Forecast - Use live animated weather as wallpaper on jailbroken iphone or ipod touch

Welcome to TeachMeiOS.com where you'll find tips, tricks, apps, and tutorials for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.Today we're going to be talking about one of my favorite jailbreak tweaks for iOS 7 and it's called Forecast. It doesn't need much of an introduction as you can see pretty well what it does. iOS 7 included some beautiful animations in its weather app and Forecast is a tweak that adds these animations directly to your background of your device. And you can see there on the lock screen it works really really well. You unlock your device and that snow animation is still being shown behind the app icons on the home screen. And this is just a really beautiful, well designed jailbreak tweak. It feels like something that Apple should have included in iOS 7 by default, and the great thing about it is it changes based on your location. For instance, here's a beautiful rain animation and you can see when I swipe over, there's an extra page on the lock screen that shows more detailed weather information just like on the weather app, so you can get at that without even having to open, unlock your device. Again that rain animation plays in the background once your device is unlocked, even behind the app icons. Here's another location. It's obviously night time here. Mostly cloudy, you can see the clouds are subtly moving across the screen and one of the great things about Forecast is it contextualizes your device based on what time of day it is. So, at night, it's less harsh on the eyes because there's typically a dark background. Here's a location that's mostly clear at night. You can see the stars, and those stars, I don't know if you can tell but they sparkle and subtly kind of move around behind the lock screen and the app icons. Here's one more location for you, this is a mostly sunny daytime location. And one of the really great things about Forecast is it constantly keeps your background updated with new and fresh animated backgrounds as the weather changes outside so your device always has a fresh look. But what if you are depressed by the snow in your area and you'd really like kind of an escape maybe to a different location? Well, you can go into the settings app and into the privacy pane, and then to Location Services, and scroll all the way down to find the weather app. If you toggle the weather app location services off, it will, Forecast will default to using the top, the first location in the actual weather app in iOS. So let's demonstrate how that works. I've turned location services off and I'm going to open up the weather app. And you can see my current location is Portland. But if for some reason I'd like to go to Alaska I can drag Wasilla to the top and go to the home screen, you can see it takes just a minute for the, for Forecast to update your location once Location Services is turned off but, oh darn, in Wasilla it's still snowing and now it's 19 degrees, freezing cold, and dark outside so let's change that one more time. Let's go to Sydney, Australia. I'll just drag that up to the top to be the first location in my Weather app. I'll go ahead and power on my device and there you can see it's already nice and warm and sunny and both my background and my mood have improved because we're now in Sydney. So there's a few settings that are included with Forecast. Go ahead and open up the settings app, we're going to scroll down to the jailbreak section which is below a lot of the stuff on the settings app. Go ahead and tap on Forecast and you can see a number of different toggles, you can do things like show the current weather, darken the current weather if it's a dark background it'll darken the text. Show forecast page, that extra page of information. And then those bottom three toggles: show on lock screen, show on home screen, those will require a respiring of springboard in order to apply the changes, so that'll just take a second and then it'll update for you. Let's dive into Cydia, and Forecast is available for 99 cents on the Cydia store, and that's really a steal for a jailbreak tweak like this. I know a lot of development must have gone into it. David Ashman is the developer behind this one, and 99 cents is a great price to support him with this. He says he's going to be releasing updates. So, we'll go ahead and search for Forecast, and here's the page. It's available on the default repositories on Cydia so you can search for it, purchase it, and download it and your background on your iPhone or iPod Touch will always be updated with the current weather conditions. Forecast is not currently available for iPad because Apple did not include the weather app on the iPad version of iOS. Check it out on Cydia, Forecast, it's available for 99 cents. Now, obviously you'll need to be jailbroken in order to run Forecast. If you need more information about jailbreaking iOS 7, check out the link to our post on the subject just below this video. And you're on TeachMeiOS.com.