Jailbreak tweaks aren’t always utilitarian or specifically made for a purpose. Sometimes they’re designed by developers, tongue-in-cheek, because those developers want to incite laughter among iPhone owners or get more people talking about jailbreaking.
On notched iPhones, such as the iPhone X and newer, holding down on the sleep/wake button invokes the Siri voice assistant. Consequently, users of these devices need to perform button trickery (volume up, volume down, then press and hold sleep/wake) to summon the power menu.
The things you can do with Artificial Intelligence (AI) these days is incredible, and we have a feeling that it’s only going to keep getting better as time marches on. But if you’re donning a jailbroken iPhone or iPad and you find AI to be especially thrilling or useful, then you might take an interest in a newly released jailbreak tweak called Write Now by iOS developers 82flex and launchctl.
The Lock Screen is home to the passcode entry interface, which you as the iPhone or iPad user will generally only ever see when your Face ID/Touch ID authentication fails, or when you fully reboot your device. While there are other instances when the passcode entry interface may appear, they’re a lot less frequent than the aforementioned.
Because hacking and jailbreaking iPhones and iPads is a major part of what we cover here at iDB, the news pipeline moves fast day by day, and it can be easy to miss something important if you’re interested in this space.
The RootHide Procursus-based bootstrap for TrollStore received a new beta update early Thursday morning, officially bringing it up to version 1.2.4 beta.
It wasn’t too long ago that we showed you a jailbreak tweak called Oneko that added a pet cat to your iPhone’s screen that would follow every tap you made in virtually any interface.
Most people regard the iPhone as one of the most accessible mobile devices out there, and this is because Apple puts a lot of time and effort into its user interface design so make it as easy to use as humanly possible. That said, it astounds me that jailbreak tweak developers always find ways to improve on it.
Aemulo, one of the most comprehensive jailbreak tweaks for tinkering with the Near Field Communications (NFC) capabilities of jailbroken iPhones, has apparently moved from the Chariz to the Havoc repository in a move that developer Amy While (@elihwyma) says is primarily motivated by the need for alternative payment options.
While the jailbreak community certainly isn’t bustling with a new jailbreak every few months like the glory days, there are still tons of developers maintaining jailbreaks and tweaks to further the dream.
Sideloading apps has become a popular pastime for iPhone & iPad owners because it allows them to install apps that are otherwise restricted from being distributed on the App Store. Unfortunately, installing apps in this manner can be a double-edged sword because you’re limited to sideloading a certain number of apps with a free Apple developer account.
What do you get when you combine beautiful gradient-based wallpapers with animations? Eye candy; but that answer should be obvious, of course.