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iOS 14 Announced With All-New Home Screen Design Featuring Widgets, App Library, and More
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Absolutely love it already. FINALLY a new look.
I know this was a jailbreak years ago...but for us non-jailbreakers, this is awesome!
I know this was a jailbreak years ago...but for us non-jailbreakers, this is awesome!
It’s been three years since notched iPhones and we still have to do without the do not disturb icon, battery percentage indicator and others in the status bar, how stubborn and dumb Apple can be?
From a GUI point of view IOS6 remains Apple's finest hour and they've been on a declining slope ever since.
Apple just seem to exaggerate the parts I dislike in their OS and drop the things I do!
Hopefully when I use it my opinion will be changed, but from the screen shots posted so far it looks like it was designed by and aimed at children.
Apple just seem to exaggerate the parts I dislike in their OS and drop the things I do!
Hopefully when I use it my opinion will be changed, but from the screen shots posted so far it looks like it was designed by and aimed at children.
As someone who ALWAYS uses search to open apps, this is great. Maybe I’ll just put widgets on page 1, and use the new feature for everything else.
Whereas cartoon fake felt looked mature?From a GUI point of view IOS6 remains Apple's finest hour and they've been on a declining slope ever since.
Apple just seem to exaggerate the parts I dislike in their OS and drop the things I do!
Hopefully when I use it my opinion will be changed, but from the screen shots posted so far it looks like it was designed by and aimed at children.
One day, Apple will finally open up home page design to developers — or to users. Or, if it insists on keeping things closed, will finally adopt Z-Launcher’s decades-old tabbed interface for Palm OS.
The side-tabbed interface is the most efficient for getting to related apps quickly. But the user needs to have complete control over tab names, which apps go into which tabs, and where to put the tabs.
And, no, the folder system is not equivalent, especially as it takes over the whole screen.
Finally, will OS14 fix the utterly poor interface problems with rearranging apps on the home screen? They slide into weird places, one cannot easily slide apps into the left-hand side position without ending up on the next home screen, etc.
The side-tabbed interface is the most efficient for getting to related apps quickly. But the user needs to have complete control over tab names, which apps go into which tabs, and where to put the tabs.
And, no, the folder system is not equivalent, especially as it takes over the whole screen.
Finally, will OS14 fix the utterly poor interface problems with rearranging apps on the home screen? They slide into weird places, one cannot easily slide apps into the left-hand side position without ending up on the next home screen, etc.
Put a widget on top and then your apps will be underneath. But otherwise, no, looks like it still snaps everything upward.
FOR REAL. It's amazing how Microsoft launched it almost 10 years ago, and had the time to launch, almost succeed, then fail miserably before Apple realized they had a few things going for them.
Looks exactly like that iOS 8 concept from 6 years ago.
Agreed. I'm not going to pretend like I've organized every page of my home screen, but at least my icons don't constantly rearrange themselves based on "special sauce." Not looking forward to that...
I agree, or I was kind of thinking I could put a widget in the middle for a "separator". Maybe someone will come out with opaque widgets so it can look like there is icon freedom! At least the widgets look to be a good start to having some freedoms on the home screen.
Apparently the phone calls will still be fullscreen for now.
EDIT: It is here! Lovely!
EDIT: It is here! Lovely!
And they *STILL* won't let you arrange icons how you want to?!
Current widget screen seems to be logical considering iOS icon filled familiar layout.
The one shown above doesn’t look clean, neat, logical or functional.
Long before Android widgets were useful when Apps were in primitive stages. When Apps started getting complex. widgets beyond weather, clock, text messages, it became too cumbersome to fit it into a small UI. That’s why Android went with customisable notification section with the ability to respond; in addition to long pressing app icons for popular actions which is available in iOS as well (i.e. app icon long press).
iOS must think radically different to make widgets popular. At least Windows Mobile made honest innovative attempt with live tiles.
The one shown above doesn’t look clean, neat, logical or functional.
Long before Android widgets were useful when Apps were in primitive stages. When Apps started getting complex. widgets beyond weather, clock, text messages, it became too cumbersome to fit it into a small UI. That’s why Android went with customisable notification section with the ability to respond; in addition to long pressing app icons for popular actions which is available in iOS as well (i.e. app icon long press).
iOS must think radically different to make widgets popular. At least Windows Mobile made honest innovative attempt with live tiles.
I may be in the majority but I prefer the user having the choice to customise or not customise their home screen as they choose.
After seeing many responses here I thought I was the one to feel that way 😳