What’s it do?
Technically, IconSettings isn’t an app. But I don’t really care because I think it’s absolutely necessary on everyone’s iPhone. If you have an iPhone, start using IconSettings. So what the frack is it? Well, IconSettings is a bookmarklet that can launch specific settings from your iPhone’s homescreen. You just save a pre-made bookmark to your home screen and whenever you tap it, you’ll be brought straight into the specific setting you want. If you tap the Wi-Fi icon, it’ll immediately launch the Wi-Fi settings pane on your iPhone. If you hit brightness, the brightness pane pops up. It’s a quick fast method to change settings without having to jump through so many annoying loops that stock iOS makes you jump through.
Why do we like it?
You save at least two steps with the IconSettings bookmarklet every time you use it. And as I’m always turning on/off Wi-Fi and adjusting brightness, those two steps matter to me! SBSettings is still better than IconSettings but that requires a jailbreak, using IconSettings is seriously as easy as saving a bookmark to your phone. The developer has pretty much every settings tweak you want to make on your iPhone ready for you too: from popular changes like Wi-Fi, brightness, Bluetooth, Autolock and Network to things like VPN, Usage, iCloud, Music and so much more, pretty much every controllable settings on your iPhone can be turned into a launch-able bookmark on your home screen. It’s genius and I love it. Just go here to figure out how to set everything up. [via Engadget]
The Best
So much faster
The Worst
Ugly icons
Tim
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 11:46 AMDammit, I just paid 99c yesterday for an app to do the same thing, called Iconproject, and even though you can customise the icon, it’s not worth the money since the icons with iconsettings look nicer.
Frosty
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 12:01 PM+1
Adam
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 1:03 PMNo on the Australian iTunes store ?
Alex Kidman
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 1:12 PMThat’s because it’s not an App — read the description, it notes that it’s a bookmarklet instead. Directions for installation are above.
Vincenzo
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 1:08 PMYep, Not on the Aussie iTunes Store!
Matthew
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 1:24 PMThat’s because its not an App, its a website.
Using a Safari home screen bookmark, it will take you direct to the setting you are after.
Bloomy
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 1:29 PMIts not an iTunes app at all. Its a website. Follow the instructions on the website. http://iphoneza.co.za/IconSettings
Effectively it is creating internal http links to the iphone settings. These links are stored just like other http home page links from Safari. So if you have ever saved a web bookmark on your homepage its the same process.
1. Browse using Safari on your iphone to the address above.
2.You will see a list of settings like bluetooth, wifi etc.
3.select a link.
4.When Safari prompts to open the page, click cancel.
5. then click the middle icon on the bottom of the screen and select Add to Home Screen.
You should now have an icon on your iphone home screen that will take you directly to the setting!
Easy!
Bringyadogalong
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 1:50 PMCool!! Except I’m not running iOS 5! :( So I purchased iconproject – except I don’t think it allows for anything else other than web pages and contacts. So I don’t think it does anything like this…..unless I’m doing something wrong?
Phil
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:08 PMThis is a fantastic little find, works well and is very useful.
Its only issue worth noting (more of a compromise really) is that it opens up a new page in Safari for each bookmarklet when it’s used. This is the same for every web-app launched from the home screen. So when you go to Safari later you’ll find the Wifi, iCloud or whatever setting bookmarklet page open there. Some people may not like this “cluttering” of Safari.
iPhoneZA
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 8:20 AMHi Phil
Just wanted to let you know we updated IconSettings to v2.1 which adds a .mobileconfig installation method. When you install IconSettings using this method, the toggles no longer leave blank Safari pages open.
To see the changes, please refresh the IconSettings page – http://iphoneza.co.za/IconSettings/
Hope you will find this useful.
Regards,
iPhoneZA
Simon Reidy
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:35 PMI’ll stick to my fully customisable jailbroken notification centre/SB settings on iOS5 thanks :) However I agree it’s a clever alternative for those that don’t wish to jailbreak.
gamblor
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 3:48 PMOnly issue i have is when you open safari each setting shortcut you just used is left open in a separate page. Apple really need to implement a shortcut to commonly switched settings (bluetooth, wifi, 3G, brightness) in its new notifications blind a la android
Sicarius123
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 4:59 PMI have officially run out of reasons to jailbreak.
The only reasons left seem to be piracy.
Everything my jailbroken iPhone used to do, iOS5 can now do.
brad
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 6:34 PMi’m in the same boat. i only have 1 pirated app now… tomtom. due to the fact i paid $700 for a dedicated tomtom unit a few years back and its a piece of $hit. they owe me :-P
bought a 4S a few weeks ago and havent used it because i’m waiting for a jb. i just cracked it out of the box and started setting it up. might even use it now. there are only a couple of minor things that i would jb for now. and honestly, i dont know if its even worth the hassle. will use it for a while and see.
thanx Casey for the heads up. sbsettings is a huge deal for me.
Pete
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1:55 AMFantastic ‘app’. Got it yesterday and makes switching much quicker. I use it primarily for wifi on/off. Thanks for the heads up.