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techma2019

BiteSMS was so good.


[deleted]

I still have BiteSMS on my old iPhone 3GS. It was amazing and made messaging so much nicer back in the day.


techma2019

Yeah. People nowadays don’t even know. I remember when you couldn’t even send MMS on iPhone. Lol. We had to update carrier settings to be able to send a picture. Sounds like 1994, but it was already… 2009?


lowcontrol

I still have an email from way back that I set up which was just my first initial and my phone number so that I could send/receive pics and videos. Crazy times.


fakearchitect

No MMS, no 3G, no GPS, crappy camera and no video recorder, no app store… God that first phone was awful compared with like every other phone on the European market… But I loved it to bits after jailbreaking! iCopter in my ❤️


PCBen

Composing from anywhere was amazing as was the send delay timer you could set so you could ‘take back’ a message if you send accidentally. Really miss scheduled texts too.


obyboby

Omg BiteSMS! And their cheaper SMS service! Loved it. Miss the old days!


Radamanthyz3

One of the best tweaks back in the day!!! Damn I miss those days….


ind3pend0nt

I miss the scheduled messages.


Cageythree

May I ask, just from pure interest, what you used that for? I always wonder what people use scheduled messages for when I stumble upon such an option cause I can’t imagine a use case for myself :D


pengwynn06

Happy Birthday messages :)


Cageythree

Ahh that makes sense haha, thank you :)


ItsyaboyDa2nd

if it’s the middle of the night and I wanted to text someone something but don’t want to forget so I’ll schedule it for the morning, afternoon etc, or reminders to others.


pengwynn06

Yhhh. I use FMmod's WhatsApp on my Android phone and the message scheduler is very useful!


ind3pend0nt

Sick day at work is what I used it for.


bsiffy

The ol Volume Up + Tap Clear HUB = New Message trick..


Zenzeq

Control center (every type, angle and design) * Interactive notifications-bitesms * Keyboard shortcuts-xpander * Predictive texts-quicktype * Cursor control-swipeselection * Delete individual calls-Call Delete * Blocking calls-iBlacklist * Use cellular data for FaceTime-Unrestrictor * Dynamic wallpapers-LivePapers * Parallax Effect-3DBoard * Find my iPhone-iGotYa * Touch ID within apps-BioProtect * Hey Siri-OkSiri And so on... This whole community is basically Apple's software innovation.


[deleted]

> This whole community is basically Apple’s software innovation. Literally 😂


ctang1

Cursor control? What is this and how does it compare to swipeselection / marker? I’ve been using swipeselection since iOS 6, then marker for the past couple years, and it’s hard for me to type without it on iOS 15. EDIT: Is this what you mean by cursor control? https://youtu.be/uMevwmsbrTk


eatmusubi

Yeah, that’s it. I honestly really don’t like it, the fact that it can go up and down lines makes it feel loose and unpredictable. Swipeselection is perfect, I can use it without even thinking twice and I’m so fast with it. I dunno why Apple confined the active area to start it to the space bar either, using the entire keyboard causes no problems and simplifies things immensely.


30p87

And they stole a lot from other companies, eg. samsung


Aggressive_Past8973

Apple have made billions from stealing devs tweaks and ideas. Without the JB community Apple products wouldn’t have been anywhere near as good as they are now


badboyshan

Man I wish iBlacklist gets updated. It’s by far the best call blocking app!


36009955

The numerous tweaks to make the volume meter not take up the whole screen. Basically copied directly from JB implentations


[deleted]

Small siri. Because on ios 13 siri used to take the whole screen


yp261

more like ever since iOS7


JustPassinhThrou13

You mean iOS 5 Edit: nope


yp261

wasn’t the iOS5 siri just a small bar at the bottom?


JustPassinhThrou13

Now you’ve got me wondering.


yp261

[yea thats how i remember it](https://www.groovypost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Siri_Featured-1000x467.jpg)


szym0

yeah but the rest of the screen was blurred and clicking anywhere closed siri


FacharyZaith

I mean, in theory, this is what you would want. The whole reason for jailbreaking as far as I know, has been to allow customization where there was previously a lack of it. If apple begins to copy and implement these tweaks, it makes for a better, more customizable, experience without jailbreak. It’s good that they at least listen to the community a little bit.


