Lock screen Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Biometric face recognition for jailbroken iPhones with RecognizeMe

by Samuel Gibbs (May 18th, 2011)

Have you ever wished your iPhone 4 would recognize your face and let you past the lock screen? RecognizeMe, a facial recognition lock screen tweak for the jailbroken iPhone 4, does just that. Simply hit the RecognizeMe button on the lock screen and let the phone scan your face using the front ...

Found footage: Dashboard for iPhone on your lock screen

by Erica Sadun (Sep 24th, 2009)

Why didn't Apple think of this? SmartScreen lets you add widgets to your iPhone lock screen, providing an interactive dashboard experience whenever you wake up your device. The software is jailbreak-only (as you'd probably expect, given its standard system-defying functionality) and will be ...