The new Letterpress add-on for TrollStore adds an audio visualizer to your Dynamic Island or Notch without any jailbreak required.

The IMRead jailbreak tweak lets you mark missed message notifications as read when you clear their notifications from other parts of iOS.

After months of buildup, the Nintendo Switch 2 is here. I got early access to everything at a private event hosted by Nintendo at their flagship store in NYC. I was able to pick up the full launch lineup directly from Nintendo, including the console, accessories, and the new Mario Kart World game.

I’ve spent some time unboxing it all, setting things up, and playing with some of the accessories. While I think this is a fantastic upgrade to the Switch 1, its not all good. Let’s dive into the unboxing and first impressions.

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With a new add-on called Pocket Poster, you can now set animated wallpapers on your iPhone running iOS 17 without a jailbreak.

In this roundup, the iDB team shares everything new in the world of iPhone hacking & jailbreaking from Monday, June 2nd to Sunday, June 8th.

The built-in Preview app from the Mac should expand to the iPhone and iPad with Apple's iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 updates to let you manage PDFs.

After months of buildup, the Nintendo Switch 2 is here. I got early access to everything at a private event hosted by Nintendo at their flagship store in NYC. I was able to pick up the full launch lineup directly from Nintendo, including the console, accessories, and the new Mario Kart World game.

I’ve spent some time unboxing it all, setting things up, and playing with some of the accessories. While I think this is a fantastic upgrade to the Switch 1, its not all good. Let’s dive into the unboxing and first impressions.

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Scrubble is another jailbreak tweak just like Scrobbit that automatically Scrobbles music from other music apps to the Last.fm app.

Scrobbit is a new jailbreak tweak that automatically scrobbles songs you've heard in other music streaming apps in the last.fm app.

The iDownloadBlog team chases down the latest iPhone and iPad hacking and/or jailbreaking news every week and wraps it up on the weekend.

This roundup encompasses the latest jailbreak tweak releases, jailbreak news, and iPhone hack information that we have this week.

Sony has now officially unveiled the new WH-1000XM6 headphones. What might be the most anticipated pair of headphones in the last year has finally arrived as a follow up to some of the most cherished over-ear ANC cans in the business. This time around featuring a new, faster processor, enhanced noise cancellation, even better call quality with upgraded AI noise reduction, and a nicer, more compact design, the question is whether or not all of this and another jump in price will have fans trading out their beloved XM5s (or something from the other brands) for the new XM6.

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Lumier is a new piece of software that enables virtual machines in macOS using Docker for ease of setup.

This roundup goes over the latest jailbreak tweak releases and news spanning Monday, May 5th to Sunday, May 11th.

You can find the latest roundup about jailbreak news and jailbreak tweak releases right here. We make these posts weekly to help readers catch up.

The new PasscodePercent jailbreak tweak adds the battery level percentage of your device to the Lock Screen's passcode interface.

You can use the NCHeaderPercent jailbreak tweak to see your device's battery level percentage in Notification Center's header view.

In this piece, the iDB team shares the latest jailbreak tweak releases and jailbreak news from Monday, April 21st to Sunday, April 27th.

Update 4/24: Switch 2 pre-orders are scheduled go live again this morning at GameStop.

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders are now live at Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and more. Nintendo hosted its long-awaited Switch 2 Direct on April 2, 2025 after officially unveiling the new Switch 2 console back in January, and, after pre-orders were initially delayed, they are finally set to go live at (just about) all major retailers in the U.S any minute, and it might be a good idea to go get in the queue folks, just in case.

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