Hidden images in iPhone software hint at future Widgets, Spotlight feature additions

“Browsing around my iPhone using the great iFuntastic v2.5, I came across a couple of very interesting images,” Tyler Faux reports for iPhoneology.

Tyler found a widget icon that’s exactly the same as the image used to illustrate of Apple’s “For Developers” how to create your own widgets link on Appl.com’s Dashboard web page here. It’s also reminiscent of Apple’s Mac OS X Dashboard’s “Widgets Widget” icon which is used to manage Dashboard Widget’s on Macs.

Tyler also found two images named “spotlight-full” and “spotlight-keyboard” which leads him to “believe system-wide search is on the way [to the iPhone] in the very near future.”

Full article here.

19 Comments

  1. You can enable these features on your iPhone. I did it by SSHing into the iPhone with a “Ethernet over Bluetooth” connection, and then from the Terminal, issuing this command:

    % defaults write com.apple.springboard widgets-enabled -boolean YES

    Then the icon appears on the iPhone and you can add and manage widgets.

  2. i think the spotlight that he found is actually the overlay that darkens the background when you get a message or an alert on the phone while you are doing something.

    its an actual spotlight, not the utility spotlight

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