Folders: What the hell?

[spyda]

Folders look awful. I won't being using them and if I do, they'll all be pushed to the back.

 

[RARH]

I don't like the look of the folders either

Love the functionality and was so looking forward to this feature. So I am disappointed that Apple didn't pay much attention to their appearance. I like how cool the graphics are on the app icons and you lose that when you put them into folders. Plus the folders all look alike it's hard to tell them apart at a glance making it harder to find the apps you are looking for which is what this new feature was supposed to fix! I am hoping there will be an "app for that" to make up for the poor design on Apple's part.

 

[kirchnrd]

Love the functionality and was so looking forward to this feature. So I am disappointed that Apple didn't pay much attention to their appearance. I like how cool the graphics are on the app icons and you lose that when you put them into folders. Plus the folders all look alike it's hard to tell them apart at a glance making it harder to find the apps you are looking for which is what this new feature was supposed to fix! I am hoping there will be an "app for that" to make up for the poor design on Apple's part.

Stated perfectly. Ditto for me.

 

[notblackmac]

I am kinda so-so on the whole "looks" of the folders, but the functionality of them is perfect. I went from 5 pages down to just 1.

 

[Rsrchr123]

I literally chased one icon with another for 10 minutes trying to drop it in. Good times.

Yeah, I found that if you drag the icon in up from the bottom, it tends to work better. But I don't care for them that much, though I'm still smarting from losing all my contacts and text message history. Spent time this AM looking through old AT&T bills to confirm phone numbers. Boy Genius et al reported on others having this issue too

 

[phobic99]

I like 'em.

Why must people complain about everything?

I wonder if people said things like this when the iPhone didn't have MMS/copy&paste ability...

Nah.

 

[41qser]

1. Enable Emoji (simple, search it out)

2. Find a character in the Emoji set that you want to use for an mini-icon.

3. Type that character in Notes

4. Copy the character.

5. Paste it into the Folder name.

Not ideal, but it does help.

 

[Applepi]

they'll all be pushed to the back.

Exactly what I did.

 

[rtabdo]

Love folders!

 

[bacsig]

1. Enable Emoji (simple, search it out)

2. Find a character in the Emoji set that you want to use for an mini-icon.

3. Type that character in Notes

4. Copy the character.

5. Paste it into the Folder name.




After I named the folders I found this shortcut to use Emoji characters:

Press and hold the folder, when it starts to jiggle, tap it.
The name will come up.
Delete it and the keyboard comes up.
Hit the world icon and Emoji shows up.
Select an icon, push the home button and it gives the folder the emoji character name.

 

[HarrisonB]

the folders on your mac are all identical

 

[phpmaven]

I literally chased one icon with another for 10 minutes trying to drop it in. Good times.

LOL, it took me a while to get the hang of dropping them into the folders. I did a bit of chasing myself.

 

[ucfgrad93]

I like them.

 

[Built]

They work for me as is.

 

[bndoarn]

It's 12.

I know you can put up to 12 apps in a folder but that wasn't what I was saying. I was saying that if I were to create a folder I would want to have a full folder icon and that only requires 9 apps because any more after that will not show on the icon.

I literally chased one icon with another for 10 minutes trying to drop it in. Good times.

Haha. I have the exact opposite problem. I try to move an icon in front of another and it keeps trying to create a folder. It's so freaking annoying.

 

[scottness]

I've had the GM Cand. installed since release and I'm still trying to get use to them. My problem is that miniturizing all the app icons may seem cool but it's really useless as a GUI cue. I'd much rather have a icon there that symbolized games, or utilities, etc. It would make it easier to spot what you are looking for w/o having to read the label.

This, or at a minimum it would be great to be able to set a color to each folder. I've got 12 folders that all look the same.

the folders on your mac are all identical

They can be changed to whatever you want them to look like.

 

[MacKai]

Let's put a smile on that face!!

NICE!!

 

[drmikey]

That's right, you tell'em!!

lol what conversation? The OP's post was a RANT not a conversation starter. Look at how much he has contributed to the thread after his first post... see what I mean?

Thank you for your common sense.

What's wrong is the whining that never stops. It sounds like this forum is overrun with a bunch of 10 year olds that need to have their rear ends whipped.

 

[41qser]

After I named the folders I found this shortcut to use Emoji characters:

Press and hold the folder, when it starts to jiggle, tap it.
The name will come up.
Delete it and the keyboard comes up.
Hit the world icon and Emoji shows up.
Select an icon, push the home button and it gives the folder the emoji character name.

On my old 3G, there is a simplified keyboard shown for folder renaming... the world icon doesn't show up. In most other text fields it does... maybe it does on 3GS and up???

That's why I did the copy+paste... couldn't access them from the simplified keyboard.