Cydia Spotlight: Login

Login: Bringing the OS X login page to iOS

Recently, the developer known as ImBrandDev, released a beautiful new tweak called Login.

On the surface, the tweak appears simple and very clean. It adds an OS X style login to the lockscreen/passcode screen of your iOS device.

There are many options to configure already, and surely more will come. Let’s take a look at what’s available to us now!

One the main Settings page, we find four cells:

• Enabled
• Configuration
• Credits (links to BrandDev’s twitter, and to his other major tweaks)
• Support (allows us to directly email BrandDev about Login)

The top cell, Enabled, is a master switch to enable/disable the tweak entirely.

Tapping the second cell, Configuration, leads to the preferences area for the tweak.

Inside, starting from the top, you’ll find two buttons. They are labeled Lockscreen View and Passcode View. These two options set where the Login view will be. Lockscreen and Passcode screen respectively

Moving down we see see an area called Blur. Here we find options to change, what else, the blur settings.

We are given three choices; Dark Blur, Light Blur and Extra Light Blur. Beneath that we have a slider to adjust the intensity of the blur. This sets the blur style behind the Login image and password field. The options here make it easy to tune the blur to make Login easy to see over any wallpaper.

Next, we find User Image. Tapping this cell opens a share-sheet allowing us to:

• Take a photo
• Choose an existing photo
• Delete current image
• Cancel

This allows us to set our User Profile Picture for Login. You can set your own picture, a picture of your boyfriend or girlfriend, your wife or husband, even a picture of your pet monkey! (monkey not included)

The next two sections are where we will input our User Name and Password. At this time, there do not appear to be any limitations or requirements I’m aware of for the username and password fields.

Please keep in mind, if you set Login to replace your passcode screen, and you forget your Login password, the only way in may be with TouchID.

Below the username and password section there are two switches. These allow us to force the Numberpad on the Login screen (Useful if your password is only numbers) and Immediate Unlock which does as it says; makes your device unlock immediately after you enter the correct passcode.

Just below that is the Hint section, where you can type a word or short phrase to help you remember your password in the unfortunate event that you should forget it.

Last cell on this page is Extras. Tapping this leads us to the next section where we find a few more fine tuning options.

At the top we see three buttons: Left, Center and Right. This sets the position of the Login X button which appears if you have Login set to the lockscreen view and you swipe it up out of the way so as to see your normal notification and passcode views. Tapping the X will drop Login back down into place.

Below that is a list of switches which lets us toggle the following options:

• Dark Buttons (power menu buttons at the bottom of the Login screen)
• Dark Keyboard
• Unlock Animation
• Hide Power Menu
• LS Statusbar Time (forces the status bar clock to show or hide)
• Hide Power Menu Labels
• Disable Drag Up Gesture (Active when Login is set to the Lockscreen view)

These are, for the most part, self explanatory.

Finally, at the bottom, there is a switch to enable and disable password/passcode protection for all of the Login preferences. If you set this, you will still be able to turn the tweak on and off, but to enter the configuration area you will need to enter the code you set here.

Login is a very clean and impressive tweak. It is a great mixture of iOS and OS X style and aesthetic and really looks like it belongs. I believe this tweak is definitely worth the small $1.99 price tag.