Set Timer On iPhone For Opening Apps, Shutting Down, Rebooting, Toggling Wi-Fi On/Off, Calling Number And Much More

As our dependency is growing more and more on gadgets, we are unavoidably using these technological innovations to keep us reminding of tasks that we are supposed to do on a particular day or on a daily basis.

If we talk in context of iPhone we have plenty of note making applications which we use to create a checklist of things that we need to do. Many of these apps are now capable of reminding you of a task to be done, with the help of a notification on the screen. I personally use such apps and really like the stock iOS Reminders app too.

But what is really missing here is that these apps do not do a job, at least partially, for the user. With that I mean these note making or reminder applications will not perform tasks such as open an app for you, power down the device, toggling wi-fi on/off and so on. So in a way they are incomplete.

If you have your iPhone or iPad jailbroken, I have a really interesting tweak that will help you to a great extent. Timer Options is a paid tweak available for $0.99 on Cydia store, with the help of which you can set timer for a particular task to take place. The tweak uses the Activator to trigger the task and once the timer reaches zero, it performs its task.

How Timer Options Work?

After you install the tweak from Cydia, head to the stock iPhone settings app and look for the app’s name. Open the Timer Options settings page. Set an activation method for triggering the tweak (I used swipe onto the screen from left gesture). Under Time Options you need to select the timer settings between Hours & Minutes (If you wish to time a task a couple of hours ahead) and Minutes & Seconds (if the task is to be done in a couple of minutes).

After doing so, set the type of Action you want to trigger. Default options include, taking a screenshot, toggling mute, respring, launching an app, launching new mail page, locking and unlocking the device, toggling music, shutting down the device, rebooting the device, entering safe mode etc.

If you select Speak Text or Call Number action, you will have to manually enter the word(s) you want the device to speak aloud or the number you wish to make a call to. If you want to launch an app, select the same from the Open App section at the bottom of the settings page.

Now to use the tweak, use the activator gesture to launch the tweak, enter the time (hours and minutes or minutes or seconds) and hit Start. Once the timer hits zero, Timer Options will perform the set task.



Hope it helps you guys.