One of the things that Apple really fell short on when it comes to the iPhone is the App Switcher. I’m not the only one who thinks that the iPhone could benefit from an iPad-style grid-centric App Switcher, which utilizes a grid rather than a card carousel to display recently used apps and to make them easier to return to.
Fortunately, this is something that jailbreaking allows us to do, and with the help of a new and free jailbreak tweak called gridswitcher by iOS developer Nathan Senter, you don’t have to look very far to enjoy this app-switching experience on a pwned iPhone.
As you can see in the screenshot example above, installing gridswitcher causes a full-screen grid-centric App Switcher to appear instead of the standard card carousel that iPhone users have been using for more than a decade now.
With gridswitcher, you have better visibility over your recently used apps, potentially speeding up how quickly you can move between them and with fewer taps. Just like with the card carousel App Switcher, users can swipe up on previews in the interface to forcefully close the app in question and remove its suspension in system memory.
With no options to configure, gridswitcher is a no-nonsense jailbreak tweak that gives jailbreakers the App Switcher experience that they’ve always wanted, but that Apple has always kept almost exclusively to the iPad platform with its larger display.
Jailbreakers have known for years that this same user experience can benefit iPhone users, but Apple has long ignored such an idea in an effort to keep the iPad user experience separate from the iPhone despite the very clear similarities between the two operating systems.
If you’re interested in giving gridswitcher a try, then you can download it for free from NathanLR’s personal repository via your favorite package manager app. The tweak supports jailbroken iOS 15 and 16 devices.
Anyone who isn’t already taking advantage of NathanLR’s personal repository can add it to their package manager app by using the URL provided below:
https://nathan4s.lol/repo/
Do you plan to unlock the iPad-style grid App Switcher on your jailbroken iPhone with gridswitcher? Let us know why or why not in the comments section down below.