Add iPhone Settings Shortcuts To Your Home Screen

http://brdrck.me/settings/

by sidwyn • 15 years ago

43 16 15 years ago

brdrck.me

sidwyn4• 15 years ago

Visit the site on your iOS device to install.

xutopia• 15 years ago

How is that any faster or better than what comes built in? I feel like I'm missing something.

sidwyn4• 15 years ago

Sometimes I tap Settings and I forget what I was looking for while Settings was loading up. When I tap this from the home screen, I know it'll definitely load up what I want.

suhastech• 15 years ago

Doesn't work on the iPad ....4.3.3

Or am I doing it wrong?

davidcann• 15 years ago

Settings links were unofficially added in iOS 5.

mtw• 15 years ago

Cool idea, but I tried hotspot icon and it didn't work. Do more tests with different devices

sidwyn4• 15 years ago

Hotspot works for me. Just tested

tomlin• 15 years ago

A QR code with the URL would be a perfect addition.

fasteddie31003• 15 years ago

How is he doing this? I've never seen anything like this before.

sidwyn4• 15 years ago

He's basically using URI shortcuts, check this out: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/11/11/how-to-create-custom...

uast23• 15 years ago

Oh, finally!

I recently saw that android phones have shortcuts for important/frequently-used settings e.g. wifi, hotspot. at the top of notification screen, so you can just drag the screen down and quickly make the changes. In iPhone if you have to switch on or off your cellular data, you have to go through 3-4 screens.

edit: ok, it has limited but important set of shortcuts which does not include cellular data

drivebyacct2• 15 years ago

Only some Android phones have that (it's part of the Touchwiz skin), or it is a feature available in CM7. I'm on an ICS rom right now and I miss the notification shade toggles.

Fortunately we still have first rate widgets, so I can have the Power Control widget, or single option toggles as widgets on my homescreen.

nuclear_eclipse• 15 years ago

Even without CM7 or Touchwiz, you can still already create shortcuts on your home screens to specific pages in the Android Settings application. When you long press on the home screen, select Shortcut from the Add list, and then Settings, and it will give you a nice long list of every screen in the Settings app to choose from.

My personal favorite is a link to the Battery Use screen, which allows me to quickly see what apps may have drained my battery the most.

jrnkntl• 15 years ago

Site is hammered as far as I can see, you can check what you're missing out on at http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/11/21/check-out-these-beau...

username3• 15 years ago

http://quickprefs.com/ is mentioned in the comments as a snappier alternative.

seaotter002• 15 years ago

It'd be great if the non-mobile site still had, at very least, the donate link. I've been wanting quick shortcuts to individual settings for a while, I'd love to donate a few bucks from the comfort of my desktop-logged in Paypal account.

Add iPhone Settings Shortcuts To Your Home Screen

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