Toggles, quick replies, widgets, dark mode, custom icons: many of the reasons people jailbroke an iPhone are now built into iOS. Here is the list, tweak by tweak, with the year each feature arrived. […]
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Tweaks & iOS Features
The Cydia tweaks people loved and the official iOS features that eventually replaced most of them.
Our early-2012 list of the best Cydia apps was one of the most visited pages on this site. Here is the list again, with a note on what each tweak did and how to get something similar on a modern iPhone. […]
Continue ReadingIn July 2012 Sparrow Plus let jailbroken iPhones open every email link in the Sparrow app. It took Apple until iOS 14 in 2020 to let users choose a default mail app officially. Here is that story. […]
Continue ReadingDashboard X 2.0 put widgets on the iPhone home screen in 2012. Apple's own home screen widgets arrived with iOS 14 in 2020. We compare the two, and explain how widgets work today. […]
Continue ReadingIn 2012 a jailbreak tweak called NoDictation removed the dictation key while keeping Siri. Today iOS lets you switch dictation and Siri off separately in Settings. Here is the background, and the privacy angle. […]
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