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If you're unfamiliar with Spotlight, it's the search feature accessed by swiping left to the farthest corner. Spotlight allows you to search everything on your iPhone and iPad, but it also drains your battery faster.
Recently, some iPhone developers have released an app allowing you to easily hide spotlight search on iPhone. This action doesn't harm your device, and although Spotlight doesn't necessarily work for you, this trick helps you understand more about using your iPhone. To perform this trick, you need to jailbreak your iPhone, and it's best to back up your iPhone before attempting it.
Guide to Hiding Spotlight Search on iPhone, iPad
Step 1: Make sure your iPhone is jailbroken to perform this trick, and you need to add the source 'cydiageek.yourepo.com' to your Cydia, then restart your device.
Step 2: Go back to Cydia, search for 'NoSpot10' and install it, this app will help you hide spotlight search on iPhone, iPad.
Step 3: After installing NoSpot10, you need to restart SpringBoard and then go to Settings and select the NoSpot10 app.
Step 4: Within NoSpot10, there are 3 main features you need to pay attention to and enable them.
- No Spotlight on HomeScreen Down Gesture: Prevents spotlight from appearing on the home screen.
- No Spotlight on Today View Down Gesture: Prevents Spotlight from appearing today.
After making your selections, press Respring and confirm OK to restart.
Step 5: After the restart, you'll notice that hiding spotlight search on iPhone is complete; you won't see Spotlight until you uninstall the app or disable it.
With the guide to hiding spotlight search on iPhone, iPad, isn't it convenient? If your iPhone is jailbroken, there are surely many more tricks. Currently, iOS 10.3 is the latest version from Apple, so if you want to jailbreak iOS 10.3, you'll need to search for a lower version. However, there are still many apps that don't require you to jailbreak your iPhone, such as changing the iMessage interface, styling messages on iPhone or iPad. You can follow the guide on Mytour for changing the iMessage interface on iPhone.
