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Checkra1n team gets jailbreak working on iOS 14 beta

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 24, 2020

It was only a couple of days ago that Apple unveiled iOS and iPadOS 14 during the company’s WWDC 2020 keynote. Shortly after that, Apple launched its first developer beta of the updated mobile operating systems, allowing developers to go hands-on with the new features and prepare their apps for the update before it launches sometime this Fall.

While iOS and iPadOS 14 snagged a ton of features from the jailbreak community as Apple does every year with each substantial release, it doesn’t seem like jailbreaking will be going anywhere any time soon. In a Tweet shared late last night, checkra1n team co-developer Dany Lisiansky shared a teaser screenshot of the checkra1n jailbreak on the first iOS 14 beta:

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Fourteen features iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 ‘borrowed’ from the jailbreak community

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated October 2, 2020

Apple’s WWDC presentation for 2020 brought with it the unveiling of iOS and iPadOS 14, the premier operating systems for the company’s iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad platforms. While these updates will unquestionably incorporate countless new improvements by way of new features and user-friendly interfaces, it’s worth noting that the jailbreak community provided access to many of those features before Apple.

In this piece, we’ll discuss at least fourteen new features from Apple’s upcoming iOS and iPadOS 14 software updates that jailbreakers have enjoyed access to for what feels like forever thanks to the boundless possibilities presented by jailbreak tweaks.

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Apple shares WWDC 2020 Day 1 recap video and keynote replay on YouTube

Christian Zibreg ∙ June 23, 2020

Following yesterday's pre-recorded WWDC 2020 keynote speech, Apple pushed to its official YouTube channel a replay video of the even for those who prefer to relive the keynote on their own time. In addition, the iPhone maker published one of its nicely done event recap videos which compresses highlights of the most important announcements in less than two minutes.

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Colorize the page dots on your jailbroken handset with Dots color

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 23, 2020

Jailbreakers can customize virtually anything they want about their iPhone or iPad’s user experience and behavior, but if you consider yourself a bit of a minimalist and prefer subtler changes over the more extravagant ones, then we think you might want to try a new and free jailbreak tweak release called Dots color by iOS developer 8a1wkar.

Just as the tweak’s name implies, Dots color lets users apply a custom color to the paging dots that typically appear on the Home Screen and Lock Screen. As you’ll see in the screenshot examples above, the selected page dot remains white, whereas the deselected page dots appear red instead of grayed out.

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