If you’re fortunate enough to have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad at your disposal, then that means you have the ability to make your device look completely different from anyone else’s by way of jailbreak tweaks. Whether you prefer subtle aesthetic changes or substantial aesthetic changes, there’s a little bit of something for everyone.
Today we’ll be giving you first-hand look at the newly released Colouration jailbreak tweak by iOS developer kanns. The name practically gives the tweak away, as it’s quite literally a system-wide colorization tweak that allows you to tint user interfaces and change system colors to be whatever you might prefer over Apple’s native selections.
Among the things Colouration can make color adjustments to are:
- Status Bar colors
- System-wide colors
- Home Screen colors
- Lock Screen colors
- App colors
- System colors
- Slider colors
- And more…
It’s worth noting that the Colouration tweak also supports presets, allowing users to set up their favorite values and save them for use another time if they ever decide to change things up and decide to walk their configurations back a notch.
Once installed, Colouration adds a dedicated preference pane to the Settings app where users may configure their iPhone or iPad’s native colors on demand. The preference pane is divided into several different sections, each of which we’ll showcase for you below:
Below, we’ll outline what each section provides to the end user:
Status Bar
In the Status Bar section, users may enable and configure custom colors for:
- Status Bar
- Status Bar body
- Status Bar fill
- Status Bar pin
- Active Wi-Fi
- Cellular
- Time indicator
- Activity loading indicator
System-wide
In the System-wide section, users may enable and configure different colors for:
- Home Bar
- Labels
- Separator
- Cell backgrounds
- Touches
- Scroll Bar
- Cursor
- Enabled toggle switches
- Links
- App Switcher background
- Inner Control Center
- Control Center background
- Cover sheet background
- Index
- Search Bar
- Tab Bar icons and labels
- Segments
- Alerts
- Refresh background
- UI tint
Home Screen
In the Home Screen section, users may enable and configure custom colors for:
- App icon labels
- Label backgrounds
- Folder backgrounds
- Spotlight interface
- App Library search
Lock Screen
In the Lock Screen preference pane, users may enable and configure colors for:
- Lock Screen background
- Lock Screen icons
- Lock Screen date background
Apps
In the Apps preference pane, users may enable and configure colors for:
- Dates
- Messages app top and bottom background gradients
- Messages app recipient bubble top and bottom gradients
- iMessage send button
- SMS send button
- Notes app color
System Colors
In the System Colors preference pane, users may customize system colors as such:
- Change system blue colors to any color you want
- Change system gray colors to any color you want
- Change system background colors to any color you want
- Change system red colors to any color you want
- Change system orange colors to any color you want
- Change system yellow colors to any color you want
- Change system green colors to any color you want
- Change system purple colors to any color you want
- Change system pink colors to any color you want
- Change system brown colors to any color you want
- Change system teal colors to any color you want
- Change system white colors to any color you want
- Change system black colors to any color you want
- Change system cyan colors to any color you want
- Change system label colors to any color you want
- Change system dark green colors to any color you want
- Change system dark red colors to any color you want
- Change system dark blue colors to any color you want
- Change system dark orange colors to any color you want
- Change system dark teal colors to any color you want
- Change system dark pink colors to any color you want
- Change system dark yellow colors yo any color you want
Sliders
In the Sliders preference pane, users may configure the following options:
- Enable and configure a custom App Switcher blur effect
- Enable and configure a custom App Switcher dimming effect
- Enable and configure a custom App Switcher opacity effect
- Enable and configure a custom Spotlight blur effect
- Enable and configure a custom cover sheet blur effect
- Enable and configure a custom Dock blur effect
Below the aforementioned preference panes are sections for saving and loading presets and accessing tweak settings. The latter contains an option to respring, reset the tweak’s options to their defaults, and a way to enter Safe Mode if needed. The developer also provides an Apply button at the top right of each preference pane for saving your changes — tapping it will result in a respring.
Colouration is a good way to get your hands dirty with system colorization, especially if you’re new to jailbreaking and might be interested in trying to make your handset unique from everyone else’s. The tweak is available for $0.99 from the Packix repository via any package manager and supports jailbroken iOS 13 and 14 devices.
Do you plan to give your handset a color makeover with Colouration? Let us know down in the comments section below.