New HiddenWallpapers Tweak Brings 5 More Dynamic Wallpapers to iOS 7

With the introduction of iOS 7 last year, Apple brought a much welcomed new feature that was available on Android phones for many years: dynamic wallpapers. These live and moving backgrounds can be found in Settings.app in a wide variety of designs and use the accelerometer within your device to shift subtly while in use. But Apple wasn’t entirely complete in releasing these wallpapers when the first build of iOS 7 was pushed to he public; there were quite a few of them hidden within iOS that were just waiting to be uncovered. And uncovered they were. Apple commonly experiments with many features prior to the release of a new software version, and includes them within beta developer builds of iOS and Mac OS X. These features may not be apparent to the end user, but they’re rather hidden deep within the filesystem and just don’t quite make the cut when the final software build is released. That was the case with the new dynamic wallpapers feature that many of us have come to love, and it turns out that the seemingly restricted selection of live wallpapers was once not so small. A new tweak by the name of HiddenWallpapers fixes this, and uncovers the hidden wallpapers that Apple decided just didn’t fit in with iOS 7. Once you’ve installed HiddenWallpapers from Cydia–which is absolutely free and available on the BigBoss repo–all you have to do is head to Settings.app, navigate to the “Wallpapers & Brightness” settings page, tap “Choose Wallpaper,” tap “Dynamic” and choose one of the newly added live designs now available for your device background. It goes without saying that if you want to use this tweak, you’re going to need iOS 7 running on a jailbroken device. If you’re not jailbroken, run the evasi0n7 tool on your iOS 7 device. Most likely, if you’re running iOS 7.1, you won’t be able to get HiddenWallpapers. If you are, though, and your device natively supports dynamic wallpapers (the iPhone 4 doesn’t currently), you can get HiddenWallpapers on Cydia via the default BigBoss repository for free. And if you want even more wallpapers for your iOS device, be sure to check out our coverage of iDynamic! Our own Cody Crouch has covered this tweak in-depth at our YouTube channel iPhoneHacksTV, and you can find that video below. What do you think of these hidden wallpapers? Are they better than the default ones that Apple included? Continue reading →

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