LockDroid gives your jailbroken iPhone the classic Android-style matrix passcode screen

I’ve used a lot of jailbreak tweaks inward my day, but only about of my all-time favorites were those that brought the classic Android-style matrix/pattern Lock enshroud interface to the iOS platform.

It’s been a acre since we’ve seen 1 of these classic tweaks optimized for each of Apple’s latest handsets too mobile operating systems, but 1 that does is a liberate called LockDroid yesteryear iOS developer Julio Verne.

Upon trying LockDroid for myself, I was pleasantly surprised
by its fluidity too the extensive listing of configurable options that the developer
provides from the dedicated preference pane inward the Settings app:

Here, you lot can:

• Toggle LockDroid on or off on demand
• Configure the Lock enshroud designing you’d similar to role every bit a passcode
• Choose how large the Lock enshroud designing matrix volition be
• Configure a custom endeavor mistake lockout
  • Set the lockout limit
• Configure a custom subject for the LockDroid interface
• Set the coloring of the selected matrix dot
• Set the coloring of the wrong matrix designing point warning
• Set the coloring of the valid matrix designing point authentication
• Set the coloring of the idle matrix designing dots
• Set the coloring of the filled matrix designing dots
• Configure a few dissimilar localizations
• Reset all settings to their defaults

In improver to the extensive theming options that look to hold upward acquaint at offset glance, nosotros were excited to encounter the pick to increment the size of the matrix grid from 3×3 to 4×4 or 5×5. These increased complexities arrive to a greater extent than challenging for someone to approximate your matrix-centric passcode, providing a higher feel of security than many other jailbreak tweaks of this nature.

Notably, the direct keep the passcode must hold upward enabled on your
iPhone or iPad to direct keep payoff of LockDroid. If it’s disabled, too thus LockDroid
can’t croak along your device secure. You volition hold upward prompted to come inward the passcode once
manually afterwards installing LockDroid such that it tin mail away hold upward overwritten alongside a
matrix pattern.

Sure, only about devices direct keep payoff of Face ID or Touch ID for authentication instead of passcodes these days, but you’ll even thus hold upward prompted to come inward your passcode at 1 fourth dimension or another; thus why non role LockDroid instead of numerics?

Given my soft topographic point for this type of tweak, you lot tin mail away belike approximate that LockDroid comes alongside my personal recommendation. If you’re interested inward trying it out for yourself, too thus you lot tin mail away download it for complimentary from Julio Verne’s beta repository inward Cydia. The tweak industrial plant alongside all jailbroken iOS 7-11 devices too is opened upward origin via the developer’s GitHub repository.

Have you lot tried LockDroid yet? If so, what did you lot intend of
it? Let us know inward the comments department below.

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