iOS 5 jailbreak offers third-party Notification Center widgets
Jailbreakers have already cracked iOS 5's Notification Center widgets, according to 9to5Mac. Notification screen widgets are little apps -- or widgets -- that run in the new Notifications Center in iOS 5. iOS 5 will ship with two widgets, stocks and weather. However, as usual, the jailbreak community wants to push things forward faster than Apple does, and they've already come out with a host of third-party widgets.
MacStories has an excellent roundup of some of those custom Notification Center widgets but, as always, if you want to use them you'll need to jailbreak your iPhone. One of my favorites is SpringPrefs (shown at right), which shows you details about your iOS system information, including the amount of free RAM, your Wi-Fi and Data IP addresses, and your firmware number.
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Jailbreakers have already cracked iOS 5's Notification Center widgets, according to 9to5Mac. Notification screen widgets are little apps...
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the only widgets I really need are sms/text, missed calls, and twitter (other social media availability of course)
June 17 2011 at 4:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyforgot about wifi/bluetooth
June 17 2011 at 4:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIts incredible how hard apple fights against the Jailbreaking community then steals all the good ideas they have. Next Apple will add sms quick reply and quick compose, just watch.
June 15 2011 at 12:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo do you want apple to NOT put in these much wanted features? lmao.
June 15 2011 at 4:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyRally can't believe how hard it can be for apple to realize that yes, widgets are actually useful! A wifi/Bluetooth button for instance, would be extremely handy. What's more: they keep dashboard running
In lion, which in comparisent, is a useless feature as opposed to what could have been in iOS.
No, they are not useful, they clutter your screen, most are ugly, and give you information you don't really need on your screen at all times. Widget in OSX hardly ever get used, gadgets in Windows get thrown to the side unless you are one of those people who enjoys making your desktop useless with senseless crap. Dashboard in Lion is a step towards phasing widgets out. Even Steve Jobs has said that. They are useless peices of information that take up valuable screen real estate. If you want them, go Android.
June 15 2011 at 9:01 AM Report abuse Permalink -3 rate up rate down Replyas someone who cuts on/off wifi and bluetooth very often i will have to very much disagree that those "widigets" would make a lot of peoples lives a lot easier.....digging through the settings 3 screens deep just to turn bluetooth on is obnoxious!!!! plus it would be nice to have a display brightness widget easily accessible for when you are outside and the display doesnt want to auto adjust like its supposed to.
June 15 2011 at 10:37 AM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate downI have a couple of widgets that are VERY useful, I use them often.
Widgets default to the Dashboard key or an icon in the Dock. The rest of the time they take up 0 screen realestate. That's the whole point!
I'm hoping that the final iOS 5 will allow widgets to be changed. I've never understood the obsession with stocks (are they really that important to the wider audience?) and the Apple Weather application looks nice but doesn't deliver very accurate forecasts in the UK. However, under no circumstance will I ever jailbreak my device, even if that means putting up with things that annoy.
June 15 2011 at 6:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou can do this now!! iv got these on my ios5 already =] cydia is your friend.
June 15 2011 at 4:57 AM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyCydia is junk.
June 15 2011 at 9:02 AM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down Replywhy do you say that? i had a jailbrkoken ipod touch 2gen...havent bothered since then, whats ur beef?
June 17 2011 at 4:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate downHow do you know that "iOS 5 will ship with two widgets, stocks and weather". Seriously, we are in beta 1...
June 15 2011 at 4:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Leonick
Well unless Apple use different definitions for such terms beta usually means all the features are there, now they just need to make sure everything works as intended.
June 15 2011 at 7:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBecause it was a HUGE part of the keynote.
June 15 2011 at 9:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"they've already come out with a host of third-party widgets [...] if you want to use them you'll need to jailbreak your iPhone."
Thanks for leading me to believe i could do this right now. I jailbroke my device, saw nothing available, and then saw that you (and your source) are just linking to mockups on Dribbble. Nice job.
But as you're a developer (you have iOS 5) you can write your own!
June 15 2011 at 2:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat's not the crux of this article. I'm a paid developer who wanted to check out what this article led me to believe was available. I wasn't interested in spending my time developing stuff that others are clearly working on. Or, hell, who knows, maybe they aren't. Anyone can dicker around in Photoshop. This is why these types of articles are frustrating: the story is half-baked. Truth is, so is everything on Cydia.
June 15 2011 at 4:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate downIn Linux, you can make your own drivers!
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