Honey brings the Apple Watch’s Home screen experience to your iPhone

If yous ain an iPhone together with an Apple Watch, thus yous know that each device’s Home screen functions inwards a dissimilar way. iOS’ Home concealment is optimized for a larger display, piece watchOS’ is optimized for a smaller display; but if yous accept a soft spot for how the Apple Watch’s Home concealment industrial plant together with fancy the same sense on your iPhone, thus today’s your lucky twenty-four sixty minutes menses because you’ll no longer bespeak to settle.

Enter Honey, a newly-released jailbreak tweak past times iOS developer Blake Boxberger that ports the Apple Watch’s Home concealment sense to iOS devices. As you’ll notice inwards the screenshot examples above, Honey tin last configured to piece of job inwards several dissimilar ways together with lets yous sense what yous dear nearly your Apple Watch correct on your iPhone or iPad.

The concept of porting the Apple Watch’s Home concealment sense to the iPhone certainly isn’t new, but Honey offers i of the most aesthetically-pleasing user experiences on the marketplace today. It’s consummate amongst proper scaling for the iPhone’s display together with a plethora of options to brand things aspect how you’d wishing them to.

Right out of the box, Honey lets you:

• Access all your apps amongst a uncomplicated swipe gesture


• Enjoy fluid animations only equally yous would on your Apple Watch


• Apply dissimilar background blur effects


• Hide or exhibit your iPhone’s native application Dock


• Incorporate the sense amongst themes, notification badge tweaks, together with widgets

As yous powerfulness come upwards to expect, you’ll honor a preference pane inwards the Settings app where yous tin configure your desired features:

Here, yous can:

• Toggle Honey on or off on demand


• Enable or disable haptic feedback


• Hide or exhibit the application Dock


• Hide or exhibit notification badges


• Choose a Home concealment appearance setting:
  
  
  
  • No blur
  
  
  • Light blur
  
  
  • Dark blur
  
  
  • Vibrant blur
  
  
  
  


• Choose a layout setting:
  
  
  
  • Square
  
  
  • Fullscreen
  
  
  • Expanded
  
  
  
  


• Choose your preferred app icon setting:
  
  
  
  • Default (and come inwards a preferred size inwards pixels)
  
  
  • Circle (and come inwards a preferred size inwards pixels)
  
  
  
  

The developer provides a Respring push clit inwards the preference pane to salve whatever settings yous brand on demand.

While we’re on the theme of porting Apple Watch-inspired Home concealment experiences to the iOS platform, it’s worth noting that Boxberger was besides responsible for creating HomeList, which ported the Apple Watch’s list-centric Home concealment sense to the iPhone. Perhaps unsurprisingly, HomeList offers like attending to detail.

If you’re interested inwards trying the novel Honey tweak, thus yous tin download it today for $2.99 from the Dynastic Repo repository inwards Cydia or Sileo. The tweak supports all jailbroken iOS xi together with 12 devices, but at the fourth dimension of this writing, it prevents yous from uninstalling apps. According to the developer, this volition last fixed inwards a time to come update.

What are your thoughts regarding the Apple Watch Home concealment sense on the iOS platform? Discuss inwards the comments department below.

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