Create Settings Shortcuts on Your iPhone's Home Screen Without Jailbreaking

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Posted November 13, 2011 at 5:12pm by iClarified

Icon Project offers a way to create SBSettings-like shortcuts on your iPhone home screen without jailbreaking, reports iphonaddict.

The app which is available in the App Store lets you easily create icons that point to specific areas in the Settings menu. While not technically 'toggles', these shortcuts will speed up the time it takes to change your settings.

Here's a list of possible shortcuts:
About -> prefs:root=General&path=About
Accessibility -> prefs:root=General&path=ACCESSIBILITY
Airplane Mode On -> prefs:root=AIRPLANE_MODE
Auto-Lock -> prefs:root=General&path=AUTOLOCK
Brightness -> prefs:root=Brightness
Bluetooth -> prefs:root=General&path=Bluetooth
Date & Time -> prefs:root=General&path=DATE_AND_TIME
FaceTime -> prefs:root=FACETIME
General -> prefs:root=General
Keyboard -> prefs:root=General&path=Keyboard
iCloud -> prefs:root=CASTLE
iCloud Storage & Backup -> prefs:root=CASTLE&path=STORAGE_AND_BACKUP
International -> prefs:root=General&path=INTERNATIONAL
Location Services -> prefs:root=LOCATION_SERVICES
Music -> prefs:root=MUSIC
Music Equalizer -> prefs:root=MUSIC&path=EQ
Music Volume Limit -> prefs:root=MUSIC&path=VolumeLimit
Network -> prefs:root=General&path=Network
Nike + iPod -> prefs:root=NIKE_PLUS_IPOD
Notes -> prefs:root=NOTES
Notification -> prefs:root=NOTIFICATIONS_ID
Phone -> prefs:root=Phone
Photos -> prefs:root=Photos
Profile -> prefs:root=General&path=ManagedConfigurationList
Reset -> prefs:root=General&path=Reset
Safari -> prefs:root=Safari
Siri -> prefs:root=General&path=Assistant
Sounds -> prefs:root=Sounds
Software Update -> prefs:root=General&path=SOFTWARE_UPDATE_LINK
Store -> prefs:root=STORE
Twitter -> prefs:root=TWITTER
Usage -> prefs:root=General&path=USAGE
VPN -> prefs:root=General&path=Network/VPN
Wallpaper -> prefs:root=Wallpaper
Wi-Fi -> prefs:root=WIFI

Other App Features
■ Creating icon from your addressbook.
■ Sending a custom icon by mail. (Icon Project users can directly import your icon into their Home screen.)
■ Creating icon with photos in your album.
■ Using built-in icons, photo frames and badges.
■ Selecting background colors or drawing (multi-line) text on icons. (You can select font type, text color, text size and even text alignment.)
■ Creating icon with link types such as call, SMS/MMS, mail, facetime, skype or any types of URL that you want to use.
■ Creating multi function icon. (Person Info page, Call + SMS/MMS in one icon)
■ Loading recently created icon files.

You can purchase Icon Project (Home Screen Icon) from the App Store for $0.99.

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Create Settings Shortcuts on Your iPhone's Home Screen Without Jailbreaking

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bert - July 12, 2013 at 8:54am

this doesnt work anymore , you get the msg bad url every time. has someone found a way to get it working again ?

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lepaka - July 12, 2013 at 10:24am

works only to do shortcuts of your contacts to the desktop. the other shortcuts Apple has blocked them long ago :(

Tino - November 15, 2011 at 5:14pm

This must be the coolest app and info ever!!!

Adzi - April 26, 2013 at 7:37am

No longer works after ios5.0. Do not download as it only works pre 5.1

I2be - November 15, 2011 at 2:52pm

FYI, javascipt prefs is only allow in ios5 onwards.

Pplucky - November 14, 2011 at 11:33am

Is it just me or I cannot get this to work (always get message 'Please enter a valid URL'? iPhone 4, 4.3.3

WndyCtyGuy - November 14, 2011 at 1:33pm

I am getting the URL error message too. I'm also on a iPhone 4.

Pplucky - November 15, 2011 at 8:27am

Apparently I read on other sites this only works with iOS5... Crap!

Shai - November 14, 2011 at 9:08am

Anyone know where to get the icons in the screenshot? They're not in the app

Dave - November 14, 2011 at 2:13am

Is there any way that you can access the Personal HotSpot menu as with an iPad I am always turning this on and off when using it on the run.

