Depending on how long you’ve been jailbreaking iPhones, you might recall a jailbreak tweak called Harlem Shake by former tweak developer Filippo Bigarella that brought fun and quirky animations to your iPhone’s Home Screen, Lock Screen, and the likes. We covered that release back in 2013, and it was a popular addition back then.
The iDownloadBlog team is always following the latest trends in the iPhone and iPad jailbreak communities to keep our readers apprised of developments as they happen. Some weeks are faster paced than others, while some are slower. In any case, we’re here, reporting on what transpires for our readers.
It was only a couple of days ago that the RootHide team seeded two public betas of the RootHide bootstrap for iOS & iPadOS 14.0-17.0 devices with A8-A17 and M1-M2 chips. Fortunately, things went well since the beta testing didn’t last that long.
When you’re using certain apps, it can be a real pain to scroll through what feels like an infinite feed of information, especially when it comes to social media-centric apps like Facebook, 𝕏, and YouTube. But what if we told you there was an easier way to scroll without all the finger fatigue?
As many iMessage users know, there are certain keywords that you can send to others to trigger animations during special events. For example, sending “Congrats” triggers a confetti animation, sending “Happy Birthday” triggers a balloons animation, and sending “Happy New Year” triggers a fireworks animation.
Monday was a day of updates for the RootHide bootstrap, a special bootstrap that lets users install and use jailbreak tweaks from a package manager app like Sileo just as they can on a jailbroken device, but without a full-fledged jailbreak and all the privileges that come with it.
While the stock Notification Center on your iPhone or iPad might be enough for viewing missed notification and interacting with them, iOS developer iamdega wanted something a bit more, and as a result, their gift to the community is a new jailbreak tweak called NotificationHub that we think is worth taking a closer look at.
Tracking down the latest news in the realms of iPhone hacking and jailbreaking comprises of a significant portion of what we do here at iDownloadBlog. For that reason, we cover stories as they happen in real time, but we also try to ensure our readers have a quick and easy weekend digest so that they can get caught up when they miss important news during the busy work week.
Looking to spice up your jailbroken iPhone’s Lock Screen? If so, then look no further than AniTime, a new jailbreak tweak by iOS developer yandevelop that gives your iPhone’s Lock Screen an animated anime-inspired time display experience.
The iDownloadBlog team covers iPhone and iPad jailbreak news as it breaks, but we also review jailbreak tweaks, write about important updates to software, and discuss our opinion on the state of events on a regular basis. But for those who can’t keep up, we have these convenient weekend roundup pieces that pull everything together into a newspaper-like compilation so you can see everything at a glance.
When you rock a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, one of the cardinal rules you follow is staying on the lowest possible firmware (or the newest jailbreakable firmware) at any given time. When you do this, software updates will quickly outpace you, and some App Store apps may require you to actually update for device’s firmware to use them.
Your friends at iDownloadBlog are avid fans of jailbreaking iPhones and iPads. We’ve done it for more than a decade, and it’s a fun experience that we still partake in despite the slowing of new releases and jailbreak tools.