One of the most important things you’re able to ever monitor on your iPhone or iPad at any given time is itsbatterylevel, and if you agree with this sentiment, then you’ll probably take a liking to a newly releasedjailbreak tweakcalledGlanceby iOS developerKushyDaBush.
As you’ll see in the screenshot examples above, Glance brings a battery-centric makeover to your iOS device’sLock screen, offering a continuous display of your handset’s current battery level right underneath its date and time display.
Right out of the box, Glance isOLED-friendly; its pitch-black background lets individual pixels on the display turn off completely, and the green charging animation that appears when you plug your handset in is just as exciting:
Once installed, Glance puts a preference pane in the Settings app where you’re able to configure it to your liking:
Here, you can:
The developer provides a Respring button at the top right of the interface, and it should be used any time you make changes to the tweak’s settings to ensure that they take effect.
Glancecan be downloaded for free from the BigBoss repositoryin Cydia or Sileo right now, but users will be prompted to purchase the tweak for $1.49 from its preference pane after installing. Whether or not it’s worth that much comes down to just how much you appreciate a battery-centric Lock screen and a custom charging animation.
Glance plays nicely with alljailbrokendevices running iOS 11 and later.
Do you think Glance is an aesthetic improvement over the native Lock screen UI in iOS? Let us know in the comments section below.
