Pagebar lets you customize how your Home screen’s page indicator looks

The Home concealment is best known for its humble duty of serving your application icons to your fingertips on demand, but i chemical component of it that oftentimes become overlooked inwards Apple’s software redesigns is the page indicator only higher upward the Dock.

If you’re laid upward to give your Home screen’s page indicator a sexy novel makeover, together with hence you lot only mightiness desire to endeavor a newly-released jailbreak tweak called Pagebar yesteryear iOS developer CalicoCat. This tweak lets you lot subject together with customize the Home screen’s touchstone page indicator, making breathtaking novel aesthetics similar those depicted inwards the animated GIF below possible:

The concept should audio very familiar because nosotros just lately showed you lot a similar jailbreak tweak, which was also named PageBar (albeit amongst a working capital missive of the alphabet B). The developer behind the novel Pagebar says he created it inwards reply to unsatisfaction amongst what at that spot was to select from beforehand, together with the upshot is especially stunning if I exercise grade hence myself.

As you lot mightiness come upward to expect, Pagebar puts a dedicated preference pane inwards the Settings app where you lot tin forcefulness out configure the tweak on demand:

Here, you lot can:

• Toggle Pagebar on or off on demand


• Choose the page indicator agency that you lot prefer to use:
  
  
  
  • Default
  
  
  • Pagebar
  
  
  • Minidots
  
  
  • Hidden
  
  
  
  


• Configure an active colouring (the colouring that appears on an active Home screen page dot)


• Configure an inactive colouring (the colouring that appears on an inactive Home concealment page dot)


• Adjust Pagebar’s meridian on the Home concealment via a slider


• Adjust Pagebar’s starting fourth dimension on the Home concealment via a slider


• Choose whether Offset moves the Pagebar upward or not


• Configure Pagebar to appear below the Dock


• Hide the Dock entirely


• Make the Dock background transparent to brand Pagebar to a greater extent than visible


• And more…

The developer provides a Respring push clitoris that you’ll desire to purpose whenever you lot brand changes to the tweak’s preference pane. Doing hence ensures that your changes are appended together with that you’ll become to purpose the newest customizations that you’ve made.

Based on our testing, nosotros especially similar the Pagebar subject shown inwards the animated GIF above, but the tweak comes amongst other themes that mightiness improve adapt you lot if you lot aren’t into the whole ‘bar’ concept.

If you’d similar to give Pagebar a try, together with hence you lot tin forcefulness out snag it from CalicoCat’s beta repository inwards Cydia or Sileo for only $0.99. The developer plans to eventually free his tweak inwards the Dynastic Repo repository, but there’s no ETA on that. Pagebar supports all jailbroken iOS 9-12 handsets, including the A12(X) variety.

If you lot aren’t already using CalicoCat’s beta repository, together with hence you lot tin forcefulness out add together it to your packet director of selection amongst the next URL:

https://calicocat.yourepo.com/

Do you lot intend Pagebar is an improvement over the Home screen’s native page indicator? Let us know inwards the comments department below!

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