Lynx 2 - Ultimate device customization for iOS 14, 15 & 16
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Requires Cephei from Chariz
Available on Havoc
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Features
SpringBoard
**App User Interface**
- Select dark/light apps
**Power**
- Disable power vibration
- Place device screen down to lock
**Dock**
- Hide completely
- Background style (transparent, dark, light)
- Use Floating Dock
- Disable in App Switcher
- Remove divider
- Disable App Library icon (iOS 15+)
- Disable Recents
- Set custom number of recent icons
- Disable in specific apps
- Hide dock border
**Dock Indicators**
- Show indicators on running applications
- Choose indicator color
- Dark
- Light
- Automatic
- Icon Average
- Choose indicator style
- Circle
- Bar
**Homescreen**
- Tap on background to lock device
- Disable rotation
- Disable icon editing
- Hide 'Done' button
- Hide 'Add Widget' button
- Always return to first page of icons when opening device
**Spotlight**
- Set custom pinned apps (also adds 3D Touch option to rearrage/select)
- Set number of icons in Spotlight app suggestion rows
- Clear search text when closing Spotlight
- Disable Spotlight completely
- Use iPadOS style floating window
**Folders**
- Show list of apps contained in 3D Touch menu
- Hide background
- Hide title
- Hide icon background (blur behind icon preview)
- Automatically close when opening contained app
**3D Touch Menus**
- Hide separator lines between options
**Table Views**
- Show popup with current alphabetical index
- Hide separators between cells
- Use inset table style
**Scroll Bars**
- Hide scroll bars globally
**Search Bars**
- Hide completely
- Hide background view
**Home Bar**
- Disable on Homescreen and in apps
- Disable on Lockscreen
- Set custom height & width
**Navigation Bars**
- Always use small title style
- Remove separator under bar
**Switches**
- Set custom enabled color
- Set custom knob tint color
**Keyboard**
- Haptic feedback on key press (light, medium, heavy)
- Always show iPad Pro keyboard on all devices (iPad only)
- Hide dictation key
- Replace dictation key with dismiss keyboard button
**Alerts**
- Hide separator between alert components
**Tab Bars**
- Tint badges to application window tint
- Hide separator above bar
- Hide button labels
- Use haptic feedback when tapping button
**Icon Pages**
- Remove page dots
**Screenshots**
- Hide screenshot preview
- Disable shutter sound
**Drag & Drop**
- Enable in all applications
**Volume**
- Set custom number of steps
**Flashlight**
- Enable timeout & set custom duration
**Airplane Mode Alert**
- Hide completely
- Disable Airplane Mode directly from alert
**Wallpaper**
- Add overlay blur (dark, light, feather)
- Disable Parallax effect
**Device Interface**
- Enable fluid gestures
Lockscreen
**MagSafe**
- Enable on all devices
**Wallpaper**
- Disable switching (iOS 16+)
- Add background blur (dark, light, feather)
**CarPlay**
- Hide splashscreen when connecting
**Clock**
- Display seconds
- Hide clock label
- Hide date label
- Set clock and date positioning (left, right, center)
- Use custom font family
- Use custom font size
**Control Center**
- Hide grabber at top of screen
**Charging View**
- Disable battery popup when connecting to power
**Unlock Text**
- Hide 'Swipe up to Unlock' or 'Press Home to Unlock' text
- Set custom text
- Display label immediately (disable fade animation)
**Legal Text**
- Show legal text label at bottom of screen & set custom text
**Page Dots**
- Hide page dots (Home button devices only)
**Notifications & Banners**
- Show full notification message
- Use single swipe gesture to remove (iOS 15+)
- Add custom outer shadow
- Automatically expand banners when received
- Show count of notifications in each section
- Hide 'No Older Notifications' label
**Face ID**
- Hide padlock
- Disable unlock hint (appears at top of screen)
**Passcode Screen**
- Use haptic feedback on passcode number keys
- Hide cancel button
- Hide Emergency button
- Hide backspace button
- Hide number key background
- Hide 'Enter Passcode' label
- Set custom 'Enter Passcode' text
**Quick Action Buttons**
- Hide both buttons
- Hide Flashlight/Torch button
