iOS 7 Concept Features Widgets, New Lock Screen, Mission Control and More

[jordanm86]

hmmm...

I don't want to sound unjustly critical but every concept shown in the video is either ugly, a UX nightmare or just plain stupid.

The very first concept shown is the ability to swap out the quick camera button for other things such as phone. What happens if you have a pin code? Will it go around the pin code and allow anyone access to the phone? If not, you'll still have to put your pin in and save basically no time, so what is the point?

The reason the quick camera app is there is to allow people to take pictures in the 'spur of the moment' without having to unlock their phone first and miss an opportunity... anyone can take a picture but only the owner of the phone (or someone who has access to the pin) can view them. This principle would not work at all with the phone app.

It also shows being able to enter airplane mode without entering a pin... perfect for those who steal a phone and quickly want to take it offline :-/

Most of the other features pretty much already exist (and look a heck of a lot nicer) such as a double click for the mini music widget :S

The quick settings are an eyesore beyond belief and the mission control seemed over the top for a mobile device.

Unfortunately it seems like the creator has spent more time making the video and screenshots than actually thinking about how people use mobile devices.

 

[dec.]

Quite hilarious when you read the comments when someone brings up widgets as an advantage of Android over iOS.

I haven't really followed those comments close enough to see if it's the same people speaking out against widgets on Android and now liking the thought of them on iOS, but if you've made those specific observations, then yes, it's funny.

 

[X38]

I just want a Finder app with a shared file space accessible to third party apps and hardware (i.e. thumb drives & such.)
If they do that and nothing else, I'd still think it a great update.

 

[Carouser]

I haven't really followed those comments close enough to see if it's the same people speaking out against widgets on Android and now liking the thought of them on iOS, but if you've made those specific observations, then yes, it's funny.

No, it's not the same people at all, so his 'argument' falls apart.

 

[X38]

The only things I really agree with are the new look of what pops up when you receive a text or iMessage. I HATE the current look of it.

I very much like the current look of message pop ups.

 

[sulpfiction]

I thought this was like actual news not speculation. ):

Really? Or are u being sarcastic?
Concept videos like this pop up all the time and NONE of them are based on anything but pure hope & imagination.

 

[tekboi]

I hate watching videos like these. I know ill just be disappointed when apple finally does release iOS7.

 

[lotzosushi]

Honestly, this is still very boring. They all look like random jailbreak tweaks put together. When I think redesign overhaul, the basic UI shouldn't look like any of the past interfaces. I love my iPhone 5 and every generation of iPhone before it, but they're going to need to do more than this to keep my attention. I'm so tired of seeing the same rounded squares. The only reason I jailbreak now is to change how it looks and add widgets. Next concept please.

 

[sigamy]

Overall I like this design. And I'm hoping that Apple has even more in store to wow us.

I'm still waiting for the music app to allow a swipe left or right to change tracks. Or very large "virtual buttons" that cover the left and right side instead of the tiny thumb sized buttons we have now.

I often change tracks while driving and it's a pain.

 

[markrath]

I hope Apple addresses the issue where you're in a car, moving obviously, POP WIFI Near You, POP WIFI Near You, POP WIFI Near You. You then have to go turn off wifi so this doesn't happen, and you forget about later in the day, and you wonder why you're iPhone ran out of battery so fast. Oh, I forgot to turn my Wifi back on.

Go in settings and turn off auto detect (or something to that effect) - for me personally it works well

 

[mrmarts]

The icons look graphically smoother and seem to radiate upon touch, but common this is still no major facelift widgets are already there in our pull down notification screen. Do we need another a weather widget to keep popping up in our home screen. They have not even given us the flexibility to download and choose what widgets we want in our notification screens, like the ability to customise our phones with themes.


The home screen needs innovation, it needs a big makeover like a flip board solution like HTC or an android home screen where we can see and move the widgets like the dying dashboard on our macs. The interface is lacklustre, do not get me wrong i like Apple i have bought millions of apps and have never tried another phone because of the iPhones simplicity and reliability.

But the company really needs to focus into bringing the ios interface into the 21st century. It may have worked 6 years ago, but minor tweaks today won't cut it. We need the think different slogan.

I'am hoping apple will pull something out in its bag of tricks.

 

[Macrolido]

Thankfully this people doesn´t work for Apple.

 

[MacAddict1978]

Some of the ideas are good but the widgets concept is about as dumb as it is on Android. Why not just open the app and get the full deal rather than the limited info that comes with widgets? The apps on iOS open blazing fast. It's not like opening Photoshop or something on a slow spinning hard disk.

Heck, I never use widgets even on my old slow Mac. And Apple has had widgets on Mac since forever it seems. I'm pretty sure they know full well whether people on average find them useful or not. My guess is not really.

I wouldn't call them dumb on android, just battery killers... but on android, you don't need to scroll through apps to hit a widget. You just drop the ones you want on the home screen of your choice, or multiple widges for that matter, and it's instant content.

This method requires odd double taps, and locating an app.

These functions are all cool and would be useful... but it still leaves IOS looking and mostly acting the same boring IOS that's been around for 6 years.

Just grids of apps need to go...

 

[dba415]

What's the point of the double clicking icons? It'd be better to just single click to open up the app, do what you need to do, and then press the home button. There is no added benefit of double clicking apps to get a quick view.

 

[nosnhojm]

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.

Does this happen to you daily? The current settings app is easy enough to use for turning wifi off.

 

[charlituna]

If even half of those concepts come to fruition, iOS7 will be a major upgrade.

They won't. At least not in iOS 7

One because they look copied from Android and Apple got enough crp over notification center

Two because they destroy a huge part of the built in Accessibility and Apple is big on their Accessibility

 

[redbeard331]

This guy's concepts are much much better..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B3uj-MAJx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOV6je9dXM

 

[smoking monkey]

the music is great

Personally I found it annoying. Didn't suit this type of video in my opinion.

 

[charlituna]

Can we add another column in next generation of iPhone and make it wider?

Just put phone in iPad Mini. After all, Apple must make something to compete with Galaxy Note

 

[ChrisTX]

That's actually all really ugly and poorly thought out to me.

Until Apple releases something similar, and then it becomes the greatest thing ever!

 

[Rogifan]

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.

Where did you hear that Apple is thinking of adding widgets to iOS?

 

[ptram]

Widgets. No. No. No!

 

[garylapointe]

How far behind can a company be on an unannounced product?

We haven't heard a peep from Apple about iOS 7, right?

It's safe to assume that they're working on it, but....

Gary

 

[Kwill]

That's actually all really ugly and poorly thought out to me.

It's basically a mashup of OSX and iOS with a few examples of how to access common features easier. Not evolutionary but may make many diehard Mac users happy.

Doubt if Jonny Ive was waiting for this video to get started. His approach would be to refashion the buttons, icons, background and grid layout. Then strip interface elements to the bare minimum.

Besides, the presented concept has no "aluminimum" in the UI. How could Ive possibly record an interesting sound bite?

 

[charlituna]

The quick settings functionality has been around forever on jailbroken iPhones - with SBSettings with a quick pulldown where you can access any of those settings with one swipe. Just like with the current pull-down notification center and quick info screen that was available via Intelliscreen for forever too. Pretty comical that developers cranked this stuff out ages ago and Apple is still trying to figure it out.

Apple could have done 99% if not all of the tweaks that jail breakers figured out years ago if they wanted to add them. Catch is that they might not. They have their reasons for why they did what they did, how they did it. And it's not for lack of knowledge.