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Gurman: iOS 18 Will Allow Users to Recolor App Icons and Place Them Anywhere
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Earlier this year, I began using Shortcuts and alternate app icons made by a guy named Lokki. The icon pack is called Vision iOS, and I highly recommend them!
I like how the icons look, and more importantly using Shortcuts means I can remove the text from below each icon. This gives my Home Screen a much more minimalist look, which I appreciate. Recoloring app icons doesn't compare to being able to use different app icons altogether or being able to remove the app names.
I like how the icons look, and more importantly using Shortcuts means I can remove the text from below each icon. This gives my Home Screen a much more minimalist look, which I appreciate. Recoloring app icons doesn't compare to being able to use different app icons altogether or being able to remove the app names.
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I do not mind getting some useful Android features, but with iOS refinement.
Plenty have asked for it and why would people be against options?
Home screens currently have awful wasted space and are bad for large screen phones
I wish iOS would let us change the notification sound per app. Many apps don't have the ability to change this, so they all have the same system setting one.
Some of us like having clean, distraction-free home screens.
It’s not that hard to understand.
For those that don’t see what a big deal this is.
On Android you can have all your icons on the bottom of the screen within thumbs reach, and it opens up the entire middle/upper part of the display for your wallpaper.
Also this is very helpful if you use a picture of a person for your wallpaper as you don’t have to have a bunch of icons covering up their face. Looks so much cleaner and less cluttered as well, most iPhone home screen setups I see look like people are hoarding icons. ☺️
And it would be really nice if Apple would allow people to make fully transparent widgets for the home screen just like those on the Lock Screen.
On Android you can have all your icons on the bottom of the screen within thumbs reach, and it opens up the entire middle/upper part of the display for your wallpaper.
Also this is very helpful if you use a picture of a person for your wallpaper as you don’t have to have a bunch of icons covering up their face. Looks so much cleaner and less cluttered as well, most iPhone home screen setups I see look like people are hoarding icons. ☺️
And it would be really nice if Apple would allow people to make fully transparent widgets for the home screen just like those on the Lock Screen.
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You're blaming Apple because some websites don't allow a password that's secure and doesn't even have any crazy stuff in it? 🤔 Seems like that should be on the websites, not Apple here. You can also just change it and it saves the password you changed it to.
The CS Music (formerly know as Cesium) app that I use basically as a skin to the Apple Music app lets you customize the color of the icon. Only app that I have that lets me do that.
Very nice of Apple to invent this, can't wait for Samsung or Google to copy it.
I like this. It bugs me that the icons on my home screen are all clashing colors. Small peeve but a very welcome change.
The only thing I want for icon control is to be able to do it on my Macbook. Dragging icons around from screen to screen in iOS or iPadOS SUCKS BALLS.
I already have to put a smart stack widget at the top so I can actually reach my damn icons without using Reachability all the time.
Snapping icons to a top-left aligning grid was OK on the original iPhone, and rapidly made less and less sense. They got copy and paste in 2.0 but forgot about any basic icon control at all until now, apparently.
What doesn't make sense is the hoops users have to go through and the sub-optimal experience they deal with now to make shortcuts for each icon. But Apple has apparently FINALLY actually heard their users and seen the lengths they go to for basic customization.
I say this as someone who administrates mobiles for work and who loves the uniformity and predictability of the iPhone for IT purposes, but come on. And knowing Apple there will still be mandatory text labels to prevent confusion (which is fine.)
Maybe soon they will finally be competitive with Nova Launcher from 2014.
I told myself I would hold out until 18.1, but I knew they would come up with something that would make me want to jump day one, or even on the RC.
I've been waiting for this day since the iPhone 3GS, hopefully it finally comes.