How to Delay Requiring of Fingerprint to Unlock iOS 7 (Video)

For some, dumb reason, Apple allows you to delay the need for a passcode after the device’s screen locks, but the minute you enable Touch ID, you are forced to use your fingerprint immediately to enter the device. Why?! Regardless of their reasoning (and thanks to the amazingness that is jailbreaking) you don’t need to know why. Just fix it. Here’s how using a jailbreak tweak called Mesalation.

I. Jailbreak your iPhone/iPad

To do this procedure you must be jailbroken. If you aren’t, you can head to our Jailbreak How To’s section and pick the jailbreak for your version of iOS (currently at the time of writing this is 7.0.6). Once done with that procedure and you have Cydia installed, head back here to continue.

II. Install Mesalation

1. Open Cydia.

2. Tap Search in the bottom right corner.

3. Type in Mesalation.

4. Tap on Mesalation when it shows up.

5. Tap Install in the top right corner.

6. Tap Confirm.

7. Tap Restart.

III. Setup Mesalation

1. No configuration required. Simply head to Settings > General > Touch ID & Passcode and now you can change the Require Passcode option to any of the same delay settings as you would have without using Touch ID.

Enjoy!