Review

Manually designate your favorite Emojis with Selectmoji

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 7, 2017

Emojis are one of the joys of texting and instant messaging, and iOS integrates them right into the keyboard for your convenience. A feature embedded within the Emoji selector keeps track of the Emojis you use the most often and puts them in a category called “Frequently Used.”

Since you might prefer to manually designate your favorite Emojis for this section, a jailbreak tweak called FavoriteEmojis was recently released for this purpose, but a new competing tweak called Selectmoji by iOS developer Cole Cabral is now available that is said to address some of the shortcomings of the former tweak.

Ventana gives your iPhone a Windows 10-inspired Lock screen

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 6, 2017

We’ve seen tons of Lock screen replacements for jailbroken devices over the years, but for the first time, a new jailbreak tweak dubbed Ventana by iOS developers CoolStar and Jeremy Goulet brings a highly-polished Windows 10-like Lock screen to iOS 10 devices.

As shown above, this tweak is nothing short of a full redesign for the Lock screen, and includes a refreshed look and feel for the date and time indicator, incoming notifications, and Now Playing music interface.

Get notifications when your iPhone switches Wi-Fi networks with this tweak

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 6, 2017

As you leave your home to visit over places, you probably bounce from Wi-Fi network to Wi-Fi network to save your cellular data. In some cases, your device automatically connects to known or trusted Wi-Fi networks, whether you want it to or not.

A new jailbreak tweak called NotifyWiFi10 by iOS developer ichitaso is a Wi-Fi notification management platform that alerts you every time your device connects to different Wi-Fi network. It comes with a slew of features for choosing what happens after connecting to certain ones.

The best jailbreak tweaks for the Volume HUD

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 4, 2017

Perhaps one of the worst experiences in iOS out of the box is the volume HUD; it's clunky and appears right in the middle of the screen as you try to get things done.

Since it gets in the way so much, jailbreak developers have been creating alternative solutions for years, and in this roundup, we'll be talking about the best volume HUD-based jailbreak tweaks that work great with the Yalu jailbreak for iOS 10.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: Auto SilentMe, NFCWriter, QuietWhilePlaying, & more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 2, 2017

The jailbreak community has been somewhat of a roller coaster ride for the last several weeks, slowing down and speeding up from time to time.

In this roundup, we talk about all the jailbreak tweaks that launched throughout the past week, starting with our favorites and then moving on the rest afterwards.

Apply new cosmetics to Control Center with CCSmooth10

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 2, 2017

One of the benefits of having a jailbreak is being able to give your iPhone a new look and feel that's different from every other average Joe on the block. A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed CCSmooth10 by CydiaGeek takes aim at the Control Center interface with this concept in mind.

This tweak comes with a host of options that can make Control Center look totally different than it does out of the box. Its effects are purely cosmetic rather than functional, but to say you can get some awesome effects out of the tweak is an understatement.

BetterPhotoCrop keeps the Notification Center grabber from appearing as you crop images

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 2, 2017

I use the image-cropping tools from my iPhone's Photos app on a daily basis, and I've noticed that I accidentally invoke the Notification Center grabber quite a lot while cropping when I attempt to drag down from the top of the image.

BetterPhotoCrop by iOS developer Andreas Henriksson is a new free jailbreak tweak that moves the cropping interface down enough to prevent the Notification Center grabber from being invoked when you drag down from the top of an image to crop it.

AlternateControls 2 brings an Android-style bottom navigation bar to iOS

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 1, 2017

Available on a wide variety of Android handsets is the bottom navigation bar, and with a jailbreak tweak called AlternateControls 2 by iOS developer Ian Burns, you can bring this functionality to your iPhone as well.

Once installed, the button to the far left will act as a back button, letting you move backwards between interfaces you’ve visited previously, while the center button acts as a virtual Home button and the button to the far right acts as an App Switcher shortcut.

QuietWhilePlaying prevents notifications from interrupting your music playback

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 1, 2017

If you have a pet peeve for incoming notifications interrupting your music when you’re trying to sit back and enjoy a song, then installing a new free jailbreak tweak called QuietWhilePlaying (iOS 10) by iOS developer ijapija00 should be next on your to-do list.

This tweak silences the alert sounds and vibrations associated with incoming notifications, no matter which app they're coming from, whenever you’re actively listening to media.

Ambiance lets your Phillips HUE bulbs take full advantage of your jailbroken iPhone

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 1, 2017

Every so often, a jailbreak tweak emerges that lets you do something out of the ordinary with your iPhone, and a new release called Ambiance by iOS developer Ziph0n is a testament to such tweaks.

Ambience links your jailbroken iPhone and Phillips HUE smart light bulbs together in new and exciting ways, immersing your entire room with color effects based on what you’re doing on your device at a given time.

NFCWriter tweak unlocks your iPhone NFC capabilities

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 30, 2017

At the beginning of May, iOS developer Limneos started tinkering with the iPhone’s NFC chip to allow it talk to third-party NFC tags and accessories that Apple has never allowed its system to talk to before.

At the time, it was just a work in progress and a proof of concept, but Limneos has officially released a new jailbreak tweak in Cydia dubbed NFCWriter that unlocks the full potential of your NFC chip for everyone. It's the first time that the chip has been hacked to this extent, and it opens a whole new realm of possibilities.

Lysithea X brings iOS 11-esque Lock screen music controls to iOS 10

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 30, 2017

In case you haven’t seen it yet, iOS 11 comes with a redesigned Now Playing Lock screen interface. It’s sleeker and takes up less space so you can manage your music playback and see missed notifications in the same place more easily.

Now, a new jailbreak tweak called Lysithea X by iOS developer ijapija00 brings this iOS 11 Now Playing Lock screen interface to jailbroken iOS 10 devices.