[BLiNK]

With the release of iOS 5 last year, it was pretty clear that Apple had gotten plenty of inspiration from the jailbreak scene, notably by implementing 20+ jailbreak tweaks in its latest mobile operating system.

We were expecting Apple to do the same thing again this year, and in anticipation, we even came out with our own list of jailbreak tweaks we wanted to see in iOS 6.

If it isn’t as obvious as last year, it’s still evident that iOS has already killed a few jailbreak tweaks. We go over the list of those tweaks that were made obsolete by iOS 6…

StayOpened

Now that you can download several apps from the App Store without having to launch the App Store app again and again after each download, there is no more need for StayOpened.

Pull to Refresh for Mail

Developed a couple years ago, Pull to Refresh for Mail is a goner too now that Apple has implemented Pull to Refresh in its Mail application.

AssistantExtension

By baking Sports into Siri, tweaks like AssistantExtension and especially SiriSports are nowhere near as useful.

International Location for Siri

Because it is now compatible with a dozen languages, and more importantly because it is fully supported in many new countries, the jailbreak tweak International Location for Siri is not going to be needed anymore.

Fusion/FacebookThis

With Facebook’s deep integration into iOS 6, tweaks like Fusion and FacebookThis are somewhat useless.

3G Unrestrictor

If you didn’t feel to pay $3.99 for 3G Unrestrictor, you’ll be happy to know that iOS 6 will finally let you do FaceTime calls over cellular network. Although it’s fair to note that this feature will only be available for the iPhone 4S and the new iPad, as per our iOS 6 compatibility guide.

PhotoMail

When it first came out, PhotoMail was a nice little tweak that would allow you to attach pictures and videos directly from the Mail app. This feature is now directly baked into iOS 6.

Fullscreen for Safari

Sure Fullscreen Mode for Safari does much more than what its name suggests, but it’s still a victim of iOS 6 to some extent, now that Safari lets you switch to full screen mode – only in landscape mode though.

QuickTweet

QuickTweet lets you send tweets from Notification Center. It’s useless now.

BannerDisable

BannerDisable was doomed from the start as it was created after we started hearing rumor that Apple would implement the “Do Not Disturb” feature in iOS 6.

As much as I love and support the jailbreak community, I’m glad Apple is implementing those features in iOS. What about you?

Can you think of more tweaks made useless by iOS 6?

Source: iDB

[pkcable]

Great info Blinkie!

[Heisenberg]

3G Unrestrictor isn't killed at all. I use that thing for various apps other than FaceTime.

Like the Photo Stream.

[Garz]

Every year, Apple does take a few things that were available to JB only. The more they put in the OS, the less people will JB.

[Stephxieh]

I don't see it really interfering in the die hard jailbreaker routine. As apple takes more and more ideas from jailbreak there will always be more tweaks on the horizon.

It's why i love my jailbreak, there's a add on for nearly everything and it seems to always be going forward.

Also until apple lets me get rid of that horrid newsstand i will be jailbreaking day 1.

[IamHahn]

Every year, Apple does take a few things that were available to JB only. The more they put in the OS, the less people will JB.

And with each big update the JB community finds new innovative tweaks, either that work better with the new OS or exploit a new closed off API that Apple doesn't want to share just yet. Remember a lot of new features in iOS 5 were kept secret until the iP4s was announced and many of these features opened up awesome tweaks for the JB community, at least that is my understanding. I am very new and could be wrong.

[ModeratorOMD]

• Seeing as fullscreen for safari is only landscape, we still need it
• Seeing as rotation locks in only one direction, we still need that
• Seeing as Safari still has that annoying bookmark popup, we still need that disabler.
• Seeing as you can't have Siri is different accents, we still need that

And we still need SBSettings to hide Newstand or other apps

Oh, and since many devices don't get any of the new features (iPhone 4) Jailbreakig is still a viable option.

[BLiNK]

• Seeing as Safari still has that annoying bookmark popup, we still need that disabler.

please explain. when i open my Safari, after everything has been cleared, i get a blank page and NO bookmark popup like it used to be

[ModeratorOMD]

And that's on iOS6? :shocked:

[BLiNK]

nope. i believe it started with 5.1 - are you sure you own an iPhone?

[Peligro911]

please explain. when i open my Safari, after everything has been cleared, i get a blank page and NO bookmark popup like it used to be

Me too no pop up


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[ModeratorOMD]

nope. i believe it started with 5.1 - are you sure you own an iPhone?

I don't think I did the upgrade to 5.1 because I didn't have to. I didn't hear anybody talking about it. But everything has to be cleared out. If you open Safari fresh, then it would popup.

[BLiNK]

what OS are you on? here's what it looks like on mine with 5.1.1 after everything has been cleared out and reopened

[miket825]

• Seeing as fullscreen for safari is only landscape, we still need it
• Seeing as rotation locks in only one direction, we still need that
• Seeing as Safari still has that annoying bookmark popup, we still need that disabler.
• Seeing as you can't have Siri is different accents, we still need that

And we still need SBSettings to hide Newstand or other apps

Oh, and since many devices don't get any of the new features (iPhone 4) Jailbreakig is still a viable option.

WiFi is probably the single best reason to jailbreak still. I also agree that the Newstand disabler is important

[ModeratorOMD]

what OS are you on? here's what it looks like on mine with 5.1.1 after everything has been cleared out and reopened

I'm still on 5.0 I believe, but if there's no bookmark popup then Congrats! I clap!