Wake it up

Raise to Wake is easily one of my favorite features that comes stock on some of Apple’s latest handsets, so it’s a shame that the iPhone 6 and earlier don’t support it.

Fortunately, if you have a jailbreak, you can change that by installing a new free jailbreak tweak called Wake It Up by iOS developer XCXiao.

Wake It Up tries to port the Raise to Wake feature to older handsets, and it does a pretty good job of it. On the other hand, it requires user calibration so that the tweak knows when you’re lifting your device up from a resting position.

After you install Wake It Up, you can visit the tweak’s preference pane in the Settings app:

Here, you can turn the tweak on or off on demand and then respring to save your changes. You’ll also see a second respring button, which allows you to calibrate the tweak once the respring completes.

Once you’ve enabled the tweak and tapped the second respring button with the calibration option, you should see the following screens after the device boots back up