Virtual Home: Simulate the Home button press with Touch ID!

Description: A jailbreak tweak that allows you to simulate different presses of the Home button with the iPhone 5s' Touch ID sensor. One of the first tweaks to alternate the way Touch ID works.

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Virtual Home: Simulate the Home button press with Touch ID!

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[beletruz]

I switched to HTC one and I'm still watching your videos :)

[stephanchery]

Works flawlessly. The tweak works with any finger to get back to home or use multitask but only works with fingers you've set up to unlock the phone.

[opedromagico]

Does it drain a significant amount of battery? I really enjoyed but I dont wanna wast loads of battery on it!

Thanks :)

[momskirbyok]

You're welcome, Jeff! I was one of the people to tweet you about it! :)

[LiveRelentless]

I can't wait to see an use future Touch ID tweaks. I want to be able to implement my normal account passwords like Google, Amazon, Facebook etc. with Touch ID. It would make life so much easier. The iOS 7 jailbreak future looks good already!

[leart]

This is the equivalent of zephyr for saving the home button life that is short since its over used and in a short time gets out of working.
FANTASTIC tweak just its only for 5s, it will be cool if something to replace Zephyr come out for other devices on iOS 7 since the new swipe menu from bottom make impossible Zephyr to work on iOS 7

[Zhurak]

paired with activator you can map the actual click functions to 3 other uses. makes the home button super versatile!

[evasinjb]

i got this tweak the first day it came out and i must say its pretty awesome now my home button won't get ruined in the long run 

[ayushsinghal]

Finally some tweaks for Iphone 5s only..

[luggage]

After downloading it and using it for a while, it makes me wonder why apple didn't implement this feature. Its really cool and convenient and actually works. 

[leart]

The new Zephyr for iphone 5s :)
Very nice, but we with no fingerprint sensors how we save the physical home button from over use? :)

[THEBLUEBEASTGAMING]

it would be cool if there was a way to change the sensitivity of the press 

[pjthegreat]

This app is beautiful
Omg. No more of that loud double pressing.

[VickyBro]

takes longer imo. i've set activator to open the app-switcher with a quick swipe from the bottom left, and go to the first springboard page with a quick swipe of the bottom right. however the swipes also bring up the control center, and it will quickly vanish as soon as the action is done, so i quickly swipe up and then immediately down to do the intended action without invoking the control center. best zephyr alternative.

[taybu]

This is kind of cool if your home button is broke but I'm still waiting on that one tweak to convince me to jailbreak. I'm scared to jailbreak my 5s though like everyone else.

[AJCoReTV]

If you haven't already set up touch ID, having this app installed prevents you from doing so.
My other complaint is trying to use Siri, with this tweak installed you will have a hard time.

Great concept, but needs a preference setting.

[Gringo_k]

but do not affect the touch sensor due to constant use?

[ninhbac]

hopefully it doesn't cause problem for the sensor over time.

[kodtomba]

cuz double pressing is too mainstream =D

[gmanborrillo]

i must be missing something -so this is for those who want to save the extra energy of pushing down on a button 1/1000 of an inch? that is what this tweak does?