Nereid offers a pleasant upgrade for the Lock screen’s Now Playing interface

iOS’ native Now Playing interface is skillful plenty for most people, but if you lot quest to a greater extent than out of your user sense than the average Joe as well as select a jailbroken iPhone or iPad inwards your possession, thus you lot may desire to feast your eyes on a newly-released jailbreak tweak called Nereid yesteryear iOS developer Nepeta.

From what nosotros tin forcefulness out gather, Nereid brings an improved Now Playing interface to your handset’s Lock cover equally you lot brain to your music. It tin forcefulness out ready your wallpaper equally the Now Playing track’s album artwork, allow color as well as command customizations, as well as much more.

In the screenshot examples above, you’ll notice correct off the bat that the wallpaper has been ready equally the Now Playing track’s album artwork. You may select too discerned the additional command options, which include rewind/skip fifteen seconds, shuffle, as well as repeat.

At the bottom of the showtime screenshot (on the left), you’ll encounter what appears to survive a Mitsuha Infinity well visualizer, as well as it’s worth noting that Nepeta has too simply released a Lock screen-centric version of Mitsuha Infinity (which is too free) that’s specifically designed to play nicely with Nereid.

Upon installing Nereid, you’ll honour a dedicated preference pane inwards the Settings app where you lot tin forcefulness out configure the tweak to your liking:

Here, you lot can:

• Choose your preferred color pick for Nereid:
  
  
  
  • Automatic
  
  
  • Default
  
  
  • Dynamic
  
  
  • Custom
  
  
  
  


• Choose a custom color if Custom was selected


• Colorize the Lock screen’s engagement as well as fourth dimension with the Nereid interface


• Enable or disable artwork equally the wallpaper


• Hide or demo the elapsed as well as remaining fourth dimension text


• Hide the book bar


• Remove the album’s cite from the interface


• Hide or demo the circle approximately the play/pause button


• Replace icons


• Swap the creative mortal cite as well as title


• Adjust the album artwork blur radius


• Adjust the album artwork darkening


• Choose the album artwork mode:
  
  
  
  • Scale to fit
  
  
  • Shrink to fit
  
  
  
  


• Configure a custom background color


• Configure the push that you’d similar to look on the left as well as correct side of the interface:
  
  
  
  • Disabled
  
  
  • Shuffle
  
  
  • Repeat
  
  
  • Rewind fifteen seconds
  
  
  • Skip fifteen seconds
  
  
  
  


• Reset all options to their defaults

The developer provides a respring push inwards the preference pane for your convenience, as well as you lot should purpose it whenever you lot brand changes to ensure they’re appended to your device.

Out of all the tweak’s features, nosotros particularly appreciate the dynamic album artwork-centric wallpaper characteristic as well as the additional controls, but we’re certain some people volition too appreciate the theming options as well as mightiness to hide/switch data approximately for a cleaner aesthetic.

If you’re interested inwards trying Nereid, thus you tin forcefulness out download it for gratuitous from Nepeta’s repository inwards either Cydia or Sileo. Notably, Mitsuha Infinity – Lock Screen is too available for free from the same repository. Both tweaks play nicely with all jailbroken iOS eleven as well as 12 devices, as well as Nereid is open-source on the developer’s GitHub page for those interested inwards learning to a greater extent than nearly what makes the tweak tick.

Will you lot survive grabbing Nereid? Let us know why or why non inwards the comments department below!

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