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First Look: See iOS 14 in Action With Home Screen Widgets, App Library, Subtle Call Alerts and More
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Apple has never been about adding everything at once. Apple always has been prioritizing what they consider to be important, rather than throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. I would say that strategy has worked pretty darn well for them.
Yes but the iOS 8 concept really only dealt the widget part of it and not the app management / home screen / springboard issues. As I have said, App Library is a step in the right direction. Unfortunately under Craig and his team and Tim's leadersheep (no typo), innovation is glacial, and iterative, and lacks leaps and bounds. I do understand the desire to drip so that mainstream users are not overwhelmed by change, but the sort of additional features that would make App Library that much better would not overwhelm anyone, you are already introducing a fairly radical move for this ecosystem. Unfortunately, Apple FEELS and breaths the motto, that there is one denominator, the average user, and so they don't envision a platform that can truly help the grandma-type as well as the power-user. Options within features would allow for that. So we may or may not get tweaks to App Library in 15. Certainly not in 14.x.
As for the Live Tiles. My ideas for App Centers or Home Screens originated with Live Tiles but I felt like there was always a more elegant solution that could be there. The truth is that we unfortunately suffer from a form of stuck-ness. iOS has evolved. It is difficult to innovate in the way we would want / need, because radical interface changes don't go over well, no matter how much they might improve utility.
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Well. I have 202 MORE apps than you. So I truly do want a better way to manage 269 applications on my device.
Most wont miss them, but I was starting to use the home screen pop up widgets that show with a long press of an app icon. Those are gone. It was nice for quick glimpses at the weather, upcoming appointments, launcher items, and so forth. Oh well, time for another workflow.
What decade do we have to wait for to have a "favorites" emoji section instead of "frequently used" (which is really a "recently used" list)?
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Also, maybe some decade they'll figure a way to make rearranging apps on the home screen not be complete trash. Here's hoping for that someday.
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Also, maybe some decade they'll figure a way to make rearranging apps on the home screen not be complete trash. Here's hoping for that someday.
Still behind Samsung One UI. No AOD, can't freely arrange icons etc.
However, still stuck using my iPhone because 1) Apple Watch is much more utilitarian than the Galaxy Watch, 2) Notes, Reminders and Apple services are still better. But the gap is closing.
However, still stuck using my iPhone because 1) Apple Watch is much more utilitarian than the Galaxy Watch, 2) Notes, Reminders and Apple services are still better. But the gap is closing.
I’m with you. I use a combination of folders and multiple home screens to organize my apps. Apps I use every day are on the first page with a few folders for less common but useful apps. Social media, weather, maps, etc. The second page is all video apps. Third page is less commonly used apps. Shopping, food, banking, etc. Fourth page is games.
The big thing is that I want to be able to organize my apps my way. I’ve been an iPhone user since the 5. I know where my apps are without thinking about it. I don’t use Launchpad on MacOS, and I probably won’t use this App Library either.
It is nice that Apple now has widgets. But it would be nicer if you can interact with it. Without opening the app. Like have an Apple Music widget where I can play, pause etc. From the widget. Or a podcast widget that doesn’t open the app. But let you play etc directly from the widget itself.
Incoming calls in a tiny notification will be a nightmare. I’m supposed to hit that 5 mm button 5 mm away from the decline button when I’m on the move, fumbling for my phone and trying to make it onto a bus? The full screen interface is clear from across the room and you can hit the buttons while walking fast. Apparently walk and talk is not something folks at Apple do.
I love the app library feature. I have now just kept key apps on my home screens and if I need something I don’t use much I just pull down and search. My OCD feels great. Still can’t find the translate app on the beta.
not too many bugs, it’s pretty stable. Same with iPad and my Mac.
not too many bugs, it’s pretty stable. Same with iPad and my Mac.
I’ve never been convinced about widgets. I think they give the illusion of being more productive/have all the info at a glance. But aside from weather and calendar, they don’t usually add anything, with the counterpart of showing less icons (= more swipes for simple actions) and result in a more complex UI/UX. And I hope that they don’t remove the auto-arrange of the icons to the top left - it’s just something intuitive, wouldn’t make sense to have apps floating.
I don’t think this is the result of pro vs basic users. I would consider myself to be in the first group, but that doesn’t mean that I (or anyone) wan’t a more complex UX.
I don’t think this is the result of pro vs basic users. I would consider myself to be in the first group, but that doesn’t mean that I (or anyone) wan’t a more complex UX.
I wonder when 3rd party mail, and browser as default feature will be enabled in iOS 14. I have the first Beta (and mine looks better than yours Dan! 
) ... I really look forward to finally using another browser and mail app as the default mail and web browser in iOS !!!
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Anyone here using the double and triple tab feature? I set up double tap to take a screenshot, and triple tap triggers a shortcut that plays my Music Library on shuffle on my Homepod. It's an awesome feature.
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Anyone here using the double and triple tab feature? I set up double tap to take a screenshot, and triple tap triggers a shortcut that plays my Music Library on shuffle on my Homepod. It's an awesome feature.
...totally agree - I'm the same.
I actually have two pages on my iPhone - first screen is blank other than 4 apps along the bottom, and then I have my second page with all my apps in folders already. I really do not want to clutter my home screen with pointless widgets.....
It's huge for CarPlay. I cannot tell you how many times I would not activate Siri to change a song because it would take up the entire screen, GPS included. Now GPS continues to show in the background. I wish messages worked the same way, but then again even voice texting and driving is a distraction.
That was terrible and I'm glad it's long dead. lol.
They mentioned Xbox Elite Series 2 support for tvOS, but didn’t mention it when talking about iOS14 or macOS.
It looks to me that iOS14 is one big mess--very disorganized layout of screens. Please bring back Jony Ive.
Took a day to get the hang of it, but I'm liking it now. Can't wait for 3rd party app developers to take advantage of these features.