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Jailbreakers can achieve the Home Screen of their dreams with Paradise

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated August 25, 2022

If you’re looking to accomplish a custom Home Screen setup on your iPhone or iPad, then your typical options include shifting app icons to different pages or organizing them into folders. You’d be hard-pressed to customize much else, as Apple doesn’t offer many other options.

This apparent shortcoming has left the jailbreak community to do what it does best: break down Apple’s unfortunate customizability barriers by offering end users a slew of options for achieving unique Home Screen aesthetics that no one else will have – especially not those using stock, non-jailbroken handsets.

PadGrid condenses the Home Screen layout on jailbroken iPads

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated March 31, 2023

Anyone with an iPad knows that the Home Screen’s layout is locked to a specific grid with no adjustability out of the box.

The lone exception to this rule is that you can have widgets on the left side of the screen and apps on the right on the first page. Configuring the Home Screen in this way condenses the app icons. Still, it’s not ideal for the remaining pages.

Get a 4×4 grid in your jailbroken iPhone’s folders with 4ders

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 4, 2021

Despite the addition of the App Library in iOS 14, tons of iPhone users still take advantage of Home Screen folders because they offer flexibility in ways the App Library doesn’t, such as naming, placement, and user-configured content.

Useful as they may be, Home Screen folders haven’t changed much over the years. They still only hold a 3x3 icon grid even on the largest iPhone handsets, and some users would like to see more.

This tweak ports iOS 14’s App Library to jailbroken iPads on iPadOS 14

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated June 9, 2021

When Apple released iOS & iPadOS 14 last Fall, one of the first things that stood out to me was that the brand new App Library interface and how it was limited to smaller handsets such as the iPhone and iPod touch. Unfortunately, iPad users would be out of luck if they wanted to try the App Library.

Current gives your iPhone an interesting wave-inspired battery level animation

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated September 20, 2021

One of the things Apple doesn’t seem to be particularly creative with in terms of the iPhone is its animations. Many competing handsets, especially those running the Android operating system, have continuously inspired animation-centric jailbreak tweaks intended to port more interesting animations to the iOS platform.

Vinculum 2 changes how you access the App Library on jailbroken iOS 14 devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 15, 2021

Most iOS 14 users are familiar with the App Library by now. For those who aren’t, it’s the additional page all the way to the right of the Home Screen that sorts your installed apps by their categories.

Hands on with the Starfish Beta, a reimagined Home Screen for jailbroken iPhones

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 8, 2021

iOS 14 brought with it what could only be described as the biggest upgrade to the iPhone’s Home Screen to date. The integration of native widgets alongside app icons means that the Home Screen is no longer limited to a bland grid of icons.

But despite this change, many would argue that the Home Screen still looks and feels the same — especially if you still use the Today page as a dedicated home for all your widgets.

Atria helps jailbreakers on iOS 14 customize their Home Screen layout

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated December 15, 2022

One of the things I’ve seen a lot of jailbreakers do over the years is change up their Home Screen’s default icon layout. After all, who doesn’t like giving their own device the personalization it deserves?

This capability is possible even on iOS 14 with Apple’s novel Home Screen-based widget system, but various tweak developers have released different jailbreak tweaks with their unique takes on how such a capability should be implemented.

NoJunkQuickActions removes superfluous options from the Home Screen’s Haptic Touch menus

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated March 21, 2022

Apple did something right when they made it possible for users to use a Haptic Touch/3D Touch gesture on individual Home Screen app icons to reveal hidden menus.

CarPlay++ is a tweak that lets jailbreakers personalize their CarPlay Home Screen

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 24, 2021

If you’re fortunate enough to have a CarPlay-ready vehicle, then you’re probably familiar with just how restrictive the CarPlay experience can feel, especially from a personalization perspective.

Jailbreakers who might be looking to augment their CarPlay user experience can now take advantage of a new and free jailbreak tweak dubbed CarPlay++ by iOS developer Dcsyhi, which offers aesthetic-boosting qualities for CarPlay in addition to performance-boosting ones.

iPadOS 15 will bring the most significant update to the iPad’s Home screen to date

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 22, 2021

iOS 14 brought visual enhancements to the iPhone's boring Home screen with the App Library and interactive widgets. With the iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 updates, Apple will turn its attention to the Home screen of the iPad while adding quality-of-life improvements to the iPhone.

The best iPhone battery level widgets that show percent remaining

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated July 19, 2022

If you like to keep a close eye on your iPhone’s battery level, then you probably miss seeing the actual percentage of charge remaining that came on older iPhones. This means you probably open the Control Center to find that exact percentage throughout the day.

For those of you like me who prefer to view the percent of battery remaining all the time, check out these iPhone Home Screen widgets. These allow you to get the amount of battery left before you need a charge by showing you that percentage you so desire.