The things that really bother me so far.
The widgets: Yea it’s cool and all, but the design of them is pretty bland and there’s so much useless blank space that most of them look bad to me. At first I thought this would only apply to Apples own widgets but then all the third party widgets look the same, as if Apple gave a template to use and there’s no other option. Haven’t seen one beautifully designed third party widget yet, maybe there’s some, might help if so many of them just didn’t not work whatsoever. And the today view is a huge step backwards, total mess, the iOS 10?-13 today view was awesome, on iOS 14 it looks like crap. First thing I noticed back in I think beta 2 or 3 was that they pinched down the size of the third party widgets to match the width of Apple’s widgets which are 4 icons in width. Problem with that is it pinched down all the widgets and they look cramped, awkward, and goofy. And then there’s this weird and wasteful empty space on the sides, as if we lost half an inch of screen size in width. And then the widgets themselves are no longer nicely spaced together, there are huge, ridiculous looking gaps between widgets. To top this all off they have lost the ability to be interactive, they are basically giant app icons now that provide little info. AND you can no longer collapse/expand apps in today view, they are just static. Now, apps that haven’t been updated for iOS 14 widgets still retain their iOS 13 goodness, yet they are pinched, of course these will go away as more and more of them get that iOS 14 update.
As someone who is a big fan of widgets I’m just greatly disappointed by iOS 14, for the ability to pin them to the home screen we lost a lot in the process. I see this as a big step back, especially since they disabled 3D Touch widgets! I use 3D Touch widgets constantly all day to peek into apps, and now it’s gone completely. If you do so with let’s say 25 apps per day, you’d have to fill page after page on the springboard with Apples giant widgets just to have some kind of similarity, and that’s ridiculous. And remember, apps that haven’t been updated or may never be, don’t have widgets you can put anywhere on the springboard. It’s like they took one step forward and ten steps back, there was no reason to disable 3D Touch app widgets, none, whoever decided to do that should be fired.
