A few of our readers have asked us what happened toTheme Thursday, a weekly column that covered thebest new Winterboard themesfor iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The answer is that we decided to discontinue this column in April, primarily because themes started being released on a less frequent basis. Nevertheless, the theming community is still going strong.
Despite the slowdown, there are still a number of quality themes released every now and then that are worth mentioning. As such, we’ve turned to the/r/iOSthemescommunity on Reddit and hand picked three iOS theme setups that we think look gorgeous. Where possible, we’ve included thethemesandjailbreak tweaksused to achieve each setup. Take a look ahead…
Summer Setup
Reddit user Bieberkinz hasposted a summer setupwith a clean looking weather widget on the Lock screen, Android style clock widget on the Home screen, simplistic glyph icons and a white status bar. To achieve the Lock screen, a Cydget called MIUI was used. It can be downloaded fromthis Dropbox fileand manually installed using a program like iFunBox. The circular slide to unlock is a tweak calledJellyLock7with a MIUI Jelly7ock skin.Here is the wallpaper used.
The icons are themed withClarityand shrunk in size with a tweak calledBigify. Homescreen Designer was used to achieve the 5 × 4 icon layout, and No Icon Labels and White StatusBar (Flex 2) were used to remove icon labels and set a white status bar. Folder Customizer andTinyGridwere used to modify the folders, DockShift was used to customize the dock and the clock used is the Roliz Clock iWidget. The status bar also uses Android KitKat Status Bar, Cloaky andZeppelin.
Fair Weather Setup
If the last setup was a summer theme, thenthis oneis probably as much the opposite as you may get. Reddit user iFaRtRaINb0WZzz customized his Lock screen with the iW RM2 Sch clock widget, which can bedownloaded from Mediafireand applied manually using iFunBox, iExplorer or similar. He says that everything else was hidden using the LockHTML3 tweak on Cydia.
The icon theme for the Home screen is Mandalino and the clock is achieved with an iWidget called Easy Time. The icons were stripped of labels and custom positioned using Bigify and Iconoclasm respectively. The page dots were removed with the tweak NoPageDots7. The wallpaper used is included at the bottom ofthis Imgur album. The status bar uses Ayeris, Radar Wi-Fi Bars and Alkaline with a Spots theme.
Subtle Setup
For hissubtle setup, Reddit user Xcecutive is using the Lock screen extensionConvergancethat is customized with the AnotherTheme LS theme set to the 24 hour version. A systemwide tint is applied using the tweak Unitint, which requires adding the repository chewitt.me/repo to your Cydia sources. In terms of the Home screen, it is based off an iWidget that the setup creator hopes to release in the coming weeks.Here are the two wallpapers usedon the Lock and Home screens.
While not shown, the tweakColor Keyboardis also used withthis custom background.Stride 2allows for a blurred passcode, and the system user interface is based off Loop. The custom icons used are STYLZZ by designer In2ition, which can bedownloaded from Dropboxand applied manually using iFunBox or similar. The bottom widget on the Home screen is custom, modified by the user that posted this setup.
Most of the iOS theme setups above are much more complex than what is shown here. I recommend clicking on the source link for each theme to see its setup in full detail, as a lot of users have customized smaller elements like Control Center, Notification Center and certain apps. I also encourage everyone to share their own iOS setups in the comments below. We might promote some of the best setups in a future post.
