Vide brings aesthetically pleasing visuals to the Control Center & Lock Screen media players

Many jailbreakers are perfectly fine with the way their iPhone functions, but they simply want to make it look different than it does out of the box. If that sounds like you, then you might enjoy using a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Vide by iOS developer Xyaman.

To briefly summarize Vide and what it can do, it permits users to customize the aesthetics of both the Control Center-based and Lock Screen-based media players.

The tweak offers a plethora of options that the user can configure to their liking to achieve their preferred effects. Examples can be found below:

Just some of the things Vide can provide are:

  • Instantaneously hide or show certain interface elements
  • Adjust the radius of interface corners
  • Choose custom colors for the user interface
  • Customize the album artwork that depicts the Now Playing track
  • Add a wave-styled audio visualizer
  • Integrate swipe gestures for media control
  • And much more…

Once installed, Vide adds a dedicated preference pane to the Settings app where users can configure the tweak however they like:

Options here include:

  • Toggling Vide on or off on demand
  • Adjusting the Lock Screen media player’s appearance
  • Customizing the Lock Screen media player’s album artwork
  • Personalizing the Lock Screen media player’s wave-based audio visualizer
  • Configuring the Lock Screen media player’s swipe gestures
  • Adjusting the Control Center media player’s appearance
  • Customizing the Control Center media player’s album artwork
  • Personalizing the Control Center media player’s wave-based audio visualizer
  • Configuring the Control Center media player’s appearance
  • Restart mediaserverd
  • Respring your device to save any changes you’ve made

With so many different preference panes to explore, the tweak can look a little intimidating to configure at first glance. But break everything down for you below:

Lock Screen media player

Appearance

In the Lock Screen Appearance preference pane, users can:

  • Hide the time slider
  • Hide the controls
  • Hide the volume slider
  • Adjust the corner radius via a slider
  • Choose between the default background, an artwork color-based background, or a custom background color
    • If you selected custom, then you can choose a color
  • Choose between a default tint color, artwork-based tint color, or a custom tint color
    • If you selected custom, then you can choose a color
  • Adjust the media player alpha level via a slider
  • Enable an iOS 13-style AirPlay experience

Artwork

In the Lock Screen Artwork preference pane, users can:

  • Hide the Now Playing app icon
  • Adjust the corner radius via a slider

Wave

In the Lock Screen Wave preference pane, users can:

  • Enable or disable the wave-based audio visualizer
  • Choose between an artwork-based coloring style or a custom coloring style
    • If you selected custom, then you can choose a color
  • Adjust the alpha level via a slider
  • Choose between low, medium, or high sensitivity for the audio visualizer

Gestures

In the Lock Screen Gestures preference pane, users can:

  • Enable swipe-based media control gestures
  • Enable Taptic feedback

Control Center media player

Appearance

In the Control Center Appearance preference pane, users can:

  • Hide the time slider
  • Hide the control buttons
  • Hide the volume slider
  • Choose between the default background, an artwork color-based background, or a custom background color
    • If you selected custom, then you can choose a color
  • Choose between the default tint color, artwork-based tint color, or a custom tint color
    • If you selected custom, then you can choose a color

Artwork

In the Control Center Artwork preference pane, users can:

  • Hide the Now Playing app icon
  • Adjust the corner radius via a slider

Wave

In the Control Center Wave preference pane, users can:

  • Enable or disable the wave-based audio visualizer
  • Choose between an artwork-based coloring style or a custom coloring style
    • If you selected custom, you can choose a color
  • Adjust the alpha level via a slider
  • Choose between low, medium, or high sensitivity for the audio visualizer

Gestures

In the Gestures preference pane, users can:

  • Enable swipe-based media control gestures
  • Enable Taptic feedback

As you can see for yourself, the developer thought long and hard about how to make this tweak as configurable as possible for the end user, as different people like their iPhones set up differently. With that in mind, there isn’t much that Vide can’t accommodate for; there’s a little something here for everyone.

Those who’d like to customize their Control Center or Lock Screen-based media players with Vide can download the tweak for free from Xyaman’s personal repository via your favorite package manager app. The tweak supports jailbroken iOS 14 devices.

If you’re not already using Xyaman’s repository, then you can add it to your package manager of choice by using the URL below:

https://repo.xyaman.xyz/

What are your thoughts about customizing the Control Center or Lock Screen media player interface with the new Vide jailbreak tweak? Be sure to let us know in the comments section down below.