For some people it will be their killer feature. Everyone wants something different. People said the same thing about Memojis and other messages additions. For some people it’s dumb. Some people love it. Don’t get me wrong. I’d love to see other improvements in other areas. Even with the tinting I’d like to be able to tint the whole icon color and not one aspect of it. Apple intelligence features could end up being great.. if you have a 15 pro or higher. I will say that the more customizable control center is great.
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iOS 18: Add a Tint to Your iPhone Home Screen Icons
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Admittedly a very niche case - but as a photographer printi in an old school darkroom, the red color is useful to prevent damaging paper or prints.
I have to agree with others here, its looks pretty tacky and implemented poorly.
"Add a Tint to Your iPhone Home Screen Icons"
Finer volume gradations when pressing the volume buttons is what I’m still waiting for (they jump by three steps).
I don't get the complains about this feature. Is is a choice to customize your homescreen in such a manner, not the default setting. Yes, it looks kind of goofy and ugly in many cases, but people should be able to customize their homescreen to their liking. It is not as though people did not use ugly cases on their iPhone before.
At this rate (at least if you include the changes they made in the EU), there is almost nothing mainstream left to copy, aside from splitscreen apps and floating apps and the like. Apple has been doing this since the early years of iOS, although the customization effort definitely pickled up speed since the App Library and widgets of iOS 14 back in 2020.
That’s true, but there’s hardly anything in the new iOS/iPadOS and macOS versions that I’m interested in at all.
And since I’m quite happy with how the current versions work on my devices, I see no real reason to update.
I'd take pre ios7 skeuomorphism over those filters any day.
Obviously going after the Lantern Corps demographic. And the number of colors are rising every year!
This looks like such trash... Having ios18 on my iPad I can argue that the ui is a step backwards... Not a fan of the dark mode at all
Imagine you're a designer who, along with a team, spent countless hours fine tuning your brand colors and producing a beautiful icon to represent your product. And then Apple lets people do this to it.
I'm surprised Apple would allow this. It makes no sense to me.
I'm surprised Apple would allow this. It makes no sense to me.
For everyone saying it’s ugly and whining about it, don’t use it. There, I fixed it for you. You’re welcome.
I, for one, have been trying to dumb-down my iPhone for the better part of a year. Because of that, I wanted a monochrome home screen but didn’t like using the accessibility options (since that affects everything displayed). I installed the public beta just for that reason, and I’m very happy with the results (though I have asked the developer of Blank Spaces to add a true black to their widget background).
I, for one, have been trying to dumb-down my iPhone for the better part of a year. Because of that, I wanted a monochrome home screen but didn’t like using the accessibility options (since that affects everything displayed). I installed the public beta just for that reason, and I’m very happy with the results (though I have asked the developer of Blank Spaces to add a true black to their widget background).
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Now this is finally something cool. If you're like me, you know where all your commonly used apps are; don't need garnish color icons, looking forward to it.