One of the cooler things about Android is the ability to customize almost all aspects of the UI. From themes, to icon packs, to widgets, replacement apps, etc. iPhone users, on the other hand, have been forced to stare at the icons and colors that Apple chose for them with […]
Touch ID doesn’t have as many uses as most people would like it to. You basically can use it to unlock your device and purchase things in the App Store, but that’s it. A lot of people have mentioned why not allow it to auto-fill passwords like fingerprint scanners on
One of the strange limitations of iOS is the restriction on where you can put your app icons on the home screen. As soon as you put an icon on the home screen, it has to fall behind the last icon on that page. You can move it around on
Unlike Android, Apple doesn’t allow you to replace any of the default apps with other versions. So the phone, messaging, and email app are ones you have to be stuck with. That is, of course, if your not jailbroken. Once you jailbreak, you can make those changes so long as
If we’re honest, there’s a lot going on in the status bar that you don’t really need. Besides that, there are other things you might want to add to it. Thanks to a jailbreak tweak called StatusModifier, you can do both. This jailbreak tweak allows you to adjust the date
Before we showed you an app that allowed you to lock down individual apps with your fingerprint in the form of a free jailbreak tweak. There is now a new one though that has the ability to lockdown settings pages, toggles, and apps with your fingerprint (and a nicer UI).
Perhaps you’re sick of looking at the words “AT&T” or “T-Mobile” or whatever other carrier name is at the top of the screen. You know what carrier you have (and are reminded every month by a bill in the mail) so why do you need to stare at it all
Some people like the animations in iOS 7, but I guarantee you won’t miss them when you see much faster apps seem to open after using this jailbreak tweak. The tweak in question is aptly named NoSlowAnimations and it’s as easy as just installing it from Cydia to have it
Ever want to change the colors of the bubbles in the messaging app? How about add the contact’s image you’re talking to into the mix? Thanks to a jailbreak tweak released in Cydia called Messages Customizer, you can. In addition to changing the colors and adding contact photos, you can
You may not know it, but there are a lot of different options for your iPhone’s home screen aka Springboard. These settings aren’t available for you to change normally, but thanks to a developer on the Cydia app store there is a jailbreak tweak that allows you to view and
Bytafont, a popular jailbreak tweak for altering the system font of your iPhone or iPad has been updated to work with iOS 7 and with 64bit chipsets (like the iPhone 5S). Now, you can change the font of your iOS device to, say, Cursive if your heart desired. Finally a
Sometimes you don’t want to have to go searching through all of those apps you’ve downloaded over the years to get to the ones you use often. Instead of just piling all of the apps on to the first home screen, why not put them in the stationary dock at
The Jailbreak tweak Applocker has been around for a while. Usually it’s used on a jailbroken iPhone to lock down specific apps by requiring a passcode whenever anyone tries to open them. Even though this isn’t a new tweak, it did just get an update that got it a lot
After you jailbreak you iPhone, one of the great benefits are tweaks that allow you to customize your device in ways you wouldn’t normally be allowed to. Some of the most useful of these changes are the ability to add gestures (i.e. pinch with three fingers on the screen causes
If you have Cydia Substrate installed (formerly known as Mobile Substrate) on your jailbroken iPhone (which you should as a lot of tweaks require it to work), you can use a feature called Safe Mode to get your iPhone or iPad out of a boot loop and get in to
