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Ever since the official public release of iOS 6.1 yesterday, the iOS hacker team, known as evad3rs, has been hard at work in debugging and building a jailbreak method. It was confirmed that the public version of iOS 6.1 was jailbreak safe, and that the iOS 6.1 untethered jailbreak would include over 22 variants of iOS devices including the new iPhone 5, iPad Mini, iPod touch 5G, and latest iPad with retina ...

If you’re looking for the right jailbreak tweak to make your home screen look different than everybody else’s, then Pages+, an upcoming jailbreak tweak by iOS developer SBCoders, is something to keep your eyes peeled for. Here's the cool-looking icon for the tweak; you can't miss it:



If you take a look at the video above, you’ll see that Pages+ adds a ton of neat features to iOS. One of the major features is the new home screen card look, which puts a customizable 'card' behind ...

iOS 6 comes with a Smart Banner system, which will show that there is an application in the App Store for any Web apps that you might visit in Mobile Safari (assuming that there is actually an app for it). Tapping on the Smart Banner will allow you to download or open the application pertaining to the Web app you were using and the app would continue where you left off on the Web.

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As a part of the iOS 6.1 press release that Apple sent out today, Apple’s very own Philip Schiller reveals that there are over 300,000,000 iOS devices, including iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads, running iOS 6 already. "It may be the most popular new version of an OS in history," says Schiller.

iOS 6 was released in Fall of 2012 after going through several months of beta testing. It wasn’t ...

TinyUmbrella, a popular solution for saving and submitting SHSH blobs to Cydia has been updated Monday afternoon with support for iOS 6.0.2 and iOS 6.1.



With iOS hackers having today deemed iOS 6.1 as jailbreak safe, it would be a good idea to save your iOS 6.1 SHSH blobs after updating. There is currently no use for them on iOS 6, however if hackers do at some point find a way to use these blobs ...

Looks like Apple aren't the only ones updating things today. Facebook has just released version 5.4 of their iOS application, which includes new features such as the ability to send voice messages to your friends, the ability to record video right from the application, and an improved Nearby tab.

With the new ability to send voice messages to your friends, you’ll find a new Microphone button labeled ...

The Passbook application that debuted in iOS 6 has been tweaked in today’s public release of iOS 6.1 to permanently display a new home page that contains a button that will link users to the App Store to view a list of Passbook-compatible apps. The new home page is entitled "Passbook is the simplest way to get all your passes in one place."

When you tap on the button, you’ll find yourself ...

It’s big news today that Apple launched iOS 6.1 to the public after having just launched the fifth beta on Saturday evening. It’s even bigger news that iOS hackers planetbeing and MuscleNerd have been all over the update, and have deemed the update as jailbreak safe, meaning that all of the vulnerabilities found for iOS 6.1 thus far will work with the public release. (So go ahead and update via iTunes!)

So this brings up the big question: How long until the untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.1? While we don’t know for sure just yet, MuscleNerd has teased the possibility of a Sunday release in one of his Tweets, where he asks what everyone will be doing on Sunday, the day of the Super Bowl, and CCs ...

iOS hackers MuscleNerd and planetbeing have both confirmed that the public release of iOS 6.1 is jailbreak safe! The update is vulnerable to all of the vulnerabilities that the hackers had planned on using to jailbreak iOS 6.1. That being said, update away! (Through iTunes)

According to planetbeing, while the firmware can be jailbroken, it's going to take a little while to get ...

iOS 6.1 was released to the public by Apple just minutes ago, and already, iOS hackers are hard at work doing what they do best – hacking iOS. Planetbeing has Tweeted that he has noticed the public release of iOS 6.1 and has mentioned that he and the other hackers are looking into the update as of this writing.

MuscleNerd confirmed earlier today that 22 different variants of ...

Apple has Monday afternoon officially launched iOS 6.1 to the public. The update is showing up in the OTA (over the air) updating service and will appear in iTunes if you check for updates. iOS 6.1 Beta 5 was released to developers just this Saturday.

iOS 6.1 contains bug fixes, security improvements, a fix for the touch screen glitch on the iPhone 5 causing the display not ...