One thing that hasn’t changed much over the years is the look of the red notification badges that appear over the Home Screen’s app icons whenever they have missed notifications that require attention.
It can be convenient to swipe down from the top of your iPhone’s display to get a brief glance at any missed notifications you might have via Notification Center, but the gesture itself sometimes conflicts with the in-app gestures of games and certain full-screen apps.
There’s certainly no shortage of jailbreak tweaks that modify the look and feel of an iPhone’s volume HUD interface, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the current abundance of options on the market offer the look and feel that each individual jailbreaker might be going for.
When you’re jailbroken, it can be hard to resist the temptation to install a bunch of jailbreak tweaks that augment your user experience. There’s nothing wrong with that, but you’ll quickly come to the realization that the surge of tweak installations adds superfluous preference panes to the Settings app and makes you do more scrolling to get where you’re trying to go.
Some apps and background processes are more CPU-intensive than others. Consequently, those apps and background processes will pound your battery the hardest, resulting in reduced battery life.
If you’re lucky enough to have a jailbroken iOS or iPadOS 14 device in your possession in this day and age, then there are certainly a lot of perks to be enjoyed from the bevy of add-ons available.
When Apple released iOS & iPadOS 14 last Fall, one of the first things that stood out to me was that the brand new App Library interface and how it was limited to smaller handsets such as the iPhone and iPod touch. Unfortunately, iPad users would be out of luck if they wanted to try the App Library.
The iPhone’s native video player certainly gets the job done, but if you’re interested in something a bit more minimalistic, then a new jailbreak tweak called Atlas by iOS developer Chr1s might be for you.
Last month, we showed you a free jailbreak tweak called DNDBadges by iOS developer Ichitaso that turned your Home Screen’s app icon badges purple whenever Do Not Disturb mode was enabled.
Heavy Snapchat users will recognize one particular workflow difference between messaging via the Snapchat app and messaging via Apple’s Messages app, be it iMessage or SMS; more specifically, it’s the lack of a Send button in the text field where you compose your message.
If you’ve tried to change video playback quality in the YouTube app recently, then you’ve likely come face-to-face with the platform’s new video playback quality selector.
Anyone who uses YouTube religiously will likely have noticed a new feature in the app recently called Shorts. These are effectively short videos that YouTubers can publish to their channel, mostly to attract viewers.