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12 Jailbreak Tweaks Apple killed In iOS 10

We’ve all now had a chance to unwind after the initial excitement caused by this year’s opening WWDC keynote. As always, the initial presentation hosted at the bill Graham Civic Auditorium managed to introduce a number of elements to the iphone and iPad experience with the announcement of iOS 10.

There were some additions that we expected thanks to previous speculation, whilst some of the changes and additions managed to completely blindside us all with a number of surprises. There were some that reminded us of some popular jailbreak tweaks that were a hit with iOS 9 and below, and funny enough, this does not come as a surprise, with Apple having been there in the past as well.

Now that we’ve had time to digest all of the announcements, and have spent enough time with beta seed of iOS 10 on our iPhones, we can take a look at some of the most popular jailbreak packages available on Cydia that Apple has borrowed from the jailbreak community, ultimately killing the need for them on iOS 10 running iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices.

So without taking any even more time, let’s see which of our favorite jailbreak tweaks have inspired Apple’s team in iOS 10.

QuickCenter

QuickCenter on iOS 9 (left) vs 3D Touch quick actions in iOS 10 control center (right)

The name QuickCenter name doesn’t right away relay its functionality to users. It may allude to the fact that it has something to finish with control Center, but what exactly? Well, when installed, the package brings 3D Touch quick actions to various control center icons. Of course, as we know, Apple has now added this natively into iOS 10.

Here’s a suggestion if you’re running the iOS 10 beta: hard press on the Torch toggle to set the torch’s intensity.

Roundification

Roundification on iOS 9 (left) vs rounded UI in iOS 10 (right)

This may be a relatively small tweak, but certainly one that was a hit with jailbroken device owners thanks to the rounded corners action that it introduced to things like control Center, banner notifications, Notification Center, and numerous other areas within iOS. It seems the design was popular and appealing to users and Apple’s designers alike who have clearly borrowed the inspiration from this tweak in iOS 10.

3D Touch to clear Notifications

iOS users have been crying out for this integration ever because Notification center was introduced as a way of essentially gathering notifications together. As the name suggests, installing this package allowed users to clear all notifications through the use of a 3D Touch action, which is now natively part of the iOS 10 platform.

Columba & QRConversation

Columba on iOS 9 (left) vs new interactive notifications in iOS 10 (right)

One thing that has typically been teased and introduced in the jailbreak world is the notion of expanding Apple’s native notifications to bring additional context and a lot much more power to the user. As we know now, Apple has been silently working on the same sort of thing, and has essentially sherlocked all tweaks of this type, including the ever-popular Columba and QRConversation tweaks.

Cream

Cream on iOS 9 (left) vs colored Control center toggles in iOS 10 (right)

Cream is essentially a small little package that extends control center by providing various colors for the toggles contained within. A lot of users appreciated this as it deviated from Apple’s monochromatic approach. Apple itself looks to have deviated away from its prior design stance by bringing the same functionality to control Center within iOS 10.

AppHide

AppHide on iOS 9 (left) vs ability to delete stock apps in iOS 10 (right)

AppHide does exactly what it says on the tin by allowing jailbroken device owners to hide the pesky stock Apple applications that they rarely used or interacted with. Not a lot of people saw it coming, but Apple has actually introduced this feature into iOS 10, allowing users to remove stock app icons and associated data from the device, and then re-download from the app store when desired. However, it functions in peculiar way.

FaceOff

FaceOff on iOS 9 (left) vs raise to Wake in iOS 10 (right)

Long before Apple had even considered introducing a raise to wake feature, it was being provided through Cydia thanks to FaceOff. The concept is fairly simple; take the device out of your pocket or pick it up from a surface, the sensors discover it’s about to be used and the display activates without interaction needed. This is now a native feature with iOS 10 that can simply be toggled on or off.

StickerMe

StickerMe on iOS 9 (left) vs Messages app in iOS 10 (right)

Who would have thought that the Messages app would have received such an remarkable overhaul as part of iOS 10? Apple has introduced the ability to send scribbles and stickers through Messages. That essentially implies that StickerMe had a good run, but will no longer be needed come this September.

Grafiti

Grafiti (left) vs handwriting in Messnull