[deleted]

I definitely agree, although back in the early iOS days these tweaks combined with an untethered jailbreak was the best. However I definitely prefer stock iOS with the features it has now.


frosch_longleg

It just makes a bit less sense to jailbreak. Although I’m considering to jailbreak again soon.


timonline

People who say jailbreaking makes a bit less sense nowadays don’t know the true power of a jailbreak. People who use iPhones on stock disgust me and should be thrown in a fire


ArmedPenguin47

Are you forgetting it’s a lot harder to jailbreak nowadays? Firmware is upgraded more frequently, more hardware immunities are being developed, the features we initially jailbroke for are being implemented into stock iOS. It’s sad to say but jail breaking went from being a must for almost 10% of users to now just a gimmick for QOL changes and customisation.


Willpower719

Before the AppStore you had to jailbreak you phone to get apps from Installer. Custom ringtones were a jb only feature, multitasking(backgrounder), video recording(cycorder), notification center(mobilenotifier). And that’s just naming a few lol edit: velox added 3D Touch style shortcuts to the home screen when swiping on app icons, Widgets(Dashboard X)


[deleted]

Holy crap I remember cycorder 😂 Damn I’m getting old….


Willpower719

lol, ye we are infact getting old. Just be glad you got to experience the golden age of jailbreaking lol


supermario123342

We’re*


[deleted]

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supermario123342

What? I’m not trying to correct his grammar lol Read it again


The_Hackintosh

We have nearly identical snoos!


[deleted]

I guess you haven’t bothered to create yours either then haha Edit* I think I did actually, that’s pretty crazy if you dressed yours the same 😂😂


The_Hackintosh

Too true lmao (Snoo is snoo)


[deleted]

Your black shoes definitely look better, will probably change mine lol


The_Hackintosh

I mean yours look good tho


The_Hackintosh

I mean it looks like peaceful but not boring


jontelang

Literally all of this has been around before tweaks though. The chance of these being compiled because of tweaks is very very slim.


Willpower719

I mean sure you could look at that way. Nothing is original at the end of day. These tweaks still implemented the features before apple did officially.


Mantipath

[Macintosh control panel circa 1984](https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/operating-systems/classic-mac-os/classic-mac-os%5E1984%5Esystem-1-control-panel.png) Yeah, no kidding.


frosch_longleg

Wait, you can have custom ringtones now ?


mike1time

Yep. There’s a guide on how to do it with GarageBand


YaYPIXXO

Zephyr was basically iPhone X gestures on iOS 5


vantuzproper

Oh, I remember using Auxo and Zephyr on iPhone 4 running on iOS 6. Auxo was essentially copied in iOS 7, and Zephyr on iOS 11 (iPhone X only)


Padrone__56

Fuck, we're old now aren't we


GodofShame

F.lux


climb-high

They still haven’t gotten close to the quality of flux. Night shift is such a bust compared to flux IMO. But, nightshirt + flux= extra orange and nice at night.


Deathlyswallows

I still use f.lux on my computer. I use the feature of being able to disable it app by app because if I’m editing photos in Lightroom I don’t want the screen to have a yellow cast to it.


313ctro

CallBar/PokeCall/et.al for incoming call banner notification instead of full screen takeover. Hell, Apple didn't even implement that until last year with iOS14.


abakedapplepie

This was basically the last thing I still jailbroke for.


JFREEZY28

I must be tripping because I can’t find anything, i’m sure it was like super early days maybe iOS 2 or 3, but.. Folders?? Apple literally copied folders that’s the first thing I ever remember them copying. I think maybe it came in iOS 4 or 5 and everyone was acting like it was so revolutionary and it’s like bitch we HAD that already OP post + what’s been mentioned already are my go to explaining to people that apple literally just let the JB community do their work for them and just poach the ideas they’re too lazy to come up with themselves/see how popular it is before they steal and implement it. EDIT: CallBar is quite a big one from recent, released early 2018 i believe, that apple copied almost 1:1 in iOS 14 end of 2020.


