iPhone Tweaks

Wouldn't it be nice if your jailbroken iPhone told you battery information every time you plugged it in to charge? Battery Status is a tweak that does just that, conveniently letting you know how long it will take to fully charge your iPhone. Information can be delivered with an on-screen alert, spoken or both depending on the settings.

Battery Status explains how much charge is remaining on the battery, what's required to achieve 100 percent charge, and how long this will take while plugged in. The alert can be configured to deliver information when plugging in, unplugging, or with an activator gesture at any time.

Chances are you send a lot of messages from your iPhone. Now if your device is jailbroken you can speed up the process with a tweak named ImmediateSend. Why bother going to the Messages app every time you want to reply to an SMS or iMessage?

That's the theory behind ImmediateSend, which will deliver a pop-up box with simple options when you're interested in sending quickly. If the recipient of the message can handle an iMessage, that will be presented as an option, along with buttons for reply with SMS and go to the full blown Messages app. Just enter the text you want to reply with and tap the button of your choice.

When it comes to iPhone jailbreak tweaks, there have been many attempts to improve or replace the stock multitasking app switcher. Some find the multitasking dock painful to use, including having to scroll all the way to the left to find a volume control. Now for those with jailbroken devices there's a tweak called jLauncher that makes multitasking better.

Once installed, jLauncher can be invoked with any Activator gesture. This also means you must have the Activator package installed on your device. Double pressing the home button is how the stock multitasking app switcher pops up on an unmodified iPhone. Assigning this gesture to jLauncher will effectively replace the old dock.

Is your jailbroken iPhone acting slower than normal lately? Now you can speed up everything in iOS with a simple jailbreak tweak. Accelerate actually doesn't change the speed of your device, but it will make system animations faster. This can at least make it seem like things are running more quickly and streamline your iOS experience.

The tweak can be found in Cydia on the BigBoss repo for free. To download the tweak your iPhone must be jailbroken. Navigate to Sections -> Tweaks or use the Search function to find Accelerate. Once installed, the tweak will offer several options.

Google Search is getting rave reviews, and side-by-side comparisons have shown Google's voice assistant is much faster and sometimes more accurate than Apple's Siri. Jalbreakers who would like to kick Siri to the curb can do so by downloading the NowNow jailbreak utility from the BigBoss repo in Cydia. NowNow allows you to replace Siri by launching the Google Search app with an Activator function. To do so, just download the utility, locate the NowNow option under Settings and tap Activation Methods. You can then select the function you would like to use to activate the Google Search app. To replace Siri select "Short Hold" under the Home Button options. Holding the Home Button will now bring up the Google Search app instead of the Siri screen.