The first thing you see whenever you unlock your iPhone or iPad and begin using it is the Home Screen. This is the part of your device that acts as the springboard into your favorite apps and user experiences.
Apple has tried to make a user-friendly Home Screen experience for all users, but as many jailbreakers know, the experience falls short of many users’ expectations. That’s why there are so many jailbreak tweaks in existence today that try to add desired features.
In this roundup piece, we’ll share what we believe are some of the best Home Screen-centric jailbreak tweaks for modern rootless jailbreaks running on both iOS 15 and 16 devices.
Best Home Screen jailbreak tweaks for iOS 16
Griddy
One of the most important ways that jailbreakers can get the most out of their Home Screen is by creating custom grids with their app icons that fall well outside of the traditional Home Screen template where app icons snap to the next available space.
With the Griddy jailbreak tweak, which supports iOS 15 and 16 devices, you can put app icons basically anywhere on the Home Screen, whether it’s the next available slot on your Home Screen or you leave several blank spaces in between them.
You can use Griddy to make interesting Home Screen layout concepts, including space in between to view the wallpaper behind your app icons.
You can learn more about Griddy and how it works in our full review post.
Icon Restore
Have you ever designed your Home Screen in a perfect way and wished that you could save your setup just in case you wanted to revert back to it again in the future? If so, then Icon Restore would be your best friend.
Anyone who does a lot of frequent Home Screen organizing will find Icon Restore to be useful. When you come up with a layout that you like, you can easily save that layout. Then, when you change your layout, you can always revert back to any previously saved layout with a few taps instead of wasting time re-organizing everything manually.
You can learn more about Icon Restore and why you should seriously consider this add-on for your jailbroken iOS 15 or 16 device if you play with the Home Screen a lot in our full review post.
Pinnacle
Being able to find the apps you want to use as quickly as possible is one of the most important aspects of your Home Screen. After all, it’s essentially an infinitely expanding catalog of your installed apps, so you must personally organize them somehow.
While you could use Home Screen folders, I’ve always preferred the concept of jailbreak tweaks like Apex and Zenith. These tweaks unfortunately don’t support iOS 16, which is where a modern replacement called Pinnacle comes into play.
With Pinnacle, you find an app on your Home Screen to use as the host and then you hide other related apps underneath it as a ‘stack.’ You can then reveal the underlying stack of apps to access them in a ‘+’ formation, offering flexibility for Home Screen organization that can work in tandem with normal folders.
You can learn more about Pinnacle in our full review post.
NoSearchPill
The iOS 16 Home Screen insides a Search pill at the bottom center where the page dots normally appeared in older version of iOS. This Search pill provides faster access to Spotlight search.
Some users find this piece of the user interface superfluous, or otherwise worthless clutter. Those people would do good to take advantage of a free jailbreak tweak called NoSearchPill because it hides this button from the Home Screen’s user interface for a sleeker appearance.
You can learn more about NoSearchPill in our full review post.
Remove Widget Background
The Home Screen’s widget system only continues to get more powerful with each major iteration release, and iOS 16 is no different. But the addition of new widgets to the Home Screen means that you now have even more larger widgets getting in the way of your wallpaper, which can prevent you from seeing important details that may matter to you.
The Remove Widget Background jailbreak tweak offers a simple solution: it hides the background of various widgets on your Home Screen so that they blend into the background. This works with most, but not all, widget styles and types, letting you see more of your wallpaper if that’s an important thing to you.
You can learn more about Remove Widget Background and where you can get it from in our full review post.
WireDock
If you crave some kind of visual upgrade for your Home Screen’s Dock, then we think you might enjoy a free add-on called WireDock.
The WireDock jailbreak tweak elevates the appearance of your Home Screen’s Dock by adding a customizable colored outline around it. You can change the color and the width of the outline, which can make it look better with certain types of wallpaper backgrounds, especially if you opt for colorful wallpapers rather than hyperrealistic ones.
You can learn more about the WireDock jailbreak tweak in our full review post.
WireFolders
While we’re on the topic of colored outlines, it’d be a travesty if we didn’t also mention WireFolders.
The WireFolders jailbreak tweak works in almost exactly the same way as WireDock, except that it works with… you guessed it… the Home Screen’s folders.
With it, you can add a customizable colorized outline around your folder icons, and you can not only colorize it however you want, but you can change the thickness of the outline.
You can learn more about WireFolders in our full review post.
Verxina
You can’t talk about the Home Screen without mentioning the Dock, and Verxina is a jailbreak tweak that offers several upgrades to the Home Screen’s Dock to give it a more complete-feeling user experience on iOS 16 devices.
When you install Verxina, you’ll be able to swipe up on the Home Screen’s Dock to find access to toggles and shortcuts, Control Center-style information panels, a Now Playing widget, and more.
You can customize the shortcuts to open just about any app on your device, or you can link to specific apps installed on your device.
You can learn more about Verxina and how it works in our full review post.
StealthHome
While we showed you how to hide the Search pill from the Home Screen with a previously mentioned jailbreak tweak, we should also talk about a more inclusive jailbreak tweak called StealthHome, which lets you hide a whole swath of different elements from the Home Screen’s user interface.
Among the different things that StealthHome removes from the Home Screen are the labels for widgets, the search pill, and other extraneous features that the developer of this tweak deemed to be superfluous.
You can learn more about the StealthHome jailbreak tweak in our full review post.
Navale
You can make your iOS 16 Home Screen’s Dock more interesting to look at with the help of a jailbreak tweak called Navale.
More specifically, Navale lets you add colored gradients and other visual effects to your Home Screen’s Dock so that it isn’t such a monotonous color. You can choose which direction the gradient goes, as well as which colors the gradient gets comprised of.
Moreover, you can use Navale to customize your Dock’s corner radius and border color, among other things.
You can learn about the Navale jailbreak tweak and why it’s a great addition to your jailbroken iOS 16 device in our full review post.
Oneko
The Oneko jailbreak tweak remains one of my favorite add-ons of all time, and now only because it’s adorable, but also because it adds life to my otherwise boring handset’s Home Screen by adding an animated cat that walks around.
While the animated cat appears over more than just the Home Screen, the fact remains that it works on the Home Screen and makes the experience that much better.
The cat follows your taps, so even if you aren’t tapping on a Home Screen app icon, it will walk wherever you touch and interact with you.
You can learn more about the Oneko jailbreak tweak in our full review post.
Conclusion
While the Home Screen is intended to be a dead-simple launchpad for installed apps on your iPhone or iPad, you can turn it into so much more with the help of jailbreak tweaks that are fully compatible with iOS 15 and 16.
We sincerely wish that our roundup helps you discover at least one jailbreak tweak you didn’t know about previously, and if we missed anything that you consider important, then we hope you will share about it in the comments section down below for all other readers to learn from.