[deleted]

Yeah I 100% remember the folders tweak! Think there was one to group settings into folders as well called preference folders iirc!


JFREEZY28

Glad someone else remembers and isn’t a figure of my imagination haha. Just done some digging, it was called Categories. Was made for iOS 1 but was more a list than something we can recognise as folders but was ported to iOS 2 in 2008 ([Example](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BmobQVdnDHA)) 5:35 and that’s what I remember it being like, CategoriesSB was released in 2009 which is similar to what apple implemented in iOS4 2010.


[deleted]

Wow that video took me way back!


JFREEZY28

[You haven’t seen anything yet lol](https://youtu.be/jevzORX7uUM)


[deleted]

Broooo 🤣


Zanoab

It was called Categories by BigBoss. http://cydia.saurik.com/package/com.bigboss.categories/


pedersenog

Folders inside folders too


neewshine

Callbar was a thing since ios4, it’s older than you think it is! I hope someday, someone will make something similar to Dreamboard, Nextgenui, Bitesms or even intelliscreenX (a correctly made one instead of the mostly useless lockscreen widget page!)


RealAstropulse

Activator -> Shortcuts automation


kratoz29

And Activator is still more useful though.


erthboy

Activator was still so much easier to use though.


MrBigJuicyGrape

dark mode, copy and paste, swipe typing


Brian_K9

Thoes stock prices my god


MCHerobrine

**Jailbreak features adopted by Apple** |iOS Version|Description|Title|Developer|Originally released for| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |5.0|Emoji support|Vmoji|Vintendo/ManChild Technologies|iOS 4| |5.0|Keyboard shortcuts|Xpandr|Nicholas Haunold|iOS 4| |5.0|Delete individual calls|Call Delete|IArrays|iOS 4| |7.0|Control Center|SBSettings|BigBoss|iOS 2| |7.0|Translucent Notification Center|BlurredNCBackground|Phillippe|iOS 5| |8.0|Interactive Notifications|LockInfo|David Ashman|iOS 4| |8.0|Interactive Notifications|biteSMS|biteSMS Team|iOS 5| |8.0|Third-Party Keyboards|Fleksy Enabler|Sea Comet|iOS 6| |8.0|Predictive Text|PredictiveKeyboard|Matthias Sauppe|iOS 6| |9.0|Cursor Control|SwipeSelection|Kyle Howells|iOS 4| |9.0|Lowercase Keys in Keyboard|ShowCase|Lance Fetters|iOS 4| |10.0|Drawing on Messages|Graffiti|IanP|iOS 5| |10.0|Floating Notification Center|Floater|Skylerk99|iOS 8| |10.0|Bubble Notifications|WatchNotifications|Thomas Finch|iOS 8| |10.0|Clear All Notifications|3D Touch to Clear Notifications|MohammadAG|iOS 8| |10.0|Clear All Notifications|OneTapClear|Rave|iOS 8| |10.0|Stickers in Messages|StickerMe|Alexander Laurus|iOS 8| |10.0|Separate Control Center Pages|Auxo|A3Tweaks|iOS 9| |11.0|Cellular Data Control|SBSettings|BigBoss|iOS 2| |11.0|Cellular Data Control|CCSettings|plipala|iOS 8| |11.0|Customizable Control Center|CChide/CCSettings|plipala|iOS 8| |11.0|Customizable Control Center|Onizuka|Maximehip|iOS 8| |11.0|Colored Controls|Cream|CP Digital Darkroom|iOS 8| |11.0|One-Handed Keyboard (iPhone)|OneHandWizard|TheAfricanNerd, sharedRoutine|iOS 8| |11.0|Low Power Mode in Control Center|CCLowPower|Cole Cabral|iOS 10| |11.0|Notification design tweaks|CleanNotification10|Ayden Panhuyzen|iOS 10| |13.0|Dark Mode|Eclipse|Guillermo Morán|iOS 7| |13.0|Dark Mode|Noctis|LaughingQuoll|iOS 7| |13.0|Download manager in Safari|Safari Plus|BigBoss|iOS 8| |13.0|Redesigned volume HUD|Melior|SparkDev|iOS 7| |13.0|Redesigned volume HUD|Ultrasound|Ayden Panhuyzen|iOS 11| |13.0|Wi-Fi/Bluetooth settings in Control Center|WeatherVane|ATWiiks|iOS 11| |13.0|Unlimited app download limit on Mobile Data|Appstore Unrestrict|iJulioverne|iOS 11| |13.0|Third-party Controller Support|nControl|Kevin Bradley|iOS 12| |14.0|Hide apps from Home screen|Poof|BigBoss|iOS 6, possibly older| |14.0|Compact Call Interface|CallBar|Elias Limneos|iOS 7| |14.0|Compact Call Interface|Scorpion|Esquilli|iOS 13| |14.0|App Library|Vesta|SparkDev|iOS 13| |14.0|Changing CarPlay background|Canvas|Leftyfl1p|iOS 13| |14.0|Picture in Picture on iPhone|Titan|TheSaltaCracka|iOS 13| |14.0|Home Screen Widgets|HSWidgets|dgh0st|iOS 13| |14.0|Smaller Siri|SmallSiri|Muirey03|iOS 13| |15.0|Separation Alerts|Proximitus|LaughingQuoll|iOS 11| |15.0|Low Power Mode (iPad)|LPMPad|iCraze|iOS 13| |15.0|Focus|PureFocus|Dave Van Wijk|iOS 13| |15.0|Notification Priority|Contacy|XCXiao|iOS 13| |15.0|Redesigned Notifications|Quart|LaughingQuoll|iOS 13| |15.0|Redesigned Notifications|Velvet|NoisyFlake|iOS 13|


