iOS is a well-polished mobile operating system, but one thing Apple continues to ignore time and time again is that atrocious native volume HUD. There’s no shortage ofjailbreak tweaksthat aim to improve this experience on the iPhone and iPad, but perhaps one of our favorites to date is a new release calledBelleVolumebyLuke MurisandGeometric Software.
BelleVolume relocates the volume indicator to the middle of the Status Bar, which prevents it from obstructing your view in various everyday scenarios. On notched devices such as the iPhone X, XR, XS, and XS Max, the volume indicator materializes just below the notch; other devices display the volume indicator where the time would normally appear.
Right out of the box, BelleVolume includes six different volume indicator themes that you can pick from. Examples of each of those are depicted in the screenshots below:
Among the options you can pick from are:
You’ll also find a dedicated preference pane in the Settings app after installation where you can customize the tweak’s aesthetic and behavior:
Here, you can:
BelleVolume provides users with a template to make their volume HUD look and feel exactly how they want it to. If you’re ready to drop Apple’s painfully-ugly native volume HUD, then this tweak is a great place to start.
If you’re interested in trying BelleVolume, then you candownload it for $2.00 from Cydia’s Packix repository. The tweak purportedly works withjailbrokeniOS 11 and iOS 12 devices.
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