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This tweak turns the Safari app on your Home screen into a real compass

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated November 22, 2021
Make the Safari app icon point north like a true compass.

One of my all-time favorite jailbreak tweaks was once LiveClock by iOS developer Ryan Petrich, and while Apple has since implemented its functionality into iOS right out of the box, that never changed my appreciation for small, yet fun and quirky jailbreak tweaks of similar nature.

One of the latest jailbreak tweaks to fall under this category of fun and quirkiness is a new and free release called LiveSafari by iOS developer Skitty. Perhaps unsurprisingly, LiveSafari animates the native Safari app icon on your Home screen such that the compass arrow always points to the North.

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PSA: Jailbreakers and aspiring jailbreakers should not install iOS 12.4

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 22, 2019

After a lengthy beta test period, Apple finally released iOS 12.4 to the public on Monday for iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches alike.

While it can sometimes be tempting to updates to the latest version of iOS to take advantage of the latest new features, performance improvements, and security patches, jailbreakers and aspiring jailbreakers to be will want to steer far away from installing today’s software update.

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Unc0ver v3.3.8 released with updated Sock Port exploit for more devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 22, 2019

We can almost always count on the jailbreak community to have something interesting going on during the week, and today is no different. Pwn20wnd released an updated version of the iOS 11.0-12.2-centric unc0ver jailbreak tool on Monday, officially bringing it up to version 3.3.8.

Pwn20wnd announced the update just this morning via Twitter, noting that it would implement an updated iteration of Jake James’ Sock Port exploit:

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Six reasons watchOS 6 is amazing

Christian Zibreg ∙ July 22, 2019

Unveiled at WWDC 2019, the watchOS 6 software update makes your Apple Watch better and more independent than it's been ever before. Here are iDownloadBlog's six reasons why watchOS 6 is amazing and how it makes your Apple Watch closer to being its own product.

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