u/jwintyo

Has anyone else run into this? I have AltServer running on my Windows 11 PC and have successfully installed AltStore onto my iPhone 17 Pro running iOS 26.6.2. But every time I try to install Apollo Reborn I get that "group invalid" error.

I have Apollo Reborn currently installed on my device via Sideloadly. I installed 3.6.0 last night.

Has anyone run into this, and do you understand what this error means and what I need to do to fix it?

I’m currently looking at Samsungs G60SD (1440p) and G81SF (4k) monitors. I will use the monitor to work during the day, so text fringing on the 1440p is a concern to me… but I play CS2, PUBG, COD and like higher FPS. I have a 5700X3D and a 4070, so I can get decent FPS at 1440p but probably pushing it at 4k.

I have to pay about double to get the 4k G8 monitor so there is that too.

I don’t see myself upgrading my GPU soon but you never know. I’m probably stuck on AM4 until ram prices come down lol

What do you think is the better buy? Should I go 4k and then just downscale my games to 1440p? Or should I stick to 1440p and hope the text fringing isn’t too bad for work during the day?

Blip is free but proprietary. LocalSend is free and open-source.

LocalSend only sends on a local network, and all transfers are E2EE. So thats probably about as secure as it gets. There havent been updates in about a year but I dont think the software is dead.

Blip can send over local network, or via the internet (wifi or cellular), which is handy but potentially less secure. My understanding is that transfers from iOS to MacOS are E2EE, though at this point perhaps all transfers are E2EE. Blip also seems to have a better UI but thats not super critical for my occasional use of a file transfer app.

Which do you prefer and why? Is that fact that Blip is not open source an issue for you?

Syncthing obviously already has native MacOS, Windows, Linux apps but what is the best app for iOS? SyncTrain and Mobius Sync seem to be the top 2 contenders. I do wish there was an official app but I understand why they wouldn't do it.

Privacy and security are important of course and I just want to be sure my data is in good hands

I recently discovered Flighty and have Pro. I'm going on a trip in a few days and am excited to use it, what are the best Pro features you use? Any that might not be obvious to a new user?

I wanted a simple first party way to get flights from Gmail into Flighty without manually forwarding confirmation emails. I original was planning on just creating a filter in gmail and adding track@my.flightyapp.com as the Forward To email. BUT it seems that email has to be verified in order to work, it makes sense - that would open up a big privacy issue if someone accidentally forwarded all of their emails to Flighty... (correct me if there is a way to actually get that working)

So I ended up creating a Google App Script that searches through my inbox (only 7 days in the past at most) and then forwards any flight confirmation emails it finds to Flighty. It was relatively simple to setup but getting the criteria just right so that it doesn't send too many or too few emails to flighty is the hard part. An added benefit to this route is that everything is right within my Google account, not third party apps required. And its free!

I also created a script to audit my entire email box to see how many flight emails I have and send those historical flights over to Flighty (this one I only ran once)

I cleaned up the script into a basic template below. It is not a plug-and-play solution, but it should give people a starting point if you are interested in doing this.

** Make sure you test with DRY_RUN = true first before enabling forwarding.... You don't want to send thousands of emails to Flighty - or send anything personal their way that you wouldn't want shared.

Right now I have a lot of apps installed on my iOS device, its convenient and normally the interface and functionality is better in the dedicated app than it is on the mobile friendly website.

Do these apps really track more personal and identifiable information than their websites? If I sign in to a website - does it really matter if I am using the website vs the app? I never give apps more permissions then they absolutely need to function (i.e. no location sharing unless its a GPS app, etc...).

Has the VeraCrypt project talked about whether or not they will implement quantum resistant cryptography? With Harvest Now, Decrypt Later becoming a strategy it seems like it would be a good idea. But perhaps its not worth the effort or it would be too difficult to implement yet.

On the other hand do you believe this is even necessary?

I know Proton Mail has Post-Quantum Cryptography already, well it started rolling out in May 2026 - I have yet to see it as an available option in my Proton Mail account settings yet...

We especially need this in Proton Pass to further protect the valuable data we have stored in it.

Since its available for Mail I assume they would be able to use the same encryption algorithms in Pass? If so it might just be a matter of implementing it, which I understand could take some time. But if thats the case hopefully it happens within the near future.

This is pretty annoying, sometimes when I get home (after being on cellular) the Proton VPN app on mi iPhone 17 Pro will freeze up. It will either act like its trying to connect or it will show its connected but not have any stats at the top of the page (ads blocked, trackers blocked, etc). I wont be able to use the internet at all and it will just stay like that for a long time. It might eventually fix itself but its not fast enough for me to wait around for it.

I have to disconnect the VPN and then reconnect to get it to actually connect. Even force closing the app and reopening doesn't work for me.

Is this a common issue for people on iOS? Are there any fixes to this? I like having a VPN and the protections it provides but my experience using Adguard Pro ad blocking and encrypted DNS was much smoother - I'm hoping to get Proton VPN to run as smooth so I can have heightened privacy but might have to go back if its going to cause me daily issues

I may not have this setup properly but currently when I click on Reddit links in Safari my Reddit app opens. When I click on "Open in Apollo" in the Share Sheet on Safari and Brave nothing happens.

I have Apollo Reborn 3.4.0 with Extensions & Liquid Glass installed. I have also enabled the Open in Apollo Safari extension.

Is there some other step I need to do here to get this working? My understanding is that this is included in the Extension version of Apollo Reborn and nothing else has to be downloaded from GitHub.

For now I'm just opening Reddit links with Hydra since that seems to be working consistenly.

I’m getting more and more into self hosting and have setup a free Ubuntu VM with Oracle. I have notification backend running for my favorite Reddit client and am considering hosting Vaultwarden there as well.

Obviously I don’t have a ton of resources being on the free plan (2/12) but I’m curious what things you all know of that would work on a free Oracle VM and what you have found useful.

I recently subscribed to Proton Unlimited, and I have Proton VPN setup on my Mac in the Brave browser. It's super fast - I barely even notice its there, so its nice to have great protection while still having a fast internet experience in Brave.

On iOS (iPhone 17 Pro) I've noticed that there is noticeable longer loading times, even times when I will switch from cellular to wifi and my Internet won't work for a minute, sometimes it won't work at all until I turn the VPN off and on again. It's a little frustrating and I'm trying to decide if I can live with it long term or if I need to go back to just using Adguard Pro and forgo the VPN...

Anyway I was wondering if setting up a Split Tunnel on my iPhone would help here. Essentially allowing all traffic from the device through normal internet but routing Brave or Safari traffic from my iPhone through the VPN. It seems it is not possible now - but will it come in the future or is there a limitation of the iPhone that does not allow this feature on iOS?

I have never dabbled with sideloading, I've never had an app that I have wanted to sideload until Apollo. I know there is some risk in sideloading because the app comes from an unverified source - meaning it might not be vetted and could containt malware or other harmful code. Apollo Reborn is open source (at least the tweaks are) so thats helpful. Ultimately Apollo Reborn seems reputable to me and the community behind it seems awesome!

Just curious what the risks are, I have to enable Developer Mode on my iOS device just to run it. Is it worth it? Realistically what risks are there? My entire life including password manager is on my iPhone so it's something I protect.

So I have 2 Proton accounts already signed in to my Proton Mail app on iOS. One is a 100% free account, the other has Proton Pass + SimpleLogin Lifetime. The app wont let me add a 3rd account because I already have 2 "free" accounts signed in. However I would assume that the account with Proton Pass Lifetime is not considered a free account? I would think it should not be at least. So perhaps this is a bug?