iOS 10 Concept Features Dark Mode, Split Screen for iPhone

[Oliverhay]

Why do people keep mistaking inverted colours as a sort of "dark mode"? It's not remotely close to being the same thing. Inverted colours inverts all colours, it looks pretty horrible.

I've enabled it now, its not unworkable but the blue orange thing is a bit annoying. Proper dark mode would be vastly superior.

 

[MacBH928]

Split screen seems to be an after thought in iOS, lets not forget this is an OS that was built with the idea of NO multi-tasking.

My iPad Air 2 (1 generation back form current iPad) would often crash using. Apple has to confess and say that iOS needs revamping from the roots, its not 2007 any more.

 

[ValO]

You have that backwards. iOS 7 is when the introduced the "flat" design. They took away drop shadows and shading and made the icons look more flat. Also they removed "buttons" in favor of just text that you would click on. It wasn't an esthetic upgrade, but a downgrade. Sure they could have made some changes to update it, but they made it objectively worse in terms of intuitive usability and clearly conveying information. Take for example the time at the top of the home screen. They took away the shadow bar behind it making it impossible to read clearly if the background was similar to the text color. Also making the icons more "flat" takes away visual cues to make finding the app you want to use. Which makes things slower and more annoying.

I am not going to argue with you about this. Taste is subjective. I liked the look of iOS 7 and higher better than iOS 6. Just that green felt of gamecenter , I mean really.
But there are also people that still like the design of iPhone 4/s better than iPhone 5. But I don' t....

 

[Treq]

I am not going to argue with you about this. Taste is subjective. I liked the look of iOS 7 and higher better than iOS 6. Just that green felt of gamecenter , I mean really.
But there are also people that still like the design of iPhone 4/s better than iPhone 5. But I don' t....

Well thats fine I guess, to each his own, but the re-design of the OS was to make it "flat". It's a design esthetic. One that many have a problem with. I prefer more depth in my user interface. It conveys more information to the user and helps separate elements from the background. Oh, and the physical design of the iPhone 4/4s... probably the most beautiful piece of technology ever created in my opinion. I kinda wish they had kept it when they made the screen bigger. I have a iPhone 6s right now and it's nice but, hard to hold on to without a case, and the lock button is in a place that makes it hard to lock before I put it in my pocket. It is directly opposite the volume buttons, so when I press it, pressure needs to be applied to other side of the phone, which activates to volume button which cancels the locking of the phone. Annoying.

 

[dk001]

Well thats fine I guess, to each his own, but the re-design of the OS was to make it "flat". It's a design esthetic. One that many have a problem with. I prefer more depth in my user interface. It conveys more information to the user and helps separate elements from the background. Oh, and the physical design of the iPhone 4/4s... probably the most beautiful piece of technology ever created in my opinion. I kinda wish they had kept it when they made the screen bigger. I have a iPhone 6s right now and it's nice but, hard to hold on to without a case, and the lock button is in a place that makes it hard to lock before I put it in my pocket. It is directly opposite the volume buttons, so when I press it, pressure needs to be applied to other side of the phone, which activates to volume button which cancels the locking of the phone. Annoying.

Biggest reason I wish Apple would allow theming on iOS - allow each user to have the look they want.

 

[Treq]

Biggest reason I wish Apple would allow theming on iOS - allow each user to have the look they want.

I think the main reason they stay way from that is because of what happened with MySpace pages. People could do whatever they wanted and the pages looked horrible. They don't want people to see horrible looking phones with their logo on it. But I certainly would like a little more freedom to fix their bad design choices.

 

[dk001]

I think the main reason they stay way from that is because of what happened with MySpace pages. People could do whatever they wanted and the pages looked horrible. They don't want people to see horrible looking phones with their logo on it. But I certainly would like a little more freedom to fix their bad design choices.

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Take a look at basic Android theming or the theming you can do with a jailbroken device. It isn't at the myspace level you describe. More of allowing alternative looks, icons, layouts, etc... Apple could easily control that by only allowing theme packages that can be developed and submitted for inclusion via the store. You could make it a low cost revenue stream.
That would be a win for all.

 

[Destroysall]

If this happens, I am getting a black iPhone!

 

[tanyet]

I'm hoping they go one step further and bring back the black iPhone... that plus dark theme would be a pretty hot combo.

This X10. Damn I miss my black iPhone 5.