Yes, widgets are on the iPad... they are available in the Today View sidebar, but that’s it... and, yes, that’s bogus.
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Yes, widgets are on the iPad... they are available in the Today View sidebar, but that’s it... and, yes, that’s bogus.
Another 90% useless iOS update from Apple.
Apple needs to:
1. redesign the notification center. It's ridiculous.
2. add haptic feedback to the keyboard, and make it possible to customize different intensities to your heart's content. It's crazy that you have no feedback whatsoever if you're typing and have the phone on mute.Those who are concerned with battery can just turn it off.
3. make it possible to adjust volume for independent apps and settings and not this general thing they're doing, forcing you to do it while the thing is being played, such as separate volume control for keyboard volume, music volume, ring volume, system volume.
4. add suggestions from the address book when you're dialing a phone number. Common now Apple.
5. make it possible to customize the texting app in every conceivable way. Font size, bubble size shape color.
6. make it possible to schedule a message to be sent at a certain time/date.
7. make it possible to move the icons anywhere you want to.
8. Use an OS-wide clipboard and make it not expire. You should be able to copy text now and paste it tomorrow if you want to.
9. Give us an option to NOT go to the next email but back to inbox after deleting an email.
Apple needs to:
1. redesign the notification center. It's ridiculous.
2. add haptic feedback to the keyboard, and make it possible to customize different intensities to your heart's content. It's crazy that you have no feedback whatsoever if you're typing and have the phone on mute.Those who are concerned with battery can just turn it off.
3. make it possible to adjust volume for independent apps and settings and not this general thing they're doing, forcing you to do it while the thing is being played, such as separate volume control for keyboard volume, music volume, ring volume, system volume.
4. add suggestions from the address book when you're dialing a phone number. Common now Apple.
5. make it possible to customize the texting app in every conceivable way. Font size, bubble size shape color.
6. make it possible to schedule a message to be sent at a certain time/date.
7. make it possible to move the icons anywhere you want to.
8. Use an OS-wide clipboard and make it not expire. You should be able to copy text now and paste it tomorrow if you want to.
9. Give us an option to NOT go to the next email but back to inbox after deleting an email.
Just don't use it, ie don't scrol all the way to the last screen
I very rarely have seen anyone take advantage of it. Most Android phones I have seen, the display settings and app arrangments look pretty messy.
I’m pretty excited to try out the app library. Widgets could be fun too, if the developers fully get on board with them.
I’m not, however, looking forward to explaining how to use these features to my parents on their iPhones.
I’m not, however, looking forward to explaining how to use these features to my parents on their iPhones.
I think the App Drawer looks ugly and way too cluttered. And no way to create folders will definitely trigger my OCD. The fact that apps now live in two places will confuse a lot of people.
Why didn’t they simply introduce an option to automatically group apps on the Home Screen and create pages per type?
Why didn’t they simply introduce an option to automatically group apps on the Home Screen and create pages per type?
That’s complete on point, never thought of this.
Were I to upgrade to an iPhone 11 today from a 1990s era flip phone I would find myself spending months or years getting used to it to seldomly its potential, it would be really alien and sort of a Swiss knife with 320 tools which makes each tool have a secondary functions if you hold it horizontal or upside-down.
But I would need to have been isolated socially, a very nice second key point I got from your post. Society, other technology around, movies, etc do teach us how to use these devices, what to expect and find them familiar even without having used one. I wouldn’t be surprised (in fact I‘m probably not off thinking that might be one of the reasons) Apple does the things it does, probably they have “social experts” that would trim down features to a range where it would be still beneficial and not alien for the least tech savvy common denominator target with enough customization for more power users... getting the features we get with sprinkles of seemingly troll-ish limitations.
Me personally I do like constraints a lot. It sets a limit of how much time I have to spend technically learning features vs just using said tool. For 2D/3D software, music instruments, assorted gadgets and the like... the most constrained ones are where I find myself thriving a lot more creatively and outputting more.
Ultimately, the hypothetical godlike tech savvy person only really needs one thing, XCode: “here, have at it. You can customize your device up to every single line of code to do whatever”
You should be able to hide apps from the recently added folder (unless you can do that somehow?) I don’t need everyone that I give my phone to, to immediately see my „dating“ apps. Before I would put / hide them on the last page of a folder called „Apple trash“ among per-installed apps I never use. Now it’s showing up as this big A icon on the App Library
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That's because customers are constantly demanding more features with every annual update to iOS. Those years where Apple have focussed on polishing the existing OS rather than having feature races with Android/WP etc, people have walked away from the Keynote complaining of a lame update. Anything essential to the device was incorporated years ago (remember how long we had to wait for MMS and copy/paste!), now it's just extra fluff that's necessary to stay competitive in terms of features and satisfy customer expectation.
I think I’m missing something. I have had apps inside of folders on my iPhone for years now. I don’t understand how app library is a new feature and what it does that I don’t do today.
It simply contains all your apps in automatically generated category folders. It's basically a graveyard for apps you don't want to see on your home screen, but don't want to remove. I put the apps there, which I replaced with a widget (e.g. weather).
Wish widgets where more interactive. I mean, cool, I can see the number one entry from the up next section in podcasts, but why can't I swipe and see 4 more?
Not overly thrilled with the app library. First, takes lots of swiping to get there. Second, I don’t like the way Apple has organized my apps. Is there a way to change this? Can’t seem to be able to mover apps between app boxes. For now, this feature feels more like clutter.
