Regulators in the European Union (EU) hit Apple with a huge fine for anti-competitive rules for third-party App Store apps in the Spotify streaming case.
EU just hit Apple with $2B fine over Spotify’s App Store claims
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SiriPlus replaces braindead Siri iOS assistant with either ChatGPT or Gemini AI
There’ve been quite a few Siri-enhancing jailbreak tweaks over the years, but one that I’m particularly excited about is a new release dubbed SiriPlus by iOS developer @_Uckermark because it strives to improve iOS’ assistant’s usefulness.
New upsidedowned tweak enables upside-down orientation on jailbroken iPhones
While you can sometimes rotate your iPhone left or right to enter landscape orientation in many apps, the iPad is the only device that supports multi-directional rotation to include upside-down orientation.
TrollPad enables iPadOS-only features on iPhones, like Stage Manager, grid App Switcher, & floating Dock
In order to keep the iPad and iPhone as two separate platforms, Apple markets iOS and iPadOS as two vastly different operating systems with different features and capabilities. But apart from the larger display that iPads have, there’s virtually no reason why modern iPhones can’t run many of the iPad’s same features.
TrollStore perma-signing utility updated to version 2.0.13 with minor improvements
TrollStore, the popular perma-signing utility by iOS developer Lars Fröder, received an important update early Sunday morning that brought the utility up to version 2.0.13.
Jailbreak news of the week: iPadOS 18 to drop support for checkm8 iPads, Dopamine updates, & more…
You can always count on your friends at iDownloadBlog to brief you throughout the week about the latest jailbreak news as it happens, but to help people who miss out on the action, we wrap things up every weekend.
Two new packages allow pairing newer Apple Watches with older iOS firmware versions
By now, most people who are jailbreaking (or running outdated iPhone firmware in the hopes of jailbreaking) and trying to pair the newest Apple Watch with their older firmware have heard of the Legizmo series of jailbreak tweaks and a jailed version of Legizmo that works on non-jailbroken devices. But until now, Legizmo hasn’t seen any real competition.
This new jailbreak tweak fixes an issue with images not loading in the YouTube app
Have you ever found yourself coping with an issue where images wouldn’t load in the official YouTube application for iPhone or iPad?
Checkm8-based palera1n jailbreak for arm64 devices updated to v2.0.0 beta 9 with hot fixes & more…
The palera1n checkm8 bootrom exploit-based rootless semi-tethered jailbreak tool for arm64 (A8-A11) devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-17.x received a rare update late last night, officially bringing the project up to version 2.0.0 beta 9.
Brickd, Guap, NutriNote, and other apps to check out this weekend
It's the weekend again everyone, which means it's time for another Apps of the Week roundup! This week we have some great selections for you including a platform for LEGO-lovers, a minimal budget tracker, and an AI-infused nutrition app. And as always, we have a fun new game for you to check out.
Apple backtracks, saying Home Screen web apps in the EU are here to stay
Apple’s iOS 17.4 software won’t prevent people in Europe from saving progressive web apps to the Home Screen of their iPhones after all.
SleeperX updated to bring powerful alarm features to jailbroken iOS 16 devices
SleeperX, which is perhaps one of my favorite jailbreak tweaks ever released for alarms on the iPhone, was recently updated to version 2.0.0 with support for rootless jailbreaks on iOS & iPadOS 16 such as Dopamine v2 and palera1n.