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Ryan Petrich’s new Powercuff tweak can extend your iPhone’s battery life

Low Power Mode.

Most people are supremely familiar with the iPhone’s native Low Power Mode setting, which can be toggled from Control Center or Settings to reduce the handset’s power draw and extend its battery life in specific situations. But what if you could do more to extend your battery life further?

Famed iOS developer Ryan Petrich was doing a bit of digging into iOS 13 when he happened upon some peculiar settings buried deep within the mobile operating system’s resources. According to Petrich, these settings can benefit the end user by reducing power draw on the handset’s battery, and so he released a new and free jailbreak tweak called Powercuff to bring these options into the light for anyone with a pwned handset:

CCBalance adds an audio balance slider to Control Center

Whether you have a hearing impairment, a faulty iPhone speaker, or a poorly recorded piece of audio that you want to listen to, having the ability to adjust your handset’s audio balance is sometime some audio connoisseurs might consider an essential feature. So why does Apple make it such a PITA to access?

iOS developer KingPuffdaddi recognized that something needed to be done about this, and a newly released jailbreak tweak called CCBalance was conceived. And just as the name implies, this tweak adds an audio balance control to Control Center.

Apple’s has brought back the nagging — you can no longer ignore major macOS updates

After installing yesterday's security updates for older macOS versions, people can no longer get rid of that pesky macOS Catalina upgrade reminder with a Terminal command. If you've already installed the macOS Catalina 10.15.5, avoiding those nagging macOS update notifications no longer works because ignoring major macOS software releases has been officially deprecated.