As we first showed you back in 2022, iOS developer PoomSmart has long dabbled with the rear-facing flash on iPhones to see what could be possible by way of jailbreaking. But in more recent times, TrollStore-based add-ons have increased in popularity, especially when many people had access to TrollStore, but were waiting for a jailbreak to launch before Dopamine v2 hit the shelves.
Whenever you take a screenshot on your iPhone or iPad, your display flashes white as a visual cue that designates that a screenshot has been captured and saved to your photo library. But obviously, there are some instances where you might want to go full stealth mode and hide the screenshot flash.
Apple’s latest iPhone commercial says 128GB is “lots of storage.” Wait, is this an old ad that an overzealous advertising manager mistakenly published in 2024 or what?
One of the restrictions you might discover when recording video via Apple’s Camera app is that you can’t turn your iPhone’s flashlight on like you normally can via Control Center.
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Almost everyone knows that their iPhone’s rear-facing LED flash can double as a handy flashlight, and the Control Center toggle makes it supremely easy to access from anywhere in iOS.
Apple used to derail Adobe's now-defunct Flash software as an outdated technology past its prime. But former iOS chief Scott Forstall has revealed a little-known fact: the Cupertino tech giant actually did work with Adobe on trying to make the once-ubiquitous multimedia software work on the iPhone, but the results were just “abysmal” and “embarrassing.”
Following several advance warnings from Adobe in the past three years, the Photoshop maker's Flash Player is gone for good as of today. The browser plug-in will no longer be getting security updates and no new features will be developed going forward. Thankfully, we have instructions for how to remove Flash Player from your Mac computer.
In addition to being a phone and an internet communications device, the iPhone could be described as a digital multitool. A great example is the handset’s rear-facing LED flash, which doubles as a flashlight when we find ourselves stranded in the dark.
Out of the box, a stock iPhone supports use of the aforementioned LED flash as a flashlight via the Lock Screen Quick Action button or the dedicated Control Center module. Users may also adjust the LED brightness in steps if they wish. Unlike a lot of flashlights on the market today, however, the iPhone’s LED flash seems lackluster in the feature department. That’s where a new jailbreak tweak dubbed Tenmetsu by iOS developer Plat-Ykor comes into play.
If a notched iPhone is your daily driver, then you might be familiar with just how easy it is to accidentally activate the rear-facing LED flashlight from the Lock Screen. Even more annoying is when it’s a bright and sunny day outside and you can't see that you have the flashlight feature turned on, therefore forgetting all about it and imposing unnecessary battery drain on your device.
FlashNotify is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Greg0109 that was created to prevent the two aforementioned scenarios from happening to you. As the tweak’s name implies, FlashNotify works by notifying you when you forget to turn off your handset’s rear-facing flash and provides intelligent features for turning it off when this happens.
Apple should unveil a new iMac at its upcoming virtual WWDC event that kicks off June 22.
I often find myself in situations where I require a flashlight, and when one isn’t readily available. When this happens, I’ll do the only logical thing and grab my iPhone to use the LED torch functionality.
There are some cases, however, when using the touch screen to activate my iPhone’s LED torch just isn’t an option, and that’s one reason why I’m excited about the release of a new and free jailbreak tweak called ShakeLight by iOS developer Kritanta.