One of the longtime favorite things for jailbreakers to do with their devices’ Home Screens has been rearrange the Home Screen icons outside of the auto-snapping grid that Apple has long imposed on users before the dawn of iOS & iPadOS 18.
You would have been hard-pressed to find a good jailbreak tweak that does this on the latest jailbreakable versions of iOS & iPadOS given the whole rootless thing and the fact that so many classic jailbreak tweaks haven’t been updated to take advantage of it, but iOS developer mikifp is out this week with Griddy, a jailbreak tweak that solves that problem.
We originally previewed the Griddy jailbreak tweak back at the start of September, when the developer teased the tweak in a post shared to /r/jailbreak with the intention of supporting iOS & iPadOS 15 and 16 initially. But now that Griddy is officially released, there’s a sudden surge of excitement with respect to modding the Home Screen again.
With Griddy, you no longer need to have your apps placed one after another on your Home Screen, but rather, you can drag and drop them anywhere on your Home Screen, just as you can in iOS & iPadOS 18. This means you can have blank spaces and rows on your Home Screen, making it easier to reduce clutter, make creative layouts, or have your wallpaper image being easier to see.
Among some of the features that the developer says Griddy brings to the table are:
- Custom layouts on the Home Screen, in the Dock, and inside of Folders
- Intuitive drag-and-drop controls that feel just like the native experience
- Support for any sized app icon or widget
- Making separate layouts that take effect depending on device orientation (landscape or portrait)
- Having layout persistence even after resprings and reboots
Those wanting to give Griddy a try can head over to the Havoc repository in their favorite package manager app where it’s being hosted for $1.49. With full support for iOS & iPadOS 15, Griddy is ready to work with the latest rootless jailbreaks on the latest jailbreakable devices. The developer has given honorable thanks to fellow iOS developer donato-fiore for helping with the tweak’s development, and its source code is available on GitHub for anyone who wants to learn from it.
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