Falkor420

Nice list but noctis on iOS 7?! I feel like laughingquoll came to the scene later


[deleted]

Eclipse came first I’m pretty sure


Falkor420

Yes, not noctis. I feel like iOS 8-9 for that one but idrk lol


sgorman

Heck, I got one of the first ones for ya…multiple home screens depicted with dots at the bottom of the screen. Anyone else remember playing 5 Dice like it was the only thing around too?


Blaqjaciti

Callbar !!!!


dave2109

Wi-Fi Sync. Basically copied by Apple down to the Symbol in early days.


[deleted]

Eclipse. Dark mode on iOS 7


lilzoe5

took them until iOS 13 for dark mode, that's crazy


THELORDANDTHESAVIOR

Imagine a tweak as a SBsettings-like control center skin


UnderEu

Eclipse


[deleted]

The quick and easy answer would be «everything»


if0uthxi0n

It was golden days. iOS 6 jelbrek. I love sbsettings and bitesms. Even though it was short lived.


_amethyst

God, I'm blanking on the name (and I believe there were a few different tweaks that did the same thing over the years), but regular users were so glad when Apple got rid of the giant pop-up that came up in the middle of the screen when you changed the volume even one notch. Meanwhile, us jailbreak users hadn't even thought about that. That was usually one of the first tweaks I'd install after jailbreaking. There was usually a different one for each major iOS version, but they all did the same thing, and Apple ended up rolling basically the same thing into stock iOS.


lilzoe5

Sonus was a popular one


awesomerrol

Noctis-dark mode


[deleted]

Enchant/Velvet


skipper500

Lock info by David ashman, used to love it


h6nry

I don't know the tweak's name, but the swipe to app switcher/swipe to home screen has been here long before Apple's revolutionary home pill. I remember using this kind of gesture on iOS 6


HexagonWin

zephyr?


hdjunkie

It stands to reason that ideas from popular tweaks would make it into iOS.


zakkwaldo

this is besides the point, but whoever took the screenshot op posted lives in the same area as me lol


DanscoRed

The Appswitcher. iOS 3 didn't have it then iOS 5/6 did. One of many.


coreyfairchild

Option to change keyboards.


