Learn how to lock your iPhone or iPad by tapping a shortcut on the Home Screen if pressing the physical button is difficult or inconvenient.
How to lock your iPhone or iPad with a tap on the Home Screen
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Prevent over-shoulder passcode snooping attacks with the Rode jailbreak tweak
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.
CanvasSync sets Spotify’s Canvas or other Music apps’ Now Playing album artwork as your wallpaper
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 best Lock Screen jailbreak tweaks for iOS 16
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?
CovertInstrument jailbreak tweak keeps SBCoversheet from presenting its view
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.
iOS 18.2 lets you track Safari download progress on your iPhone’s lockscreen
Start downloading a file in Safari and track download progress on your iPhone's Lock Screen, which uses Apple's Live Activities feature.
How to show volume slider on iPhone or iPad Lock Screen
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.
LockMoji15+ lets you replace an iPhone’s Lock Screen padlock with any Emoji or Unicode symbol
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.
Customize text strings and more on your jailbroken iPhone’s Lock Screen with Cthulhu
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.
BadgeSync hides apps’ notification badges when you dismiss a corresponding notification banner
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.
Oneko jailbreak tweak adds a cat to your screen that follows your taps
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.
‘Draw’ your passcode instead of entering it with the new Doodle jailbreak tweak
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.