“Frame of Preference” is a beautiful website that chronicles the history and evolution of the Mac's settings design in exquisite detail with interactive features.
Apple has added a bunch of new actions for its Shortcuts app, including ones for changing various settings in the built-in apps.
Learn how to change default apps for emailing, calling, web browsing, and more on your iPhone or iPad to use third-party solutions instead of built-in ones.
If you have any interest at all in customizing the layout of your jailbroken iPhone’s Settings app, either by removing unwanted items, colorizing the interface, or re-organizing preference panes to make them more accessible, then we think you’d do well in checking out a free jailbreak tweak called SettingsRevamp by iOS developer SOPPPRA.
For some people, installing jailbreak tweaks is a big part of why they jailbreak. After all, who doesn’t like modifying the stock behavior of their pwned handset in big and expressive ways?
It was only yesterday that we reported about the palera1n team’s latest update to the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool for up to A11 devices, which officially added support for iPadOS 18 for the first time.
The reworded “Unknown Part” repair prompt in iOS 17.5’s Settings app no longer shames folks who dare use affordable aftermarket parts for their iPhones.
Something that I find annoying about the iPhone, and certainly many would agree, is that after using an aftermarket part to replace a broken iPhone component, iOS stains your Settings → About screen with a message about how the part isn’t genuine with an “Unknown Part” prompt.
Just a couple of weeks ago, we showed you an add-on for MacDirtyCow devices called Plampy UI by YangJii that enabled a spiffy new look and feel for the Control Center user interface by way of new icon glyphs.
How would you like it if your iPhone’s Settings app icons took the appearance of a Samsung Android device? Even better… what if you could do that without jailbreaking? Interested yet?
The Settings app is the primary place where iPhone users can change device behavior and options, but depending on your tastes, you might find the organization to be less than optimal.
Just a couple of years ago, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called OneSettings by iOS developer Nightwind that could mimic the Settings layout of Samsung’s OneUI on the iPhone.