Virtual Home: Use Touch ID as Home button (Cydia)

Virtual home

Those of us who have had several iPhones and use them a lot know that the Home button is one of the first pieces to suffer, and on the iPhone 5s with Touch ID it will be more difficult to repair or change than on previous devices.

If last year Zephyr was one of the essential tweaks this year it seems that it will replace it Virtual home, a tweak that use iPhone fingerprint sensor as Home button, that is, we will not have to press it, just leaving your finger on it will be the same as pressing the button.

The operation is very simple, if you touch the Home button (without pressing it) you will exit the open applicationsYes, if you leave your finger on it as if it were a long press, you will activate multitasking.

As simple and as useful as Zephyr but only suitable for iPhone 5s for now, the only one with a Touch ID sensor. An essential tweak that encourages you to jailbreak. Taking care of the Home button is one of the reasons why many of us jailbreak.

Now a very big question arises: Is our security compromised with the tweaks that use the fingerprint sensor? Is it safe to use these tweaks? Nobody wants their fingerprints to end up anywhere.

On the other hand, we do not want the rest of our information to be used, but instead services such as Google or Gmail are storing all our data and using it for advertising ... Security is in question by jailbreaking an iPhone 5s, and what about you? you will do? This tweak has convinced me the truth.

You can download it free on Cydia, you will find it in the BigBoss repo. You need to have done the jailbreak on your device.

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  1.   Ismael said

    What if you want to use siri?

    1.    samuel said

      you just leave the poked finger until it appears

  2.   Miguel said

    If you want to use Siri, you keep the button pressed as usual and it works great.

    The only thing that I have noticed with this virtual button is that if you leave the mobile at rest for a while, you have to press the button because the tweak does not respond,
    If you unlock it and it does not take long if it works perfect, the multitasking thing leaving your finger on comes out

  3.   Carlos said

    It does not work for me on my Iphone 5S

    1.    Joseph Moretti said

      Neither do I and I also have a 5S with updated cydia substrate

      1.    gnzl said

        It works for me in 5s without problem, reinstall from Cydia

    2.    Edgar sihues said

      It works for me if there are problems, I have spoken with the developer and it is still in BETA phase. There is a bug that happens when you make a purchase in the AppStore, it is disabled after using Touch ID. In the next update that will be corrected, in addition to the number of touches may be changed, for example:

      1 Press for Home
      2 Press for Multitask
      Leave tight for Siri

      1.    CR11 said

        What you say has happened to me. I have used the touch id to download an app, but after a while, with the mobile without blocking, the tweak continues to work and when I put it to sleep, neither the tweak nor the touch id works. A pity, but if they fix it, it will be luxurious

        1.    CR11 said

          And after a while more, everything works as before hehe

  4.   Jony said

    It works perfectly on an iPhone 5s, you have to have touch id activated, an interesting function is that when it is at rest, with a swipe over it it is already unlocked. That is, it is always active, I do not know to what extent it will affect the battery life.

    I recommend this great Tweak.

    Thank you.

    1.    Carlos said

      I reiterate that on my Iphone 5s it still does not work, like many cydia tweaks, I do not know what may be damaging the correct operation of these.

      1.    Jose Bolado Guerrero placeholder image said

        Surely! This afternoon I installed a tweaks that is not adapted for A7 processors and the virtual home did not work for me

  5.   Alejandro said

    I find it an excellent tweak for its functionality !! My question is, will the battery be affected? I don't know if the Touch ID sensor is always on without the tweak? because with him I imagine if he would be 🙂

    1.    Jose Bolado Guerrero placeholder image said

      I have been all day since this morning .. And I have not noticed any strange battery consumption!

  6.   alberg7 said

    Perfect!! It works for me. Finally a tweak for the 5s also very very useful, precisely change the iPhone because the home button stopped working correctly.

  7.   alberg7 said

    It works with any finger, even if you do not have it saved in idtouch, so it will not read the fingerprint, it will only "feel" the contact of the finger

  8.   rs said

    I still have doubts about the battery, I don't know if normally the touch is constantly on standby or not, because if it is normally only activated when required, with this the circuit would be constantly active, perhaps in rest it is not noticeable, but it may be that with intensive use the battery becomes noticeable. Let's see if the issue is clarified

    1.    gnzl said

      It does not use the sensor, only the edge, that is, it works with any finger except to unlock.
      I have not noticed an increase in consumption.

      1.    rs said

        The sensor has to use it, another thing is that it does not use the detection software, but the HW of the button has to be constantly operative to know that you put a finger, that is where the doubt is, if the HW is always active by default or do not. This tweak if you have it active constantly

        1.    gnzl said

          The sensor is activated when the edge detects your static electricity.

          I insist that this tweak does not use the sensor (camera behind the button), it only uses the edge of the button.

          1.    rs said

            So on the subject of battery should not spend, but ... that lasts longer? the home button or the sensor? because if with this we avoid the wear of the home button but at the cost of the sensor ..

          2.    rs said

            Do you know if the edge that detects electricity is something that is always active by default or is the app that keeps it always active? if it is the first perfect, but if it is the app that does it, it would be "forcing"

            1.    gnzl said

              No, I do not know that data, I believe that it is always active (whenever the screen is on), it thinks that this expense is minimal. But I can not assure you, I have looked for it but they have never explained it.
              It is when you touch it when it activates the "camera" from behind

  9.   JorgeM said

    I'm about to test this tweak, I find it very interesting, however I am on the lookout for battery consumption…. if anyone has knowledge on the subject please share it.
    Greetings.

  10.   rs said

    After 24 hours of use I have removed it, I do not notice a battery problem, but it is faster to press the button, the sensor takes that second longer than you have to get used to ... if it were faster ... it is

  11.   rs said

    It has been updated and adds vibration, so we know when to release the button to close the app

  12.   Edgar said

    Please, who can help me how do I download cydia, the truth is that I am new to having iPhone & I have a 5s and I want to know everything? I hope your help

  13.   Rodrigo said

    How can the vibration be removed? I do not like that I vibrate every time I use it and I do not get the tweaks configuration in the settings