Custom HomeButton, is an application that allows you to choose your Home Button double-tap. I have actually been waiting for an application like this. On the 1.1.x firmware, I used an application called iPhoneHome. It was not updated for the 2.x firmware. However, Custom HomeButton actually gives me a little more functionality than iPhoneHome did.

Once installed, you can get to the Custom HomeButton settings via your stock Settings application. In the settings, you have the option to enable/disable the app and choose what you would like your Home Button double-tap to be. You can choose from the stock apps, App Store applications, Cydia applications, a list of websites or set a custom app/website.

To add a custom website…just enter the websites address. Example – http://appleiphoneschool.com. Then your double-tap will open safari directly to that webpage (basically it is like a webclip). If anyone knows where to find the code to set a custom application…let me know. I’m going to look at it a little more tonight.

I did notice that not all of the App Store and Cydia applications that I have installed showed up in the list of available apps to set as my double-tap. Also, some of the apps that showed up in the list were not even installed on my iPhone. I also noticed that if you an application is in a folder using Categories…it will not launch. So, if you have a Games folder on your SprinBoard and FieldRunners is in your games folder…if you set it as your double-tap…it will not launch. However, if you take it out of the folder and just have the app on your SpringBoard, it will launch just fine.

Besides the things mentioned above, this app does work. Now I can set Cydia and my double-tap again!! YAY!

You can get Custom HomeButton via the Touch-Mania source.

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At first this may not seems like an issue. So, they might call a few of the people on your Favorites list. Well, it also means that if you have an address, email address, Safari link, etc in any of the info for your contacts they can get into all of that as well. If you have an email address set for one of your favorites, it can be clicked on which then opens a blank email if they were then to select Cancel it would bring them into your email’s inbox giving the person full access to all of the your emails, contacts and info. So, when at first it doesn’t seem like an issue that someone would be able to get into your Favorites, it leaves room for them to get a lot of personal information.


It seems that the only way to prevent this from happening is going into your Setting on your iPhone and then General and changing your Home Button to Home or iPod. If you set your Home Button as iPod, it will launch your iPod from your Lock Screen. A person couldn’t do a ton of damage from your iPod but, they would technically be “in” your iPhone. However, if you set your iPhone’s double tap to Home…it will not allow the person to get into your iPhone from the lock screen. Even if they were to select Emergency Call and then double tap, it will just bring them back to the Passcode screen. So for now, until this glitch is worked out (which I assume it is a glitch with firmware 2.0.2), the only way to keep people out of your iPhone is to set your Home Button double tap to Home.

Via: InfoWorld