- Hide Camera button
- Hide button images
- Hide button blurred background
**Camera**
- Disable swipe gesture (keeps button functionality)
**Music Player**
- Set player style (default, simple)
- Hide completely
- Hide volume slider
- Hide media progress slider
- Hide media control buttons
- Hide playing application icon
- Hide sound output device icon
**Spotlight**
- Disable swipe gesture
**Animations**
- Disable fly in zoom animation
App Library
**Gestures**
- Open App Library when swiping for Spotlight
**Activation**
- Disable App Library completely
**Style**
- Always open to list mode
- Reverse category pod order
**Categories**
- Edit displayed categories (open editor with button in Settings or via 3D Touch menu option on all icons in library)
**Pods**
- Hide background blur
- Hide category name label
**Folders**
- Hide app labels
- Hide folder titles
- Hide cloud icon when app is offloaded
**Search Bar**
- Hide search background
- Hide search icon
- Disable pull down to open search
**Haptic Feedback**
- Play feedback when opening or closing App Library
Status Bar
**Hiding**
- Disable globally
- Hide on Homescreen
- Hide on Lockscreen
**Coloring**
- Set custom tint color (applies to all status items)
**Camera & Microphone**
- Hide dot when sensor is active
**Breadcrumbs**
- Remove button to return to previous app
**Battery Item**
- Hide completely
- Hide bolt
- Hide exterior percentage label
- Show percentage label inside battery icon
- Disable charging animation
- Tap to toggle Low Power Mode
**Status Items**
- Hide WiFi icon
- Hide cellular signal bars
- Hide clock
- Hide location arrow
- Hide Rotation Lock icon
- Hide Do Not Disturb moon icon
- Hide Bluetooth icon
- Hide Alarm bell
- Hide Airplane icon
- Hide VPN icon
- Hide CarPlay icon
- Hide 'Not Charging' label
- Hide background activity spinner
**Audio Devices**
- Show connected device battery level (iOS 14 only)
**Lockscreen**
- Hide lock icon (Home Button devices only)
**Hotspot & Recording**
- Remove indicator background color
- Disable pulsing animation
**WiFi**
- Show network strength RSSI
**Carrier**
- Set custom text
- Override data type
- Fake cellular service (for devices with not SIM interface)
- Override cellular signal strength
**Clock**
- Display date under time
- Set custom date format
- Use custom time format
**Network Speed Label**
- Show network upload and download speed
- Set vertical & horizontal offset
- Hide on Homescreen
- Select apps to disable speed label in
App Switcher
**Style**
- Set switcher style (paged or grid, applies instantly)
**App Suggestions**
- Remove suggestion banner
**App Closing**
- 3D Touch to clear all
- Swipe to clear all
- Confirmation before terminating all running apps
- Select locked apps to always keep running
**Now Playing Application**
- Ignore killing of application currently playing media
**App Cards**
- Hide icon
- Hide name label
Widgets
**Today Page**
- Hide edit button
- Disable on Lockscreen
- Disable on Homescreen
- Disable swipe to search gesture
**Widget Elements**
- Hide labels on Homescreen widgets
- Hide scroll dots to side of widgets
- Add outer shadow, and set shadow radius
**Batteries Widget**
- Double tap to toggle Low Power Mode
- Tap on device to show current percentage
- Hide empty rings
- Hide separator lines (4x4 widget only)
**Siri Widget**
- Hide separator lines (4x4 widget only)
Icons
**3D Touch Items**
- Hide 'Remove Stack'
- Hide 'Edit Widget'
- Hide 'Edit Stack'
- Hide 'Edit Homescreen'
- Hide 'Share App'
- Hide 'Delete App'
- Hide 'Pause Download'
- Hide 'Cancel Download'
- Hide 'Prioritize Download'
- Hide separators
- Hide action images
- Add 'Clear Badges' option
- Add 'Rename App' option
- Add 'Lock/Unlock' option (for devices with biometric authentication enabled only)
- Show app storage size
- Hide blurred menu background
**Icon Labels**
- Hide on Homescreen
- Hide in App Library
- Hide in Folders
- Set custom label color
- Set custom label font
**Icon Scaling**
- Set custom scale on Homescreen, Dock & App Library
**Accessory Dots**
- Hide updated app dot
- Hide beta app dot
**Badges**
- Use average color of app icon
- Hide badges completely
- Hide badge text
