{"id":39561,"date":"2013-04-18T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T08:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=39561"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:30:21","slug":"ios-hack-frees-chat-heads-from-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ios-hack-frees-chat-heads-from-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS hack frees Chat Heads from Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39562\" title=\"Chat Head Sticker\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/Sticker.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Yesterday <strong>Facebook 6.0<\/strong> appeared for iOS, bringing with it the new <strong>Chat Heads<\/strong> that were first seen in Android&#8217;s Facebook Home. The biggest difference between Chat Heads on iOS and Android is that they disappear on Apple devices when you close Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>A 21 year old developer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambell.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Adam Bell<\/strong><\/a> has hacked the app and freed Chat Heads so they can exist outside Facebook on jailbroken iOS devices. It&#8217;s not available to yet as Bell is still ironing out some bugs, but it&#8217;s been seen running by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/4\/17\/4235816\/chat-heads-for-iphone-jailbreak-tweak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Verge<\/a>, where you can see a video of the hack in action.<\/p>\n<p>Chat Heads are a big change for Facebook messages, bringing <a href=\"http:\/\/line.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Line<\/strong><\/a>-like &#8216;stickers&#8217; &#8211; basically huge exaggerated emoticons &#8211; to chat. Adam Bell&#8217;s hack should be available for free on the Cydia store in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Facebook 6.0 appeared for iOS, bringing with it the new Chat Heads that were first seen in Android&#8217;s Facebook Home. The biggest difference between Chat Heads on iOS and Android is that they disappear on Apple devices when you close Facebook. A 21 year old developer Adam Bell has hacked the app and freed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ios-hack-frees-chat-heads-from-facebook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iOS hack frees Chat Heads from Facebook&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-39561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333083,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions\/333083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39561"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=39561"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=39561"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=39561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}