Did you ever wish there was some app that could lock down your iPhone so that nobody can change your settings or access background apps? Nobody will, now, if you start using this new app called Folderlock, which is an iOS mod, that allows you to password-protect specific features on your firmware such as folders, [...]
Did you ever wish there was some app that could lock down your iPhone so that nobody can change your settings or access background apps? Nobody will, now, if you start using this new app called Folderlock, which is an iOS mod, that allows you to password-protect specific features on your firmware such as folders, multitasking, Spotlight and the phone’s settings.
The mod does what it boasts. Once you’ve installed the mod, you get to see an added item in Settings that allows you to place your password and elect to choose which iOS features you are interested in blocking. It’s up to you whether you select a single feature individually or all of them. As soon as you allow the mod to take effect, you’ll have to type your password whenever you access those features on your iDevice that you chose to block through Folderlock.
This modification comes with a few strings attached. The very first of course being the absence of a clear way to retrieve your password, once you’v e forgotten it, resulting in uninstalling of the tweak or even restoration of the iDevice in some cases. Another shortcoming is the locking of Spotlight results only, instead of the feature itself. In other words, all results will still be listed, if not just accessible through Spotlight. So anyone can still find way in to the results through iPhone’s explicit function for that result; the SMS app, for instance.
FolderLock is now available on cydia via the BigBoss repository and will cost you $1.59 only.
Not to forget, this is a jailbreak tweak, hence requires you to jailbreak your iPhone first.
You can follow our step-by-step jailbreak guides in the Jailbreak section to help you along with the process. It’s assumed that you have fundamental skills on how to backup and restore an iDevice, in case things go awry.
Apart from a few shortcomings discussed above, the mod completely fulfills what it boasts and thus, demands to be tried, despite being $1.59 in cost.
FolderLock comes from the same author who created DeleteMail, a mod tweak that lets users delete their whole inbox in one go, instead of selecting all items one by one. DeleteMail is already out for download on the BigBoss repository for $0.99.
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