When Apple took to the stage at the Worldwide Developers Conference last month, we knew that there would be some big iOS-related announcements as part of the keynote. But whilst we’d already gathered quite an insight into HealthKit and such, we didn’t foresee the opening up of several key areas of the platform to third parties. As well as bringing widgets and offering developers the chance to do more with Siri, the Cupertino company finally came through and brought third-party keyboard support, and given how the AutoCorrect had become a bit of a running joke, the announcement did not arrive…

This year’s WWDC wasn’t only notable for the fact that we got to witness the future of Mac OS X and iOS, but it was also extremely important as it represented a shift in how Apple sees the future of iOS, as well as the developers who build apps for the platform. The introduction of Safari Extensions and opening up of the Touch ID APIs indicates that Apple is planning on allowing developers greater access to the internals of iOS. It also allows companies like 1Password to experiment, create and demonstrate fantastic software that makes use of the latest APIs…

The recently released iOS 7.1.2 does not patch the Pangu jailbreak tool. This is a great news for all the jailbreaker, this mean you can jailbreak your iOS 7.1.2 right after upgrade. The tool just work great with iOS 7.1.2 out of the box.   As the chinese hacker team mentioned before, they already include the code to jailbreak iOS 7.1.2 when it being released. This news come out to be true, we test with an iPad 2 and iPhone, the jailbreak process run through without any problem with their latest Pangu software.   Now, we have one more team…

This morning, Apple release a new firmware for iOS 7 (iOS 7.1.2). This firmware is being said to fixed many minor bugs and some improvement. The update fixes a number of small bugs in the operating system, including, but not limited to an e-mail encryption bug, a problem with a lock screen bypassing glitch, and more.   You can find the direct download link below. iPad Air (5th generation WiFi + Cellular) iPad Air (5th generation WiFi) iPad (4th generation CDMA) iPad (4th generation GSM) iPad (4th generation WiFi) iPad mini (CDMA) iPad mini (GSM) iPad mini (WiFi) iPad mini…

Out of sudden, a new team of jailbreak hacker appear this morning. Something which is more supprise is this chinese hacker release an untethered jailbreak as well. This jailbreak tool will allow you to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch which is running the iOS 7.1 or iOS 7.1.1 or the latest iOS 7.1.2. iFix4You think go through some useful information and think that will show you how to jailbreak here. However, this jailbreak team and tool are very new. It is still at the early stage so there are still many bugs or will cause your device's native…

We saw many wonderful features in iOS 8 at WWDC earlier this month. But there are still more. According to AnandTech, they found a new API in iOS 8 which will give a manual exposure in the iOS 8 native camera app. This can be a very good feature as Apple had "lock" their iOS camera app for the pass many years. The API will allow developers to release apps that take proper control of things like shutter speed, ISO and EV bracketing and also exposure bias. Besides that, focus and white balance will also be available.

We has seen many feature in iOS 8 beta 1, at iOS 8 beta 2, Apple make any improvement and bug fix. However, there are still some hidden feature Apple has not officially announce at their WWDC earlier this month. Another hidden feature that found in iOS 8 beta 2 is the "City Tours" feature, when you activate the city tours in the Map App. The app will automatically bring you to their "Fly Over" building and let you tour around the building. See the video below:

For some of you, another Bank Holiday weekend is in full flow, and a number of mobile developers have marked this occasion by offering some great apps and games for an amazing price of free. Below, you’ll find a list of some great titles that can be snapped up without requiring you to part with so much of your hard-earned cash, so if you’re looking to beef up your device’s inventory, read on after the leap! Games They keep us entertained, consume perhaps more of our time than we’re comfortable with, and generally, are useful to stock up on for…

Off the back of recent reports regarding an iOS bug that allowed a hacker to potentially access encrypted email attachments, it has now emerged that a further flaw, existent through Siri, allows users to bypass lock screen security and make calls or send SMS messages using the Apple voice assistant. Even though the iOS lock screen is supposed to keep the majority of a device’s content securely stored away from prying eyes, the fact that certain features like Siri can also be accessed without unlocking has always been fraught with issues. We’ve already seen, through the many iOS 7.0.x updates,…

A recently-released jailbreak tweak called OS Experience by iOS developer Evan Swick has been released in Cydia that brings desktop-class multitasking to iOS 7 on the iPad. It doesn't matter if you're using an iPad Air, iPad Mini, or other variation of an iPad, as long as you're running iOS 7, you can download OS Experience.  A lot of OS Experience seems to adopt features from Mission Control in Mac OS X. It shows this through the interface, which brings the ability to have multiple desktops at the top with previews and applications that you can drag from desktop to…