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iOS 7 Concept Features Widgets, New Lock Screen, Mission Control and More
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As far as I am concerned, you can have the best software in the world but without a useable screen size to do anything with, its a waste and a big BUST!I hate that everything has to be put into this old system as a second thought. Apple should refresh the entire OS from the ground up if they want to implement these ideas. I'm not talking a 100% total overhaul but it feels like they're pushing things into the iOS that were never meant to be there, basically like a second thought.
The appeal is that you can get an overview without jumping in and out of apps. One flaw of the concept implementation here is too much tapping. I can see Apple extending its existing Weather and Stocks widget framework to third parties. Why not peek at your Facebook, Twitter, and email inbox in one place? All the same size but scrollable and swipeable left/right, centralized in the Notification Center. Doesn't hurt the existing home screen.
In general, this video is in line with most of my desires for iOS. I've started playing with a friend's old Nexus, just for kicks.
All this iOS advance is good but I'll be as always pissed when it diminishes my BATTERY LIFE.
Give me greater duration between charges first or it's all a waste.
Give me greater duration between charges first or it's all a waste.
Some ideas are nice, but they all need improvement. Mission Control looks horrible, and the widgets would get annoying to me.
Plus all of these features are available on Cydia, and for the most part work better.
Plus all of these features are available on Cydia, and for the most part work better.
Isn't it a bit funny that widgets were supposedly useless and unnecessary on Android and now they may be included on iOS? Anyway, I find it amusing.
Quick preferences
http://setupmac.com/iphone/
There is an easy access to search in iOS, you can either swipe to the right from main home screen or click home button ones from there. The search screen has a a small search field at the top and keyboard at the bottom, but center is just gray nothing that takes more than half of the screen. It is the perfect place for quick preferences. If you start searching, the search results will replace them, and it's totally fine because it means that you got to search screen to search and thus you do not need those preferences, but if you do, you would use them before searching.
This is very easy to add to iOS and it would be so valuable, many geeks would praise iOS again and regular users would love that too.
http://setupmac.com/iphone/
There is an easy access to search in iOS, you can either swipe to the right from main home screen or click home button ones from there. The search screen has a a small search field at the top and keyboard at the bottom, but center is just gray nothing that takes more than half of the screen. It is the perfect place for quick preferences. If you start searching, the search results will replace them, and it's totally fine because it means that you got to search screen to search and thus you do not need those preferences, but if you do, you would use them before searching.
This is very easy to add to iOS and it would be so valuable, many geeks would praise iOS again and regular users would love that too.
Some people might want them.
I played around with Dashboard X quite a bit, but I ended up undoing almost everything.
I like being able to add a little more functionality in the dropdown menu, but I decided I did not need widgets on the main pages.
But those apps are using resources (looks like probably ram), if they're not, why do I see performance improvements when closing those?
there's nothing more annoying than being stuck on a wifi signal that doesn't work.
a wifi shortcut would be a great addition to my phone.
"Now they may be included on iOS?" Because some random person put them in a mockup?
There wouldn't be any irony if Apple implemented them in a way that addressed the major concerns that many people have with them. Kinda like they already have with the current widgets that they include.
Not many people don't want easier access to certain things. They just don't want it at the expense of clutter, performance, battery life, etc.
I hate news stories like this, because they're not news, or even rumor, they're simply pure 100% BS made up by some random guy.
The result will be that everyone expects that Apple is working on precisely what this guy made up. Thus, when some or all of these things turn out to not be in iOS 7, people are going to bitch endlessly about how they were promised all these features and they never came.
The result will be that everyone expects that Apple is working on precisely what this guy made up. Thus, when some or all of these things turn out to not be in iOS 7, people are going to bitch endlessly about how they were promised all these features and they never came.
The only thing that I really liked was the button that can stop all the apps that are running in the background. You don't even have to add mission control.
Just when you doubleclick on the home button and the dock shows all the icons of the apps that are running in the background, let the first one be that "stop all apps"-button.
Just when you doubleclick on the home button and the dock shows all the icons of the apps that are running in the background, let the first one be that "stop all apps"-button.
Not even well made
Most gimmicks in this concept have unnecessary graphic elements.
The "live icons", how will they behave when in a folder?
No visual clues at all.. guy should read a UX book or two.
He can edit a vid, mess around in photoshop, think of ideas that many before him thought of (some of these icons are 1-on-1 copies of existing jailbreak apps) and would execute them badly if given the chance.
And for the commenters saying they want a new "UI": go fetch yourself an android, they come in 2086 flavors.
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No they wouldn't.
The screen is confusing: it looks like the search bar is there to search the preferences. Bad idea.
Most gimmicks in this concept have unnecessary graphic elements.
The "live icons", how will they behave when in a folder?
No visual clues at all.. guy should read a UX book or two.
He can edit a vid, mess around in photoshop, think of ideas that many before him thought of (some of these icons are 1-on-1 copies of existing jailbreak apps) and would execute them badly if given the chance.
And for the commenters saying they want a new "UI": go fetch yourself an android, they come in 2086 flavors.
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No they wouldn't.
The screen is confusing: it looks like the search bar is there to search the preferences. Bad idea.
