Despite being the most popular smartphone platform, iOS comes with a lot of pesky features which can prove to be a bit annoying for the average user. The iPad has a dismiss button on its keyboard, but unfortunately, no such option exists for the iPhone and iPod touch. However, if you own a jailbroken iOS device, you can resolve this minor annoyance with Pull to Dismiss, a Cydia tweak that allows you to dismiss the keyboard with a simple gesture (a downward swipe), no matter where in the OS you currently are.
The tweak is available in the Big Boss repo, and can be downloaded for free. Once it is installed, you won’t see it in the Settings menu. Pull to Dismiss will show its effects during an OS activity where the keyboard pops up (Notes, Spotlight search etc). If you swipe down the screen anywhere above the keyboard, it will be pulled down and out of view.
A handy tweak, which might make you forget its there after a while, as it gels with the OS without making any changes to the UI. Pull to Dismiss is compatible with all iOS devices running iOS 3.2 or above.
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