TheApple Watchincorporates a plethora of useful wrist widgets that Apple likes to callComplications, and they permit your smartwatch to display useful information from your favorite apps directly on the watch face of your choosing. Complications are both compact and concise, and for those who’d like their iPhone to display similar data on the Lock screen, there’s ajailbreak tweakfor that.
Watermelon by iOS developer LaughingQuoll was the first tweak to bring this functionality to the iOS platformjust over a week ago, but with a good idea comes competition, and that’s where a new release dubbedComplicationsby iOS developerBen Gianniscomes into play.
Complications doesn’t look much different from Watermelon at first glance, but a closer look reveals a slightly more polished user experience. Giannis seems to have spent a great deal of time perfecting the Complications widget’s animations and behavior to look and feel elegant on iOS 13, and with that in mind, users may appreciate this release a bit more until Watermelon reaches full maturity.
Complications nails the concept’s implementation. The tweak intelligently blends the Complications into thewallpaper. A simple tap on any Complication opens the corresponding app to show more information and a tap-and-hold on the widget itself enables users to choose which Complications show on theLock screen. What’s more is users can configure custom placement for their selected Complications by defining X and Y values of their choosing and set the number of rows and columns of Complications you want.
Out of the box, Complications supports the following Apple Watch Complications:
As you’ve undoubtedly come to expect, Complications puts a preference pane in the Settings app where you can configure these parameters to your liking:
Here, you can:
Apart from the aesthetic appeal brought on by Complications, potential users will be happy to know that you don’t need an Apple Watch to take advantage of this tweak.
Those interested in trying Complications canpurchase it for $1.99 from the Havoc repositoryin their preferred package manager. Moreover,jailbrokeniOS 13 & 14 devices are supported at this time.
What do you think about Complications? Let us know in the comments section.
