A popular concept for jailbreakers over the course of jailbreak iterations over the years has been visualizing your touch screen taps. While it was once only popular for screen recordings, it also extended to everyday usage.
iOS developers 82flex and launchctl are continuing on with this tradition with the release of a new jailbreak tweak called Touch-Viz, which makes all your screen taps, multi-touch or not, visible to your eye with configurable shapes that appear wherever you tap.
It’s worth noting that we showed you a free jailbreak tweak called ShowMyTouches that did almost the same exact thing just last weekend, but Touch-Viz is an alternative tweak, offering some choice in the tweak market today.
As shown in the screenshot example above, Touch-Viz adds a preference pane to the Settings app where users are able to configure a number of options to their liking. Among the different things you can configure here are:
- Toggling Touch-Viz on or off on demand
- Choosing whether Touch-Viz appears only during screen recordings, or at all times
- Toggling the morph effect on or off on demand
- Choosing a touch color
- Choosing a border color
- Configuring an animation duration via a slider
- Configuring a touch size via a slider
- Configuring a border width via a slider
- Resetting all options to their defaults
- And more…
I really like that so many of Touch-Viz’ parameters are configurable because it’s attractive to be able to change how the touches look on your screen as you tap. The animations also elevate the user experience, making this so fun you’ll tap just because, whether you need to or not.
If you’re interested in giving Touch-Viz a try, then you can purchase the tweak from the Havoc repository for $1.99 via your favorite package manager app. The tweak is advertised as supporting jailbroken devices running iOS & iPadOS 15 and 16, including rootless jailbreaks.
Will you be using the Touch-Viz jailbreak tweak? Let us know why or why not in the comments section down below.
