Apple's official YouTube channel sees plenty of uploads on a regular basis, most of which aim to sell a product or two. The company's latest uploads do the same, but with a different tactic.
Apple uploads four ‘Shot on iPhone’ ASMR videos
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Make iOS’ Spotlight search feature more powerful with LuxSit
iOS’ Spotlight search function is severely underpowered, and with just a bit more oomph, it could be a significantly more powerful tool for both casual and power users alike.
It remains to be seen whether Apple will ever expand upon Spotlight’s seemingly limited search functionalities in upcoming iterations of iOS or not, but in any case, jailbreakers won’t need to wait around for that to happen. With a newly-released and free jailbreak tweak called LuxSit by iOS developer LacertosusDeus, you can enjoy an upgraded Spotlight search experience today.
Apple’s latest video ‘Bounce’ showcases AirPods with wireless charging
Apple is promoting the AirPods with wireless charging case in its latest YouTube video.
YouTube rolling out better content controls for the Homepage and Up Next
On Wednesday, the YouTube team officially announced a new set of controls that will help users triage the content they see not only on their Homepage, but also in the Up Next queue.
AnyTrans brings support for automatic wireless iOS backups, WhatsApp/Viber chats & more [sponsor]
AnyTrans, a comprehensive Mac and Windows app by iMobie for transferring, backing up and managing your iOS, Android and cloud content, was updated recently with several new features, including comprehensive iOS backup enhancements with the selective restore and automatic wireless backup features, plus the ability to move WhatsApp and Viber chats between devices and support for downloading videos from 1,000+ online sources.
This Safari extension helps you identify and watch 4K YouTube videos on your Mac
You've probably noticed that YouTube won't render 4K videos in the Safari browser even though modern Macs support native display resolutions higher than 1080p and have the processing power required for smooth 4K video playback.
Latest iPhone XR ad promotes smartphone addiction as a way of life, and that’s bad
Apple has been underscoring, repeatedly and for more than a year now, that it wants to help customers cure their smartphone addiction which it has played a major part creating in the first place. But Apple shot itself in the foot with its latest iPhone XR commercial by unintentionally promoting smartphone addiction as a way of life of today's generation.
YTStatus lets you access the Status Bar while enjoying YouTube videos in landscape mode
One of the things I’ve always disliked about the YouTube app is how elusive the Status Bar becomes when you begin watching a video in landscape orientation. Obviously, I wouldn’t want the Status Bar to be in the way while a video was playing, but I also don’t like being compelled to switch to portrait orientation to check the time.
iOS developer Karimo299 has devised the ultimate solution and released it in the form of a new free jailbreak tweak called YTStatus. As you can discern for yourself in the before and after screenshot examples embedded above, this tweak implements the native iOS Status Bar into YouTube’s own video controls interface.
VideoSwipes adds swipe gesture controls to iOS’ native video player
The iOS platform sports a gorgeous native video player interface, but as you might come to expect from Apple, those good looks aren’t coupled with the oodles of functionality that you might find on other platforms such as swipe gesture-based controls.
In response to this apparent shortcoming, iOS developer AnthoPak has just released a new free jailbreak tweak in Cydia called VideoSwipes, and just as the name implies, this tweak brings swipe gesture-based controls to iOS’ native video player.
Apple launches new ‘Apple TV’ YouTube channel with movie trailers, celebrity interviews and more
Apple has quietly launched a new YouTube channel dedicated to its new Apple TV service. First spotted by MacStories, the channel offers a mix of trailers for upcoming movies and TV shows, celebrity interviews, behind the-scenes-footage and more.
YouTube TV raising price to $55/month for Apple-billed customers
Following Hulu, Directv NOW and other streaming services, YouTube TV announced today that it will be increasing its price to $50 per month, and $55 per month for customers billed through Apple. That's a significant hike, considering the original YouTube TV plan cost just $35 per month.
Customize the YouTube app’s native dark mode color scheme with GrooveTube
The official YouTube app incorporates a native dark mode that can help ease the stress on your eyes when using the app in a dark environment, and while it’s great, it’s also far from customizable. With that shortcoming in mind, iOS developer Revulate has just released a new free jailbreak tweak called GrooveTube.
After installing GrooveTube, you can manually configure the color scheme of the YouTube app’s dark mode to your liking. In the before and after screenshot examples above, you’ll observe how we’ve re-colored the YouTube app background to be darker and altered the tab bar tint color to be red.