How to Make Your Weather Icon Live in iOS 7 (Video)

Widgets are apps that can run on your home screen and bring you information directly (or control apps) instead of having to be opened. Some good examples of a widget are weather widgets that show the temperature and forecast directly on the screen, or a news feed that shows the latest news articles without needing to open. The iPhone / iPad doesn’t have this ability (unlike Macs and Android). Or does it?

After jailbreaking your device, you can add some widgets to your iPhone device (assuming someone has made one for what you want). If you were thinking you might want a weather widget to show you the current weather where your weather app is, then you’re in luck! Someone has made just that as a jailbreak tweak. Here’s how to make your weather icon live in iOS 7 and display the current weather.

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 7.0.4). Once done with that procedure and you have Cydia installed, head back here to continue.

II. Install LiveWeatherIcon

1. Open Cydia (if it isn’t still open from the section above).

2. Tap Search in the bottom right corner.

3. Type in LiveWeatherIcon.

4. Tap on LiveWeatherIcon when it shows up.

5. Tap Install in the top right corner.

6. Tap Restart.

III. Setup LiveWeatherIcon

1. Once it reboots, the weather icon will show the current temperature. No configuration required, however, the developer might add other options later.

Enjoy!