iOS 14 Announced With All-New Home Screen Design Featuring Widgets, App Library, and More

[mdridwan47]

Apple should just allow launchers. That'll be actually really useful.

 

[Spock]

Android fanboys? Try Windows Phone fanboys. This is like 2010 era Windows Phone 7.

Android used widgets far before Windows Phone ever did. With that being said, I agree that it looks like Windows Phone and I also have to say that I was a fan of Windows phone so I’m excited to have these features again.

 

[tkukoc]

So with MacOS getting new icons one would then assume before the betas come to a close iOS/iPadOS should get the same as well? The new ones look so nice, while the originals are now look dated in comparison.

 

[Ramchi]

Can I move the Clock in the lock screen to a desired position?

 

[Kagio]

App Library = Nope. I already have my apps organized in folders the way I want. I don’t need Apple’s curated mess thanks.

OK but, for other like me this is awesome:

I've always find nonsense to swipe trough pages, or increasing tap cont when opening a folder to get an app inside a folder and then at te 3rd-4rth page inside that folder.

I'm always about speed/efficiency, so I only tap apps in my first homescreen page and every other app is inside one folder and I scroll down > spotlight < to open any app that is not in my homescreen

So yeah, app library is awersome. I've always used only one app page. swipe right for widgets, and that's it. Now swipe left for "rest of apps". Awesome.

 

[MozMan68]

I may be in a minority but I prefer the simplicity of the current design.

Isn't that the best part about this? What's preventing you from keeping it the way you have it now? You don't HAVE to resize applicable apps into large tiles...I mean widgets...whoops.

 

[Allyance]

Gestures. No better way to confound and frustrate anyone over 40 with declining eye-hand and motor skill acuity. And of course they are going to force your hand (no pun intended...) to update in week one.

How old are you? I am 75 don't have any problems eye-hand motor skills, just some mild arthritis. You can see my current motorcycle in my avatar which takes considerable motor skills through the canyons and back roads (no freeways thanks).

 

[IMPOSSIBLEMAN]

Number row on the keyboard, Please.

 

[spinedoc77]

Oh sweet lord THANK YOU, this is what Android used to be like, how ironic. Now widgets on Android suck and Apple gets real widgets. Along with last year's dark mode support I'm in heaven.

My only other wishlist item would be to be able to have blank spaces between icons. I currently use the shortcut trick to get blank icons, but they still trigger a shortcut if accidentally pressed.

 

[roland.g]

I have called the iOS home screen aka Springboard stale and outdated and inadequately designed for dealing with current phone usage and multitudes of apps for several years now and while it may not be perfect, Apple has finally taken a step in the right direction.

 

[spinedoc77]

Number row on the keyboard, Please.

Damn you, I thought all of my wishlist was satisfied!! Can't count the number of times I've almost dropped my phone using it one handed and trying to reach all the way over to hit the numbers key!!

 

[ruka.snow]

The live tiles from Windows Phone where one of the best features, glad to see a spiritual successor make it to iOS.

 

[naturalstar]

Widgets and customization was the only thing I was missing from my Samsung days. While it's still within a framework, it's giving me what I was looking for while remaining clean.

Apps Library is click, but I just hope the Apps Library doesn't start trying to move things around for me like Photos does sometimes. Hopefully that can be toggled off in Settings somewhere.

Hopefully many bugs in 13 will be taken care of. I need the Music app to be fixed in iOS 14. I've been looking at mixed icons for months.

 

[johngordon]

App Library = Nope. I already have my apps organized in folders the way I want. I don’t need Apple’s curated mess thanks.

Amazing that they haven't based this just on how you have things set up. I think a lot of people end up with a lot of apps they rarely use stuck away over several pages. A way if quickly and easily decluttering them seems a reasonable thing to have, even if not everyone makes use of it.

 

[nickgovier]

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[jml1982]

I wish you could have some apps right on the home screen, like weather... I can't believe this still isn't an option...
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I noticed in the stream that it would snap a 2x2 widget to rows 1&2 or rows 3&4 of the home screen, but not rows 2&3. Did I imagine that or is it a limitation of the widget placement? The latter would imply this is not such a remarkable evolution such as allowing us to arbitrarily place apps around the edge of the screen, for example.

Yeah, I would like some pages to start from the bottom instead of the top for better one handed use. Especially on bigger phonen.

 

[lsutigerfan1976]

Literally no new features for Apple music besides a widget? Like handoff or something.

 

[Superman730]

One thing I thought would be a gimme... Keep "Today View" on every page in iPadOS... Maybe come fall...

 

[koifish22]

And the list of devices supported? Which ones got obsoleted today?

All devices running iOS 13 will run 14.

 

[alexandr]

App Library = Nope. I already have my apps organized in folders the way I want. I don’t need Apple’s curated mess thanks.

totally. mine are neatly organized in their folders, and that is where they will stay!

 

[Cassady]

djxngn

This!

 

[JosephAW]

Gestures. No better way to confound and frustrate anyone over 40 with declining eye-hand and motor skill acuity. And of course they are going to force your hand (no pun intended...) to update in week one.

My mother's hand shakes and she really struggles pressing once, always interpreted as scrolling.

 

[lkalliance]

But do my shortcuts still need to be touching the top of the screen? Or can I start my icons from the bottom yet? Or put some in the top and some at the bottom and have a gap in between so I can see my background?

This is a hack (not a jailbreak, just a hack-y way to use the existing tools), but if you go to http://makeovr.io they’ve got a way to put icons where you want them, using fake app icons set to look just like that part of your home screen. There are some downsides, but if you like to have it all on just one screen it’s ok.

 

[PhoenixFireless]

Damn you, I thought all of my wishlist was satisfied!! Can't count the number of times I've almost dropped my phone using it one handed and trying to reach all the way over to hit the numbers key!!

uhm...there's a one handed keyboard.
also iOS has been supporting 3rd party and custom keyboards for a while.

 

[iDento]

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.

Exactly what I was thinking. I will use a couple of smart stack widgets and only the dock for my must have 4 apps I might need anytime. Anything else will be in the App Library.
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How about Left swipe is your widget panel and Right swipe is this new auto catorgized app squares.

The middle panel is the default, most used apps. That you choose.

You can do that. You can leave your widget where they are now, in the first page, then your apps in the middle one, then right swipe to your app library.