Faraday - November 14, 2011 at 3:09pm

prefs:root=PERSONAL_HOTSPOT

Dave - November 14, 2011 at 9:47pm

I have tried using prefs:root=PERSONAL_HOTSPOT in safari and all it goes to is the settings page. It doesn't open the personal hotspot page to enable easy selection of the on/off toggle.

Faraday - November 14, 2011 at 9:57pm

Oops!!! I lasted the one that didn't work! Try this prefs:root=INTERNET_TETHERING Make sure you copy/paste, caps are important! Cheers F.

Dave - November 14, 2011 at 10:02pm

Cheers F, that worked perfectly!

Faraday - November 14, 2011 at 10:09pm

Date, No problem mate, I just wish that these were built in, or that the images used in the demo we built in! Lol I've been doing this for a while, it's nice to have a cheap app which has a few good design features though! I wonder when apple will address this and allow people to have shortcuts in the notifications drop down?!?!?!? Cheers F.

lepaka - November 13, 2011 at 9:27pm

it is almost perfect, missing one very important for the battery saving life, the shortcut to Mail, Contacts, Calendar , i try out but did not find it :( it would give a fast chance to turn on/off Push. If someone finds it, please distribute Thanks

Faraday - November 14, 2011 at 3:10pm

prefs:root=Notifications

Vijay Sharma - November 14, 2011 at 10:20pm

Mail - prefs:root=NOTIFICATIONS_ID&path=Mail Calendar - prefs:root=NOTIFICATIONS_ID&path=Calendar Just gotta know right codes ;-) Cheers F.

lepaka - November 15, 2011 at 10:44am

Sorry but it is not correct, tha solutions zou propose are for the Settings-Notifications menus. That is not so much important for me and for the battery life- saving. Important is the menu Settings-Mail, Contacts, Calender . In this menu we can directly set the Push on/off. For example during the night makes no sense to have the push on and actuallz is pain in the ass travel through the Settings menus to change the status. Thanks anyway for the try-out. If someone else have new ideas, please feel free to share them :)

Faraday - November 15, 2011 at 11:00am

These do work, I just tried both of them on my iPad and iPhone! prefs:root=NOTIFICATIONS_ID&path=Mail prefs:root=NOTIFICATIONS_ID&path=Calendar Just gotta know right codes ;-) Cheers F.

Don Thomas - November 13, 2011 at 8:04pm

Only seems to work on iOS 5. SBS here I come.

Snake008 - November 13, 2011 at 10:38pm

Yer doesn't seem to work on my 4 on 4.3.1 which has been jailbroken? Anyone have it working?

Nt02 - November 13, 2011 at 7:41pm

Or have Siri open it for you: 1) Create a new contact in Siri e.g. Bluetooth 2) In the URL field enter prefs:root=General&path=Bluetooth 3) Save 4) Now tell siri to lookup Bluetooth and BAM! one touch to get to the settings without paying $0.99

Jadou - November 13, 2011 at 10:49pm

actually thought of giving what u said a try and it failed... apparently Siri can't open URLs from contacts. or I'm just asking her the wrong way

flatlined - November 13, 2011 at 7:24pm

I wish they would port a full unjailbreak version of SBSettings to apple / the app store. Maybe they should have a pay version of SBSettings in the App Store and keep the cydia one free.

Nobo1 - November 13, 2011 at 6:12pm

Looks interesting.

Tom - November 13, 2011 at 5:35pm

looool omg dev team cracks me up... The reason I say that is cause musclegeek was talking about this on twitter the other day.... Don't be surprised if this is from them... Like I said JB is done man...

Tom Hanks - November 13, 2011 at 8:42pm

JB is done ? LOL ok.

Tom - November 13, 2011 at 8:56pm

Hey hanks when I said done I meant it's over. One more JB if any and that will be the last.

Andrew - November 13, 2011 at 5:26pm

When they have a kill all or reboot function this would totally stop me from using SBS but with so many apps down below ...

Michelle - November 14, 2011 at 12:14am

You can have Siri respring the the springboard by saying "restart".

Mikael Andersson - November 14, 2011 at 8:02pm

Can you please explain how I setup Siri to read restart ?

Michelle - November 16, 2011 at 4:28am

Launch siri. Say the word "restart"