OK, so I like the new layout with the widgets on the home screen in landscape view. It’s an slight improvement but I feel it could have been so much better.
1) I prefer the smaller icons spaced closer together. With the widgets on screen, there is space for 6 columns of 5 app icons. However, flick over to the next page, and we now have no widgets and still just 6 columns of 5 app icons. It’s obvious that the same spacing could have been used and we could have 9 columns. Better yet, why not just give me a slider to adjust icon spacing to personal preference all around?
2) I can’t believe it’s been this many YEARS for widgets to appear alongside apps, and this is all we get? A single column on a single page. At the very least, I’d prefer An option to have the widget column remain persistent while the right two thirds is what cycles through pages of apps. But why can’t we freely place widgets and controls among icons in any damn order we want. Like, you know, that OTHER device operating system. I’ve been on board since the Apple ][ and I always loved that Apple stayed at the forefront of pleasant UI design. Spatial organization and layout of apps on the home screen is not a complicated matter from a coding perspective. Consider the approach for icon layout on the Watch. It’s clever and useful. Why not something like that on the iPad?
It just ticks me off that interface improvements seem to take backseat to things like “ooooh look we added a new animal emoji”.
[old man shakes fist at sky]
1) I prefer the smaller icons spaced closer together. With the widgets on screen, there is space for 6 columns of 5 app icons. However, flick over to the next page, and we now have no widgets and still just 6 columns of 5 app icons. It’s obvious that the same spacing could have been used and we could have 9 columns. Better yet, why not just give me a slider to adjust icon spacing to personal preference all around?
2) I can’t believe it’s been this many YEARS for widgets to appear alongside apps, and this is all we get? A single column on a single page. At the very least, I’d prefer An option to have the widget column remain persistent while the right two thirds is what cycles through pages of apps. But why can’t we freely place widgets and controls among icons in any damn order we want. Like, you know, that OTHER device operating system. I’ve been on board since the Apple ][ and I always loved that Apple stayed at the forefront of pleasant UI design. Spatial organization and layout of apps on the home screen is not a complicated matter from a coding perspective. Consider the approach for icon layout on the Watch. It’s clever and useful. Why not something like that on the iPad?
It just ticks me off that interface improvements seem to take backseat to things like “ooooh look we added a new animal emoji”.
[old man shakes fist at sky]
