We hate to say we told you so, but….we told you so. Our skepticism over how long nifty Notification Center tweak, QuickPick, would remain in the App Store was well placed — Apple has removed QuickPick from the iOS App Store. Not only that, according to 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman, Apple has also removed the ability to install QuickPick from your list of “Purchased” apps in iCloud too, meaning no re-downloading the app should you accidentally delete it.

Truth be told, we were shocked that QuickPick made it through Apple’s walled garden into the inner courtyard in the first place given Apple’s rathe quick patch in iOS 5.0.1 that removed the ability to use URL schemes to place system shortcuts on the homescreen. On that note, URL schemes are still usable in iOS 5.0.1, just not in a way that QuickPick uses them. (Supposedly, this functionality has been removed from iOS 5.1.)

No matter how you slice it, we’re bummed Apple is continually killing nifty little tweaks like this. Some small saving grace can be rationalized as Apple strictly monitoring Notification Center capable apps and insuring it remains an alert system and nothing else (ex: a place for annoying ads).

If you’re not of the jailbreaker type, your only hope for now is to hope Apple either (1) hires the jailbreak dev of *insert favorite jailbreak tweak developer here* or simply “borrows” inspiration from a popular jailbreak functionality into a future iOS update.