Have you ever wanted to access your favorite contacts from your iPhone Homescreen? As we know iPhone does not allow users to add contact to the Homescreen. We have to go to the contacts list of iPhone to access our favorite contact. Now you can access contact from the Home screen of your iPhone with the help of a jailbreak tweak available in Cydia. The name of this tweak is “Homescreen Contacts.” This tweak is developed by Yeahwangy. Using this tweak you can add contact to the Home screen of iPhone. It will allow you to access contacts quickly just like homescreen icons.
Once you select any contact on your iPhone, you will be able to see “Add to Home Screen button” button at the bottom of the screen. Tap this button to add a contact icon to the Home screen. You can use this icon to make calls and send messages from the Home screen. You can download “Homescreen Contacts” from Cydia. You can find it under BigBoss repository. It requires jailbroken iOS device, so you have to jailbreak your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad to install this tweak. After jailbreaking your iOS device, launch Cydia and search for “Homescreen Contacts,” then select it from the search result and tap on “Download” button to download and install this tweak on your iPhone. After installing this tweak on your iOS device, you can access your favorite contacts from the Home screen of your iPhone.
This tweak is available at a price of $1.99. You have to go to the setting app of your iOS device to configure Homescreen Contacts. No new icons will be added by “Homescreen Contacts” to the Springboard, so you cannot configure it from the Home screen of your iPhone. It requires iOS 5 or higher, so you have to upgrade your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad to iOS 5 to download this tweak. It is compatible with iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G, iPad 2, iPad and new iPad.