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Apple under fire for Independent Repair Program shop contracts
In August of last year, Apple launched the Independent Repair Program (IRP), which permits independent repair shops to fix out-of-warranty Apple-branded products like the iPhone.
LG confirms Dolby Atmos support coming to Apple TV app, AirPlay 2 later this year
Earlier this week, LG started rolling out the Apple TV app to compatible 2019 smart TV models.
Wacom graphics tablets have been found to log every Mac app you open
Software engineer Robert Heaton discovered that Wacom's drawing tablets track the name of apps you open on your Mac along with the time and a string that could be used to identify you.
tvOS 13.4 beta hints at upcoming Apple TV 4K hardware update
It has been a bit of time since Apple released the Apple TV 4K, and it may be time for the company to refresh the hardware.
Last chance to downgrade to iOS 13.3 on A12/A13 for potential jailbreak eligibility
The news that hacker and iOS security researcher Brandon Azad would be releasing a tfp0 exploit POC for the iPhone 11 on iOS 13.3 took the jailbreak community by storm, and it didn’t take long before unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd responded with plans to update unc0ver when it gets released.
Many questions have been circulating about whether this exploit would work on older devices or whether it would support older versions of iOS. Fortunately, Pwn20wnd has taken to Twitter to answer many of these questions and to prepare the jailbreak community for great things to come.
Screen Time’s Communication Limits feature comes to the Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15.4
The first developer beta of what would become the fourth major update to the macOS Catalina software was issued to developers yesterday. Among other fixes and improvements, the update brings the Communication Limits feature in Screen Time to the Mac for the first time.
Twitter issues a fix for missing polls on iOS, now lets you disable the search column on iPad
Twitter today updated its mobile app on App Store, fixing an issue that caused polls to disappear from iOS whilst adding a toggle to turn the search column on the iPad on or off.
Checkra1n team launches PongoKit for checkm8-vulnerable iOS devices
The checkra1n team is best known for their checkm8 bootrom exploit-based checkra1n jailbreak tool, which just yesterday picked up support for Linux after being macOS-only for several months. We’ve known for quite some time that the checkra1n team intended to delve into more than just jailbreaking with the checkm8 bootrom exploit, and the fruits of such research are finally starting to surface.
The checkra1n team took to Twitter early Thursday morning to announce the initial release of PongoKit, a highly experimental and developer-only SDK that should help permit the deployment of other platforms on checkm8 vulnerable iOS devices:
AutoScroll prevents finger fatigue when scrolling a lot on your iPhone
As Steve Jobs once said, your finger is the best pointing device for your iPhone. But with enough manual scrolling effort, it may not take long before you start to experience finger fatigue, especially when reading lengthy websites or eBooks.
Those looking for a solution to the finger fatigue problem when scrolling endlessly may enjoy a newly released jailbreak tweak called AutoScroll by iOS developer pxcex. Just as the name implies, this add-on incorporates automatic scrolling into iOS.
Zebra v1.0.7 fixes a crash when sorting repositories alphabetically
If you use Zebra on your jailbroken iPhone or iPad, then you may want to launch your preferred package manager and refresh your sources.
Zebra has received a fresh update this Wednesday afternoon, and if you’ve been keeping track, today’s update officially brings the app up to version 1.0.7.
iOS 13.4 beta welcomes nine new Memoji stickers
If you have been eager to see new Memoji sticker types arrive for iOS, the wait is almost over.