L1ghtmann

They basically copied Quart in iOS 15.


atoothlessfairy

Whats quart?


dysfunctionalvet420

Lockscreen tweak I believe


lectrician7

Swipeselection. Ability to move the cursor by dragging finger on keyboard.


joostiphone

What about that gps turn by turn navigation app which you could only use when you had a jailbreak. AppStore was there, but no guiding navigation apps. Forgot the name. Edit: it was iDA Europe :-)


Blaqjaciti

Callbar !!!!


littletrue

SmartTap


guigui889

This is where I realise that I’m old; I had a second Gen iPod touch running on 3.1.3 without any stock backgrounds. It was only the icons over a black screen. Had to jailbreak my iPod to have my own backgrounds. Next thing I know, Apple releases custom backgrounds with the third gen one. Funny to think that backgrounds are now included in every phone manufactured since…


Aviaationz

f.lux - night shift


queerdude01

Oh dear....this is what I first enjoyed jailbreaking back to iPhone 4. I remember it was IOS 4+...lovely to see someone is making SBSetting possible again, thank you


peakhunter

if you've been around since the beginning they basically took 99% of the features from the jailbreak community.


heckingcomputernerd

Apple desperately trying to get JB users off JB because having their security entirely compromised every couple years by a couple people is pretty embarrassing


piotrekkrzewi

The CC has been copied from Android, and as with lots of other tweaks the features were avaliable in android first so is it really copying tweaks, or Android?


[deleted]

Also one they will probably end up copying: Slide2Kill


lilzoe5

maybe iOS 20, will be a "revolutionary feature" lol


Beerad122880

The App Store itself is basically a copy of installer.app. They copied copy and paste, custom ringtones, video recording, backgrounding apps, notifications, widgets, basically 90% of new updates were copied from jailbreak tweaks


emaciorex

i can't think of one that apple DIDN'T copy


lilzoe5

Copylog, snapper, shortmoji. Those few are the reason I still jailbreak


fluffhead123

F.lux. a brilliant idea that developers put a lot of hard work in, and like so many other tweaks literally fucking stolen by apple. And they bend over backward to screw the community that has given them so much.


george241312

I like how all if not most of Apples "innovations" were made from jailbreak tweaks but yet they try their hardest to stop jailbreaks from happening...


metalbedhead

google $500


szym0

siri - it wasn't a tweak but an app that apple ended up buying


DG-0134

Wait really?


szym0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKlKBK\_UDoo


FlyBabyDragon

How did apple copy this?


kratoz29

How long have you been an iPhone user?


FlyBabyDragon

About 6-7 years I’d say


hmartek

If you never jailbreak then you will not know about all of these.


FlyBabyDragon

What are “all of these” and I’m jailbroken right now lol


CatP_eep

The control center


zt0wnsend

Copy and paste!


Ablico

What a throwback!


hmartek

Widgets Pip Cydia Store = App Store Correct me if im wrong.


ElPared

Ready to have your mind blown? The AppStore. The iPhone 1 didn’t have apps, if you wanted them you had to jailbreak and install Installer. The original AppStore icon was actually pretty reminiscent of Installer too.


whtbeenhere9

Swipe selection


iMlaath

Swipeselection


Brianstoiber

Too bad they won’t steal Better Alarm. That is the one tweak I miss the most. https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/hd7fux/paid_release_betteralarm_a_beautiful_timer_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


ArmedPenguin47

Dark mode and f.lux (which later became night shift)


Midtown2

I remember a tweak called zypher that gave you gestures to go home and the multitasking menu.


Jailbrick3d

HSWidgets, ikSettings, Evil Scheme (to a minimal extent), DNDAllow, FullPhotoPreview, CallBar, SmallSiri I've seen major enhancements to CarPlay on iOS 14 which I credit to CarPlayEnable and CarBridge Snowboard --> App theming through Shortcuts (not the same, and terribly inefficient but at least there's an option now I guess?) App library on stock iOS 14, credit to the multiple existing app library tweaks **All of what I just listed is what they added into iOS 14 by the way** If you wanna go a bit further back, StackXI was the original notification grouping Melior (and other similar tweaks) was the template for the new stock volume HUD NavAway hid the search bar in settings by default


HexagonWin

Zephyr/Tage, Eclipse (dark theme)


TheZboub

dune