Apple Disables Settings Shortcuts in iOS 5.1 Beta

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Posted November 30, 2011 at 5:53pm by iClarified

Apple has reportedly disabled the ability to create an icon shortcut to specific setting menus in iOS 5.1 beta.

The shortcuts were revealed earlier this month and quickly became a popular feature with iOS device owners. Designer Jeff Broderick created some beautiful icons with pre-made shortcuts which could be installed by visiting http://brdrck.me/settings on your device.

Now, iSpazio is reporting that the latest developer beta has disabled this functionality. It's unclear why Apple would remove a perfectly simple and harmless shortcut and instead force users to turn to popular SBSettings utility which requires jailbreak.

Apple Disables Settings Shortcuts in iOS 5.1 Beta

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Ahmad - November 30, 2011 at 9:13pm

If they didn't do integrate it in the next update then apple is messing with the customer too much and they will loose alot begining with me.

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Nick - November 30, 2011 at 6:31pm

Apple just needs to realize that they could do something simple and elegant for these shortcuts, allow people to add them to the Notifications tab like SBSettings does!

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Anon-pop - November 30, 2011 at 6:15pm

Apple r becoming a pain in the ass these days, im already on 5.0.1 by mistake. I miss cydia and its tweaks. Apple r losing a lot of customers

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madchilli - November 30, 2011 at 6:31pm

why don't you jailbreak using redsn0w?

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dt - November 30, 2011 at 6:37pm

Sorry dude. Not really believing the "by mistake "part however you are spot on about the pain in the ass bit.

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gentster - November 30, 2011 at 9:28pm

Just use redsn0w and point to the 5.0 firmware, you can the proceed with jailbreaking your 5.0.1. I updated to 5.0.1 myself without realizing I had to go thru this additional step, and was on the stock firmware for about 3 days; needless to say, missed Cydia a lot, couldn't believe how plain the stock firmware is. Luckily figured this out a few days later and now my LockInfo is smiling at me again every time I click the home button.

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vasodys - November 30, 2011 at 5:57pm

Two possibilities. 1. They hate to ease us. 2. They're gonna do it themselves.

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Faraday - November 30, 2011 at 6:34pm

I'm with you... They going to integrate it into the notifications centre... F

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vasodys - November 30, 2011 at 6:37pm

The only thing I don't get is why didn't they do it with the release of iOS 5. It would have increased sales because of the ease of that.

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amejia - November 30, 2011 at 6:53pm

One big reason, that's an iOS 6 feature!!!