QuickContacts is a cool new iOS 7 jailbreak tweak that gives you quick access to your favorite Contacts from the Home screen.
The jailbreak tweak essentially takes over the area occupied by Spotlight when you swipe down on the Home screen. You can still access Spotlight by swiping to the left.
If you’ve added photos to your contacts in the Phone app then they will show up when you swipe down on Spotlight or just show the name.
When you tap on the Contact photos, it displays a popup of the contact and gives you an option to call, message or email that Contact.
You need to set the favorites manually by tapping on the icon with the + badge. It would have been nice if the tweak could have pulled the favorites from the Phone app as it would be a pain to manage two lists in the long term.
After you’ve added a favorite, you can always change it by tapping and holding on the icon.
Check out the video walkthrough of the jailbreak tweak in action below:
QuickContacts is a cool jailbreak tweak if you don’t like the idea of add your favorite Contacts to the Notification and clutter it further. However, you need to be on the Home screen to access the Contacts with this tweak, which is a drawback over tweaks like Favorite Contacts 7 that allow you to access the favorites from anywhere in iOS.
QuickContacts is available on Cydia for $1.99. Few issues that you should be aware of before you buy the tweak:
- It worked well on my iPhone 5, but I was not able to add more than 4 contacts on my iPhone 5, as I couldn’t swipe to the right. So I would recommend iPhone 5s users to hold off buying it until the issues are fixed.
- If you’ve multiple numbers for a Contact, and want to add one of them as the favorite then it is not possible. It just dials the first number. This is the reason I think the developer should have used the favorite Contacts from the Phone app.
- You have to add a photo to your Favorite contacts in the Phone app, otherwise it is difficult to figure out which one to tap as it just shows the same icon for all the contacts without photos.
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