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WhatsTheDate brings a smarter timer display to your iPhone’s Lock Screen

One of the things I like about iOS is how it displays any active timer on the Lock Screen, just below the time. But as much as I like having this subtle reminder when I pick up my iPhone, the implementation is somewhat imperfect. For example, it often gets in the way of viewing the Lock Screen’s native date display, which is something I find equally as useful when glancing at that particular interface.

If you’re in the same boat, then WhatsTheDate by iOS developer iCraze is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak that you won’t want to miss. It effectively solves the aforementioned problem by forcing the Lock Screen’s timer display to disappear after a few seconds, instead transitioning to the current date thereafter.

Dragspring resprings your device with a drag gesture in the settings app

One of the things you might do a lot when you have a jailbroken device is respring. In a sense, a respring could be described as a soft reboot for appending changes to the operating system by way of jailbreak tweaks. Resprings can also be useful for other things, but regardless of why you’re doing it, it can sometimes feel cumbersome hen you’re trying to find a fast and easy way to respring your device.

We’ve covered a plethora of different jailbreak tweaks in the past that allowed you respring your handset on demand, but one of the latest tweaks to join that growing list of releases is an updated tweak dubbed Dragspring by iOS developer ConorTheDev.

MyWall lets you set custom backgrounds throughout iOS

One of the things you can change on any stock iPhone or iPad is the wallpaper image that appears on both the Home Screen and Lock Screen. Unfortunately for Apple device users, that’s just about the extent of background image customization on the iPhone and iPad platforms; but it doesn’t have to be.

Assuming you’ve got a jailbroken handset at your disposal, then you can take advantage of a newly released jailbreak tweak called MyWall by iOS developer iOSthemem0d to customize the background of just about any iOS interface you can imagine.