There comes a time every once in a while where ajailbreak tweakis groundbreaking and has the potential to shake up the entire jailbreak community, and folks, we definitely think a new tweak release in Cydia calledPersonalAssistantis one of those tweaks.
In this review, we’ll walk you through this monster of a tweak, which the developer notes has seven tweaks built into one unified interface.
Excited yet? You should be…
PersonalAssistant: the new 7-in-1 tweak you have to see
PersonalAssistant, which is now available inCydia, is basically a brand new way to observe and digest information about your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
The developer of the tweak, TweakWiz, made sure that PersonalAssistant runs well on not onlyiOS 9devices, but iOS 8 devices as well. This means anyone with a recent jailbreak can have a part in this release.
To make a long story short, because that’s the way the world likes things these days, PersonalAssistant is a seven-in-one jailbreak tweak; there are actually seven tweaks built into it, that have been formally named: Horlogium, Forecast, Boltix, Auxilium, Phalanx, Acutus, and Symphonia.
Each of these seven tweaks that are baked into PersonalAssistant are designed to work with a specific part of iOS. But we’ll get more into that later.
Handling PersonalAssistant
From a first glance, this tweak appears to modify the Lock screen with a totally new interface, as you see above, but as you’ll soon learn, this tweak can be applied to various places in iOS, includingNotification Centerand the twoSpotlightinterfaces in iOS.
If you’ll be using it on the Lock screen, you’ll be happy to know that you still swipe to the left as usual to unlock your device. If you have a passcode, you’ll still be able to see previews of your information from the Lock screen without needing to enter your passcode.
From the interface, you get to see useful tidbits of information, including:
You can tap on each individual item, and it’ll bring up a luscious interface that is focused directly on what you tapped on. For example, here are some of the things that appear when you tap on various things, such as the time, battery information, or a notification:
The time interface lets you set a timer or an alarm right from the Lock screen. The battery interface shows you information about your device’s remaining life, as well as the battery percentage. And lastly, the notification interface shows you information about the notification you tap on, and then provides notification dismissal or app launching options.
Other things you can tap on include the weather and the music mini-player:
As you can see, the weather information is very much like what you would see from the Weather app, and the music player shows you what’s playing and lets you control your music. Keep in mind, this is all still from the Lock screen.
So yeah, there’s a lot involved here, and there are a lot of options to configure to get the tweak running how you’d like it to.
Configuring PersonalAssistant
When you get into the PersonalAssistant preferences pane, it can be slightly intimidating, as there are a lot of sections to configure. In fact, it reminds me in many ways of the Springtomize tweak because of all the sections there are.
From the main preferences pane, you’ll be able to access the configuration for the tweak, as well as information about the makers and contact information.
When you start delving into the configuration for the tweak, you’ll find options like:
But just below these options, you’ll find the meat and potatoes of the tweak, which involve configuring the seven sub-tweaks. We’ll go through each of those with you below:
Horlogium is the sub-tweak that handles theclockpart of the PersonalAssitant interface.
For Horlogium, you will be able to configure the following options:
Forecast is the part of the tweak that handles, you guessed it, theweather.
For Forecast, you can configure the following options:
The Boltix part of the tweak handles thebatteryinformation in PersonalAssistant.
From the Boltix preferences pane, you get the following options to play with:
Auxilium is the sub-tweak for PersonalAssistant that handlesremindersand events.
The options you can configure for Auxilium include:
Phalanx is the part of PersonalAssistant that deals withnotifications.
For Phalanx, you get all of the following options to configure to your liking:
Acutus is the part of PersonalAssistant that deals with your recently-used and favoriteapps.
From here, you can configure the following options for Acutus:
Lastly, we have Symphonia, which is a tweak that handles themusicplayer for PersonalAssistant.
From the Symphonia preferences pane, you are able to configure the following options:
My thoughts on PersonalAssistant
This tweak is a mouthful. It has so many features packed into it, that it was hard to keep this post to a bare minimum of words, but for users, that’s a great thing because it means more bang for your bucks.
I personally love the look of the PersonalAssistant interface on theLock screen. I like the look of the interface itself more than I do the individual previews that you get when you tap on things, but nevertheless, the individual previews are plenty informative and functional.
The fact that you’re getting all seven of these sub-tweaks in one, and the fact that it works with iOS 8 and iOS 9 devices, leads me to have to say that this is a tweak you will want to check out!
Conclusion
PersonalAssistant may be the last Lock screen modificationjailbreaktweak you ever need. If you’re interested in trying it, you can download it from Cydia’s BigBoss repository right now for $4.99.
What are your thoughts on PersonalAsssitant? Share in the comments below!
