If you receive a lot of app notifications from one day to the next, then perhaps you feel like looking at something a bit more aesthetically pleasing than a plethora of red icon badges randomly dispersed across your Home screen.
If you can relate, then you might take a liking to a free jailbreak tweak called Goodges 2 by iOS developer NoisyFlake. This tweak replaces those tiny red atrocities with dynamic app icon labels that notate precisely how many missed notifications you have for all relevant apps.
As you’ll notice in the screenshot examples above, Goodges 2 is substantially mellower on the eyes and supplements even the most minimalist of themes. Best of all, the tweak is fully-customizable, permitting you to change app icon label behavior and colorize everything to your own personal standards.
After you install Goodges 2, you’ll find a dedicated preference pane in the Settings app where you can configure it to your liking:
Here, you can:
- Toggle Goodges 2 on or off on demand
- Hide notification badges in place of Goodges 2 on the Home screen
- Hide app icon labels (only displays notification labels) on the Home screen
- Hide notification badges in place of Goodges 2 on the Dock
- Hide app icon labels (only displays notification labels) on the Dock
- Colorize app icon labels
- Choose a custom color
- Colorize based on the dominant color of the app icon
- Configure app-specific missed notification texts
- Display numbers only
- Capitalize the first letter of the texts
- Colorize the texts
- Choose a custom color
- Use an inversed label color
- Colorize based on the dominant color of the app icon
- Enable glowing app icons for missed notifications
- Enable shaking app icons for missed notifications
In the App Specific Texts pane, you’ll find a list of installed apps where you can configure custom notification texts for individual apps:
Tapping on those apps brings up another configuration pane, which we’ve embedded below:
Here, you can:
- Toggle custom app specific texts on or off for individual apps
- Select a custom singular form notification text
- Select a custom plural form notification text
The developer includes a respring button at the top right of the preference pane that you’ll want to use every time you make changes to the preference pane. Using this button ensures that your changes are saved and that they take effect.
While we absolutely love the colorization options, we’re also huge fans of being able to customize the text on a per-app basis. For example, you can say “X Messages” as missed notifications text for the Messages app, or “X Emails” for missed notifications in the Mail app, etc.
If you’re ready to augment the notification experience on your pwned iPhone or iPad, then you can download Goodges 2 for free from NoisyFlake’s repository in Cydia. The tweak works with all jailbroken iOS 11 and 12 devices.
Will you be using Goodges 2 on your jailbroken device? Let us know in the comments section below.