With the release of iOS 10 at WWDC in June of last year, Apple announced iMessage apps. Since then we have seen a lot of different types of apps come out specifically for iMessage. Stickers of all sorts, games and emojis for everything one could think of began filling up the App Store. A lot of popular productivity apps joined and created their own iMessage app, Venmo has one where you can actually send money between friends from iMessage.

SelfieStickers is a new iMessage app by the developer, Christoph Parstorfer. With a new take on iMessage stickers, this app lets you create your own. You’re able to snap a picture with either the front or back cameras or choose a photo from your Photos app. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination. Continue reading this post ->

Apple can’t seem to make up their mind with Control Center as it has been through many iterations since its inception in iOS 7. With iOS 10 they added another page for the music controls. This made a lot of sense for a lot of users, the first page is less cluttered and everything is easy to access. Horseshoe, by developer Andy Wiik attempts to bring back a one page Control Center to iOS. Continue reading this post ->

Users have requested a dark mode feature from Apple for years now. We have seen hints of it thanks to iOS 10 within the framework of the messages app and we now have a dark Clock app. There’s also tweaks for this found on Cydia like Eclipse and NightMode, allowing users to somewhat achieve a dark UI.

While these tweaks are great at what they do, there are still elements of the UI left out. Noctis, a new tweak from developer LaughingQuoll themes these in a beautiful way.

Dark mode is only the beginning as you also have the option to set a color of your choice, which is a neat feature that will be of use to themers. For convenience there is also a toggle in the Control Center to turn it on and off. Continue reading this post ->

Apple just unified the clipboard with your iPhone if you’re on iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, anything you copy on one is now accessible on the other. Even with that added functionality though the experience leaves a bit to be desired. Pastebot by Tapbots, who brought us Tweetbot seeks to fill this gap.

Pastebot is currently available as a public beta and can be installed here, but before doing so head on over to their help page to make sure you’re all set regarding system requirements. It’s also a good idea to read up on the installation process as there’s a tiny bit of manual set up you’ll need to do to get around application sandboxing.

Josh also runs JailCast, a podcast dedicated to the world of jailbreaking that does regular in-depth episodes. You can back and support Jailcast over Patreon and via PayPal.

One of the common modifications a lot of people like to do with a jailbroken iPhone is to change the look and feel of the dock. A person can remove or change the background blur, increase the amount of icons or even completely get rid it. Vinculum, by developer William Vabrinskas, adds a whole new dimension of functionality to the dock by tucking an Android-like app drawer neatly underneath it just a quick swipe away.

Within Vinculum there are a lot of options including hiding the grabber, changing the size of icons, and using a dark background which also changes your dock background. You can also set it to automatically activate search after swiping up, this makes it just like Spotlight and could replace it for some users. As with most jailbreak tweaks, users can customize the experience to suit their needs.

Vinculum was created to fulfill a request on Reddit and was initially going to be known by a different name, but was rejected due to possible copyright infringement.

Josh also runs JailCast, a podcast dedicated to the world of jailbreaking that does regular in-depth episodes. You can back and support Jailcast over Patreon and via PayPal.