Backgrounder updated, 2.2 features return on 3.0

Backgrounder (everyone’s favorite Jailbreak app) has been updated to restore some features lost after the iPhone 3.0 update. These most visible change is icons badges to indicate an app’s status in the background.

While this is useful, I’d love to see a setting to disable badges for Apple native apps like Phone and Mail. Since these apps always run in the background, they are permanently stamped with Backgrounder’s admittedly ugly badge. Also returning is the Always Enabled application list in the Backgrounder preferences.

This gives you a simple way to select which applications should be automatically backgrounded every time you start them. It is great to not have to remember to enable backgrounding every time you launch an app. The process of terminating an app is still the same, hold the home button until you see “Backgrounding Disabled.”