How to Add Facebook Chat Heads to All of iOS 7 (Video)

Chat heads is a feature of the Facebook app that allows you to communicate with your Facebook friends without having to leave whatever you are looking at in the Facebook app. It accomplishes this by giving you a little floating head on your screen whenever your friends message you through Facebook. These can be moved around the screen, tapped to enter the conversation, and even thrown away in an oddly satisfying “dragging to the trash” sort of motion. For Android, however, this feature is even more exciting in that it allows you to have those chat heads with you even when you leave the Facebook book app and have them follow you around across the OS. Thanks to a jailbreak tweak called MessageBox, jailbroken iOS users can have the same feature.

Here’s how to add Facebook chat heads to all of iOS 7.

I. Jailbreak your iPhone/iPad

1. To do this procedure you must be jailbroken. If you aren’t, you can head to our How to Jailbreak iOS 7.0.6 (the latest version at the time of writing this). Once done with that procedure and you have Cydia installed, head back here to continue.

II. Install MessageBox

1. Open Cydia.

2. Tap Search in the bottom right corner.

3. Type in MessageBox.

4. Tap on MessageBox when it shows up.

5. Tap Install at the top right.

6. Tap Restart.

III. Use MessageBox

1. Install Facebook Paper from the App Store if you don’t already have it.

2. Open Facebook Paper.

3. Tap on Chat Heads at the top right to turn it on.

4. Tap the home button to leave the Paper app. Your chat heads will now follow you around iOS instead of just inside the paper app.