iOS 11 Concept Imagines Overhauled iPad Interface With Drag-and-Drop Functionality

[Pakaku]

The video is sooooo slow, and really makes me glad my main computer uses a mouse and keyboard shortcuts.

Apart from that, I guess it looks like something Apple would make? Certainly a lot better than those horrific iPhone mockups that keep getting more attention than deserved

 

[alecgold]

I'm generally a big fan of what Federico is able to do with the iPad.

That said, I have to wonder if it's worth spending 3 months on this. Plus hiring a designer and a movie guy to make it, only to have it invalidated in 2.5 weeks by whatever Apple announced.
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Why not think of it as iOS 12, or 13, or 31. Sometime... I hope ☹️

 

[Tech198]

Drag and drop of seems good at least. I'm more interested in the move to 64-bit in iOS 11, and the disappearance of 50% of the App Store.

 

[Bacillus]

Guys keep dreaming, it's been 6-7 years and Apple still can't optimize icon grid spacing to take advantage of the huge iPad screen. Apple is asleep.

I wouldn't dare to embarassingly disturb Tim's lunch with the blind vloggers, deaf DJ's and claustrophobic obese's, so take your bike to travel from icon to icon - as I do.
The extra eye movement may be engineered as part of some health program (...)

 

[manu chao]

Does seem kind of random. These kinds of things (especially being posted like news) make people get their hopes up, which generally leads to disappointment.

Call me old-fashioned, but I don't believe in catering only to the lowest intellect possible. This article has the words 'concept' and 'imagining' right in the title. If somebody doesn't understand the meaning of those two words, that is their problem.
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What's the point of this? We're only 3 weeks away, iOS 11 is conceptually already finalized.

These concepts had been suggested for a long time ago already. They were already well known a year ago. This is just a visualisation.

 

[cornsie]

I know it's only a concept but what worries me is how the older generations will cope with a major change. For younger people the interface will still remain intuitive but that intuition will be based on previous experiences of other IOS versions. Something like this would blow my 76 year old mothers mind, it's great to have powerful new features but in some ways not having those features makes it more manageable for an older person to cope with especially if they have become used to a particular work flow that works for them. Perhaps accessibility options that can restrict the functionality of the next IOS may help keep older people engaged and in touch after all updating from a security point of view is of the upmost importance to keep them safe online.

 

[Royal Gala]

I wouldn't dare to embarassingly disturb Tim's lunch with the blind vloggers, deaf DJ's and claustrophobic obese's, so take your bike to travel from icon to icon - as I do.
The extra eye movement may be engineered as part of some health program (...)

Tim Cook making some time to talk to disabled people about the importance of accessibility doesn't have anything to do with app grid spacing on the iPad.

 

[drumcat]

They have an OS that does all of this. Until they put macOS on it, just stop buying these stupid things. iOS is designed for small devices.

 

[Abazigal]

It's sad that some random designer can come up with better solutions than a huge company like Apple that has $250 billion in cash. This isn't perfect but it's way better than what we've got. I really hope they have a new iPad Pro with an overhauled iPad Pro version of iOS at WWDC. It needs to be able to do a lot of the same things a Mac can do, but in a different, touch-optimized way.

It's a lot easier to do a mockup than to actually implement it. Just saying...
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They have an OS that does all of this. Until they put macOS on it, just stop buying these stupid things. iOS is designed for small devices.

The day the iPad runs macOS is the day I stop buying one.

 

[Glideslope]

I love these ideas so much. Too bad we're probably not going to get any of them.

You never know.

 

[iGeek2014]

Perhaps I'm alone in thinking this but these features would surely work better on iPad Pro 12.9" than they would iPad/iPad Pro 9.7".

Whilst it's highly unlikely Apple will ever implement some of these ideas it does show up IMHO the untapped potential for iPad/iOS.

 

[pmau]

Apple needs something similar to a multi-user and home directory concept.
I want to be able to hand over an unlocked iPad without exposing my mail, iCloud drive etc.
if you could manage visible Apps and able would be less greedy with regards to cloud storage, this feature alone would greatly improve iOS on iPad.
But this will never happen.

The nee filesystem could restore volume snapshots per user in an instant.
Differences between those could be stored in the cloud.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Making UI improvements? Looking at the big bicture and making fundamental functionality improvements?

No confidence.

Apple is 95% sedentary, 5% reactionary.

 

[pmau]

Making UI improvements? Looking at the big bicture and making fundamental functionality improvements?

No confidence.

Apple is 95% sedentary, 5% reactionary.

