Tips on how to get around a spoilt Home button

Hi guys, today's post is just some tips on how to get around a mulfunctioning iPhone's home button. You may have tried my tip on Home button calibration mentioned here but did not get any success. Well, if you do not want to make that trip to the repair store, what are you to do? Here are a couple of tips for both Jailbreakers and none Jailbreakers!

The first method is through using your Accessibility functions. Yes, that function that you have totally ignored in your phone since day 1. Head over to your Settings->General->Accessibility->AssistiveTouch and turn it on. What happens is you get a shiny little button that you can move around on your screen. By pressing it, you can simulate a home button press. Further more, you can even create shortcuts for it. Pretty much the non-Jailbreakers Activator.

 And what is Activator you may ask? Activator is 1 of those must get default tweaks to get once you Jailbreak. In fact, several of the tweaks that you download will auto download Activator for you. With Activator, you get to set shortcuts for practically anything, by doing practically anything on your phone. You can swipe left to right at the clock area, double tap on your status bar, swipe up, down or whatever hand action you can think of, and set it either open an app, activate a tweak, etc. Benefits are pretty limitless!

As for those of you who want a more dedicated option and are willing to spend that bit of cash ($4.99USD in fact), you can get Zephyr! Zephyr allows you to do several different shortcuts made specifically for app switching. It allows you to swipe left and right to switch between apps, or swipe up to see your multitasking switcher. Sounds familiar? Yes, it is precisely what your iPad does when you activate gestures! This however gives you the additional option of just closing your apps, depending on how you change the settings.

So there you have it, 3 different ways to go around a spoilt home button. Which one will be more suitable for you?
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In other news, WWDC is coming again soon! For those who don't know what WWDC is, it basically stands for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Convention. It will be held on June 11th to 15th, with tickets for it going at $1,599USD and basically sold out within 2 hours of its announcement! (5,000 tickets * $1,599USD = OMGBBQ loads of cash)

So why is this news even exciting for anyone? Well, the WWDC is basically the place where Apple announced the previous iPhones (save for iPhone 4S), together with several other goodies like MacBooks. This year, I expect that iPhones will stay to the same course of being announced only in October (Makes sense for Apple to split up the timings of their 3 main products, namely iPhone, iPad and MacBook), though MacBooks are pretty much due to be updated. Some say MacBook Pros will be removed, with the new focus for Apple to be purely in MacBook Airs. While there are some others that say both will be combined together.

And of course there are those that says Apple will *finally* release their iTV or whatever they choose to call it. Well, whatever it is being announced, June looks to be another exciting time for Apple fans so keep a good lookout!