Show The Date In iOS Notification Centre With SimpleDate!

Although Apple have made the effort of making the calendar icon on the iOS springboard to be live and show the real date, they seem to have forgotten that users may want to check the date within apps. For some, it becomes a very long a repetitive task of closing the all, heading over to the calendar, and then relaunching the app – if they’re not distracted in the meantime!

iOS users can now solve this problem through a jailbreak tweak from a developer called Shades. The tweak called SimpleDate (abbreviation for SimpleDate for Notification Center) can easily be installed to any jailbroken device to show the date in the iOS notification centre!

SimpleDate Cydia Tweak

How to install SimpleDate through Cydia

Requirements:

  • Jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch on iOS 5 or newer. You can find a step-by-step tutorial on how to jailbreak through this link.
  • An Internet connection from your iDevice

Step 1: Launch Cydia and head over to the Search tab. By default you should already have the BigBoss repo installed to Cydia, but incase you haven’t it’s here: http://apt.thebigboss.org/repofiles/cydia/.

Step 2: Search for ‘SimpleDate‘ and install the package from BigBoss, dev Shades.

SimpleDate Cydia Tweak Install

Step 3: After Cydia has finished installing the package you may need to respring your springboard. Now we need to activate the tweak. Head over to Settings -> Notifications -> Scroll down to SimpleDate -> Swipe the toggle to On.

SimpleDate Cydia Tweak Settings

Now when you slide down the Notification Centre, you should see the date beneath the weather widget.

If you have any problems getting started with this tweak, or have an improvement to suggest get in touch via the contact page.

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