iPhone Hacks

With iPhone hacks you can do so many things that are not possible with the original off the shelf iPhone you buy from Apple.

To apply any of the hacks in this page you must modify or jailbreak your iPhone. You know if your iPhone is jailbrocken by verifying that you have Cydia, Installer or Icy installed on your spring board or home screen of your iPhone.

The iPhone is a powerful mini computer, but because of the restrictions applied by Apple and AT&T , many features are disabled.

When I talk about iPhone Hacks, I mean those little tweaks or modifications to the iPhone Operating System to make it do things that were not intended by Apple or the cell phone carrier. These tweaks and hacks are completely software driven. There is no hardware modification involved. Click here to learn how to jailbreak an iPhone or Click here to read my iPhone jailbreak story.

Most iPhone hacking doesn't happen by running applications. They are system level tweaks and tricks that could enable a feature in the iPhone that allows other applications to take advantage of it.

Most of those hacks don't have an icon after they are installed. You won't know that they are installed until you run an application that use them.

There are so many hacks for the iPhone that I won't be able to cover them all in this page. I will however, talk about the best iPhone hacks, and mostly the ones I personally use the most.

Also look at the iPhone tips and tricks section of this website to learn more about more tricks.

3G Unrestrictor is a hack that tricks your iPhone 3G or EDGE network into thinking it is wifi. This allows you to make iPhone VOIP (Voice Over IP) phone calls and save your monthly minutes.

iPhone Tethering is a hack that allows you to share your internet connection from your carrier with other external devices such as a laptop or an iPad. So your iPhone will work as a wireless modem or a moveable hot spot.

iPhone unlock is the most popular hack for the iPhone. This hack allows you to use your iPhone with any carrier. iPhone unlocking gives you access to any SIM card carrier. You won’t be restricted to use AT&T in the US with your iPhone if you unlock it.

iPhone widgets are mini applications that run as a second layer on top of any currently running iPhone application. With CrazyDashboard, you can run Mac widgets on the iPhone.

SBSetting is one of the most useful utilities available for the iPhone. It is the first iPhone hack that I usually install right after I jailbreak my iPhone. It is a little utility that once installed through Cydia, gives you quick on the fly access to many iPhone settings such as brightness, wifi, 3G, bluetooth and more.

Backgrounder is my most important hack which allows the iPhone to multitask. This means that when you press and hold the home button, the app doesn't actually quit, but it is minimized. It is like minimizing an application in your Mac or PC . The app will stay running in the background.

Kirikae is a hack for the iPhone that when combined with Backgrounder gives a complete multitasking environment. It lists all running apps, and allows you to switch between them.

Moreover, you can quit any of the running applications by tapping the x next to the running app.

This iPhone hack has an icon, and has the option to create a list of favorite apps for quick start right in Kirikae. Visit the Kirkea page to learn more.

FreeRam is one of the coolest hacks available for the iPhone. It is a virtual iPhone memory hack that tricks the iPhone into thinking it has more memory than it physically does.

It uses some of the storage memory as ram which improves performance and allows you run more applications at the same time.

As you tap the free up memory button, more memory will become available.

Some iPhone icons hacks allow you to have a lot more icons than the default 16 iPhone icons. By default you can only have 4 rows and 4 columns of iPhone icons besides the 4 icons in the dock.

With those iPhone icons hacks you can squeeze more icons on a single home screen and also you can have quicker access to more apps. Also visit the iPhone icons page to learn about some tips and tricks in arranging those icons.

mQuickDo is a cool hack that allows you to fully control your iPhone by touch actions or gestures.

You can power down, restart, open and close apps all with gestures. You can assign any application to different touch action or gesture. For example, you can assign a long slide at the bottom from left to right to open Kirikae to see all running apps. This hack is specially useful to protect your home screen button from physical wear.

Inspell is an amazing little hack that adds a spell checker to anything you type on your iPhone. Just double tap on the incorrect word, and you get a list of several corrections to pick from.

Action Menu is one of my best iPhone hacks. It adds many options to the copy and paste menu. When you tap and hold on a word in any document in the iPhone you activate a little menu that allows you to copy, cut, or paste.

With Action Menu you get even more options. You can copy several words in a clip board. Then you can paste any of the words or sentences selected from the clip board. You can have a list of your favorite words, or phrases so you don't have to type them every time.
Visit the Action Menu page to learn more.

iPhone Jailbreak TV Out is a hack that allows you to display your iPhone screen on your TV by connecting an iPhone Video out Cable to your iPhone and your TV. Visit iPhone video out page for more details.

iPhone emulators are my favorite iPhone hacks that allow you to run other Operating systems on the iPhone. You can run applications and games from other devices or game consoles. For example, you can run Nintendo and Sega games on your iPhone. Or you can run Palm OS applications. Moreover, an Android emulator will be coming soon that allows you to dual boot your iPhone in either iPhone OS or Android OS. Visit the iPhone emulators page to see a big list of available emulators for the iPhone.

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