At the beginning of March, we showed you a TrollStore add-on called TrollRecorder by iOS developers 82flex and launchctl that allowed users to record their iPhone’s phone calls without a jailbreak. It did, however, require TrollStore, as this is what gave TrollRecorder the elevated privileges necessitated to make this work.
Despite the iPhone being a phone, it’s amazing how little of my time on it I actually spend making and taking phone calls. Still, when I do, I find that the Phone app lacking certain features that I think should be there.
Wouldn’t you just love it if you had a way to actually understand phone calls when someone who speaks a different language is on the other end? If you answered yes to that question, then a new jailbreak tweak called Live Call Translator by veteran iOS developer Elias Limneos might be for you.
How would you like to have something nicer to look at every time you enter your iPhone passcode or dial a phone number in the Phone app?
Back in 2021, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called YellowPages by iOS developer MiRO92 that that enhanced the incoming caller ID function on jailbroken iPhones by integrating directly with the data provided by the Truecaller app from the App Store.
At the beginning of the year, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called Novus by iOS developer nicho1asdev that reimagined the iPhone’s native Phone app with new features that made it feel like an actual 21st-century app instead of something we’ve been using since the stone ages, and it received lots of praise from us, and deservedly so.
This tutorial shows you how to set up and use Contact Poster to customize phone calls for you, your family, and friends.
Apple has done amazing things to bring the iPhone’s native apps inline with the latest design trends, but the Phone app is starting to show its age. In fact, it hasn’t received any aesthetic facelifts in quite a while, which is why the jailbreak community often tries to make its own improvements.
Learn how to assign any ringtone, text tone, or vibration pattern to a specific contact so that you can tell who’s calling without looking.
One of the primary reasons why we have cell phones, including the likes of the powerful pocket computers we call smartphones, is to be able to place and receive phone calls even when we’re away from home. While the iPhone has one of the best phone call user experiences in the smartphone market today, many jailbreak tweaks can improve upon it.
The Siri smart assistant has learned a new voice command in iOS 16, enabling you to toggle Apple's assistive feature, dubbed Auto-Answer Calls, hands-free.
When you get a call on your iPhone, you also hear the tone, feel the vibration, and see the call screen on your Apple Watch. However, if you don’t like getting calls on your Apple Watch, you have a few options to take care of this. Make sure you go through all of them carefully.