Of all the different ways that you can tinker with a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, perhaps one of the most fun ways is to add a bit of novelty to your device by introducing user interface add-ons that make your device more exciting to look at on the daily.
In this piece, we’ll be discussing some of the best novelty jailbreak tweaks for iPhones and iPads running iOS & iPadOS 15 or 16. These tweaks introduce user interface elements that may seem fun or quirky, or otherwise overall more engaging to the end user.
Best novelty jailbreak tweaks
MobileMeadow Reborn
The MobileMeadow Reborn jailbreak tweak adds all sorts of nature to your device’s user interface, including plants and animals.
With it, you can have animated plants growing all over your Home Screen’s Dock, or you can have animals walking all over your app’s Tab Bar. The tweak is highly configurable, so it’s a fun experience for even the more seasoned jailbreakers.
You can learn more about MobileMeadow Reborn in our full review post.
Touch-Viz
Touch-Viz is a jailbreak tweak that shows every tap you make on your jailbroken iPhone or iPad. As you tap, small dots appear on your screen, not only recognizing, but depicting your taps.
Touch-Viz allows the end user to customize the appearance of taps with different colors, changing the size of the tap, introducing borders and animations to taps, and enabling all the time or only while recording your screen.
You can learn more about Touch-Viz and how it elevates your device’s user experience in our full review post.
Colorful Wallpaper X
Colorful Wallpaper X is a jailbreak tweak that gives you beautiful animated gradient-based wallpapers that help your Home and Lock Screens come alive.
Once installed, you can select colors, opacity, animation speed, bias, noise, transition speed, render scale, and other parameters associated with your wallpapers. This is a good way to breathe new life into your otherwise aging Home or Lock Screen’s aesthetics with unique colors and animations that you wouldn’t have on a stock handset.
You can learn more about Colorful Wallpaper X and how it enhances your wallpapers in our full review post.
Shijima
What if you could have virtual pets walking around on your iPhone or iPad’s screen all the time? And what if those pets would respond to your touches, or multiply at random?
The Shijima jailbreak tweak brings the Shimeji concept from desktop computers to the mobile iOS & iPadOS platforms, giving you exactly what we just described. You can use pre-installed pets, or you can download your own from the internet.
You can learn more about Shijima in our full review post.
Zeppelin Reborn
The Zeppelin Reborn jailbreak tweak is a Status Bar-enhancing add-on that lets users add custom icons to their Status Bar, either to replace existing elements, or to complement those that are already there.
Zeppelin Reborn is a remake of an instant classic from back in the earlier days of jailbreaking, and as such, many of the same icons that were present in the original are present in the remake. Zeppelin Reborn also includes some modern icons, such as the beloved Dopamine jailbreak logo, among others.
You can learn more about Zeppelin Reborn in our full review post.
Afsoon
Afsoon is a jailbreak tweak that can give you trippy kaleidoscope-like wallpaper images that mesmerize you every time you glance at them.
With it, you can generate kaleidoscope effects with image files from your Photo Library, which provide a unique aesthetic for you that no other Afsoon user can replicate without using the exact same images. Moreover, you can customize how detailed or buttery smooth those kaleidoscope animations are in the preference pane found in the Settings app post-installation.
You can learn more about Afsoon in our full review post.
Remove Widget Background
With Remove Widget Background, you can remove the backgrounds of various widgets residing on your Home Screen so that you can see more of your wallpaper image. This works great not only with the aforementioned Colorful Wallpaper X jailbreak tweak, but also for when you set an image of somebody as your wallpaper.
By being able to see more of your wallpaper, you can actually see the image you set. This means you can make out important details that would otherwise by blocked by widget backgrounds, or even Home Screen app icons (depending on how you place them).
You can learn more about Remove Widget Background in our full review post.
Emodeji
You can replace the Camera app’s shooting modes with Emoji with the Emodeji jailbreak tweak.
With Emodeji, your Time-Lapse setting becomes an hourglass, your Slo-Mo setting becomes a turtle, your Cinematic setting becomes an editor’s clapperboard, your Video setting becomes a camcorder, your Photo setting becomes a picture frame, your Portrait setting becomes a selfie arm, and your Pano setting becomes a film reel.
You can learn more about Emodeji and how it makes your Camera app look in our full review post.
LoopVideos
Do you wish that your Photos app would automatically loop video playback like it does in iOS 18? If so, then LoopVideos is the jailbreak tweak you’ve been looking for.
While it’s not a necessity, it does add a bit of glamour to your Photos app by allowing video playback to loop while you’re browsing the Photo Library. This means you tap fewer times and can watch your favorite clips over and over.
You can learn more about LoopVideos in our full review post.
Wrapping up
There are lots of jailbreak tweaks out there that add some level of novelty to your iPhone or iPad, and we think these are just some of the best ones for your modern rootless jailbreak on iOS or iPadOS 15 or 16.
Will you be taking advantage of any of these novelty jailbreak tweaks on your jailbroken iPhone or iPad? Be sure to let us know why or why not in the comments section below, and don’t forget to let us know which ones you chose.