
What a week that was! Not so much in terms of jailbreak tweaks, but rather by the surprise release of the TaiG jailbreak, which pretty much came out of nowhere, although we knew progress was made on the iOS 8.3 jailbreak.
We've covered TaiG extensively with many tutorials to use the tool on Windows and Mac, so make sure to check these out if you're looking into jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad.
As far as tweak releases go, this week was pretty meager, but all of them are free, so go at it.
As we mentioned earlier, TaiG has released version 2.1.3 of its jailbreak tool, and it's a significant update as far as fixes go. First and foremost, it works with virtual machines, so you no longer need to modify your virtual machine to use the tool. Secondly, it fixes the 20% hangup. With these things in mind, we thought we'd show you how to jailbreak using this latest TaiG update.
This post is primarily aimed at those who have yet to jailbreak, and are looking for guidance with the latest tool. In the video that follows, we'll show you the proper way to go about jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad, and we'll show you how well the tool runs on a virtual machine.
Good news for those of you still experiencing issues with the TaiG jailbreak for iOS 8.3: a new update for the tool has been released to fix several problems that are still plaguing users.
TaiG 2.1.3 has been released to address some major concerns with the tool, and although it remains a Windows-only app, the update brings changes to the way it responds when used with a virtual machine on Mac and Linux systems. Check out the full change log for all of the details.
Since I imagine that there are probably tons of new jailbreakers since the iOS 8.3 jailbreak touched down, now is a great time to review some of my favorite Cydia tips. But even if you're a seasoned Cydia veteran, you may find a tip or two in this list that you'll find handy. How many of these tips do you use on a regular basis? Watch our video and find out.
iOS 9 has some significant new power saving features that will lend users up to an additional three hours of battery life. Dubbed Low Power Mode in iOS 9, users can eek out up to an extra 3 hours of battery life with the option enabled.
Low Power Mode works by disabling animated wallpapers, Mail Fetch, Background App Refresh, motion effects, and, as recently discovered, throttling the CPU.
Power Saver Mode, a new iOS tweak developed by Elijah Frederickson, tries its best to provide many of the same benefits to jailbroken iPhone users on iOS 8. Power Saver Mode increases contrast, enables Reduce Motion, disables Background App Refresh, location services, Cellular Data when on Wi-Fi, and more.
Sadly, there are still many individuals that cannot successfully jailbreak iOS 8.3 with the TaiG. I understand how insanely frustrating this can be, but also want to help. Trust me, I feel your pain on this, as it's super-frustrating when you see everyone else enjoying their jailbreak and you're stuck with a stock phone.
But don't give up! You're going to do this. Consider some of my tips inside. Some may be obvious, but some may be not so obvious. Whatever you do, just give it a try.
Have you encountered an issue with disappearing icons on your jailbroken iPhone? You're not alone. Quite a few users have complained about the issue after jailbreaking using the TaiG tool for iOS 8.3.
Today, saurik has pushed an update to UIKit Tools to fix that issue. The update, which is version 1.1.10, now officially supports iOS 8.3 and all previous versions of iOS.
Up until now, developers have not had the ability to mark their jailbreak tweaks in Cydia as iOS 8.3 compatible. This is because saurik wanted to ensure the stability of the TaiG iOS 8.3 jailbreak beforehand. Now that TaiG has proved its relative stability, Cydia is now officially open to iOS 8.3 enabled tweaks.
Springtomize 3 is one of the most popular jailbreak tweaks on Cydia, and for good reason. It's basically like 100 tweaks in one, and it allows you to modify the look and feel of your iPad or iPhone to a very high degree.
So when it was revealed that its developer, Filippo Bigarella, recently accepted an internship at Apple, many folks, while happy for Filippo, were concerned about what that could mean for the future of Springtomize. Well, I have good news...
Now that TaiG has updated its iOS 8.3 jailbreak to play nice with Cydia Substrate, it's time to start exploring the vast library of jailbreak apps and tweaks available on Cydia. If you're new to Cydia, or even if you've just been out of the game for a while, it can be overwhelming.
With this in mind, I've compiled a video that showcases 50 different jailbreak tweaks. My goal isn't to be super extensive with the coverage of each tweak, but it's to provide you with an overview of some of the things that are out there and some of the stuff that is possible with jailbreaking.
Watch our video, and be impressed by the sheer breadth and variety of the Cydia catalog!
The latest and greatest version of Ryan Petrich's Activator has graduated from beta status to the default Cydia repos.
If you've been trying to use Activator on your iOS 8.3 jailbreak, you may have encountered problems with the previous version. That's because the previous version wasn't optimized for iOS 8.3. With the release of Activator 1.9.3 final, that has changed, and there's no longer a need to add Ryan's beta repo to take advantage of the update.
If you're already jailbroken, and let's face it, a lot of you are, then you may be wondering how to update your jailbreak to the latest version of TaiG—version 2.1.2. Should you start from scratch, or try to use the TaiG jailbreak tool again? No.
That's because it's super easy to update to the latest version of TaiG directly from Cydia itself. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to get up and running on the latest version of TaiG, which fixes all sorts of bugs, in just a few minutes.