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Create Multiple Accounts on your iPad with iUsers (Jailbreak App)

A new jailbreak tweak released this week has the potential to add some great functionality to your iPad. iUsers is a new addition that enables an iPad to have multiple user accounts.

If your iPad is jailbroken, and you have more than one user in the house, now every user can have their very own accounts. Sensitive content like passwords and emails can now be kept safe, even between household members. This new tweak will allow parents to hand the iPad over to the kids without risking losing sensitive data or accessing forbidden content. 

Every user will be able to have a separate account, with separate home screens, unique apps, and their own log in information. While the iPad does need to reboot when switching accounts, it’s not a long process and seems worth it for this extremely useful add-on.

Multiple accounts is a function that iOS users have been desiring nearly since the introduction of the iPhone and the iPad, however, Apple seems to be of the opinion that every user in the household should simply have their own iDevice, rather than sharing them among family members.

This new app is something that will be amazingly useful for households with a single iPad. Of course, the caveat is that this is only for jailbroken iPads, and will not be available to most users.

If you do have a jailbroken iPad, check out the video below to see how it all works. To access it, add http://cydia.iblogeek.com as a repository in your Cydia settings, then search for iUsers.

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  • http://www.quentincole.com/ quentin

    This tweak is a horrible implementation right now. STAY AWAY!

    • Juli Clover

      Thanks, Quentin, great to know. I could only write about the app, not try it out as my iPad isn’t jailbroken. 

  • http://twitter.com/chaosz911 René de Groot

    Agree with Quentin. I tried it and ended up restoring my iPad. It kept going into Safe Mode. Nevertheless a very nice initiative, let’s hope the bugs get ironed out!

  • http://twitter.com/chaosz911 René de Groot

    Agree with Quentin. I tried it and ended up restoring my iPad. It kept going into Safe Mode. Nevertheless a very nice initiative, let’s hope the bugs get ironed out!

  • http://www.quentincole.com/ quentin

    Just so others have more info as to why it’s horrible, it basically makes a copy of your iPad for each new user, so if you’re already more than half full in capacity, say goodbye to memory, and hello to an iPad sized paperweight, furthermore, when you go uninstall the tweak, because it made your iPad perform worse than a moleskin notebook, you will lose all settings. Your apps will remain, in alphabetical order, removed from folders, and reverted to a default state. Mail accounts removed, wifi networks forgotten, basically, an out of the box iPad, with some preinstalled apps.

    Inhale seen it posted around the web a lot though, so, the blogosphere isn’t doing it’s due diligence very well before recommending it so highly.

  • http://www.quentincole.com/ quentin

    Just so others have more info as to why it’s horrible, it basically makes a copy of your iPad for each new user, so if you’re already more than half full in capacity, say goodbye to memory, and hello to an iPad sized paperweight, furthermore, when you go uninstall the tweak, because it made your iPad perform worse than a moleskin notebook, you will lose all settings. Your apps will remain, in alphabetical order, removed from folders, and reverted to a default state. Mail accounts removed, wifi networks forgotten, basically, an out of the box iPad, with some preinstalled apps.

    Inhale seen it posted around the web a lot though, so, the blogosphere isn’t doing it’s due diligence very well before recommending it so highly.