10 iOS 7 features inspired by jailbreaks

Apple’s iterant updates to its mobile operating system iOS have traditionally been met with applause — creating features which are simple, intuitive, and easy to use. However, this hasn’t stopped a more technical variety of iOS users from making personal or widespread changes throughout the system to better serve their needs – aesthetic or otherwise.

Interestingly, Apple has played the fastidious schoolboy taking notes on what its own consumers have been crafting — and in recent software releases, an unlikely brand of plagiarism-on-plagiarism has emerged from the depths of 1 Infinite Loop. Here are 10 iOS features which have been inspired by jailbreaks:

Control Center

There was little escaping Apple’s introduction of Control Center as being branded as a jailbreak rip-off. Large demand between both users and the greater jailbreak community for a more intuitive method of changing essential settings undoubtedly forced — or, at least, gently encouraged — Apple’s hand into incorporating such a feature in iOS 7.

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