iOS 8 Screenshot Reveals New Healthbook, Preview and TextEdit Icons

[jtfolden]

I would LOVE to have TextEdit on iOS. I use a combination of TextEdit and Dropbox constantly for work every day. TextEdit can save to iCloud already but currently there's no way to access those files from an iOS device. It would great to be able to eliminate Dropbox.

 

[Northgrove]

iOS 8? WTH??? I'm still not over my hate for iOS 7.

Not sure if joking, but iOS has yearly major releases.

iOS 3: June 2009
iOS 4: June 2010
iOS 5: Previewed June 2011, released in October
iOS 6: Previewed June 2012, released in September
iOS 7: Previewed June 2013, released in September

Oh boy I sure wonder what we'll see in June!

Three months to see iOS 8. Time's going too fast.

 

[Tyler23]

I know; it may seem like nothing fits, but in very subtle ways it does.
In the bottom-right corner, the top of the yellow road lines up with the bottom line of the Grid. The white road also touches the edges of the middle circle of the Grid.

I really think the Grid is underused by Apple, to the point where you just can't notice it. Even with the Grid overlayed, you can't really see much correlation.

I see that now - even still, for the most part it seems like it's more likely to be coincidence than intentional, given how the rest of the icon is laid out.

Either way, following the "grid" or not, I think the iOS 7 app icons flow really well together.

 

[abshole765]

Man do we need the down vote back.

Why?

 

[Rogifan]

Why?

For every time someone says "Steve wouldn't have". Almost as bad as Safari is snappier.

 

[cobbyco]

I see that now - even still, for the most part it seems like it's more likely to be coincidence than intentional, given how the rest of the icon is laid out.

Either way, following the "grid" or not, I think the iOS 7 app icons flow really well together.

Agreed. I don't care what anyone else says: Apple did a good job with the icons.

 

[JHankwitz]

Apple doesn't typically use OS X icons as placeholders for iOS (as far as I can remember), so my first guess is that this is obviously fake.

Or, there are plans to eventually standardize the two.

 

[Rogifan]

Mark Gurman from 9to5Mac has a 100% perfect track record when it comes to his own sources. Yeah, 100%, he’s never been wrong so far out of the 30 times he chimed in on something and it later got verified.

And now he’s saying:
"I have confirmed with several sources that these shots are legitimate"

Of course those OS X-esque icons are placeholders, but I would still expect those feature in iOS 8 judging by Gurman's accuracy.

If this is legit no doubt those icons will change. Apple is not going to bring OSX style icons to iOS. If anything the more simplified iOS icon styles will come to OSX.

 

[lincolntran]

The answer here is to remove the bloody silos that files are stuck in within each apps. iOS is beginning to feel like a bunch of disconnected messes. iOS is actually becoming more and more cumbersome and getting more counterintuitive as time goes on. App silos just aren't how people work. When people work on a project, they keep all files for that particular project in one folder all together so they can review the files and keep up to date with a particular project all at once. If I standardly use 7 files of varying file types for a typical publishing process and I'm running out the door and need to check to make sure I have everything I need, I don't want to have to sit there and open up and go into and out of 7 different apps to check on the files I need for 1 bloody project. Let me put all the files for that project in one folder all, all files for a project all together. I look in one folder glance to make sure I have what I need, then off I go. Please Apple, don't be so hell bent on 'simplicity' that you actually making it MORE bloody confusing than all the other 'confusing' mobile OS's you polk fun at for being 'confusing'.

There's a device that's excellent for what you need. It's called a desktop or laptop.

 

[cobbyco]

Almost as bad as Safari is snappier.

Every. Single. Release.

 

[iPhilPHX]

"I hate it! That looks horrible! iOS 8 sucks!!!"

 

[3282868]

I seem to disagree with many here. I'm thrilled to finally see TextEdit make it to iOS. I use it regularly on the Mac to take notes, and I was very disappointed not being able to take those notes on the road on my iPad.

I agree. How about replacing Notes with TextEdit? Essentially, bringing more features to Notes, making it more than a reminder list?

 

[unobtainium]

Agreed. It's a middleman product who's job should be pushed to notes, while previews job (minor editing of PDF's) should be pushed to Pages. iBooks can keep displaying PDF's (it works for enough people, if I don't like a function, I don't use it).

Why add more crap instead of simplify? I though Apple was about, "it just works." This just doesn't.

Maybe they're getting rid of Notes in favor of TextEdit.

