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How to see battery percentage when charging Apple Watch in Nightstand mode

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated August 8, 2024

No matter how you charge your Apple Watch—either via its magnetic charging cable or charging dock—doing it in Nightstand mode displays a circular indicator on the screen along with a green lightning bolt inside. The outline gets gradually tinted green to visually denote charge progress, but it's a rough estimate of how full the battery is and as such not very accurate. Here's how you can switch to a more precise percentage display.

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Commander One: a powerful, dual-pane Mac file manager that puts Apple’s Finder to shame [sponsored]

Sponsored Post ∙ Updated January 6, 2019

Managing your files in macOS, browsing network volumes, using Dropbox without downloading data to your Mac, sharing items between iOS devices and your computer and performing other file operations in the Finder—all those everyday tasks leave a lot to be desired. Enter Commander One, a free, productivity-focused Mac file manager from US-based developer Eltima that's everything Apple's annoying Finder wishes it could be, and then some more.

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Colorize your iPhone’s keyboard however you want with Laetus

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated August 25, 2022

One of the most fundamental reasons for owning a jailbroken iPhone or iPad is having the ability to customize it outside of Apple’s stock parameters. If you’re one to enjoy theming or changing the default colors of iOS, then you might appreciate what a free jailbreak tweak called Laetus by iOS developer SparkDev can do for you.

As depicted in the screenshot examples above, Laetus empowers users to colorize iOS’ native keyboard interface with custom colors. With it, you can change the color of the keyboard background and its key text independently of one another.

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Add countdown timers to your pending iPhone alarms with SleepyTime

Anthony Bouchard ∙ December 11, 2018

If you get up for class or work every morning, then you’re probably accustomed to setting the alarm on your iPhone to ensure you wake up early enough. iOS’ alarm interface is rather polished right out of the box, but there’s still room for improvement.

A free jailbreak tweak called SleepyTime by iOS developer SparkDev enhances iOS’ alarm interface by displaying the time remaining before one or more of your alarms fire off.

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Security researcher Jann Horn publishes a privilege escalation bug that was fixed in iOS 12.1.1

Anthony Bouchard ∙ December 10, 2018
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Given everything that’s been happening in the security research space lately, iOS 12 appears to be far from non-exploitable. On the other hand, bugs, exploits, and vulnerabilities for Apple’s latest and greatest operating just keep rolling in with each passing day, and this could potentially be great news for the jailbreak community.

The latest of such occurrences involves a privilege escalation bug for iOS 12.1 and earlier by Jann Horn of Google Project Zero. The security researcher published his notes online regarding the bug Monday afternoon, just five days after Apple publicly released iOS 12.1.1 to patch the bug, along with several others.

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