The Lock Screen is the first interface you see any time you pick up your iPhone or iPad for the first time, which makes it a particularly important part of the user experience of your device. That said, don’t you think you should have a little more say than Apple gives you over how it behaves or looks?
In today’s roundup, we’ll be going over some of what we believe are the best jailbreak tweaks for enhancing the Lock Screen on a jailbroken iOS 15 or 16 device. We’ve shown you all of these jailbreak tweaks previously at one point or another, but given how many we show off on a regular basis, it’s easy to forget about them.
The best Lock Screen tweaks for iOS 16
Jellyfish Reborn
Don’t you like it when the interface of your iPhone’s Lock Screen is not only informative, but also aesthetically pleasing to look at in the same breath?
If you answered yes, then chances are you would be of the camp of people who appreciate the Jellyfish Reborn jailbreak tweak. That’s because it works a bit of magic to provide users with a nice view of the time, date, current weather conditions, and Now Playing media information in a manner that simply stands out from the traditional Apple format.
Jellyfish Reborn is highly configurable, so this is so much more than just a what-you-see-is-what-you-get tweak.
You can learn more about Jellyfish Reborn and why it might be worth taking a look at for your jailbroken iOS 16 device in our full review post.
Oneko
One of the best ways to make a jailbroken device stand out, and that includes jailbreaks running on iOS 16, is by adding animated items to your device that no other stock device has.
The Oneko jailbreak tweak is one such animation, and it works by adding an animated cat to your device that follows your taps. This effect includes the Lock Screen by and large, so as long as your display is awake, you can tap on your Lock Screen and the animated cat will follow your taps.
Who doesn’t like cats? Well… maybe those allergic to them, but the majority of the population will find this tweak exciting and want to jailbreak because of it.
You can learn more about Oneko in our full review post.
Doodle
While you can certainly use Face ID or Touch ID on most modern devices to unlock your iPhone or iPad, the fact remains that you’re sometimes compelled to enter a passcode, and who even likes that user experience anyway?
The Doodle jailbreak tweak is fully compatible with jailbroken iOS 16 devices and replaces the traditional numeric passcode interface with a doodle-centric interface instead.
If you haven’t connected the dots already, this means that you can set a doodle as your literal passcode, and then you can ‘draw’ the same doodle to unlock your device instead of tapping on number buttons. Now isn’t that just 21st Century magic?
You can learn more about Doodle in our full review post.
MoreComplications
Yes, the changes to the iOS 16 Lock Screen are absolutely wonderful thanks to the introduction of Lock Screen widgets that display important information from our favorite apps right on the Lock Screen. But is it really enough when Apple only gives you so much room to use those widgets?
The MoreComplications jailbreak tweak unlocks the ability to add even more widgets to the iOS 16 Lock Screen, which means you can add more than just a single row of widgets below the date and time.
You’re still picking widgets from the pool of widgets that your iPhone actually provides to you, but it’s still a wonderful capability to be able to load up the unused space on your Lock Screen with information from the apps that matter to you most.
You can learn more about MoreComplications and how it works in our full review post.
LockMoji15+
When you lock and unlock a Face ID-equipped iPhone, you’ll either see a locked padlock or an unlocked padlock above the date and time. Depending on your surroundings, this may be more difficult to discern your device’s locked status at a glance.
With the LockMoji15+ jailbreak tweak, a green checkmark Emoji and a red X emoji replace the padlock glyph, letting you know whether you’re good to start using your device or if the locked status still requires your attention.
This tweak may be more helpful than a plain Jane glyph in the middle of a high glare day where you can barely see anything, making the fine details of the mono-colored padlock hard to discern. Of course, it also just looks cool.
You can learn more about LockMoji15+ in our full review post.
LSTimeSeconds16
I use the clock on my Lock Screen more times throughout the day than I can count the fingers on my two hands, but one thing I always wish I had was a seconds indicator, especially since this is a feature I have on my Apple Watch.
I find it astounding that Apple hasn’t offered a feature like this for iPhone users yet, but with a free jailbreak tweak called LSTimeSeconds16, iOS 16 users are able to add a fully-functioning seconds indicator to their stock Lock Screen clock that fully supports hiding behind the wallpaper like the regular clock does.
You can learn more about LSTimeSeconds16 in our full review post.
Cthulhu
There are various text strings that appear on the Lock Screen of an iOS 16 device, depending on the scenario, and there’s a jailbreak tweak out there called Cthulhu that makes it possible for iOS 16 jailbreakers to customize those text strings.
Whether you’re looking to hide certain items from the Lock Screen or change the text strings, Cthulhu has you covered. It lets you customize text strings for things like the Internal Legal Text, the Supervision text, and more. You can even show your current IP address to replace the internal text or you can customize the Lock Screen’s Swipe Up to Open text with something completely from your own mind.
You can learn more about Cthulhu and the different ways that you can customize your Lock Screen with it in our full review post.
Tako
The Tako (iOS 15.x – 17.x) jailbreak tweak is a great addition to a Lock Screen modder’s world because it changes the way the notification system works as your missed notifications begin to pile up on the Lock Screen.
With full iOS 16 compatibility, Tako groups all your missed notifications on the Lock Screen in a Priority Hub-like fashion, making it super easy to distinguish potentially important notifications from potentially spammy and less important ones.
You might want to give this one a looksie, as it’s a free download and does nothing but make the Lock Screen better on the devices that it gets installed on.
You can learn more about Tako in our full review post.
NextAlarmX
Don’t you wish that you had a little bit of a heads up of when your next alarm was going to fire? I know I do.
The NextAlarmX jailbreak tweak works in pwned iOS 16 devices that adds a new piece of information to the Lock Screen that lets you know about how much more time you have before your next active alarm will fire.
This tweak not only gives you a little bit of heads-up about the noise you’re about to be subjected to, but it may actually help keep you mentally aware of what you have going on if you tend to be of the forgetful variety.
You can learn more about NextAlarmX in our full review post.
Conclusion
Because the Lock Screen is the first part of the operating system you interact with every day, it’s important that you enjoy that process. For this reason, we consider the aforementioned jailbreak tweaks to be important steps toward that overarching goal.
If you think we missed any jailbreak tweaks that make the iOS 16 Lock Screen experience better for you, then we challenge you to leave a comment letting us know about it below so that other readers can be informed about them.