Totally agree.
Apple has not improved underlying technologies since they adapted the BSD mach kernel.
I have to give them credet for their GPU advances and their SoC development.
UI does not cover core functionality.
Everything from App Containers to Sharing Sheets to Sync is based on really primitive trchnology.
Unfortunately Apple cannot really change much because of their large install base.

 

[jonnysods]

Honestly the 3 biggest pluses to using Android are 1. How well notifications are done on Android 2. How clean the springboard can be set up 3. Customizing said springboard. Big fan of having my main spring board icons themed to look unified.

iPhone = more efficient os that requires less processing power, good hardware, easy to use os but not the most efficient. Notifications especially are a cluttered mess. I mean at least have a setting to allow us to sort them by app and let you just clear them for one app a la Android.

What's kept me from upgrading to a new iphone has honestly been that lack of useful changes to ios.

Hoping for some nice changes in ios 11 but I'm pretty pessimistic.

Yup file directory and being able to access those files from your computer and being able to use your phone as a storage device just seems like a no brainer though cloud drives do make it a bit less necessary.

I use Dropbox so the file isn't a huge deal, although being able to download stuff is pretty amazing.

I did like the springboard grid Android uses. And also changing the size and style of icons. It gave my phone is own personality. iOS is too uniform.

 

[thewayfaerer]

Trash.

Why waste your time making this video?

Because those guys hope it is so brilliant that apple will hire them on the spot.

 

[sracer]

What's the point of this? We're only 3 weeks away, iOS 11 is conceptually already finalized.

The "point" is that these people don't work for Apple and have concepts that they wanted to assemble into a video and share with people. It is the same "point" of those who create artistic concepts of iPhones. They have some ideas and they're supposed to sit on them because WWDC is 3 weeks away? What is the point of THAT?

Another poster asked why they didn't come out with this 6 months ago. That's a silly statement... as if artistic creativity is something that can be planned. Maybe they DID have the concept 6 months ago but spent their spare time working on the video and it took that long.

Speculation....
Perhaps they saw what iOS 11 is going to be (minor updates) and did this as a way to "shame" Apple for not advancing iOS the way it needs.

 

[ryanwarsaw]

Here's a rumour. iOS 11 will be just like any other iOS in the past few years. Unnecessary upgrades and "improvements", something Siri, something share to your friends, something much more performance-efficient, something emoji. Oh and cringey WWDC as always. But as always, we will be overly excited for it then be awfully disappointed once we just get another absolutely pointless iOS upgrade.

You don't seem overly excited.

 

[kuropju]

I love those concept videos they're very inspiring and it needs a lot of effort to do one of these. Don't get how people could complain about a person who materializes his/her visions.

 

[threesixty360]

Please do this!!!!

i'm pretty surprised that Apple hasnt got this stuff in their next release.
They've gone too hard trying to maintain parity with the iphone but you end up making the ipad less useful.

 

[fjauma]

It is kind of late for iOS 11 but I think this serves as inspiration and view for what a a fullsize-tablet could be able to do, keeping things simple and beautiful. Really liked those bolder app action icons (like the compose one, trashcan...) similar to those on the new apple music app, which I personally think it is not intuitive enough and not really take advantage of the space on screen! Sam Becket sometimes does this kind of videos and I'm glad they are so well done and refined. Keep it up! And lets hope Apple will go this way and differentiate iPad from iPhone even more!

 

[Stella]

These concept videos are a complete waste of time.

If apple don't implement these ideas, which they probably won't - then it's all time wasted.

Vapour.
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Give iPad multiuser feature. If this is to replace the family PC.

I'd like that too - work and home use.

Apple won't - they want you to buy a device on a per user basis.

 

[mdelvecchio]

Without a real os it's still nothing more than a toy.

That's the same drivel the mainframe guys said about PCs, the DOS guys said about the GUI, etc... You guys never quit. Meanwhile, people are doing stuff with their tools, not toys.

 

[WRChris]

It's a lot easier to do a mockup than to actually implement it. Just saying...
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The day the iPad runs macOS is the day I stop buying one.

I would imagine the amount of sales gained from moving to macOS would far outweigh the people who want a big phone OS.

 

[Naraxus]

That's the same drivel the mainframe guys said about PCs, the DOS guys said about the GUI, etc... You guys never quit. Meanwhile, people are doing stuff with their tools, not toys.

You're right, they are doing stuff - reading, watching video, surfing the web. Meanwhile anybody, specifically professionals, who does real work has long since abandoned the iToy.