For some people, being able to charge their iPhone’s battery up as quickly as possible is important, especially when you’re crunched for time. For example, leaving the house and wanting every last drop of power deposited into your iPhone’s built-in battery before your wife yells, “come on, we’re going to be late!”
It wasn’t that long ago that we showed you a new jailbreak tweak called CatScript by iOS developer 0x530c, which enabled those with pwned iPhones and iPads to create customized Python automation scrips on-device and then run them remotely, such as from a Mac or PC.
Back in August of last year, we showed you a fun and quirky jailbreak tweak called Shijima (Shimeji for iOS) by iOS developer pixelomer that brought Shimeji-inspired desktop pets to jailbroken installations of iOS & iPadOS.
It’s no secret that you can change the skin tone of your favorite Emojis on your iPhone or iPad to give your messages more character, expression, and personalization, but doing so isn’t without its quirks. For example, you’ll need to set the skin tones for your Emojis one-by-one, which can be a painstaking process.
What if you could have all the freedom in the world to create customized automation scripts on your iPhone or iPad? Well… wonder no longer, because it’s a reality with the release of a new jailbreak tweak called CatScript by iOS developer 0x530c.
One of my biggest qualms with the Lock Screen on any iPhone or iPad is the fact that the number pad for passcode entry always has the same layout. This means that even if someone who’s glancing over your shoulder doesn’t know exactly what numbers you’re tapping on, they can instead easily memorize the positions of the number buttons you tap on to gain access to your device.
If you’ve been jailbreaking iPhones as long as I have, then you may remember a once prominent jailbreak tweak for upgrading what used to be a rather abysmal Messages app user experience called biteSMS.
Unless you begin charging your iPhone with a MagSafe or Qi2-enabled wireless charger, there isn’t much of a charging animation to speak of. iOS developer Mysteryexe decided to change that, and so a free jailbreak tweak called Sanjeh was conceived.
You may have heard of the terms backgrounded and foregrounded apps before, which essentially refer to apps that run in the background while you do things in other apps and interfaces, or apps that run in the foreground as the front-and-center user interface that you’re actively using.
Apple knew that iPhone users were starving for new features in the stock Calculator app, which is just one reason why there were so many improvements in iOS 18 following what felt like years’ of neglect. But if you’re on an earlier, perhaps jailbroken firmware, then you might be wondering how you can improve your existing Calculator app without updating.
One thing we’re seeing a lot of lately is artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how we communicate with others. It used to be that you would visit a website and enter some information to get some output from the AI service, but increasingly those AI services are getting integrated into our devices’ operating systems through software and APIs.
Toward the end of last week, iOS developer and security researcher @alfiecg_dev posted a teaser video on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) of what appears to be a new breed of iOS 14 jailbreak running on an iPhone 7.