Just make a page for it, an exact copy, and hide it. If something happens, you still have it. Just long press and make it visible. Viola.
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Apple Testing Two New iOS 27 Home Screen Customization Options
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mansplains
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mansplains
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The touch target for the edit button is so small, harder to press, in contrast to how easy jiggle mode is invoked. Widget grid sucks, empty space for spotlight (especially with that button disabled) can easily fit another row of apps. Should be able to drop app titles without bigger icons. App library is all around terrible, I’d want a redesign there before my other springboard complaints.
Features and bugs are different but I agreed.
I can think of 5 desperately needed features off the top of my hand, that the iPhone could use, easily.
I’m so shocked they in their greed they haven’t implanted the ability to gift Apple TV and movies through the share icon in the Apple TV app.
Or add multiple banks to make Apple Cash more useable. You think they’d start their if they wanted more 💸💸💸
But no. Ads.
WilliApple
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Séamus Boyle
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packeteer
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finally upgraded to iOS 26, and I regret it. Liquid Glass is so ****.
Apple please fix it!!
Apple please fix it!!
MistaBungle
macrumors 6502a
Why haven’t they added a program to macOS to allow us to create the home screens there and then transfer them to the devices? I want to try out different things but hate doing it on my iOS device.
Antilogical
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The wallpaper changing, app deletion, and springboard editing have been way too convoluted for years.
Steve Jobs demonstrated deleting an app with a long press and then a single tap. Now it's four sometimes, five actions consisting of multiple modals. We've seen the death of simplicity.
Steve Jobs demonstrated deleting an app with a long press and then a single tap. Now it's four sometimes, five actions consisting of multiple modals. We've seen the death of simplicity.
I would love the option to have the ability to sort apps on the home pages by frequency of use.
This would result in apps rising to the top on say, a weekly basis. Then you could lock in your preferred pages until another assessment would be done. This would limit the amount of relearning someone would need if their icons moved frequently.
The end state being:
The result would be:
Current state - swiping left and right all the time to get to Alphabetical ordered apps or Personal setup screens, versus
Future state - presented with your most used apps up front that are most likely to satisfy your requirements most of the time (i.el Pareto Law)
This would result in apps rising to the top on say, a weekly basis. Then you could lock in your preferred pages until another assessment would be done. This would limit the amount of relearning someone would need if their icons moved frequently.
The end state being:
Must Have Apps - Page 1 and maybe Page 2
Should Have Apps - Page 3 and Page 4
Could Have Apps - Page 5 and Page 6
Should Offload Apps - Page 7 onwards
(Yes, there might not be so many pages for any particular person but rather the example being that each subsequent page is a less frequently used app)The result would be:
Current state - swiping left and right all the time to get to Alphabetical ordered apps or Personal setup screens, versus
Future state - presented with your most used apps up front that are most likely to satisfy your requirements most of the time (i.el Pareto Law)
Antilogical
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What you've described will almost certainly be implemented "with AI" and added as an option with the ✨ emoji next to its name.
lotzosushi
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One of the biggest reasons I used to jailbreak every iPhone was the homescreen customizations. Over a decade later it's baffling they still won't allow you to resize icons and have more than 4 icons per row on the grid. Absolutely ridiculous.
Having 4-5 icons per row in smaller sizes greatly increased the usability/productivity/convenience of the large screens when jailbreak was available.
Having 4-5 icons per row in smaller sizes greatly increased the usability/productivity/convenience of the large screens when jailbreak was available.
Radeon85
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How about showing more apps when you open a folder because there is so much wasted space above and below. Instead of nine icons, they could easily show fifteen and still have space.
Also, it is time that the annoying carousel app switcher was redesigned. Again, so much wasted space. I’d like it to be like the iPad, showing me a grid of apps that I can quickly switch to instead of just three massive overlapping app windows with the carousel, you could easily fit nine large screens on a modem iPhone. It was fine with smaller screens; huge waste of space now.
Also, it is time that the annoying carousel app switcher was redesigned. Again, so much wasted space. I’d like it to be like the iPad, showing me a grid of apps that I can quickly switch to instead of just three massive overlapping app windows with the carousel, you could easily fit nine large screens on a modem iPhone. It was fine with smaller screens; huge waste of space now.
I'm hoping they give us the option to switch off the dedicated widgets page on iOS and iPad OS.
Apple is planning to add "Undo" and "Redo" options to the iPhone's Home Screen customization menu on iOS 27, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
These two options will make it easier to reverse or redo your Home Screen changes.
"Right now, when you long-press on the home screen, you get a bubble in the top left corner with four options: Add Widget, Customize, Edit Wallpaper and Edit Pages," he explained, in his latest Power On newsletter. "Apple is looking at adding 'undo' and 'redo' buttons in that same menu to make reversing or redoing changes easier."
Other rumored iOS 27 features include a dedicated Siri app and Apple Intelligence advancements. The update has been likened to Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that Apple is apparently very focused on bug fixes and stability improvements.
iOS 27 beta testing will begin in June, and the update will be released in September.
Article Link: Apple Testing Two New iOS 27 Home Screen Customization Options
Its fine to have but since we've been able to have our Widgets alongside our apps, my Widgets pages is blank.
Having the option to switch that page off in settings would be great.
SmugMaverick
macrumors 65816
As soon as I saw the article I thought the same.
What an utterly pointless thing to try and hype up for a newsletter 🤣
klasma
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baryon
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Or, you know, give us back the option to change the wallpaper. Because right now the only way to change the wallpaper is if you create a whole new lock screen and home screen pair from scratch, and you have to set up all your widgets, buttons, text size and color, icon size and auto/dark/light color. Instead of, you know, choosing a photo and being done with it, which is how it used to work a while ago, like in iOS 7 and before.
I don't understand why there need to be multiple "lock screens", each with their own wallpaper, widgets, app icon settings, text color and everything. Does anyone actually enjoy setting these up one by one from scratch each time, and switching between them, instead of just changing the one thing you want to change?
I don't understand why there need to be multiple "lock screens", each with their own wallpaper, widgets, app icon settings, text color and everything. Does anyone actually enjoy setting these up one by one from scratch each time, and switching between them, instead of just changing the one thing you want to change?