How to Make iOS 7 Notifications Look Better (Video)
Here’s another jailbreak tweak that helps you further customize the look and feel of iOS 7. In this case, it’s not the UI color, or the icons, or any other part of the constant parts of iOS that you see every time you look down at your phone, but it’s still a part of your cell phone experience on a constant basis: the notifications.
Using this tweak, called FlagPaint7, you can change how the banner notifications look whenever an app has something to tell you, and the look of the banners on the lock screen look as well. From rounding the corners, to adjusting the gradient, to even choosing whether to show the app’s icon in the banner, there a a decent amount of options for customizing those otherwise very generic banners.
I. Jailbreak your iPhone/iPad
1. To do this procedure you must be jailbroken. If you aren’t, you can head to our How to Jailbreak iOS 7.0.6 (the latest version at the time of writing this). Once done with that procedure and you have Cydia installed, head back here to continue.
II. Install FlagPaint7
1. Open Cydia.
2. Tap Search in the bottom right corner.
3. Type in FlagPaint7.
4. Tap on FlagPaint7 when it shows up.
5. Tap Purchase at the top right and follow the prompts to login and purchase using your preferred method.
6. Tap Close when you’ve paid.
7. Tap Install where Purchase used to be.
8. Tap Restart.
III. Use FlagPaint7
1. Open Settings.
2. Go to FlagPaint7.
3. Tap on Banners to access all of the options for customizing the notifications in the notification center or tap on Lock Screen to customize the notifications that appear on the lock screen.
4. Select which options you want and tap Test to test it out.