Is your iPhone's keyboard getting in the way? If so, then you may want to give Pull To Dismiss a try.
Pull To Dismiss is the latest jailbreak tweak from Ryan Petrich that allows you to easily dismiss your iPhone's keyboard with a simple pull. It works similar to pull to refresh, except instead of refreshing the content on the page, it dismisses your keyboard...
There have been many keyboard tweaks released over the years, and I've had issues with practically all of them.
iKeyWi is the latest keyboard tweak to make its way to Cydia, but this one if probably one of the more stable ones that I've used thus far.
That's not to say that it's not without a few opportunities for improvement, but as you'll see on video, it's a very good start...
What do you get when you mix ActionMenu, TextExpander, and Swype? It might end up in a disaster for those unskilled, but when rising jailbreak developer iSam is behind the project, people should take notice.
His latest tweak, dubbed KBShortcuts, is a masterfully skilled mashup of all of those previously mentioned ideas, and it's resulted in an absolute must have tweak — so much so, that It'll leave you wondering how you ever got by without it...
The jailbreak community has provided us with tons of utilities and tweaks that make typing long text messages or emails a breeze. The first one that comes to mind is Xpander, the app that lets you create custom text macros.
If you're a fan of keyboard shortcuts, you're going to like this next tweak. Delete Word is a simple jailbreak utility that allows you to delete entire words at a time by holding down the shift key...
This morning I stumbled upon a tweet from Josh Tucker of ModMyi indicating that Swype has been ported to iOS. I've confirmed it works on all iOS devices, including the iPad 2.
Needless to say, this exciting news piqued my interest immediately, and I just had to try it out for myself.
The purpose of Swype is to allow you to type without lifting your finger off the keyboard. Many claim that this makes the typing experience much better on a handheld device.
If you didn't know, Swype is available on pretty much every other platform sans iOS, and it's loved by its fans.
Note that you will of course need a jailbroken iPhone to try out Swype, and again it is in beta; so don't expect it to work perfectly.
Check out my video walkthrough of the Swype beta in action...
One of the new features in iOS 5 is the ability to hide your keyboard when viewing your SMS history in the iMessage app.
It didn't take long, but there is now a jailbreak tweak available that mimics said functionality, and even allows you to hide the input box as well.
For longtime biteSMS users, this won't be new to you, but if you've been hanging onto that old outdated Messages app, this is a must have tweak to add to your collection.
Check inside for the video details surrounding SMSHideKeyboard...
Though the iPhone's virtual keyboard has been named one of the best in the business, it still lacks a fairly major feature: haptic feedback. The little vibration that lets you know a key has been pressed is on nearly every other touchscreen smartphone on the market, but not the iPhone.
Luckily we have the jailbreak community to produce apps and tweaks that makeup for iOS shortcomings. Though there have been haptic feedback utilities in Cydia for quite some time now, they've never really impressed me. They always seemed to make iOS slower and less reliable, until now...
Color Keyboard is a recently released jailbreak tweak that potentially allows you to customize your iPhone's keyboard using whatever color scheme you deem worthy.
I use the word potential, because it's entirely up to you as to whether or not you'll squeeze your money's worth out of it.
The name -- Color Keyboard -- while technically true, might seem as if it's a tad misleading, especially in the shadow of robust jailbreak tweaks like AlertArtist...
If you've ever disabled your iPhone's "Simple Passcode" in the Passcode Lock section of the Settings.app, then you're no doubt familiar with the black keyboard that's hidden within iOS.
Most of the folks I know stick to the simple numeric passcode as a means to protect their iPhones, thus they're not aware that a black keyboard even exists.
The sad news is that besides the lock screen, you're unable to use the black keyboard anywhere else; that is, until now.
Black Keyboard is a new jailbreak tweak available for the iPhone that allows you to enable the elusive black keyboard anywhere...
I don't believe there's one feature on the iPhone that angers me as much as auto correct. It's always misinterpreting what I'm trying to type, usually with ridiculous results.
Auto correct on the iPhone will turn a phrase like "Let's go have lunch" into "Keep on step eagle." I know, that makes no sense whatsoever, and that's my point.
Fortunately for us, the jailbreak community has had enough of this utter nonsense as well, as evident by the release of ManualCorrect...
I've always believed that the iPhone's most frustrating issues surrounded around composing long messages or filling out exceptionally long forms. Not only is the auto correct particularly troublesome, but I find myself from time to time typing uppercase letters when I meant to type lowercase, and lowercase letters when I meant to type upper case.
It's a particularly frustrating affair culminated by the fact that Apple has decided to keep uppercase letters on their keyboard's keys regardless of your actual case. That's where a tweak like ShowCase comes in handy...
5-Row Keyboard is a new jailbreak tweak that does just what the name describes: enables a larger, 5-row keyboard in iOS. All of the numeric keys are added to a top row of the iOS keyboard so that you don't have to constantly change the keyboard layout when typing numbers.
This tweak doesn't do much else besides what is obvious...Â