Absolutely not. I actually still use that (technically iOS 6, but still).
That's iOS 5. iOS 6 was even more beautiful.
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Apple TV Remote App for iOS Gets New Icon
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I did two (not so quick because I’m not very skilled) mock-ups basically using the colors of the current icon and I think it looks better. What do you think?
Edit: added my Home Screen with the redesigned icons to give a better idea of what it would look like.
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I tried using the Remote via the Control Center last night and noticed a rather irritating discrepancy between the app and the hardware touch remote.
With the hardware remote, a light tap on the touch surface while a video is playing will just reveal the timeline progress bar at the bottom. The video is still playing, but now you can see how far along you are and, with another tap, what time it will be when the video stops playing (nice little feature). A hard click on the control surface will actually pause the video.
With the Remote app, however, tapping just pauses the video immediately -- even on a phone with 3D touch where, presumably, you could retain the tap and the hard click. It's sort of a baffling choice and diminishes the usefulness of the app because you lose some functions you can invoke with the hardware remote.
First world problems, I guess, but then again when this hardware is priced at such a premium you kind of expect a bit more attention to detail.
With the hardware remote, a light tap on the touch surface while a video is playing will just reveal the timeline progress bar at the bottom. The video is still playing, but now you can see how far along you are and, with another tap, what time it will be when the video stops playing (nice little feature). A hard click on the control surface will actually pause the video.
With the Remote app, however, tapping just pauses the video immediately -- even on a phone with 3D touch where, presumably, you could retain the tap and the hard click. It's sort of a baffling choice and diminishes the usefulness of the app because you lose some functions you can invoke with the hardware remote.
First world problems, I guess, but then again when this hardware is priced at such a premium you kind of expect a bit more attention to detail.
Newsstand and Reminders weren't introduced until iOS 5, and Game Center in 4.1. The iPod app wasn't split out into Music and Videos on iPhone until 5.0 as well. But it's interesting because Apple changed to the "swoop" bars with 4.0.1.
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The design of the physical remote itself is pretty "flat" as well. The thing is so aggressively symmetrical that your hand can't tell top from bottom in a darkened room, and a stray touch on the control surface can wreak havoc on any video currently playing. I ended up putting a square of bright yellow electrical tape along the bottom so I can quickly orient it in my hand in the dark.
I went to charge mine the other day and realized that the IR transmitter window has been carefully designed to be exactly the same size and shape, and in the same exact position, as the lightning charge port on the other end of the remote -- which works perfectly to fool the user into trying to plug in the wrong end of the thing.
The actual function of the remote is pretty great. You can dictate into the mic to avoid typing, and that control surface is pretty great for scrubbing through video -- but it's all put together in a really user-hostile way.
I’m judging you based on what apps you have and your layout.
I rarely interact with the app selector on my Apple Watch - I see it maybe twice a week. Most days anything I want on the Apple Watch is accessible via the complications on the watch face or the notification center.
And to what conclusion did you come? I actually put a lot of thought into my layout.
I did that back with my iPhone 6. I had to redo something, lost how I had it, and now it’s kind of however now.
I should redo mine to how I want it. I used to leave some of the defaults at the top alone, since that’s what Steve thought would be best.
I used to go with the iOS 6 layout for a looong time because that was most aesthetically pleasing to me. Now I tried to put the Apps in categories (like daily organizing stuff in the first row, then Maps, Weather, Health and Activity below Calender and Clock because it all has something to do with date and time, etc.), tried to avoid the same colors being next to each other and have the black app icons in a zig-zag going from top to bottom. Second screen is just in alphabetical order and that‘s it.
That’s the layout I spent a lot of time setting up to just how I liked it. Everything on the front page.
Something happened, I lost that set up, and I just never bothered again. It was on my iPhone 5S, so I’ve been unorganized since iPhone 6 came out.
Ah, okay. Was confused since you first said you had your set layout with your 6. Just do it once again and save a screenshot. That‘s what I did in case I ever change My layout and don‘t like the result.
You are not alone on this.Am I the only one who miss this?
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Am I the only one who miss this?
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I miss it. The icons don’t need that curved line and shadow though.
Am I the only one who miss this?
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I agreed with you on the lackluster iMac update, but not this lol. Count me in the anti-skeuomorphic group please.
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Agreed. Way too much crap going on in the design. It was awesome at the time but I’m glad we’ve moved on from this.
