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How to Bring Useful Information to the Lockscreen in iOS 7 (Video)

The lockscreen in iOS 7 isn’t the most useful if we’re honest. Thanks to jailbreaking developers though there are a few good options for replacing said boring lockscreen with something with a bit more usefulness. One of the best ones out there happens to be named LockInfo7. This tweak, costing

How to Rename Group Conversations in iOS 7 (Video)

I, for one, HATE group chats. They always seem to go off on tangents that I simply don’t need to be a part of or they simply end up becoming a drunken symphony of vibrations on my nightstand if I was the one who had to get up early the

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

How to Get True Universal Search on iOS 7 (Video)

There’s a universal search tool that a lot of people are familiar with on Mac called Alfred. This program sort of takes the idea of Spotlight, and searching one place to find anything on your computer, and kicks it up a notch by adding in the ability to also search

How to Make Spotify your Default Music App in iOS 7 (Video)

Personally, I only use Spotify for my music. I happen to switch phones so often and it’s one of the only music apps that works across all the different operating systems. Add to that, it’s social network-like other benefits and you can see why I’m glued to it. Unfortunately though,

How to Add a Matrix “Rain” Effect to the Lock Screen in iOS 7 (Video)

Need something to show off the fact that your iPhone is jailbroken? How about adding a Matrix movie style raining text effect to the lock screen? Yeah, that’ll make them go “what the…” (while possibly also making them go “nerd!” but who cares, right?). A tweak called RainLock does just

How to Add Facebook Chat Heads to All of iOS 7 (Video)

Chat heads is a feature of the Facebook app that allows you to communicate with your Facebook friends without having to leave whatever you are looking at in the Facebook app. It accomplishes this by giving you a little floating head on your screen whenever your friends message you through

How to Change Your Battery Icon in iOS 7 (Video)

In the world of theming for iOS 7, nothing is sacred, not even your status bar and the battery icon. While most theming tweaks in iOS 7 allow you to change pretty much every aspect of the OS, the major ones (like Springtomize, for example) don’t allow you to change

How to Return to Conversation List by Default in iOS 7 (Video)

Sometimes jailbreak tweak developers simply have an annoyance with iOS that they really just want to fix. One such example of this annoyance-fixing is the tweak we’re checking out today, called MessagePopper. Now, normally when you are texting someone using iOS 7 and you leave the messaging app, receive a

How to Add a Knocking Gesture to Activator in iOS 7 (Video)

Activator is a great app that allows you to use gestures to launch apps or perform actions. From tapping the homescreen with three fingers, to pinching when in an app, to a ton of other options, it can really add a lot of functionality to your iPhone, iPad, or iOS

How to Have Your Wallpaper Change Daily in iOS 7 (Video)

If you’re like me, you sometimes get quite bored with your wallpaper causing you to search out new ones and install them on your phone as the mood strikes you. If you feel this is taking up a bit too much time in your daily life, may I suggest a