If you look at the Lock Screen’s Now Playing media interface on an iOS 16 device beside an iOS 15 device, then you should notice some aesthetic differences.
Live Activities are a feature introduced by Apple in iOS 16 to make your iPhone display useful information via the Lock Screen. Live Activities are interactive notifications that may show information such as your Uber progress, sports scores, or a wide array of other information types.
You’ve made it to iDB’s weekly roundup of the latest iPhone and iPad hacking news, where we show you what’s new in the jailbreak community, bug and exploitation developments, and anything else that may interest you if you enjoy these kinds of stories from this past week.
If there’s one thing that the jailbreak community always responds well to, it’s a single jailbreak tweak that does it all such that it becomes unnecessary to install several smaller tweaks to do essentially the same thing.
Have you ever wanted to hide your iPhone’s Status Bar, but couldn’t because you weren’t jailbroken? If you answered yes to that question, then you’d be in luck.
If you like widgets, namely those that make use of HTML and JavaScript, then you know just how powerful they can be. But the popular jailbreak tweaks that make them possible, such as Xen HTML and FrontBoard are said to have limitations that HTMLWidget doesn’t have.
People that like changing the look and feel of their iPhone or iPad often turn to themes to do exactly that. Fortunately, creators are always launching eye-candy themes to make things more exciting every time you look at your Home Screen.
If you’ve ever looked at your iPhone or iPad’s display and thought to yourself, “man, I wish I could play with the resolution settings like I can on almost any desktop computer,” then you might be in luck.
If you’re trying to find out what happened in the iPhone hacking community this past week, whether it’s related to jailbreaking, the TrollStore app, or the MacDirtyCow bug, then you’ve come to the right place.
If you’re one to stay on the lowest possible firmware and avoid software updates because you’re hopeful that a jailbreak could eventually come for your iPhone or iPad, then you’ve proven your wisdom. But that won’t stop a badge from appearing on your Settings app at some point after your device learns that it has a pending software update.
If you’re jailbroken on iOS or iPadOS 15 or 16, then you can take advantage of a jailbreak tweak called SmartNetwork iOS 15-16 by iOS developer Elias Sfeir to enjoy more advanced network-centric features than you would have on any stock device.
You’ve just stumbled upon iDB’s weekly roundup of iPhone jailbreaking and hacking news, where we hand-pick our favorite news, reviews, and tutorials related to these sectors from the past work week and pack it all into one convenient place to help ensure you don’t miss a beat.