5 functions of accessibility useful in iOS 8

Surely many of our readers already know from A to Z the features included in iOS 8. Although the operating system is only a few months on the market. However, there are things that can be used for much more than we would have thought at first, and others, which we probably have not given their importance. Precisely why today we will refer to the most useful accessibility features in iOS 8.

5 functions of accessibility useful in iOS 8

Zoom

The zoom is one of the basic features of accessibility menu. For example, you can set that when zooming, the screen always shows a low or high brightness, as you prefer. If you establish low gloss, it could be really useful when you want to view in detail a document or text in a movie theater or in a dark environment, but do not want a lot of light is emitted. The opposite option has its pros too. The important thing is that you can choose between them.

Voice Over for Notification

Surely the fact of speaking to the terminal, and it speaks to us it is not a feature that we use all the time. But sometimes it can become really useful. For example, when you use your iphone to listen to music with headphones, and do not want to miss notifications or alerts of applications, it is best to activate the voice over. He read for you what happens on the iphone, and you can see what happens.

Access guided

It is a way that you can activate from Accessibility, which is perfect to leave for a certain period the iPhone to someone, for example, a child that we do not want to give access to the complete idevice, but only to an app or certain actions.

Notification light

Although by default the light notifications are not a feature of the iPhone, yes you can take advantage of them from Accessibility function and flash. So, the flash of your camera warning when you have the idevice in silence, or whatever reason, do not want to activate vibration.

Speak Screen in mails and documents

Something similar to what we explained about Voice Over, but in this case for conversations, documents and emails. If you have your headphones on, and you do not want to read the display, you can order to do it for you, and find out in this way the message content.

Apple is still signing iOS 8.1, the downgrade is possible

Although some time has passed since the release of iOS 8.1.1 , the apple company still signing iOS 8.1 on all supported devices with the firmware. What does this mean? Basically you can do downgrade from iOS 8.1.1 or iOS 8.2 beta to iOS 8.1 without any problems.

To check the status of signature of firmwares at all times, through page IPSW.me you will know the updates that you can install on each device. As we can see, right now is still signing iOS 8.1 so if you want to jailbreak or you upgraded by mistake, there is still a solution.

How to downgrade to iOS 8.1 while Apple is still signing

The first thing you have to do is download the version of iOS 8.1 that corresponds to your device. Below are the links for download directly from Apple's servers:

• iPad Air 2 (6th generation WiF)
• iPad Air 2 (6th generation Cellular)
• iPad Air (5th generation WiFi + Cellular)
• iPad Air (5th generation WiFi)
• iPad Air (5th generation CDMA)
• iPad (4th generation CDMA)
• iPad (4th generation GSM)
• iPad (4th generation WiFi)
• iPad mini (CDMA)
• iPad mini (GSM)
• iPad mini (WiFi)
• iPad mini 2 (WiFi + Cellular)
• iPad mini 2 (WiFi)
• iPad mini 2 (CDMA)
• iPad mini 3 (CDMA)
• iPad mini 3 (WiFi)
• iPad mini 3 (GSM)
• iPad 3 Wi-Fi (3rd generation)
• iPad 3 Wi-Fi + Cellular (GSM)
• iPad 3 Wi-Fi + Cellular (CDMA)
• iPad 2 Wi-Fi (Rev A)
• iPad 2 Wi-Fi
• iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (GSM)
• iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (CDMA)
• iPhone 5 (CDMA)
• iPhone 5 (GSM)
• iPhone 5c (CDMA)
• iPhone 5c (GSM)
• iPhone 5s (CDMA)
• iPhone 5s (GSM)
• iPhone 6
• More iPhone 6
• iPhone 4s
• iPod touch (5th generation)

Once the download is complete, we have to go to iTunes and press a key on your keyboard depending on if you use Windows or Mac, it will be one or the other. For Windows, we have to keep the Shift key before pressing the Reset button and if you use Mac, press Alt key.

If all goes well, it will open a new window that let us go to the route where is the version of iOS 8.1 we have downloaded. We just have to select the downloaded file and let the process finish.

As always, there are risks because Apple could stop signing iOS 8.1 at any time. Now is the time to jailbreak using Pangu.

¿IOS 8.1.1 has become faster the iPhone 4S and iPad 2?

If you know the news of iOS 8.1.1 , you will know that this update promised to improve the performance of the iPhone 4s and iPad 2. These are the two most limited in terms of hardware devices where you can install iOS 8 and as has become usual in such cases, its performance is inferior to that obtained with IOS 7.

The table in this post is a comparative test of the time it takes to open different applications on an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 with iOS 7.1.2, iOS 8 Golden Master and iOS 8.1.1. So we can see that the improvement brought on iOS 8.1.1 is minimal, bordering on the ridiculous in most cases.

Is it faster? Yes, but we're talking about hundredths of seconds that go unnoticed in real life. The case in which more should be noted that performance increase is in the ignition and as we can see in the table, we have gone from 39.8 seconds to 38.2 seconds.

iOS 8.1.1 increased capacity of the iphone

This Monday Apple has released the new iOS 8.1.1. According to the company this update was to correct errors, provide greater stability and improves the system performance on the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S.

