Two of the most common ways to communicate with other smartphone owners are text messaging and placing phone calls. Each of these communication methods exhibit their own unique appearance and user experience on each platform of smartphone, but Apple’s has always been particularly stagnant on the iPhone.
If you’re looking for jailbreak tweaks that can improve the user experience associated with receiving text messages or phone calls on your jailbroken iOS 15 or 16 device, then you may want to consider some of the jailbreak tweaks we’re about to show you.
Communication jailbreak tweaks for iOS 16
MessagesXI
First on our list today is MessagesXI, a jailbreak tweak that improves the native Messages app on your iPhone with a bevy of highly requested features all in a single add-on.
Among some of the highlights of this tweak are the ability to return to your previous conversation when returning to the Messages app after closing it, manually reading and un-reading messages with a complementary indicator to go along with that, preventing your iMessage recipient from being able to tell when you’re typing to them, changing the color of unread message indicators, and more…
Many of these features can help you personalize your Messages app in ways that Apple doesn’t allow you to, hence allowing you to communicate in a way that feels comfortable and familiar to you. That’s just one reason why MessagesXI made it to this list, so be sure to check out our full review post to learn more about how it works.
BadgeSync
One of my absolute pet peeves is when I dismiss a notification banner from my iPhone and then the banner notification persists on the corresponding app that I dismissed the notification from. As if dismissing the notification banner wasn’t worth enough of my time, Apple wanted to make sure I go back to read that notification for another redundant time.
BadgeSync is a jailbreak tweak that puts a stop to this, ensuring that when you dismiss a notification banner either from the Lock Screen or from anywhere else in iOS, that the corresponding badge on the app icon disappears with it too.
You can learn more about BadgeSync and even view a video presentation of how the tweak works in our full review post.
Novus
The Phone app on the iPhone is the primary way that we place and receive phone calls on Apple’s smartphone, and the app unfortunately hasn’t seen much love from Apple’s design team over the years because the interface remains largely the same as it did at the start.
Novus is a jailbreak tweak that completely redesigns the Phone app on jailbroken devices, and it works with the latest rootless jailbreaks. Among some of the changes that Novus brings to the Phone app are the removal of the dated tabbed interface that is now replaced with a unified user experience where you can find everything you need at a single glance. No more moving from one spot to another in the app.
You can learn more about the Novus jailbreak tweak and the many ways that it could benefit your Phone app usage in our full review post.
TrollRecorder JB
If you’ve ever wanted to record incoming and outgoing phone calls from your iPhone, then TrollRecorder JB might just be one of the cleanest ways you can do that on a jailbroken iOS 15 or 16 device. This jailbreak tweak is constantly receiving updates with improvements, and it offers one of the most native-looking call recording user experiences we’ve ever seen.
With TrollRecorder JB, you can configure a bevy of settings related to call recording, including whether it happens automatically, whether call forwarding should take place, including metadata with the recording files, and more. The tweak promises complete privacy and ensures the cleanest phone call recording audio you can imagine.
You can learn more about TrollRecorder JB in our full review post.
PhoneEnhancer 15
With the PhoneEnhancer 15 jailbreak tweak, you get more features for the native Phone app on your iPhone that you’ll be amazed Apple never provided to you out of the box.
Among those, you can disable the Voicemail tab if you don’t care to take or listen to voicemails, you can enable exact timestamps instead of seeing vague time estimates such as “1 day ago,” or “22 minutes ago,” you can disable third-party phone calls in the Phone app’s call history, and more.
If it sounds like PhoneEnhander 15 might be worth your time, then we recommend heading over to our full review post where you can get the full scoop on the tweak’s details and where you can get it from.
Live Call Translator
If you deal with people that speak a lot of different languages, then chances are you can benefit from a feature that translates those multi-language phone calls to a more comfortable first language in real time with the Live Call Translator jailbreak tweak.
Just as the name implies, when you’re talking to someone who speaks a different language than you, it will translate that call into your preferred language in real time so that you can understand what they’re saying. It works very quickly and works not only with the Phone app, but also with FaceTime and other CallKit-compatible apps.
According to the developer, Live Call Translator works by recognizing speech from both parties in the call and then verbalizing it in a user-selected language. It works both ways. If you’re speaking a language that the other person can’t understand, then it can also translate your words in real time. It’s just that cool.
You can learn more about Live Call Enhancer and see an excellent video preview of how the tweak works in our full review post.
YellowPages 2
With the YellowPages 2 jailbreak tweak, you can easily enhance the Caller ID on your jailbroken iPhone.
YellowPages 2 integrates the Truecaller phone number database directly into your handset’s Phone app so that you can ascertain who’s calling you even if you aren’t seeing the name pop up in your native caller ID. YellowPages 2 also effortlessly filters spam calls from legitimate ones and marks them as such when they’re calling you so that you can decide whether to answer them or not.
There are a few hoops you need to jump through to get this tweak working, such as installing the Truecaller app and setting the tweak up to use it, but it’s all relatively easy and worth the effort.
You can learn more about YellowPages 2 in our full review post.
NoDialerKeypadTones
Everyone who wishes that the Phone app’s dialer pad wasn’t always playing the famous tone noises when dialing phone numbers will rejoice at the existence of the NoDialerKeypadTones jailbreak tweak.
Even if you have your iPhone on silent, the moment you use AirPods or any kind of headphones/earbuds, you’ll start hearing the dial tone in your ears. It can be annoying if you don’t like hearing it, so this developer make a tweak that cancels it out for you. It may also benefit you in certain scenarios when you need stealthy phone number dialing.
You can learn more about NoDialerKeypadTones in our full review post.
WAIgnoreCalls
Having a little less to do with the native Phone app, and more to do with the third-party WhatsApp app, the WAIgnoreCalls jailbreak tweak can help you ignore unwanted incoming calls coming from the WhatsApp app.
You can configure this tweak to ignore all calls, certain contacts, disallow certain call types, and more. It’s perfect for getting certain spam calls to stop, as well as to keep your phone a little quieter when people won’t leave you alone.
You can learn more about the WAIgnoreCalls jailbreak tweak in our full review post.
Conclusion
There are tons of ways that you can use your iOS 15 or 16 jailbreak to enhance the communication features on your iPhone. These are just some of the ways that come to mind when we brainstorm the topic, but of course we always welcome your input in the comments section down below.
Are you making use of any of the tweaks mentioned above? We’d be excited to hear how and why you use them as well.