Have you ever felt that iOS should have more fine-grained controls over audio? If you answered yes to that question then you’re not alone. Ron Thakrar — the developer of Feedback, Default Player Pro, Music Agent and many others — has taken this into his own hands and created Seeker, a tweak that adds some much needed functionality to just about every music or podcasting app you can think of.

At its most basic level, Seeker allows you to be in control of where you’re at when playing audio. You can tap any part of the progress bar and it will automatically jump to or ‘scrub’ to that part of the track. It also adds five second skip forward and backward buttons to the lock screen and control center music controls. Another neat feature is you can have a little round progress marker instead of the default iOS one that’s nearly impossible to see, which can be enabled in Seeker‘s settings.

The tweak’s scrubbing increments are also dynamic and will adjust based on the kind of track you’re listening to, longer for podcasts and shorter for regular tracks. Also, it should be noted that iOS doesn’t allow other apps any level of scrubbing functionality by default. Continue reading this post ->

Since the advent of iMessage Read Receipts, there have been a lot of mixed feelings about them. Some people like them while others think they’re creepy as all hell. I’ve always had them on because I have a fairly liberal view of my privacy and don’t really think that it’s that big of a deal.

Usually, I like to have them enabled to let whomever I am communicating with to know that I’ve read and acknowledged their message. If you’re talking to a fairly reasonable person, and you didn’t get back to them right away, the logical conclusion they should draw is that you saw the message but don’t have time to respond right away. Maybe you were driving or in a situation that you can’t reply immediately.

Anyway, all of these problems or misunderstandings can be alleviated with one simple tweak: SafeTexting by Aaron Thomas, which is $1.00 on the BigBoss repo or SafeTexting Lite which is free with a limited feature set. The paid version allows you to chose when to send the Read Receipts and hide your typing indicator.

Head on over to Cydia and check out the lite version to give it a shot if you’re interested. Continue reading this post ->

Have you ever wanted to see when someone was typing to you no matter what app you’re in? Well look no further as TypeStatus from HASHBANG Productions is exactly what you’re looking for plus a little more! As seen in the image above, you can set TypeStatus to be an overlay in the status bar area, or just as a less intrusive chat-style bubble with a small ellipsis in it.

Originally an idea by famous Apple blogger Jehf Benjamin of iDownloadBlog, this tweak has been around since iOS 6 and has been a beloved favorite with jailbreakers since it’s release. As amazing as it is, it’s actually free despite being updated for multiple iterations of iOS and sporting a feature set that some paid tweaks cannot claim. Additionally, can also overlay Read Receipts if the recipient of your iMessage has them enabled instead of a typing indicator. Continue reading this post ->

Velox 2 is being developed by Philip Tennen and it will be available on the BigBoss repo for $1.99. The original tweak came out on the tail end of the iOS 6 days, around when iOS 7 was going to drop. This among other things including a lack of support and updates contributed to a bad reputation leading to a lot of people being let down, thinking it wasn’t worth their money. Phil talks about this and more on an episode of JailCast, he responds to peoples concerns with “I would hope people can look to my track record of tweaks and the support thereof” and “I don’t look at it as me picking up a legacy of a failed tweak as much as inheriting an idea that lets you interact with your phone in a whole new way.” His track record speaks for itself, with tweaks like Acute, Hermes and Roomy and great customer service, we should be able to expect Velox 2 to surpass it’s spiritual predecessor. Continue reading this post ->

Return is a new tweak coming out soon by William Vabrinskas for $0.99 on the ModMyi repo through Cydia. Return will display the most recently opened apps above your Control Center for ease of access. Additionally, the tweak also allows you to clear them if you so choose. Every time you open a new app it will push the one at the very right out of the screen and shift the other three over to make room for the new one. It’s very simple and has a native feel.

There currently aren’t any options, but he’s got a preference pane and he plans on adding in some settings for choosing the amount of apps displayed, favorites and paging if it’s requested enough. I mentioned to him that it would be really cool if he could add in a button to go back to the home screen and he says he will look into it if people are interested in that enough as well. For now I made a home button shortcut with Polus to get me by. Continue reading this post ->