Gesto supercharges your jailbroken iPhone’s App Switcher in incredible new ways

iOS’ App Switcher, dearest it or loathe it, leaves a lot of wiggle room for improvement. With that inwards mind, it should come upwardly equally no surprise to anyone that iOS developer Gabriele Filipponi in addition to designer Alessandro Chiarlitti prepare out to improve it amongst the launch of a novel jailbreak tweak called Gesto.

In a nutshell, Gesto augments your iOS handset’s App Switcher amongst powerful novel features in addition to integrations amongst the master copy goal of making multitasking easier. And allow us only say, based on our mind-blowing hands-on experience, this isn’t a tweak you’ll desire to miss.

Gesto does several things to brand the App Switcher better, amongst closed to of the most remarkable things being:

• Integrate Control Center into the App Switcher, allowing yous to access shortcuts i of 2 ways


• Transform the Home Bar’s App Switcher gesture into an App Switcher + Control Center gesture to brand Control Center to a greater extent than comfortable to gain amongst i hand


• Lock specific applications thence that they can’t live on closed via the App Switcher’s traditional swipe-up gesture


• Quick access to handy arrangement shortcuts, including clear all App Switcher apps, respring the device, unlock all locked apps, access Control Center, in addition to motility to side past times side Now Playing song, in addition to battery information


• And much more…

As you’ll notice inwards the screenshot examples above, yous tin pick out whether Control Center integrates into the App Switcher inwards a side-by-side fashion or amongst the App Switcher cards residing only higher upwardly the Control Center modules. Both are snazzy, although we’re partial to the Multi-Side option, equally it displays to a greater extent than at a glance.

As for locking apps, yous tin produce thence past times sliding downwardly on whatsoever app icon bill of fare inwards the App Switcher until a lock icon appears, thence decease along dragging downwardly until the lock closes. You tin equally good slide to the left to let out the arrangement shortcuts:

Once yous install Gesto, you’ll notice a preference pane inwards the Settings app where yous tin configure the tweak to your liking:

Here, yous can:

• Toggle Gesto on or off on demand


• Choose betwixt Multi-Side or Side-by-Side display options
  
  
  
  • Configure settings for Multi-Side selection
  
  
  • Configure settings for Side-by-Side selection
  
  
  
  


• Configure Quick Actions


• Configure App Locking

When tapping on the preference panes for the Multi-Side or Side-by-Side selections, you’ll gain access to the next options:

Adjust Multi-Side Settings

• Choose the background style:
  
  
  
  • None
  
  
  • Light
  
  
  • Dark
  
  
  
  


• Enable or disable headers


• Enable or disable alternative look


• Enable or disable paging


• Manage Control Center modules that appear

Adjust Side-by-Side Settings

• Toggle haptic feedback on or off


• Prioritize the App Switcher page over the Control Center page


• Enable or disable headers

At the goal of Gesto’s master copy preference pane, you’ll notice the Quick Actions in addition to App Lock cells. In these pages, you’ll gain access to the next options:

Quick Actions

• Enable or disable Quick Actions


• Manage the Quick Actions that appear here:
  
  
  
  • Respring
  
  
  • Close all App Switcher apps
  
  
  • Control Center shortcut
  
  
  • Unlock all locked apps
  
  
  • Play the side past times side vocal inwards your Now Playing queue
  
  
  • Battery
  
  
  
  


• Configure a delay that must transpire piece belongings a quick activity earlier it activates


• Toggle haptic feedback on or off


• Enable or disable dark mode

App Lock

• Toggle application locking on or off


• Automatically lock applications that are playing audio


• Prevent locked apps from beingness closed amongst the ‘close all’ shortcut


• Enable or disable haptic feedback

There isn’t’ a respring push anywhere inwards the preference pane, in addition to from what nosotros tin tell, a respring isn’t necessary to salve the changes to brand to the preference pane.

We especially relish having the mightiness to lock apps from beingness killed inwards the App Switcher, especially given how useful this tin live on for preventing Now Playing apps from beingness closed accidentally. Moreover, having fast access to arrangement actions is a beautiful luxury, in addition to it’s around a shame that Apple wouldn’t implement something this useful correct out of the box.

If you’re interested inwards trying Gesto for yourself, thence yous tin download it for $3.99 from the Dynastic Repo repository inwards Cydia or Sileo. The tweak is compatible amongst jailbroken iOS eleven in addition to iOS 12 devices in addition to should operate amongst all notched in addition to non-notched handsets.

Are yous impressed amongst the features that Gesto brings to the table? Let us know inwards the comments department below.

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