But it also has increased about 500 MB free storage.  And with the Apple iOS 8 left many people with a little capacity for your photos, videos and applications bothering many users with reduced memory capacity (8GB and 16GB). With iOS 8.1.1, Apple has considered these, compressing the operating system.

I've tried it on an iPad Air with 9 GB of free space in iOS 8.1, once upgraded to iOS 8.1.1 there are 9.9 GB.

But this release is not standard, so until you update your device you does not know how many GB are going to release iOS 8.1.1.

iOS 8.1.1 now available for download, what's new?

Apple just released the final version of iOS 8.1.1 , a minor update of the system whose main novelty is that it closes the doors to untethered jailbreak Pangu. If you are someone who prefers to enjoy the benefits of Cydia and tweaks, you should not update your iPhone or iPad to iOS 8.1.1 because if you do, you will have no way to get back to iOS 8.1 and lose the jailbreak.

If you do not care jailbreak so, updating to iOS 8.1.1 you will get correct some errors that were present. If you also have an iPhone 4s or iPad 2, this update promises to improve performance in these devices.

How to install iOS 8.1.1 on your iPhone or iPad

As always, there are several ways you can install iOS 8.1.1 on your iPhone or iPad. The fastest is via OTA from the device accessing the menu Settings> General> Software Update.

The second option is to connect your idevice to iTunes and let Apple software download and update. It will take some more time to download but it is a valid way.

Finally, you have the following links to download iOS 8.1.1 directly from Apple's servers:

• iPad Air 2 (6th generation WiF)
• iPad Air 2 (6th generation Cellular)
• iPad Air (5th generation WiFi + Cellular)
• iPad Air (5th generation WiFi)
• iPad Air (5th generation CDMA)
• iPad (4th generation CDMA)
• iPad (4th generation GSM)
• iPad (4th generation WiFi)
• iPad mini (CDMA)
• iPad mini (GSM)
• iPad mini (WiFi)
• iPad mini 2 (WiFi + Cellular)
• iPad mini 2 (WiFi)
• iPad mini 2 (CDMA)
• iPad mini 3 (China)
• iPad mini 3 (WiFi)
• iPad mini 3 (Cellular)
• iPad 3 Wi-Fi (3rd generation)
• iPad 3 Wi-Fi + Cellular (GSM)
• iPad 3 Wi-Fi + Cellular (CDMA)
• iPad 2 Wi-Fi (Rev A)
• iPad 2 Wi-Fi
• iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (GSM)
• iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (CDMA)
• iPhone 5 (CDMA)
• iPhone 5 (GSM)
• iPhone 5c (CDMA)
• iPhone 5c (GSM)
• iPhone 5s (CDMA)
• iPhone 5s (GSM)
• iPhone 6
• iPhone 6 Plus
• iPhone 4s
• iPod touch (5th generation)

Once the download is complete, we have to go to iTunes and press a key on your keyboard depending on what do you use "Windows" or "Mac". For Windows, we have to keep the Shift key before pressing the Update or Restore button and if you use Mac, that will be the Alt key.

If all goes well, just go to the route where you downloaded the version of iOS 8.1.1 . Now we just have to select it and let the process finish.

We reemphasize that if you want to keep the untethered jailbreak on your iPhone or iPad with iOS 8.1, you should avoid this update or you will lose it.

Springtomize 3 for iOS 8 is available Now

One of the most important tweaks are ready for download, which gives to the "Jailbreak" a new value if you are still thinking if do it or not

Filippo Bigarella, the developer of this tweak, yesterday put a tweet announcing that the tweak Springtomize 3 can already be downloaded from Cydia (more specifically, from the official BigBoss repository). Certainly a story that has been warmly welcomed by all the jailbreak community.

With this tweak, from the settings you can modify everything related to the design of what is displayed on the screen of your iPhone and give a facelift to our device in case there are some elements that do not convince us or want to add new elements which are more usefull to us.

iOS 8.1.1 beta is already in the hands of developers

A few hours ago Apple has provided to developers the beta of iOS 8.1.1, it will be a little update to improve performance on devices like the iPhone 4s or iPad second generation.

Besides optimizing iOS 8, Apple has also focused its efforts on solving bugs that are still present from his landing last September and just two weeks after the arrival of iOS 8.1, an update that has been welcomed thanks to Apple Pay, Handoff and the continuity of iCloud photo library.

This first beta of iOS 8.1.1 corresponds to the build 12B432 and is available for download from the Developer Center.

If you jailbreak, you should not update because it does not yet know if the exploits was closes int this iOS update. 

iFile already supports iOS 8 and iPhone 6

The jailbreak for iOS 8 is now available thanks to Pangu, the file manager iFile has been adapted to the new version of Apple's mobile operating system and also supports iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus screen resolutions.

As usual, iFile can be downloaded for free via Cydia . Once you have installed on your iPhone or iPad, iFile will give us a real file manager, you can access the different folders on your computer, view the permissions and properties of each file, unzip files, install .deb files manually more easily, etc.

You know Apple is very restrictive and they have never allowed to have a real file manager on the iPhone or iPad. There are apps in the App Store that are fakes file managers creating their own internal structure, however, your chances are still very limited by the rules established Apple.

If in the past you bought iFile, the new update will be free. If you are a new user and wanna have a sexy look real file manager on your iPhone or iPad, you can download it from Cydia and enjoy a trial period after that you must pay $ 3.99.