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iOS 14 Leaks: List View for Apps, Settings App May Support Custom Wallpaper Packs, New Apple TV Remote, and More
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Ah the wording in the MR article threw me off. Great news! Hopefully.
After reading this same story on a different site, I just realized what this means.
No Apple, I do not want an android app drawer in iOS.
No Apple, I do not want an android app drawer in iOS.
it seems like iOS is more and more like Androids, namely the uniqueness of iOS made me buy an iPhone, of course, and the devices themselves are great. But I get the feeling that every year it gets worse and worse ... I miss iOS 10, I think it was the best iOS version so far. I hope Apple still manages to surprise me 😎
The beauty of Apple is that you take it out of the box and you can just use it. No need to fidgit, spend hours customizing through countless settings menus with options ... While some customization is nice, I definitely agree. I had a blast rooting my Android device and putting custom roms / themes on it ... but now, I just want a phone that works that stays out of my way.
From what I'm seeing here, I am ok with it. It doesn't seem like Apple is going Android. Some people I know have LOTS of apps installed and we already have a list view for Apps - it's just in a longer list of other things - so putting that app list in its own container seems to make sense to me.
You will eat what you're given! Also curfew is at 9pm sharp.
This is OS updates not a new phone. You know that, right?
My assumption was that the post you quoted - the poster was trying to threaten Apple and us Macrumors users with the extremely severe dire consequences of 1 less Apple iPhone user in the world. That's how I took it anyway.
Software is really making strides on the watch. It’s still a couple of years before we will see the full potential of these devices and ever longer before it matures as a category. The future is bright!
I would prefer Apple straight up copy what Android has been doing since the beginning with widgets and home screen/app layout. It’s a much better design than Apple’s 13 year old grid.
Please give us the ability to play music directly on the watch's built-in speaker. Even Samsung watch has this ability!
For a start I would like to be able to place the damn app icons anywhere on the screen including the size of the „grid“
Brings back memories of my Note 3 days... when I'd root and get ... wow I can't remember the launcher name but I remember paying for it but it let me put apps ANYWHERE on the grid - and size them down so small I could fit them all on the home screen. Loved it. Looked ugly, but was nice to have everything on the home screen without folders.
I'll pay anything for a better Apple TV remote. (But don't tell Apple that I said that. Just tell them that I'm anxious for it to be available.)
I can’t believe that there’s been virtually zero updates to the iPhone home screen in 13 years.
What’s changed on the home screens since the first OS? You can change the background and you can long-press icons for shortcuts... that’s about it.
13 years of having the same exact static grid of icons. If the best Apple can come up with after all this time is a “list view” toggle, I will be sorely disappointed.
What’s changed on the home screens since the first OS? You can change the background and you can long-press icons for shortcuts... that’s about it.
13 years of having the same exact static grid of icons. If the best Apple can come up with after all this time is a “list view” toggle, I will be sorely disappointed.
In iOS 14 I would like to see...
A native phone call recorder and transcriber.
When I swipe up on a picture I would like to see all information about a file (not just location) and have the ability ro rename the file right there.
iOS needs native ringtone creation. It would also be cool to record a sound OR choose a song OR get the sound from wherever and loop/edit it and make it a ringtone.
iOS needs the ability to easily and freely combine pictures when editing in Photos or Camera.
From the control centre, when I press the bluetooth icon, I should go straight to the bluetooth screen. Reduce extra steps. Currently when I press the bluetooth icon it opens to the 6 icons view. Why?
A native phone call recorder and transcriber.
When I swipe up on a picture I would like to see all information about a file (not just location) and have the ability ro rename the file right there.
iOS needs native ringtone creation. It would also be cool to record a sound OR choose a song OR get the sound from wherever and loop/edit it and make it a ringtone.
iOS needs the ability to easily and freely combine pictures when editing in Photos or Camera.
From the control centre, when I press the bluetooth icon, I should go straight to the bluetooth screen. Reduce extra steps. Currently when I press the bluetooth icon it opens to the 6 icons view. Why?
There's very little about on-device app management that is great. It's all a clumsy tower built on top of (limited) legacy behaviour that Apple need to knock down and build from the ground up again.
Yeah, I am aware. I just feel like iOS is getting stale, and with all the big rumors of a redesign user interface, that would be a letdown after a few years of waiting.
All these features sound promising, but one thing that has been lacking for years and I surely hope finally gets added is the ability to set default apps! Kind of annoying how its a thing that Android has had for years, but Apple still hasn't...
You can use any Android phone exactly the same way, take it out of the box and just use it. Android's home screen can work exactly like iOS's home screen if you don't want to take advantage of the ability to change it to suit your needs. You can even ignore the existence of the app drawer as it's hidden anyway.
I don't know who spends hours customizing through countless settings menus with options, there's no need for such things on Android.
On a lot of Android phones you can install themes without rooting, in general when it comes to costumisation rooting is not really necessary.
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I don't know why you keep mentioning rooting but the app is called Nova Launcher and it's just a standard 3rd party launcher. It doesn't require root and it can also be used for free, the paid version only enables a few more options.Brings back memories of my Note 3 days... when I'd root and get ... wow I can't remember the launcher name but I remember paying for it but it let me put apps ANYWHERE on the grid - and size them down so small I could fit them all on the home screen. Loved it. Looked ugly, but was nice to have everything on the home screen without folders.
And it doesn't have to look ugly, it can look really great if you know what you are doing or you can simply download a few Nova presents with the desired home screen look or arrangement. It's very easy.
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