 

[Pagemakers]

The answer here is to remove the bloody silos that files are stuck in within each apps. iOS is beginning to feel like a bunch of disconnected messes. iOS is actually becoming more and more cumbersome and getting more counterintuitive as time goes on. App silos just aren't how people work. When people work on a project, they keep all files for that particular project in one folder all together so they can review the files and keep up to date with a particular project all at once. If I standardly use 7 files of varying file types for a typical publishing process and I'm running out the door and need to check to make sure I have everything I need, I don't want to have to sit there and open up and go into and out of 7 different apps to check on the files I need for 1 bloody project. Let me put all the files for that project in one folder all, all files for a project all together. I look in one folder glance to make sure I have what I need, then off I go. Please Apple, don't be so hell bent on 'simplicity' that you actually making it MORE bloody confusing than all the other 'confusing' mobile OS's you polk fun at for being 'confusing'.

100000% agree with every single comment.

 

[TennisandMusic]

All of the people saying iOS doesn't need TextEdit because it has Pages and Notes apparently have absolutely no idea what TextEdit actually does.

 

[redhawk87]

I don't see a reason to have a health book app unless there is a device that can use it. Adding a pedometer and other sensors to the iPhone may make sense, but iOS 8 will be released before the next iPhone and I don't think apple would do that.

Now, apple has flirted with iwatch territory with the iPod nano. I always wondered why they drastically changed the design of the nano to the square thingy with a clip and then a year later redesigned it back to essentially the same form factor used before. I think that apple realized the popularity of the nano watch and with the iPod brand declining, apple did not want to simply repurpose the iPod nano as the iwatch. That may breathe new life into an old product line, but I don't think it would give apple the "completely new, radically different" tactic they like to use. Besides, the iPod nano would need to be completely redesigned to really reach mainstream success like the iPhone and iPad. So, will apple keep the iPod nano and shuffle around after introduction of the iwatch? If the iwatch allows for Bluetooth headphones, access to data , and can operate on its own with a 4-5 day battery life, there would be absolutely no need for an iPod nano. That way you could listen to music without the need for much storage and relying solely on the cloud.

 

[3282868]

There's a device that's excellent for what you need. It's called a desktop or laptop.

and I'm waiting for the inevitable tablet "post-pc era" rebound. Tablets are effective in the business industry as extensions to desktops, not in lieu of them. Tablet's have been media consumption devices due to the very nature of their purpose - their form. No one wants to type a dissertation on a small tablet, or work on a media project such as film editing that requires reasonable screen real estate. Many editors find 2 displays limiting.

Tablets = consumption (games, books, video)
Desktops = production (see above)

This will always be the case due to the inherit form of tablets. Once technology advances to a point that tablets become [literally] paper thin (most likely attributed to OLED technology advancements), they'll remain "netbook" replacements at best.

 

[TylerL]

All of the people saying iOS doesn't need TextEdit because it has Pages and Notes apparently have absolutely no idea what TextEdit actually does.

To be fair, what does it do - for the common user - that a combination of Notes and Pages cannot?

I use TextEdit every day for quick notes and as a neutral middleground for editing any sort of words/code/etc.
...but I don't see how it could compliment the two other standard word processing options on a system like iOS...

 

[djtech42]

Even though the icons might be placeholders, I still think it is fake as TextEdit and Preview don't really make sense on iOS.
More document support can be implemented in other apps.

They don't really need a Tips app and the icon doesn't follow the grid system.

Healthbook looks legitimate, but anybody could mockup an icon for it based on the rumors.

So overall, this looks like a mockup based on the rumors about iOS 8. Maybe it is a really early beta, but I doubt it.

 

[itpromike]

There's a device that's excellent for what you need. It's called a desktop or laptop.

But I thought iPads were for more than content consumption? If it is indeed also for creating that organization goes hand in hand with that mate. All I'm saying is that all other mobile platforms allow you to place folders with shortcuts to specific files or documents on the home screen or desktop; with Apple claiming that iOS is the "Most advanced mobile operating system in the world" (direct quote) why can't iOS do the same? I choose iOS because I'm an Apple fan. I want better ways to keep organized because I'm a fan of getting things done.

 

[dtich]

fugazi

 

[technopimp]

How about just make an iOS 7.5 it doesn't have all of the ridiculous bugs that 7 still has, before moving onto the next major release?

 

[unobtainium]

Even though the icons might be placeholders, I still think it is fake as TextEdit and Preview don't really make sense on iOS.
More document support can be implemented in other apps.

Disagree. I store hundreds of annotated PDFs in Dropbox because at this point that's the easiest way. But if I could store them in icloud via preview and have them, with annotations intact, syncing natively between all my devices..that would be incredible.

 

[Pagemakers]

Maybe preview is there because Apple are finally going to give us a very much needed document repository...

 

[Apple Key]

You can tell it's fake because one icon is on a black background and one on a white background.