There’s been no shortage of jailbreak tweaks that replicate iOS 16’s Lock Screen editing capabilities on older versions of iOS. Today, we’re excited to show you yet another affordable option that supports jailbroken iOS 14 and 15 handsets.
The latest release comes in the form of AIM Pro by iOS developer AliMaulana, and it’s a more advanced version of the AIM tweak that we showed you back in December.
While AIM allowed users to customize their Lock Screen UI from the Settings app by playing with a dedicated preference pane, AIM Pro is a more native-consistent experience in which users can modify the look and feel of their Lock Screen directly from the Lock Screen or from Notification Center without having to use the Settings app. In other words, it’s more like the editing experience found on iOS 16.
In the screenshot examples above, you can see how the new editing interface looks with AIM Pro. Users can effectively make changes in the fly while seeing them in real time as they’re changed as opposed to visiting the Settings app and then going to look at the Lock Screen, cycle repeated.
Of course, AIM Pro still provides a preference pane in the Settings app where you can configure the Lock Screen the old-fashioned way, if you prefer to do it that way:
Options here include:
Time
In the Time preference pane, users are going to be able to configure the following options:
- Toggle time configurations on or off on demand
- Configure your preferred time formatting (h = hour, m = minute, s = second, a = AM/PM)
- Choose between left, center, or right alignment
- Configure colorization options for the background, primary and secondary colors, and/or a custom color
- Choose between rail, stencil, rounded, black, or custom fonts and adjust the font size
- Adjust the positioning of the time with the individual X/Y sliders
Date
In the Date preference pane, you can set up all of the following parameters:
- Toggle date configurations on or off on demand
- Configure your preferred date formatting (E = day, d = date, M = month, Y = year)
- Choose between left, center, or right alignment
- Choose between capitalized, uppercase, lowercase, or no style
- Configure the date weather display
- Choose between Hebrew, Chinese, Islamic, or Buddhist calendars
- Configure colorization options for the background, primary and secondary colors, and/or a custom color
- Enable or disable icon weather color
- Toggle custom fonts on or off, choose a custom font, and adjust the font size
- Adjust the positioning of the date with individual X/Y sliders
Widget
In the Widget preference pane, you can configure the following options:
- Enable or disable widgets
- Configure whether the High/Low temperature widget will be a circle or a list view
- Choose between Sunset, Sunrise, or Alarm for the second widget
- Choose between percentage or phone for the battery widget
- Configure colorization options for the background and labels independently, including primary and secondary colors, a custom color, or use the system color
- Adjust the positioning of the widgets with individual X/Y sliders and a size adjustment slider
Other
In the Other preference pane, users will find all the other miscellaneous options they might be looking for:
- Enable or disable text shadows
- Customize the Lock Screen text (default swipe up to open)
- Adjust the missed notification offset with a Y slider
- Hide the charging animation
Users can quickly and easily reset everything to their factory defaults to start from scratch whenever they want to. We like that AIM Pro provides a way to customize the Lock Screen directly from the Lock Screen or Notification Center, however it seems strange to us that AIM was a free tweak and that simply making editing possible from the Lock Screen or Notification Center warrants a separate tweak with a price tag. Either way, it does provide more choices for the end user, so it’s not necessarily a bad thing.
If you’re interested in trying AIM Pro out for yourself, then you can purchase it for $1.49 from the Havoc repository via their favorite package manager app. The tweak supports jailbroken iOS 14 and 15 devices.
Are you going to be customizing your handset’s Lock Screen with AIM Pro, or will you stick with the free AIM tweak? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section down below.