Apple might have released their best iPhone yet, but the company did not think to release with iPhone 5 a new set of gestures, or at least incorporate some of the four-finger iPad gestures. This is something that has a lot of buyers baffled as they can’t figure out why Apple hasn’t given them the choice to use multi-touch gestures on iPhone 5 or not.
The thing is Apple’s iPhone 5 has a much smaller screen than the iPad, so multi-touch gestures might not be an efficient use of resources. But Chpwn believes users can decide for themselves and trusting the 4-inch Retina display’s attributes the developer released the Zephyr jailbreak tweak, which has in no time become one of the most popular apps in Cydia. In fact, fellow developer Steve Troughton-Smith dubbed it as one of the coolest jailbreak tweaks ever and a sign that “iOS on the iPhone really needs edge-swipe multitasking gestures”.
Zephyr is the perfect tweak when you’re struggling with a broken Home Button. The Cydia tweak makes it possible to swipe up from the bottom of the screen to close apps, swipe left or right from the edge of the screen to switch between apps, swipe up very smoothly to display the multitasking switched.
Chpwn keeps Zephyr updated on a regular basis, the 1.6 version for instance features improved keyboard detection, rotation support, keyboard disable, and new side swipe area gestures. For instance, Chpwn added the three-finger pinch option, the enable side swipes from a portion of your screen and fixed issues with OpenGL apps. The 1.5 version of Zephyr gives you the ability to use on iPhone 5 the following iPad gestures: pinch to close apps and four-finger swipe between apps.
Zephyr currently supports iOS 6.1, 6.0, iOS 5.0 and 5.1 on iPhone and iPod Touch and is available in Cydia App Store here for $2.99. Consider installing the multitasking Auxo tweak to keep Zephyr company and boost your device’s overall performance.
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