How to Get True Universal Search on iOS 7 (Video)

There’s a universal search tool that a lot of people are familiar with on Mac called Alfred. This program sort of takes the idea of Spotlight, and searching one place to find anything on your computer, and kicks it up a notch by adding in the ability to also search certain places on the web, type in calculations, launch apps, etc. all in the goal of trying to eliminate the mouse as much as possible. It is actually pretty got at it, too. Winning awards all over the place for productivity and getting praise all across the web.

One iOS jailbreak developer is apparently right on board with all of the praise as he sought to try and bring some of that functionality to the iPhone using his jailbreak tweak called Weasel.

Weasel does a lot of what Alfred did when it was first released and those that are familiar with Alfred will probably welcome it’s universal-search-goodneess with open arms. Head to the Cydia store and purchase it to try it out and see for yourself.

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 Weasel

1. Open Cydia.

2. Tap Search in the bottom right corner.

3. Type in Weasel.

4. Tap on Weasel when it shows up.

5. Tap Purchase at the top right and follow the prompts to login and purchase using your preferred method.

6. Tap Close when you’ve paid.

7. Tap Install where Purchase used to be.

8. Tap Restart.

III. Use Weasel

1. Open Settings.

2. Go to Weasel.

3. Choose what Activator action you want to use to initiate Weasel.

4. Use that action to bring it up and type to start searching.

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