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 an attempt to potentially make software development easier in some fringe scenarios, iOS developer castdrian has released a new and free jailbreak tweak called CovertInstrument that can give the effect of preventing an iPhone or iPad from locking itself after an extended idle period.
Start downloading a file in Safari and track download progress on your iPhone's Lock Screen, which uses Apple's Live Activities feature.
iOS 18.2 enables you to show the media volume slider on the Lock Screen of your iPhone when using headphones or the built-in speaker.
Wouldn’t it be neat if you could replace the padlock glyph on your Face ID-equipped iPhone with that of an Emoji instead? Well, you can! You just need a free jailbreak tweak called LockMoji15+ by iOS developer b4db1r3.
Have you ever wanted to customize the various text strings that can appear on your jailbroken iPhone’s Lock Screen? If so, then a free jailbreak tweak called Cthulhu by iOS developer CydiaGeek could be just right for you.
One of the most annoying things that I put up with on a regular basis in terms of dismissing iMessage or Gmail notification banners from my Lock Screen or Notification Center is that the app icon badge pertaining to that notification doesn’t actually go away. In essence, launching the app to make the badge go away makes me feel like I’m investing twice the effort to dismiss that notification in its entirety.
Occasionally, we get a fun jailbreak tweak that doesn’t necessarily make your iPhone or iPad do anything useful, but instead complements the user experience with some sort of fun aesthetics or behavior that you would never have on a stock device.
I remember a time several years ago when I would replace my standard passcode on my jailbroken device with an interface where I would draw a picture to unlock my locked device. This meant setting a unique drawing as my ‘passcode’ and having to draw the same drawing (or as close to it as possible) for my device to register that I was me.
Learn how to remove or replace the flashlight and camera shortcuts on the iPhone Lock Screen with other app shortcuts of your choosing, such as Translate, Calculator, Apple TV Remote, Shazam, Cellular Data, Voice Memo, Wallet, and more.
iPhone jailbreakers who use their handset as their morning wake up alarm have long turned to iOS developer Joshua Seltzer’s SleeperX jailbreak tweak for enhanced alarm functionality. But if you were still itching for more, then we’ve got some good news for you today.
All-in-one jailbreak tweaks are something of a popular commodity in the iPhone jailbreaking community today. A spot that was once almost exclusively held by now legacy jailbreak tweak Springtomize is now filled with a bevy of different like-minded tweaks including Genesis 4, Lynx 2, and others. But what if we told you there was another…?