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If you like controlling your music from the Control Center (makes sense, no?) or from your lock screen, you may notice that there isn’t an option for repeat or shuffle in these places. Apparently a jailbreak tweak developer noticed this as well and he decided to do something about it. Enter CCShuffler, the free jailbreak app that simply does just that. Add his repo to get access to it, install it, and that’s it. You’ll […]

There happens to be a jailbreak tweak out there that allows you to download YouTube videos to your iPhone, iPad, or other iOS device. It’s up to you to use this new-found power for good or evil. There isn’t much to say about it other than “you use this at your own risk and I and TheUnlockr are not responsible for how it gets used”. There I think that makes things clear, so here’s how

Infinite scrolling allows you to loop around to the other side of something when you reach the end. In the case of the jailbreak tweak, Mobius, this allows you to add that to the home screen and also to folders within iOS 7 on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. What’s more, this jailbreak tweak is a simple install and use Cydia app so there’s no configuration necessary. Here’s how to enable infinite scrolling in

Cydget is great jailbreak tweak that allows you to essentially add widgets to your iOS 7 lock screen (like rising bars instead of a clock, for example). Today we have a jailbreak tweak that uses Cydget to display a fantastic looking weather widget on your lock screen called iOS 7 LockScreen Weather . This weather widget shows you the forecast, temperature, and all the other things you’d expect to want to know about your current

On your quest to customize the look and feel of your iDevice, TinyGrid+ should be on your list of tweaks to check out. It’s a simple, $0.99 tweak that lets you customize the density of a folder’s white background on your home screen, allowing you to make it almost clear. You can also customize how many rows and columns of app icons you want to displayed, as well as icon sizes and the spacing between

The friendly reminder that pops up at 20, 15, 10 and 5% battery levels is helpful, but there have been several instances when it brusquely interrupts a Netflix streaming session. I understand it’s in our best interest to plug in our devices to charge, but is it urgent enough to alert us with a popup smack bang in the middle of the screen, forcing us to stop whatever we’re doing to press “Ok” to get

Your iPhone is cool, but there are times when it feels as if you’re some sort of iLemming as almost everyone’s iPhone looks and feels the same. To deviate from the iHerd, download iOS7 Rising Bars Cydget to get a rising bar clock on your lock screen. It might seem daunting, but it’s really not…at all. Just check out the video and instructions to install this great little tweak. I. Jailbreak your iPhone/iPad To do

If you have enough of them, the red icon badges can clutter your home screen. Sure, you can turn them off, but they’re also useful, so there must be some sort of compromise. Indeed, you’ll find this compromise with the ColorBadges jailbreak tweak which will change the icon badge’s color from red to the dominant color of an app’s icon. For example, the badge for Mail would be blue, and green for Messages. This helps

The battery symbol that shows how much power we have left is the same in almost every device, Apple or not. So why not change it up a bit? CircularBattery is a great little tweak that turns your battery symbol into a solid circle which gradually disappears in a clockwise motion to indicate how much power you have left. Personally, it give me a better idea of how much battery I have left than the

It’s free, so why not? And the blue color actually looks like “iOS 7 Blue,” so it looks great, too. Considering the name of this tweak is BlueBoard, blue is the only color available. You can change the background color behind the keys to a dark grey which also looks good, but that’s all the customization you’re going to get, which isn’t bad considering this tweak is free. I. Jailbreak your iPhone/iPad To do this

Ever wondered how quickly your device downloads an app from the App Store? SmartviperE75 did, and he developed a tweak that lets you monitor the progress and details of a downloading app. For $0.99, you can double tap a downloading app’s icon in the home screen, and a little popup will appear giving you details for the download progress. It works and looks great, and is perfect for those of us who like to monitor

The number of people who speak multiple languages is , and if you’re one of those people, you might also text and write emails in multiple languages, which you can enable for your keyboard in iOS7. However, it’s a little bit of a process to add and remove languages in Settings, and also to select the language you want by cycling through them with the Globe button on the keyboard. AnyBoard is a great tweak

A neat thing about the iPhone and iMessages is the ability to see when someone is typing to you. While this feature was limited to when you were actually looking at a conversation, thanks to a jailbreak, it has been expanded to work on any page of iOS 7. A small banner appears over the status bar whenever someone is typing, or when someone has read a message of yours (if they have read receipts

While this jailbreak tweak might not be the most functional, it is pretty darn impressive. Someone created a theme, called NextGenUI, that changes the entire iOS user interface and replaces it with this “futuristic” new homescreen. Essentially, it gives you a layer of background that you can see a part of at a time (scrolling allows you to see more) that you can add “nodes” to. These nodes are either apps or folders of apps,