Jailbreak tweaks aren’t always utilitarian or specifically made for a purpose. Sometimes they’re designed by developers, tongue-in-cheek, because those developers want to incite laughter among iPhone owners or get more people talking about jailbreaking.
In this roundup piece, we’ll be taking about some of the best conversation starter jailbreak tweaks for pwned iOS 15 and 16 devices. These will be nothing short of eye-catching, and some might even look provocative, but that’s exactly the point of these types of jailbreak tweaks.
So without further ado, let’s get started!
The best conversation-starting jailbreak tweaks for iOS 16
Doodle
Doodle is a jailbreak tweak that replaces your iPhone’s traditional numeric Lock Screen passcode entry interface with a drawing-based one. Instead of entering a chain of alphanumeric characters, you’ll be drawing your passcode as closely to the original that you set as possible.
Doodle is an interesting Lock Screen passcode entry interface replacement, and as such, it’s a great way to garner the attention of non-jailbreakers. A quick glance at this, and the ordinary iPhone user might come to question why they didn’t start jailbreaking sooner.
You can learn more about Doodle in our full review post.
Mitsuha 6
Another thing that a lot of iPhone owners can relate to, jailbroken or not, is listening to their favorite music. Doing so puts up a Now Playing interface where the listener can view information about the currently playing track and mess around with playback controls; but that’s about it.
With Mitsuha 6, your Now Playing interface gets more visually interesting because it adds a visualizer to it. Mitsuha 6 comes with several different visualizer options, and you can even change the color scheme however you see fit. Just imagine how many people will ask how you did that when they see your Now Playing interface.
You can learn more about Mitsuha 6 in our full review post.
Shijima
Shijima is a jailbreak tweak that lets users have Shimeji pets on their screen. For those unfamiliar, this is a popular trend for desktop PC users, but with Shijima, they come to the iPhone and iPad too. They’re totally interactive too, which means you can tap on them, throw them around, keep them from moving, and more.
What’s interesting about Shijima is that you can download Shimeji pets from the web and import them with ease. They also appear to multiply on your screen when you least expect it. This is a fun and quirky way to get people to ask you how you did that, and maybe school people on jailbreaking.
You can learn more about Shijima in our full review post.
Colorful Wallpaper X
Another particularly eye-catching part of iOS & iPadOS gets some serious visual upgrades with the Colorful Wallpaper X jailbreak tweak, which combines gradient-based wallpapers with smooth and slick animations for a truly wonderful fusion effect.
Colorful Wallpaper X not only gives you beautiful gradient-based wallpapers, but it makes them move and keeps you staring for long periods of time. If you’re that interested in your own wallpaper, then imagine how mesmerized passerby would be when they see your iPhone after looking at their own bland still wallpaper.
You can learn more about Colorful Wallpaper X in our full review post.
Hikari
Outside of the sense of sight, another way you can make your iPhone or iPad stand out from the crowd is with customized sound effects that most Apple device users would recognize as out of the ordinary. Hikari is a fun and quirky jailbreak tweak that brings this capability to your device, allowing you to set custom sounds for various system actions.
While the tweak comes with several pre-loaded sound effects for you to choose from and apply to various system actions, the tweak also supports importing your own sounds and using those instead, so the sky can be the limit when it comes to your imagination.
You can learn more about Hikari in our full review post.
N95
Another eye-catching jailbreak tweak for the Now Playing interface is N95, which masks the album artwork of your Now Playing interface with one of several masks you can pick from to make things look more interesting.
Instead of a bland square, you could mask your Now Playing album artwork with a vinyl, a CD case, a tape, or something else that looks particularly captivating. This effect applies not only to the Apple Music app, but also to many of your favorite third-party music streaming apps as well, such as Spotify, Pandora, YouTube Music, and more.
You can learn more about N95 and how it augments the Now Playing interface in our full review post.
Pokébox Reborn
What if your incoming notifications didn’t look like iPhone notifications, but rather more like the text boxes from your favorite childhood Pokémon game on the Game Boy?
With Pokébox Reborn, this concept becomes a reality. The tweak completely replaces the stock iOS notification aesthetic with Game Boy Pokémon game-style aesthetics for a truly unique user experience that will get all the Pokémon game fans fawning over your setup. What a great way to get on the topic of jailbreaking iPhones and spread the word about our community; wouldn’t you agree?
You can learn more about Pokébox Reborn in our full review post.
Oneko
Oneko is another type of screen pet-based jailbreak tweak, but this one works a lot differently than the one mentioned earlier. Instead of using a standardized pet style, Oneko is especially proprietary for the iPhone and iPad.
Once installed, the Oneko pet follows you around throughout the operating system, and even inside of apps. It’s a small animal-esque character that goes everywhere you tap and even falls asleep when you’re inactive. It’s a less intrusive way to have a screen pet, and perhaps ideal for those who consider themselves to be quasi-minimalists, but still like the idea of a screen pet jailbreak tweak.
You can learn more about Oneko in our full review post.
CornBar
When the CornBar jailbreak tweak first came out, I thought it was a joke. But it couldn’t have been more serious about replacing my iPhone’s Home Bar with a highly configurable corn cob graphic. It doesn’t affect the Home Bar’s functionality in any way – merely how it looks.
Since its release, CornBar has become exponentially more configurable, but the concept remains very much the same in that it replaces the Home Bar with something other than the native Home Bar. It’s a great way to get a conversation started about jailbroken devices.
You can learn more about CornBar in our full review post.
Touch-Viz
Touch-Viz is an excellent conversation-starting jailbreak tweak because it’s something that a lot of people seem to want for one reason or another. It’s a jailbreak tweak that shows all your taps on your screen as you touch it.
With options for changing colors of the shown taps to choosing how long the taps appear and which interfaces they do and don’t appear in, Touch-Viz is the ultimate ‘show my taps’ jailbreak tweak in 2024. Lots of people have already asked me how I did that on my device, so if you’re looking for a conversation starter, this is the ticket.
You can learn more about Touch-Viz in our full review post.
Conclusion
That just about wraps up today’s jailbreak tweak roundup for conversation-starting jailbreak tweaks, so if you’re going to be repping the community in today’s world and trying to get more people into the jailbreaking hobby, then I can’t imagine very many other jailbreak tweaks with such loud personalities to get those conversations started.
If we missed something that you think grabs a lot of peoples’ attention, then please feel free to drop a comment below so that we can check it out for ourselves.