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App icons: Please stay in place after update!
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I have to say, people complain about the big things (MMS, video recording) but it's these kind of little things that bother me the most.
After all, I can just ignore what I don't have, but stuff like these bothers me on a daily basis. Hopefully these kind of refinements will be coming next week.
What makes this a bigger problem is the time and effort I spend setting the pages and application groupings in the first place.
I have heard that such management is possible with a jail broken phone, but I currently have no interest in doing that!
I have heard that such management is possible with a jail broken phone, but I currently have no interest in doing that!
It would be nice if you could arrange them in iTunes. Then sync your phone and have them be in the right order.
It would be better if they just stayed in place in the first place!
Was there a 2.0.2 Update for the iPod touch as well?
Ams.
Don't they stay in same place if you sync the updates from itunes rather than download them to your device? I've never noticed them changing around when iTunes populates updates. Not a perfect solution, but it works for me.
it's a UI flaw
Apple actually has a UI "bug" of sorts there as the behaviour makes no sense and violates it's own UI guidelines in a way.
When you use the hardware button to turn the iPod/iPhone on and off, it defaults to the last of the various "desktops" or whatever you want to call them that was in use. This suggests that there is no "special" one.
The fact that all downloads go to the "home" screen, suggests that it is indeed "special."
It should really be all one way or the other. Either the home screen is "special" and pressing the hardware home button should always return you to that screen, or it isn't special, and the apps should "know" what screen they belong to and download updates to that location.
Highly illogical as Mr. Spock would say.
The most sensible course would actually be for both to be changed. No one wants to be moving icons around all the time, but the hardware "home" button should still really take you to the same place all the time. That's the whole purpose of the button.
I am always a little surprised with each update, that Apple still hasn't seen this flaw in the logic of the UI.
Kind of ruins the whole point of the app store though.
Apple actually has a UI "bug" of sorts there as the behaviour makes no sense and violates it's own UI guidelines in a way.
When you use the hardware button to turn the iPod/iPhone on and off, it defaults to the last of the various "desktops" or whatever you want to call them that was in use. This suggests that there is no "special" one.
The fact that all downloads go to the "home" screen, suggests that it is indeed "special."
It should really be all one way or the other. Either the home screen is "special" and pressing the hardware home button should always return you to that screen, or it isn't special, and the apps should "know" what screen they belong to and download updates to that location.
Highly illogical as Mr. Spock would say.
The most sensible course would actually be for both to be changed. No one wants to be moving icons around all the time, but the hardware "home" button should still really take you to the same place all the time. That's the whole purpose of the button.
I am always a little surprised with each update, that Apple still hasn't seen this flaw in the logic of the UI.
I couldn't agree more, especially since these ''cosmetic'' issues are so easily fixed.