Airplane Mode is a special mode you can toggle on or off on mobile devices in order to effectively shut off all radio communications. While intended for airline travel, the function is often used by people on the ground just for killing distracting Internet communications.
Unfortunately, Airplane Mode is easy to turn on by accident, and if you depend on Internet communications, this can spell out problems when you suddenly stop receiving notifications and don’t realize that you turned Airplane Mode on.
That’s where a new and free jailbreak tweak called HapticPlane by iOS developer CydiaGeek comes into play, and I think it’s both a sensical and useful add-on because it makes your iPhone give off haptic feedback any time you toggle Airplane Mode on or off, regardless of where you do it from.
For most people, this is probably going to be Control Center, and it can be easy to mistakenly toggle Airplane Mode from here when intending to hit another toggle or because you were being careless. Pair that with being distracted around friends, or while walking in a busy crowd, and you may not even realize you turned it on because you’re not even paying attention to your screen to see the Status Bar icon.
HapticPlane fixes this problem by giving you feedback you can feel. You don’t even need to be looking at your screen to know you’ve just turned Airplane Mode on, and that’s because you’ll feel it rather than see it.
There are a lot of people who are going to say, “well there’s a big plane icon in the Status Bar when you turn on Airplane Mode, so how can you miss it?” And while I totally see that being a valid argument, that only works when you’re looking at your screen, and I can think of lots of situations where I tap without paying attention because my surroundings need my attention more.
Whether or not you need HapticPlane comes down to personal preference really. For some people, it’s not even about accidental taps, it’s about having haptic feedback for just one more thing.
Whichever camp you belong in, HapticPlane is available as free download from the BigBoss repository for whomever wants to give it a try. It supports all jailbroken devices running iOS 13 and later.
Are you going to be using HapticPlane? Let us know in the comments section down below.