In this post we are going to take a look at 5 must have tweaks for your iPhone 5 iOS is a great operating system and provides all the features a user needs by default. However since Apple does not allow third party developers to mess with its mobile operating system there’s little that can be added to iOS in terms of functionality. But that statement is not true if you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad and have Cydia running on it. Thanks to jailbreak and Cydia users can download and install different tweaks from the store and add features to their favorite operating system.
In this post we will take a look at 5 must have tweaks for your iPhone 5 that will make your life easier by making iOS even more user friendly.
Zephyr
This tweak will make using your iPhone 5 a lot more simpler. Zephyr is a multi-purpose tweak for jailbroken iOS devices. One of its features include allowing users to access apps that are running the background by swiping from left or right side of their screen. However that’s not the reason this tweak is first on our list of 5 must have tweaks for your iPhone 5. The most important feature of Zephyr tweak for iOS is that it adds a swipe up gesture to iPhone 5, which can be used to get back to the homescreen without pressing the home button. This is a really useful feature since pressing the home button isn’t the favorite hobby of most iPhone owners and using it excessively could pose a threat of it becoming useless in an unlikely scenario.
Auxo ($1.99)
While you are waiting for the release of iOS 7, which brings a revamped app switcher you can use Auxo. Auxo is a beautifully designed iOS tweak that replaces the usual app icons from the app switcher tray and adds a nice live view of the running application. Not only does it changes how apps look in the app switcher but it also allows users to close them by simply dragging them down with their finger. This method is much simpler and quicker then going to the ‘app kill’ mode by long pressing an iOS icon in the app switcher. Auxo also features toggles and shortcut buttons for different settings.
NCSettings (Free)
iOS 7 brings a really nice Control Center to iOS that gives access to useful toggles. But since the iOS 7 operating system is far from its official public release you can rely on NCSettings until then. The NCSettings tweak adds useful toggles such as WiFi On/Off, Portrait lock, Bluetooth On/off and others in Notifications Center as a widget so you don’t have to open the Settings.app everything you want to turn any of these features on or off. Apart from that the NCSettings tweak also offers buttons for restart, respring and turn off.
LockInfo ($4.99)
Next up on our list of 5 must have tweaks for your iPhone 5 is LockInfo. It is a tweak especially made for the lockscreen. It brings a lot more to the lockscreen and allows users have at a glance information about weather, messages, missed calls and other notifications. LockInfo tweak shows how the lockscreen of iOS should have been like in the first place.
BiteSMS (Free)
Last but not the least on our list of 5 must have tweaks for your iPhone 5 is BiteSMS. It is a nice tweak that is pretty useful for those who text a lot using their iPhone 5. The BiteSMS tweak makes it easier for users to reply to messages. The tweak enables them to reply to messages right from the notification without the need of opening any app. From the BiteSMS notification users can either call the sender, open the app message is from or simply reply to it right from the notification pop up.