**Homescreen Layout**
- Set custom number of Homescreen rows & columns
- Set custom number of Folder rows & columns
- Set custom number of Dock icons (does not work with Floating Dock)
**Transparency**
- Set custom alpha value of all icons
**Downloads**
- Display current percentage
**App Hiding**
- Choose apps to be hidden globally
**Animations**
- Disable second hand sweep animation
- Disable app editing icon jitter animation
Control Center
**Activation**
- Disable Control Center completely
**Connectivity Module**
- Disable WiFi & Bluetooth completely when tapped
- Choose color of enabled toggles
- Set number of columns
- Set number of rows
**Status Bar**
- Hide Status Bar
- Hide sensor indicators (camera, microphone, location)
**Modules**
- Use rounded module shape
- Add shadow to perimeter of module
- Hide background of enabled toggle modules
- Choose style of module background view
- Default
- Light
- Lighter
**Sliders**
- Add percentage labels to volume and brightness sliders
**Background**
- Choose style of control center background view
- Default
- Dark
- Light
**Chevron**
- Hide arrow at top of control center
**Hide Hints**
- Remove text when toggling modules
Settings
**Apple ID Cell**
- Set custom first & last name
- Use modern account (removes all labels and only shows profile picture)
**Icons**
- Hide cell icons
- Use rounded icons
**Chevrons**
- Hide arrow indicator on detail cells
**Sections**
- Hide follow up items (storage, backup, updates)
- Hide 3rd party app section
- Hide COVID-19 Exposure notification cell
- Hide family cell (only shown when enrolled in family plan)
**Network**
- Show WiFi IP address
- Show ethernet section
- Display cellular data used
**VPN**
- Hide VPN toggle
**Search Bars**
- Hide search bar on main page of Settings
**Background**
- Enable translucent effect in all Settings pages
Music
**Up Next**
- Hide queue popup
**Recently Added**
- Show all songs (removes limit of recent items to display)
**Layout**
- Use 3 column layout
CarPlay
**Icons**
- Hide labels
- Hide label background
- Use custom icon layout
**Status Bar**
- Show battery even on wired connections
- Display current outdoor temperature
- Choose screen edge to display status bar
**Wallpaper**
- Choose custom wallpaper
AppStore
**Updates**
- Replace arcade button with link to app updates
Camera
**Styling**
- Use iPad style (transparent bars, moves media type selector to edge of screen)
**Recent Photos**
- Hide last taken photo preview
**Shutter Sound**
- Disable sound when tapping shutter button
**Gestures**
- Double tap view finder to switch between front and back cameras
Phone
**Dialer Buttons**
- Hide button background
**Recent Calls**
- Show exact time when call was placed or received
- Hide calls made via 3rd party applications
**Tab Bar**
- Select which buttons to be displayed
**Call Button**
- Hide background
- Set custom background color
Notes
**Tool Bar**
- Automatically collapse keyboard toolbar
**Security**
- Hide note detail text in main list
**Tint Color**
- Set custom application tint color
Photos
**Albums**
- Lock hidden album with biometrics
**Media Deletion**
- Skip confirmation when moving item to trash
- Delete photos & videos permanently and skip trash
**Photo Previews**
- Remove zoom limit
- Hide preview slider at bottom of screen
**Videos**
- Automatically loop videos
Safari
**Address Bar**
- Remove background view (only works in dark mode on iOS 15+)
**Background Playback**
- Continue WebKit media playback in background
Messages
**Pinned Conversations**
- Hide glow behind contact images
- Hide preview of last received message
**Conversations**
- Hide separators between cells
**Message Sending**
- Always display send progress bar
- Add a customizable delay before sending messages (allows for cancelling sending of messages)
Changelogs
2.4.6
Fixes
- Fixed spacing on Lockscreen when hiding Do Not Disturb indicator on iOS 16 (Thanks Nightwind & Luki)
- Fixed some preferences not being set on rootless jailbreaks
Changes
- Added option to replace dictation key with dismiss keyboard
- Added option to display cellular data used in Settings
- Added option to show network download & upload speed in StatusBar
