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Apple Considered AI-Powered iPhone Home Screen
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Just fix ALL of the current bugs in all of the operating systems. There is absolutely no excuse that we have the same dumb programming errors for nearly ten years. It is not like Apple is unaware of their short comings in programming, they have made its perfectly clean they do not care, to be polite. 
The money spent on the car and googles would have been better spent making a rock solid operating system. Apple's software is getting to be a lot like Windows, but al least Microsoft sends out weekly patches to fix last week's patches.
This symbol must represent the apple programmers as they can not see all of their errors. Same for the supposedly "Quality Control" folks. They must be on permanent vacations.
The money spent on the car and googles would have been better spent making a rock solid operating system. Apple's software is getting to be a lot like Windows, but al least Microsoft sends out weekly patches to fix last week's patches.
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must represent the apple programmers as they can not see all of their errors. Same for the supposedly "Quality Control" folks. They must be on permanent vacations.I love this idea. I have widgets at the top of my Home Screen for this reason. Sadly you can't do this with App Library.
Likely the asinine idea of auto arranging icons was only suggested — but never even considered
They just don't care, as you said.
If it works well enough generally, they are more interested in things that "make number go up".
If this actually happened, id have stopped like 90% of mobile device use tbh
They probably knew that
They probably knew that
I would. When you pull down to search you get relevant apps for the time of day, location etc anyway.
It could only be the first page and grumblers can just turn it off. Just because YOU don't want something doesn't mean it may not be useful to others.
What, you mean like the Siri smart folder which I have on my home screen right now? Hasn't this machine learned behaviour been a thing with Apple for at least 5 years?
Honestly. The Home Screen just needs to give me the spotlight. As default. When I unlock my phone. Just give me a keyboard and above it suggestions. And let me type and choose what I want.
I would like to at least tinker with it. With the folders in the App Library, it seems to sort them by most used category and then within each folder by the most used app (until you open the folder then it goes to alphabetical). I remember years ago thinking ’I wish it would sort my apps by most used"
If Apple want us to want and appreciate AI, then do this:
I'm not suggesting it invents them, but when we add them, do some real referencing of existing languages corpuses, etc., to find verified possibilities. Maybe it should ask if we want to do that? Maybe there should be an added words review tool which goes through the words and offers these other forms?
I write a lot about medicines and often have to add words.
Make sure that words we add to the spelling dictionary get included in suggested words.
Make sure that words we add to the spelling dictionary add the various forms such as plurals/singulars, conjugations, tenses, etc.
I'm not suggesting it invents them, but when we add them, do some real referencing of existing languages corpuses, etc., to find verified possibilities. Maybe it should ask if we want to do that? Maybe there should be an added words review tool which goes through the words and offers these other forms?
I write a lot about medicines and often have to add words.
Today I learned that loads of people still actually use 'muscle memory' to find apps on their phone... 🤯
While I do try to keep all of the apps installed on my phone nicely organized into relevant folders, 99% of the time I am opening an app via Search (which conveniently auto-populates apps based on the time of day I typically use those apps) or a shortcut in Command Center. I don't really see this idea being all that different from the Siri App Suggestions Widget – in fact, it really just sounds like a lazy rebranding exercise – but people didn't seem to get their panties in a bunch over that feature, so why now? Oh, right, AI... 😏
While I do try to keep all of the apps installed on my phone nicely organized into relevant folders, 99% of the time I am opening an app via Search (which conveniently auto-populates apps based on the time of day I typically use those apps) or a shortcut in Command Center. I don't really see this idea being all that different from the Siri App Suggestions Widget – in fact, it really just sounds like a lazy rebranding exercise – but people didn't seem to get their panties in a bunch over that feature, so why now? Oh, right, AI... 😏
Good. Keep this in App Library where the users expect if instead of messing with muscle memory on the main home screen.
Right, because that seems to be working so well with Microsoft right now.
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Glad that was rejected, what a stupid idea. I like my apps where I know where they are, categorized into my own folders, I certainly don't want iOS shuffling my icons around.
Apple programmer: "yeah, yeah....and and we can generate ad icons next to the most used app icons." /s
I am really glad that idea was never implemented. Look, even Google likely rejected the idea using Gemini to rearrange the Android home screren.