If you have a jailbroken iPhone and want to make some improvements to the Facebook app, here are the best iOS 8 Cydia tweaks for Facebook.
While there is currently no jailbreak for iOS 9, you can at least jailbreak iOS 8.4 if you’re still on the old version. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait for the iOS 9 jailbreak to be released at some point in the future (hopefully not too long).
Having a jailbroken device lets you do all sorts of cool things with your iPhone or iPad that Apple wouldn’t normally let you do, like customize the look of iOS or even change the way apps work.
If you’re an avid Facebook user but not a big fan of the Facebook iOS app, you can use jailbreak tweaks to tweak it and make it better so it’s easier to use and meets your needs as a Facebook user.
Fortunately, there are a small handful of iOS 8 Cydia tweaks designed specifically for Facebook, some of which add new features, and some that fix the frustrations that probably drive us all crazy in the Facebook app.
Without further ado, here are some of the best iOS 8 Cydia tweaks for Facebook that you should install on your iPhone or iPad right away.
Facebook++
Remember when Facebook removed the chat feature on mobile devices and made it its own separate app? this was really frustrating
You probably got used to it by now, but it was pretty frustrating back then. However, if you want to get the old functionality back, there’s a really useful tweak for that.
Facebook++ is a jailbreak tweak that puts Facebook Messenger back into the official Facebook app so you don’t have to use the separate Facebook Messenger app. You can also enable other features such as showing timestamps for each message, sending more than six photos at once, and even disabling VoIP to save battery life.
Frankly, I like to use the separate Facebook Messenger app as it comes with a lot of great features and there is a similar tweak for such users.
Facebook Messenger Basics
This tweak is similar to Facebook++, but if you’d rather have all the nifty enhancements without bringing the chat feature back to the Facebook app, Facebook Messenger Essentials is a good tune to have.
The tweak makes changes to the Facebook Messenger app and can disable read receipts and even disable the write status that appears to tell the other person that you’re currently typing a reply.
Also the tweak can disable VoIP for better battery life and even show timestamps for each message like Facebook++.
LatestFacebook
Perhaps one of the biggest annoyances with the Facebook app is that it displays “Top Stories” by default, which isn’t exactly an indication of what’s newest. This is where SonFacebook comes into play.
RecentFacebook essentially translates Top Stories and Latest, so Latest Facebook posts appear on the home screen by default, and if you want to see Top Stories instead, you have to go to the navigation menu and select it.
This is perhaps my favorite Facebook-focused tweak, as I prefer to see the latest posts first.
FlipBook
iPhone users like to browse in landscape mode, but Facebook unfortunately does not support this on iPhone.
However, there is a Cydia tweak called FlipBook that can handle it and that’s its only feature.
There are many Cydia tweaks that are really simple and only do one thing, but the only thing they do is they do it really well.
FlipBook is no different and lets you browse Facebook on your iPhone in landscape mode.