Ready for another interesting way to “secure” your iPhone’s app icons? The latest so-called security app on the block is IconLock, and it’s a free download on Cydia’s BigBoss repo.
While anyone who has any inkling about iPhone jailbreaking [1] will easily compromise your plans to lock down your iPhone, it should be more than enough to keep grandma from accidentally ruining your app icon layout.
Check inside for a full video synopsis of IconLock…
Essentially all this tweak does is attempt to prevent ones from entering jiggle-mode. If you can stop jiggle-mode, then you can stop a person from altering your app icon layout.
To do this, the tweak [2] has a password option that will prompt an end-user for the password when trying to adjust the settings or enter jiggle-mode.
The problem stems from the fact that anyone with any decent knowledge of jailbreaking will know to just disable the mobile substrate add-on via SBSettings, or uninstall the tweak outright from Cydia.
I guess the ones depending on IconLock are banking on others being behind the times in this particular area.
In nutshell, this tweak is fine for casual security, but I definitely wouldn’t look at it as a surefire way to keep your app icon’s locked down.
What are your thoughts? Do you have a better way to achieve this goal?
Links
- ^ jailbreaking (www.iphonedownloadblog.com)
- ^ tweak (www.iphonedownloadblog.com)
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