Do you wish to customize the look and feel of the stock Messages app on your iPhone? If so, you might be interested in a jailbreak tweak known as MessagesCustomiser by iOS Developer Charlie Hewitt.
Messages Customiser was one of the popular jailbreak tweaks in iOS 7, and the good news is that has been updated for iOS 8.
Just as the name implies, the tweak allows you to customize various aspects of the Messages app ranging from the message bubbles to the conversation background and the tint color of the app.
Once you install MessagesCustomiser, you’ll find a new preferences pane in the Settings app dedicated to the tweak. From there, you can enable or disable the tweak via the kill switch toggle and change the color of the SMS, iMessage and the recipient’s message bubbles. You can either apply a solid color to the message bubbles or enable gradient. The good thing about the tweak is that you have the option to either choose a color from a list of predefined ones that come with it or alter the RGB sliders to come up with a color of your choice.
Other than this, you can also change the tint color of the Messages app, change the color of the background or use an image as well as customize the color of some texts such as the timestamps and the read receipts. The tweak also provides various other advanced settings to further customize the message bubbles such as its width or tail.
What I like mostly about this tweak is that it features a reset button so that you can revert back to the default settings in case you mess up with the configuration. Once you’re done with the customization, all you have to do is to close the Messages app and launch it again for the new changes to take place.
MessagesCustomiser is currently in the beta phase so you might run into bugs while using it. For instance, when you toggle on the gradient option for message bubbles, it crashes the Settings app after getting enabled.
If you’re interested to give this tweak a try, you’ll have to add the following new source to Cydia first: http://chewitt.me/repo/ . Once done, search for the tweak and install it on your device.
Let us know how the tweak performs on your iOS 8 device.
