One of my biggest qualms with the Lock Screen on any iPhone or iPad is the fact that the number pad for passcode entry always has the same layout. This means that even if someone who’s glancing over your shoulder doesn’t know exactly what numbers you’re tapping on, they can instead easily memorize the positions of the number buttons you tap on to gain access to your device.
Music listeners who primarily use the Spotify application to stream their favorite songs, and who also have a jailbroken device at their disposal, have a strong potential to be able to enjoy a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called CanvasSync by iOS developer pkgFiles.
The Lock Screen is the first interface you see any time you pick up your iPhone or iPad for the first time, which makes it a particularly important part of the user experience of your device. That said, don’t you think you should have a little more say than Apple gives you over how it behaves or looks?
In an attempt to potentially make software development easier in some fringe scenarios, iOS developer castdrian has released a new and free jailbreak tweak called CovertInstrument that can give the effect of preventing an iPhone or iPad from locking itself after an extended idle period.
Start downloading a file in Safari and track download progress on your iPhone's Lock Screen, which uses Apple's Live Activities feature.
You can display the sound control slider in the Now Playing area of your iPhone or iPad Lock Screen to change the volume without pressing physical buttons or accessing Control Center.
Wouldn’t it be neat if you could replace the padlock glyph on your Face ID-equipped iPhone with that of an Emoji instead? Well, you can! You just need a free jailbreak tweak called LockMoji15+ by iOS developer b4db1r3.
Have you ever wanted to customize the various text strings that can appear on your jailbroken iPhone’s Lock Screen? If so, then a free jailbreak tweak called Cthulhu by iOS developer CydiaGeek could be just right for you.
One of the most annoying things that I put up with on a regular basis in terms of dismissing iMessage or Gmail notification banners from my Lock Screen or Notification Center is that the app icon badge pertaining to that notification doesn’t actually go away. In essence, launching the app to make the badge go away makes me feel like I’m investing twice the effort to dismiss that notification in its entirety.
Occasionally, we get a fun jailbreak tweak that doesn’t necessarily make your iPhone or iPad do anything useful, but instead complements the user experience with some sort of fun aesthetics or behavior that you would never have on a stock device.
I remember a time several years ago when I would replace my standard passcode on my jailbroken device with an interface where I would draw a picture to unlock my locked device. This meant setting a unique drawing as my ‘passcode’ and having to draw the same drawing (or as close to it as possible) for my device to register that I was me.
While the flashlight icon on the iPhone Lock Screen is handy, the camera button is redundant, as you can simply launch the camera by swiping left on the Lock Screen. So, if you want to remove or switch these default buttons for some other feature, you have the option to do that.