One of the convenient aspects of having an LED flash built into your smartphone is that you can use it as a flashlight in a pinch. The iPhone is no different in that respect, but it’s lacking in features that some users could find extraordinarily useful.
Have you ever wondered to yourself how much better the iPhone’s keyboard could be if only Apple allowed software plugins to extend its functionality? Well wonder no more…
There are a lot of instances where I tap on a link in an app or on a website, and rather than opening that link in a new tab in my web browsing app, it launches a specific application on my device to load content instead.
Of all the different ways that you can tinker with a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, perhaps one of the most fun ways is to add a bit of novelty to your device by introducing user interface add-ons that make your device more exciting to look at on the daily.
While the palera1n jailbreak has proven to be resilient for arm64 (A11 and older) devices due to being based on a bootrom hardware-based exploit called checkm8 that can’t be patched by Apple with a mere software update, the fact remains that a lot of people are turned off by it being a command line-based jailbreak tool as opposed to offering an easy click-based graphical user interface (GUI) like checkra1n once did.
For anyone who likes the idea of an iPhone interface decorated with meadow-inspired aesthetics to include vibrant flowers and graceful birds, among other things, iOS developer pkgFiles has just released a free jailbreak tweak called MobileMeadow Reborn that revives a popular add-on released around four years ago.
On newer devices such as the iPhone 15 Pro series and the entire iPhone 16 series, the long-accustomed ringer/silent switch on the left side of the device above the volume buttons has been replaced with a customizable Action Button.
For the first time ever, iOS & iPadOS 18 offer a feature in the Photos app that users have wanted for a long time: looped video playback. This means that when previewing a video in your Photo Library, it will restart from the beginning and play again once the playback reaches its end for a continuous playback that never ends until you swipe away from it.
A feature that I use all the time when recording videos on my iPhone is the still capture button. This button allows you to capture a still frame as a photograph file even as you continue recording a video, and it doesn’t interrupt the video recording process in any way.
Starting with iOS 18, iPhone users can finally tap a pause button to temporarily suspend video recording in the Camera app while in the middle of capturing video. They can then easily resume video recording to build upon the existing video file instead of making an entirely new one.
In addition to the recently released CameraModes jailbreak tweak that iOS developer PoomSmart recently released for controlling which shooting modes do and don’t appear in your device’s native Camera app, the developer has also released a new and free jailbreak tweak called EModeji that replaces the names of your Camera app’s shooting modes with Emojis.
There are several different modes you can utilize in the Camera app for capturing photographs and recording videos, but people seldom use every single one, resulting in what feels like a bloated Camera app experience that some users may feel like paring down to a less-bloated state.