How To Make Free Home Screen Shortcuts for Settings Toggles (No Jailbreak Needed)
Posted by unlocker on Thursday Jan 5, 2012 Under JailbreakUI designer Jeff Broderick made home screen shortcuts that Apple users can create for free.
If you are one of the people who wanted shortcuts for settings toggles in your home screen without jailbreaking your iOS device but also do not want to pay 99 cents for apps like Icon Project to make free home screen shortcuts. Thus, Jeff Broderick’s discovery is perfect for you.
Broderick made a web-based “Settings” panel, which uses same URL schemes. Here are the simple steps that you need to follow to make the home screens shortcuts in your unjailbroken device.
Step 1 – In your iOS device, visit Broderick’s website (http://brdrck.me/settings).
Step 2 – Tap on the settings toggle that you want
Step 3 – Tap on the “Install Shortcut” button
Step 4 – You will be redirected on a settings page, which will tell you to install a profile. Tap install.
Step 5 – Tap on Install Now button and then the Done button.
You can skip the steps 4 and 5 by tapping the Share button and then tapping on Add to Home Screen to add the custom toggles to your iOS device’s home screen. Then you will have a home screen shortcut for the Settings toggle that will be created on your iOS device.
The icons that are available in Broderick’s site are still limited. However, mostly-used apps and features such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Brightness, Airplane, Personal Hotspot, Notification, Location, VPN, EQ, iCloud and Network.
If you cannot find the Settings toggle that you are looking for, then you can use Clay Russel’s Icon Project, , which provides an easy access to your important settings toggles. Also, you can try the created of Backterimedia. They have created the web-based home screen toggles for all the Settings toggles. Point your iOS device’s Safari browser to (http://icon.bakterimedia.com/). The instructions are on the website.
The icons in the Backterimedia are not as pretty as Broderick’s work but at the end of the day, it still does the job and it has almost all of the Settings toggles. Good job to Broderick and Backterimedia for creating this free alternative to add home screen shortcuts for Settings toggles.