- Added option to choose Control Center background blur style
2.4.5
Fixes
- Fixed missing ability to set custom icon label color
- Fixed Lockscreen date view using wrong date formatter when displaying seconds
- Fixed Status Bar displaying improperly on certain notched iPhones
- Fixed Homescreen page dots not hiding properly
Changes
- Added option to disable parallax effect on Homescreen wallpaper
- Added option to hide CarPlay icon labels
- Added option to hide CarPlay icon label backgrounds
- Added option to use custom number of icon columns in CarPlay
- Added option to always show battery icon in CarPlay, even if device is connected via USB
- Added option to show current temperature in CarPlay Status Bar
- Added option to choose which edge of screen to display CarPlay Status Bar
- Added option to set custom wallpaper in CarPlay
- Increased sensitivity of swipe gesture to kill all apps in App Switcher
- Added option to bypass 'Recently Deleted' album & remove media items in Photos permanently
- Added option to enable FluidUI gestures on devices with Home Button (Thanks ETHN)
- Changed badge coloring logic on folder icons to use the average color of the first icon with notifications
2.4.3
Fixes
- Fixed Lockscreen clock alignment in landscape mode
- Fixed 'Replace Spotlight' not working on rootless iOS 15 jailbreaks
- Fixed 'Remove App Library' not working on iOS 15 jailbreaks
- Fixed 'Lock Hidden Album' feature in Photos not working
Changes
- Increased the maximum & minimum possible values for notification lists offset
- Added option to enable notched style status bar
2.4.2
Fixes
- Fixed issue causing a respring loop on rootless jailbreaks when using a custom homescreen layout
Changes
- No new changes, all requests since release of version 2.4.1 will be included in a future update
2.4.1
Fixes
- Fixed tweak preferences not being loaded into sandboxed apps on rootless jailbreaks
- Fixed alert when closing all apps in switcher on iPadOS not following device orientation
- Fixed hiding Lockscreen quick action button background not working
- Fixed Control Center connectivity changes label not being hidden
- Fixed section icons in Lynx's preference page not being colored correctly
- Fixed cells in Settings causing visual glitches when changed
- Fixed tab bar button images layout positioning on non notched devices
- Fixed 'Hide Action Images' not working on Homescreen 3D Touch actions
- Fixed SpringBoard volume slider potentially showing control center slider percentage
- Fixed Lockscreen clock always displaying 12 hour format when displaying seconds even if device was set to 24 hour format
- Fixed Control Center slider percentages not appearing in expanded mode
- Fixed Lockscreen date positioning overriding value set with Nexus tweak by @iCrazeiOS
- Fixed apps not being terminated when swiping down to kill all
- Fixed audio routing button not hiding
- Fixed badges not being colored properly when using average icon color
- Fixed coloring in About section of settings when using light interface mode
- Fixed 'Face Down to Lock' not working on iOS 15+
- Fixed hidden cells in Settings not updating when changing value
- Fixed stepper cells crashing Settings app when changing value
- Fixed Spotlight layout breaking on iPadOS due to the default of 4 icons per row on iPhone
Changes
- Added ability to import or export settings data in About section
- Added blur to applications in App Switcher that are locked via 3D Touch menu
- Added option to always use expanded media player on Lockscreen (iOS 16 only)
- Added option to skip navigation apps when killing all apps in App Switcher
- Added option to set custom page scaling in App Switcher
- Added option to set custom spacing between pages when using grid layout in App Switcher
- Added option to disable swipe to last app gesture on devices with Home Bar
- Removed option to press to kill apps in switcher as method was not reliable
- Added option to make 'Hide DND Banner' affect iOS 15+'s DND Focus indicator
- Added option to show indicator on running apps in Dock with options for shape and color
- Removed option to display cellular signal as RSSI until better method is implemented