Shortcuts

How to change your iPhone or iPad wallpaper with a single tap

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated May 5, 2022

Changing the Lock and Home screen wallpapers on your iPhone or iPad requires using the Settings app. Wouldn't it be great if you could change your wallpaper automatically, with a single tap? With wallpaper automation that's now available in iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3, you can do just that. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use a custom workflow in Apple's Shortcuts app to automate changing wallpaper with a single tap of a Home screen icon.

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Wander Shortcuts-based Odyssey jailbreak installer updated to v1.2.1

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 20, 2020

Odyssey jailbreak loyalists were excited to learn about the Wander Shortcuts extension when it launched just under three months ago. With it, Odyssey users could install and update their jailbreak on-device directly through Apple’s native Shortcuts app.

Following the news that the Odyssey jailbreak tool had been updated to version 1.2 early Friday morning with support for a newly released tfp0 exploit for iOS & iPadOS 13.5.1-13.7, Wander developer BurritoSoftware likewise launched an update for the popular Shortcuts extension, bringing it up to version 1.2.1:

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Surenix launches Vantaye, a Dark Mode-friendly icon theme for all iOS & iPadOS devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated June 9, 2024
Vantaye banner image.

One of the takeaway new features that shipped with iOS and iPadOS 14 just a couple of weeks ago is the ability to “theme” your Home Screen’s app icons. This is one of many features from Apple’s latest and greatest mobile operating systems that seems heavily inspired by the jailbreak community. That said, it’s not surprising that some jailbreak community theme creators have started porting themes over to iOS and iPadOS 14.

Joining that list is esteemed graphic designer and theme creator Surenix, who just this week released a new Dark Mode-friendly theme for iOS and iPadOS 14 dubbed Vantaye. This theme puts a darker spin on your handset’s Home Screen app icons, and if you recall a theme for jailbroken devices that Surenix named Ayedapt that was released earlier this year, then some of these icons probably look familiar…

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Wander v1.2 adds speed & UI improvements, cellular support, and more

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 20, 2020

If you’re an Odyssey jailbreak user and you aren’t taking advantage of the Wander extension for Apple’s native Shortcuts app on your iPhone or iPad, then you’re seriously missing out. Wander lets you quickly install or update the Odyssey jailbreak on your iOS or iPadOS 13 devices with only a few taps via your favorite installation method, and it was updated Sunday evening to version 1.2 with a few notable improvements.

Wander developer BurritoSoftware announced the new Wander v1.2 update via Twitter, and from what we can gather, this isn’t an update you’ll want to miss:

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Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Excel on Mac

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ September 11, 2020
MacBook keyboard-Excel keyboard shortcuts

Do you use Microsoft Excel on your Mac instead of or in addition to Apple Numbers? If so, knowing some keyboard shortcuts for Excel on Mac can save you time when performing basic tasks in your spreadsheets and workbooks.

As Microsoft products, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint have some of the same shortcuts. But most below are specific to using Microsoft Excel and will make managing your data a breeze.

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