Every year, more than thousands of tweaks are being developed by iOS hackers which are released on Cydia, simply because Apple doesn’t allow them to take control on their mobile operating system. Even after limited audience on JailBroken devices and perhaps, extremely loyal to buy tweaks, themes or apps, the momentum to release tweaks on Cydia have been fantastic. Although it’s very tough to sort out only 6 of them from lots of amazing tweaks released in 2012, we have tried our best to come up with the ones which deserve to be in the list. Checkout our picks below –
1) Auxo
As we have mentioned about the tweak earlier, this re-imagines the way we think about application switcher. An icon in the multitasking bar along with the screenshot just behind it makes it one of the best tweak released in 2012. You can even close the opened apps by swiping down multiple apps at once with the help of two finger gestures. Also, it changes the way you interact with music and features various toggles by swiping on the right side of the multitasking bar. It’s priced at $1.99 and worth every penny invested on it.
2) Zephyr
Zephyr is from a popular iOS hacker called @chpwn who had a contribution to Siri on devices other than iPhone 4S. This tweak from Chpwn still stands away from the crowd due to support of some brilliant gestures to bring the multitasking tray by swiping up from the bottom of the screen. In fact, you can switch between the apps right from the corner by swiping left to right or from right to left from the currently active app. We have reviewed the application many times with each update bringing some really big improvements over the predecessor.
3) IntelliscreenX
This tweaks makes Notification Center on your iDevice an absolute delight and fun. Starting from the news feed to Twitter and Facebook, you could get every update live on your NC. This means that you wouldn’t need to open these applications separately one after the other just to checkout daily news, your followings or friends feed. Nevertheless, the same functionality can also be accessed from the Lock screen as well. If you want to customise certain aspect of the tweak, you could do it from Settings.app. Check our detailed review here.
4) Maps Opener
Since Apple’s has removed Google Maps in iOS 6 and integrated their own Mapping solution, many owner have found it difficult to open links by default on Google Maps application on App Store. This is exactly what Maps opener does it for you. Once enabled, any link which is supposed to open Maps on your iDevice would automatically switch you to Google Maps app (if installed) instead of default Maps application. Even though the functionality is limited, it could be actually useful at times in many occasions. It’s available for free from BigBoss repo.
5) NCSettings
Similar to SBSettings which are accessible on an iPhone instantly, NCSettings is a tweak which brings these toggles right into the Notification Center. This functionality seems to resemble from Android, but the implementation on iPhone looks elegant and useful. With the help of this tweak, you could toggle Wifi, sound, brightness, rotation lock, 2G/3G, shake gesture, alarm etc. Yes, this includes pretty much everything which you basically do from the Settings.app. It’s available for free from BigBoss repository. You can check our detailed article on it here.
6) SmallBanners
Many times while you are doing some important work, a notification pops in and you tend to hit that popup when you were meant to hit the back button on current application. These notifications captures a lot more space when they could only use the status bar on your iPhone to notify if anything occurs. If you are one of the those people who are annoyed by this flaw, SmallBanners is what you need right now. It’s available for free via Cydia on BigBoss repository.
Have we missed anything? If yes, let’s know in comment section. You can also tell us about your top 6 best tweaks of 2012 in the comment section itself.