Some people like iOS’ badge notification system, and some people hate it. Regardless of which of those camps you reside in, a newly released jailbreak tweak called Badger by iOS developer 0xilis promotes a wealth of customization that you’d be hard-pressed to find in any other single jailbreak tweak.
Assuming badge notifications aren’t generally your forte, Badger might be the only jailbreak tweak capable of changing your mind. That’s because you can use this tweak to transform how badges look, configure when they appear, and command how they behave.
In the screenshot examples above, you’ll see that we were able to change the position of the badge, colorize it, change its size, and modify its shape, among other things. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg…
Once installed, Badger adds a dedicated app to the Home Screen where you can configure a slew of different notification badge-oriented options:
Among the things you can change to your liking are the following:
- Set a minimum number of notifications before badges appear
- Set a minimum number of notifications for specific apps before badges appear
- Set a limit to how high badge numbers can be
- Configure notification badge colors
- Configure notification badge colors for specific apps
- Set notification badge colors based on notification badge counts
- Set notification badge colors for specific apps based on notification badge counts
- Configure notification badge opacity
- Configure notification badge opacity for specific apps
- Configure notification badge opacity based on notification badge counts
- Set notification badge opacity for specific apps based on notification badge counts
- Adjust notification badge position (Top Right, Top Left, Bottom Left, Bottom Right, or Center)
- Adjust notification badge shape (Round, Triangle, Square, Rounded Square, or Hexagon)
- Change notification badge shape for specific apps
- Change notification badge shape based on notification badge counts
- Change notification badge shape for specific apps based on notification badge counts
- Set a notification badge background image
- Set a notification badge background image for specific apps
- Set a notification badge background image based on notification badge counts
- Set a notification badge background image for specific apps based on notification badge counts
- Customize the text on notification badges
- Customize the text on notification badges based on notification badge counts
- Adjust notification badge sizes
- Adjust notification badge sizes for specific apps
- Adjust notification badge sizes based on notification badge counts
- Adjust notification badge sizes for specific apps based on notification badge counts
- Configure notification badge label colors
- Configure notification badge label colors for a specific app
- Configure notification badge label colors based on notification badge counts
- Configure notification badge label colors for specific apps based on notification badge counts
- Customize notification badge label fonts
- Customize notification badge label fonts based on notification badge counts
There are a lot of different things you can do with Badger to make your Home Screen look neat and get a conversation started about jailbreaking.
If you’d like to get onboard with customizing notification badges on your iPhone or iPad, then you can purchase Badger for $0.99 from the Havoc repository from your favorite package manager app. Please note that Badger only supports jailbroken iOS 13 and 14 devices at this time.
What would be the first few ways that you’d customize notification badges with Badger? Drop a comment below letting us know.
