Jailbreakers in the market for customizing the appearance and behavior of their incoming notification system without breaking the bank just might take a liking to a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed ColorMeNotifs by iOS developer MrGcGamer.
Just as the name implies, this tweak offers a plethora of settings for colorizing banners that appear on your Lock screen, including that of the notification variety, widgets, and the native Now Playing music player.
Upon installing ColorMeNotifs, users will find a dedicated preference pane in the Settings app where they can configure their colorization options to their liking:
Here, you can:
- Toggle ColorMeNotifs on or off on demand
- Configure custom notification banner settings
- Configure custom widget settings
- Configure custom music player settings
In each of the aforementioned preference cells, you’ll find a slew of additional settings you can choose from, including:
Notification Settings
- Custom notification styling:
- Outline
- Full color
- Both
- Icons for color calculation:
- Stock
- Themed
- Hide the app name
- Hide the notification arrival time
- Hide the “No Older Notifications” text
- Use custom text for the above and choose what it should say
- Hide the Notification Center text
- Use custom text for the above and choose what it should say
- Configure custom outline style settings
- Configure custom full color style settings
- Configure custom both style settings
Widget Settings
- Custom widget styling:
- Outline
- Full color
- Both
- Icons for color calculation:
- Stock
- Themed
- Hide the application name
- Configure custom outline style settings
- Configure custom full color style settings
- Configure custom both style settings
Music Player Settings
- Custom widget styling:
- Outline
- Full color
- Both
- Hide the music routing button
- Hide the music routing label
- Configure custom outline style settings
- Configure custom full color style settings
- Configure custom both style settings
The developer provides a Respring button at the top right of the primary preference pane that users can tap to save any settings they make.
ColorMeNotifs breathes new life into your jailbroken handset’s notification system in addition to many other features visible on the Lock screen like the Now Playing interface and widgets. If you’re interested in giving the tweak a try for yourself, then you can download it for free from the Packix repository.
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