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Turn Your iPad or iPhone's Bland Keyboard Blue with This Easy iOS 7 Tweak

Feb 22, 2014 03:03 AM
On-screen keyboard layout.

Keyboards tend to get overlooked as we rapidly text or type up emails, but when we do find the time to look at it, it's pretty bland. That's why we showed you how to spruce things up with a dark keyboard on your iPhone, which served as my default keyboard...until now.

With BlueBoard, you can make your keyboard layout have blue keys, which looks freakin' outstanding when compared to basic white—it's clean, quick, and simple. To get started, just make sure you're iPhone is jailbroken and running iOS 7.

GO Blue with BlueBoard

Head into Cydia to search for and install the free BlueBoard tweak from the BigBoss Repo.

App icon for BlueBoard version 0.0.1-24, file size 170 kB, featuring a drill graphic.

Once installed, go into your Settings app and locate BlueBoard to set preferences—Enable, then respring to apply the changes to your keyboard.

Settings menu for a mobile application featuring toggle switches for "Enable," "Respiring Now," and "Dark Keyboard."

If you want a dark background to go with your cool blue keys, just enable Dark Keyboard as well, which I think is definitely the way to go, but to each their own.

Text message conversation on a mobile device.
Text message conversation on a smartphone.
Text message conversation on a mobile device.
Text message conversation on a smartphone.

And that's it, easy as pie. Remember, this doesn't change your keyboard, it only themes it. If you want to go back to the stock look, simply disable BlueBoard (and Dark Keyboard if you're using it).

Now just change the color of your text bubbles and you'll be a lean, mean, blue-matching machine.

The next big software update for iPhone is coming sometime in April and will include a Food section in Apple News+, an easy-to-miss new Ambient Music app, Priority Notifications thanks to Apple Intelligence, and updates to apps like Mail, Photos, Podcasts, and Safari. See what else is coming to your iPhone with the iOS 18.4 update.

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