There’s no shortage ofjailbreak tweaksthat attempt to improve the iPhone’s nativeApp Switcher, but one of the latest concepts to have caught my eye is a new release dubbedSpearby iOS developerDylan West (iOSthemem0d).
Spear not only replaces the native App Switcher interface with a better looking one, but it adds useful new functionality that most iPhone users are likely to find particularly useful. As depicted in the screenshot examples above, Spear incorporates a swipe-up interface at the bottom of the App Switcher that contains shortcuts and toggles, among other things.
While Spear sort of looks like a combination between the App Switcher and Control Center, it really isn’t. The interface adopts some Control Center toggles and shortcuts, including Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Data,Bluetooth, Brightness, and Volume, but it also brings other unique shortcuts to the table, including Respring, Safe Mode, UICache, power down,Camera, flashlight, and a button to force-quit all suspended apps in one fell swoop.
As you might come to expect, the Spear interface is customizable, and users will find a dedicated preference pane in the Settings app after installation:
Here, you can:
Digging deeper into the configuration cell, users will find the following sections:
In the Miscellaneous preference pane, users can:
In the Colors preference pane, users can:
All parts of Spear have been tested on the latest version of iOS 13 at the time of this writing and should play nicely with all jailbroken installations of iOS 13 even if it isn’t the latest. According to the developer, the tweak is only intended for iPhones, excluding the iPhone SE 1stgeneration, which means iPad users are out of luck.
If you’re interested in giving Spear a try, then you canpurchase it for $1.99 from the Twickd repositoryvia your favorite package manager.
Will you be upgrading yourjailbrokeniPhone’s App Switcher experience with Spear? Discuss in the comments section below.
