Interested in a notification experience on your jailbroken iPhone that doesn’t suck? If you answered yes to that question, then you might want to look at a newly released jailbreak tweak called Looky by iOS developer ella89sp, which changes incoming notification behavior on your Lock Screen to a more hands-free approach.
As you can see for yourself in the screenshot examples above, Looky makes incoming notifications easier to see and read briefly without turning on your device’s screen or lifting it up to wake it. The information from the notification is both instantly available and well-separated from the other interface elements for legibility at a distance.
The Looky interface is also a highly configurable one, and users will find a dedicated preference pane in the Settings app where they can configure a variety of options to their liking:
Things that you can do here include:
- Toggling Looky on or off on demand
- Hiding or showing the app title
- Hiding or showing the notification message
- Hiding or showing the Looky snow effect animation
- Choosing a manual title color or using the app icon’s dominant color
- Choosing a manual message color or using the app icon’s dominant color
- Choosing a background color or using the app icon’s dominant color
- Hiding or showing a border around the display
- Adjusting the border thickness
- Choosing a border color or using the app icon’s dominant color
- Automatically lock the device again once the notification is shown
- Customize fonts
- And more…
According to the tweak’s depiction page, Looky is made to be compatible with iPhones ranging from the iPhone X to the iPhone 14 Pro Max running iOS 15 through 16.6.1. Moreover, it doesn’t matter if you’re using a rootless jailbreak or the RootHide version of Dopamine – Looky works with both.
Those interested in giving Looky a try can purchase the tweak for $1.99 from the Havoc repository via their favorite package manager app.
