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Add iPhone Settings Shortcuts To Your Home Screen

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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...

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

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

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

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

Or am I doing it wrong?

Settings links were unofficially added in iOS 5.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Hotspot works for me. Just tested

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.

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

Visit the site on your iOS device to install.

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