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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.

Pwn20wnd teases significant progress on A12(X) support to unc0ver

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 17, 2019

Those heavily invested in the jailbreak community will be happy to hear that Pwn20wnd teased significant progress on the much-awaited A12(X) jailbreak with Cydia support Tuesday afternoon. The hacker shared a series of Tweets about all the work that went into making the jailbreak experience on unc0ver as good as humanly possible.

According to Pwn20wnd, Cydia support on A12(X) will be PAC-less, which means it won’t use traditional kernel patches for total handset liberation as current jailbreak solutions do. What’s more is the implementation has been totally rewritten from scratch in an effort to address performance and stability:

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.

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

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 17, 2019

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:

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.

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

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 12, 2019

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:

Apple stops signing iOS 12.4, preventing downgrades to a jailbreakable firmware

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 11, 2019

We all knew it was coming, and now it’s official – iOS 12.4 is no longer being signed by Apple.

The Cupertino-based big tech company closed the signing window for iOS 12.4 late Wednesday evening, effectively preventing downgrades from the newer iOS 12.4.1 release, which was released more than two weeks ago to re-patch the Sock Puppet exploit that Apple inadvertently un-patched in iOS 12.4.

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.