AirPods Pro

Banana brings automatic ANC and Transparency mode switching to AirPods Pro

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 9, 2020
AirPods Pro

If you’re lucky enough to own a pair of Apple’s new AirPods Pro, then you already know just how great their active noise cancellation is in terms of augmenting your audio’s sound quality. On the other hand, we can think of a few different ways that the implementation in iOS could be improved in daily usage.

Enter Banana, a new and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer LaughingQuoll that makes the AirPods Pro’s transition from active noise cancellation mode to transparency mode an automatic process, depending on what the user is doing.

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Clean up and disinfect your AirPods or AirPods Pro like a pro with the Just Away kit

Christian Zibreg ∙ December 26, 2019
AirPods Pro

My AirPods are kinda gross. I've followed Apple's cleaning instructions to the letter the first couple of times I've used my earbuds only to fail to develop a habit of cleaning them on a regular basis. But with the Just Away cleaning kit, you can easily remove accumulated dust, pull out wax residues (that's the gross part I mentioned) and even disinfect your AirPods or AirPods Pro in order to kill any germs or bacteria before you pop them in your ears again.

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Maple 2 brings configurable AirPower-like charging aesthetics to jailbroken handsets

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated November 8, 2021

Before Apple abandoned its plan to release a first-party all-in-one wireless charging station slated to be called AirPower, the company also showed off some rather appealing charging banners and animations to accompany it. Sadly, those quirky bells and whistles died with AirPower, and Apple never bothered to enable them for other Qi-enabled wireless charging solutions.

Jailbreakers don’t have to do without, however. Maple 2 is a newly released jailbreak tweak by iOS developer LaughingQuoll that brings these fantastic charging features to pwned devices, and even better, the tweak can be customized more profoundly than Apple ever would have permitted out of the box in a native implementation.

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