Darth Tulhu
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Do we have to be trolls, though? "According to Android users..." could have sufficed.
Choice is the main attraction to both Android AND Apple.
Android is more customizable by the user, which is valuable to some of us (even if it's not the ONLY reason why we use it).
Apple historically gives you an all-or-nothing-our-way-or-the-highway choice tied to their hardware, which is still a choice.
Clearly, Apple is trying to bring more customization to iOS, which would only be a detractor if you can't choose to display things the way you're already used to.
As for me, I'm not invested that heavily in either platform, and am looking to switch in the Fall to iOS (because I'm abandoning the Mac for iPad and would prefer the consistency). So some of the iOS 14 changes would actually soften that "customization" blow.
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Maybe that's because you're an iOS user? You agree with Apple's philosophy and it informs your taste. One man's trash is another man's treasure, and all that.
With Android I have everything exactly where I want it, in a way I could not with iOS. So I'm glad both platforms exist so users like me can agree to disagree with how we use our devices.
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I guess they couldn't (or wouldn't) just copy the Android app drawer, which at first glance seems like a better implementation than this (one swipe up from anywhere to open). iOS has a LOT of multitouch...
That said, this is better than nothing. Maybe they want you to have only two pages? A widgets and main apps page and the app drawer...I mean, app library?
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No, you can’t change apple’s organization. If you want to do the organization yourself (which I do), you have to just use folders like always. The app library seems useless to me unless you’re too lazy/disorganized to just put apps in folders yourself. So strange to me that this is being touted as a major feature.
I'm in agreement with you. After being an Android user for years, I switched to the iPhone 6s Plus because I felt like Android was getting too messy, too busy, and needlessly complicated (with all the swipes and gestures and knuckle presses). I kept hearing how the iPhone was simple to use and they "just worked" and so I jumped on board. (And I absolutely loved the clean iOS 9 notification screen.) Now, I feel like iOS is heading towards the operating system I wanted no part of.
Darth Tulhu
macrumors 68020
Hmmm.
Apple's multitouch implementation is orders of magnitude more complex than Android.
With Android, you can literally have only ONE app on your homescreen, and relegate everything else to the app drawer (which is basically Apple's homescreen). And accessing the app drawer takes literally ONE swipe up from anywhere on the screen. And to this day I still use the three Android , home, back, and app switcher.
Apple's OS has ALWAYS been messier and more complicated (for me at least, since I left my 4s behind).
Android just gives you the granularity to keep it as simple or complex as YOU prefer.
That said, once you get used to iOS's finger gymnastics, they become WAY more fluid than Android hopes to become.
And going to Android gives up all the advantages (and there are MANY) of being in an Apple ecosystem you're probably used to by now, so thinks this over carefully my friend.
Here's some help (a bit old, but still):
Is anyone using iOS 14 on an X. Does 3D Touch still work in place of the long touch actions?
Agree completely. I definitely don’t want two different ways of organising the same apps. I could consider moving to just the app library if I could organise it the way I want it, but the automated system is very unlikely to get it right. Example, I have a page of apps to support photography, and on this I’ve included an app for light pollution and another tide times (I’m a landscape photographer). Is Apple‘s automated system really going to work out that I want those grouped with photo editing apps?
You can have that: don't load any widgets, populate your home screen the way you would have in iOS4, ignore the app library screen, and you can rock your phone like you did in 2010.
The great thing about having customisation options is that you can still go old-school if you want. While if you don't have them you cannot do anything else. So there is no downside to having the options, whereas there is a clear downside to not having the options for those who don't share your preference.
This is a great suggestion on how to use the App Library and Widgets. Thanks.
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Two issues I have come across with Widgets. Already reported to Apple, but maybe you can help or I am missing something.
1. The News Widget can only display one Top Story. How do I get it to display 4 like it did in iOS 13?
2. Apple Widgets stay on top. I can't mix in third party widgets with Apple Widgets. For example, I like HelloWeather Widget on top of my Widget screen, but as of now, only Apple Widgets go there then come the third party Widgets.
My feeling (without trying it) is that I'd prefer to replace the app library's auto-generated folders with that alphabetical "jump to" list you get from the search bar. Like you I'm sure Apple won't sort apps in a way that makes sense to me so the list looks more useful, and hence I'd rather not have to reach to the top of the screen to get it.
But maybe that would be less "clever" ("Hey, we've sorted your apps for you") and more obviously Android-like (many Android launchers have an option to arrange the app drawer just like this), so it didn't appeal to Apple to make this the primary view. But the option to choose which was the main view of the app library would be nice.
I wonder about the hiding app option. When you decide to hide an app, is it not illogical to be able to see it on the App Library list? If you are hiding an app, it is because you do not want it to been seen by anyone else, no? You, yourself, know that the app is there, but nobody else does.
Therefore, it should not be visible on the App Library list. You should just be able to search it by name. Those who wants to use your iPhone cannot see the app icon in any way, and would have search for the app to find it.
That is what hiding an app is for, I think.
Why hide an app if it is staring right back at you from the App Library?
Therefore, it should not be visible on the App Library list. You should just be able to search it by name. Those who wants to use your iPhone cannot see the app icon in any way, and would have search for the app to find it.
That is what hiding an app is for, I think.
Why hide an app if it is staring right back at you from the App Library?