How to Manually Change iPhone SpringBoard Strings

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Posted January 14, 2012 at 10:19pm by iClarified

These are instructions how to manually change strings used by the SpringBoard on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

You may want to follow these instructions if you want to customize your SpringBoard. For example, you can change the status bar message 'No Service' to a string of your choice.

Step One
You will need to have jailbroken your device and installed iFile from Cydia.

Step Two
Launch iFile by tapping its icon on your SpringBoard.

How to Manually Change iPhone SpringBoard Strings

Step Three
Press the back button until you get to the root directory of your device, then select System from the list of folders.

Step Four
Press to select the Library folder then tap to select the CoreServices folder.

Step Five
Tap to choose the SpringBoard.app folder then press to select the English.lproj folder.

Step Six
Press to select SpringBoard.strings then choose Text Viewer from the popup menu that appears.

Step Seven
Navigate to the string you would like to customize then click the Edit button at the top left of the screen.

Step Eight
Change the value of the string variable to your liking then click the Save button.

Step Nine
You can now reboot your device for the changes to take effect!

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Granit - February 15, 2015 at 12:39am

Thanks man it was the only way that worked for me :)

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Shorty - August 11, 2014 at 6:19am

Finally I dont need a stupid tweak to change my carrier name. Very very helpful.

Big B - December 20, 2012 at 6:07am

Commenters just fail to realize the actual point of this tutorial. There are far more strings that can be changed other than the carrier name. That was merely chosen as an EXAMPLE of a string in there that COULD be modified, not because that was the inherent point to gaining access to the string resources file- to modify carrier name. How does this stuff get completely overlooked by people?! Pay attentionnnn to what's going onnnnn.

A. Osorio - January 15, 2012 at 2:21pm

There are severalmuch easier ways to customize your carrier name: like with SBstettings abd with Springtomize- this is a lot of extra work for nothing: maybe nice for ultra-nnerds but by far not the easiest way.

qw1987 - January 15, 2012 at 6:04am

Much easier: open iClarified, ignore Eduart, end

eduart - January 15, 2012 at 12:45am

much easier this: 1 - Remove sim 2 - Open SBSettings 3 - "more" and rename operator

eduart - January 15, 2012 at 12:44am

much easier this: 1 - Remove sim 2 - Open SBSettings 3 - "more" / rename operator END

eduart - January 15, 2012 at 12:42am

much easier this: 1 - Remove sim 2 - Open SBSettings 2 - Remove SIM 3 - "more" / rename operator END