Tuesday, August 16, 2016

[iOS Recipe] No. 2 - Handy Shortcuts


 

Very often, I'm seeing on iPhone screens of the people around me this small faint black square superimposed on top.
And so I learned that some are afraid of spoiling their home buttons if they are pressed too many times.
Such virtual button will minimise the use of the physical home button, thereby prolong its lifespan.

But this black square is too distracting to me, especially when I'm playing games.
It seems that there's a neat trick that does the same thing without having the black square appearing.

Since iOS 8, widgets are supported in the Notification Centre.
There are many apps in the App Store that allows user to create shortcuts icons that appears in the Notification Centre widgets.

One of them is AirLaunch.

 
The app allows the user to add shortcuts to contacts, web urls, apps and "System Actions".

 
 

The user can choose from a variety of System actions and one of which is the "Home Button".
When the Home Button is selected, it will appear as an icon in the Notification widget.

So, whenever you are in an opened app or game and you want to exit out to the home screen, you just have to swipe down to bring up the Notification Centre and click on the "Home" icon.
That will bring you to home screen without pressing the physical home button.

There are other similar apps such as Go Launcher, etc.

I love these apps a lot and use them on a daily basis.

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