One of the most significant gripes that iPhone and iPad users have is that theHome screen’s app icon layout is as bland as it has been since the introduction of the original iPhone. All app icons are gridlocked to specific points on the Home screen, and it’s impossible to create true empty spaces in between icons on a stock device.
This is one area where the jailbreak community shines. A plethora of differentjailbreak tweaksreleased in the past allow custom Home screen app icon layouts, and if you’re jailbroken on iOS 13 withcheckra1n, then you might be excited to learn that a new release calledBoxy 4 (iOS 13)by iOS developerWilliam Vabrinskascan now bring this functionality to your handset.
As you might’ve noticed already from the screenshot examples above, Boxy 4 is highly intuitive with his quick-access controls directly on the Home screen. In fact, the tweak is so easy to use that you can create a custom Home screen app icon layout in a matter of seconds.
Using grabbers, sliders, and gestures, you may control the app placement, spacing, size, and padding for every page of your Home screen. Moreover, you can even save presets so that you don’t have to manually configure things all over again when you choose to switch things up.
Once installed, Boxy 4 puts a preference pane in the Settings app where you’re able to configure the tweak to your liking:
Here, you can:
In theGeneral Configurationspane, you can:
In theIcon Layout Settingspane, you can:
The developer includes a Respring button in the preference pane to help you save changes on demand. According to the notes in the pane, only items marked with an asterisk (*) necessitate a respring to save.
Customizing your Home screen’s application icon layout is one of the best ways to personalize yourjailbrokenhandset. If you’d like to get started, then Boxy 4is available as a $1.99 purchase from the Packix repositoryin your preferred package manager.
How will you customize your Home screen with Boxy 4? Share in the comments.
