While mostjailbreak tweaksare made in response to some sort of problem or inconvenience iniOS, some exist purely for good fun and entertainment. A new free release dubbedWavesby iOS developerMuirey03is a beautiful example of the latter.
As you might have inferred already from the name and thescreenshotexample above, Waves brings a fluid-inspired animation to youriPhoneor iPad’sHome screen. The fluid depicted in the screenshot is sensitive to motion, which means tilting your device causes the fluid to move just as the laws of physics in the real world would command.
If you’re wondering how that looks, then observe the motions in the animatedGIFimage below:
Notably, the animation only occurs on the Home screen, so this isn’t something you’ll see while your handset is locked or while you use yourapps. That said, the tweak is subtle and not overwhelming on a system-wide level.
Waves adds a preference pane to the Settings app where you can configure some options:
Here, you can:
As always, we can appreciate having access to a color picker instead of a pre-set list of colors because it provides the end user with more choices in the long run. It’s also neat that you’re able to adjust the fluid amplitude and height because everyone has their own preference for how something like this should look.
Waves is purely an aesthetic jailbreak tweak intended for entertainment purposes, and as such, some might shamelessly call it ‘useless,’ but that’s far from the point. Entertainment-centric tweaks of this nature can help you show off your jailbroken handset to friends and remind those around you why it’s cool to have ajailbreakin the first place.
If you’re interested in trying Waves for yourself, then you candownload it for free from Cydia’s Packix repository. Waves is advertised to work on jailbroken handsets running iOS 10 and later; the developer made the tweakin response to a requestfrom the community and hasopen-sourced it on GitHubfor those interested in learning how the tweak works.
Note: if you experience horrendousbatterydrain after installing Waves, then the developer recommends uninstalling it. It shouldn’t cause issues for most, and we didn’t suffer a battery drain ourselves in testing, but some tweaks don’t play nicely together, and we wanted to give you a heads up.
What are your thoughts about Waves as an entertainment-centric jailbreak tweak? Lets us know in the comments section below.
