Jailbreaking

Customizing every nook and cranny of iOS 7 will soon be possible thanks to the latest evasi0n jailbreak. One tweak focuses on the home screen dock, making a variety of custom looks available for this part of the iOS screen.

DockShift keeps things simple, providing a toggle to enable or disable the tweak and a list of dock options. These range from completely transparent (no dock) to Dark Milk Glass. There are also options for blurring the background wallpaper to different levels.

Jailbreak tweaks for iOS 7 and A7 devices are about to hit full swing now that evasion 7 is available and mobile substrate has been updated. The iOS 7 Control Center is one feature that easily benefits from customization. Developer Ryan Petrich has released a beta tweak called FlipControlCenter that allows users to add several toggles to the Control Center.

Jailbreakers will recognize this quick access to Settings toggles as a feature previously found in the tweak SBSettings. Even though FlipControlCenter is still in beta development, it integrates perfectly into the look and feel of iOS 7. Several pages of toggles can be accessed directly from Control Center, and certain toggles can even be made inactive from the lock screen for security.

Jailbreaking iOS 7 is about to get more interesting. Saurik has released Cydia Substrate 0.9.5000, adding support for iOS 7 and the ARM64 CPU found in the iPhone 5s and other 64-bit iOS devices. This means that developers can forge ahead with updating tweaks and jailbreak apps for all devices running iOS 7.

Previously there were some compatibility issues which prevented many tweaks from being usable with iOS 7. Saurik notes that for extensions to work on ARM64 they must be recompiled to ARM64 by developers. The news comes just days after the evad3rs surprised everyone by releasing the evasi0n 7 jailbreak.

Early jailbreakers of iOS 7 with evasi0n might have noticed an error that appears every time Cydia is launched. When updated package lists are downloaded, there's one repository that cannot be reached. This repo is included by default, however it results in the error "Failed to fetch" and "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found".

The error continues, stating "Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead". While this error is not critical, it can cause an annoyance when using Cydia. Consistently ignoring this error can also mean that additional errors get lost in the mix. Here's how to eliminate the Failed to fetch error with a few simple steps.