I couldn’t agree more. They have absolutely destroyed the utility of the Home Screen. This is the first time in 14 years where I’m not planning to upgrade to the new OS until I’m forced to. iPad OS 15 adds nothing that is worth the huge loss on the Home Screen. Just adding a preference to enable the ipad OS 14 Home Screen would completely solve the problem.
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iPadOS 15 : we are stuck with 6x5 apps on home screen now?
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I asked somewhere on Mac rumors if it was still possible to have the (Temporary) slide out widgets on the homescreen (exactly the same ad iPadOS 13 & 14) and was told this was still possible. Now I’m confused whether this is actually possible or not? Can anyone confirm?
Thanks!
I don’t think there’s anything to fix, other than giving us the option to go back to the old way and not allow us to use widgets on the Home Screen. I don’t see Apple doing that though.
As someone else already mentioned in this thread, the new layout is so that the icons are in a square grid. This makes them the same distance apart in both orientations and allows them to play nicely with the widgets. With the old layout for example, a 4x2 section would be something like 700x400px in portrait mode, but 900x300px in landscape mode. With the new layout, a 4x2 section is now something like 700x350px in both orientations. It’s much easier to make everything be the same dimensions in both orientations rather than having the widgets account for multiple dimensions.
Whats the point to pretend to let us place the widgets anywhere when in facts its just a big mess where you actually can't place them anywhere and you just have to "follow the line". Why Apple won't let us place the icons/widget just everywhere we want just like a normal desktop computer home screen? With this current state, its almost impossible to place icons/qidget the way we want to let the wallpaper shine.
Ironically, the iPadOS 14 layout is much better with widget all in left along with a big clock on top of it, it looks way better.
Ironically, the iPadOS 14 layout is much better with widget all in left along with a big clock on top of it, it looks way better.
Instead of letting us a choose between Normal or Zoomed layouts Apple should have choices for iOS 14 Standard or iOS 15 Widgets Anywhere Standard.
Unfortunately I believe that the glory days of using a 12.9” screen to its full potential are gone and we are stuck with this false narrative that the Home Screen has been upgraded. I personally never gave a single **** about not being able to place widgets anywhere and absolutely loved the layout iOS 14 offered. My screen was filled with apps, folders and widgets and it felt like I was using every pixel of my 12.9”…hopefully the 10% of people out there who wanted this “feature” are fully satisfied with the massive gaps between every icon and the utter waste of space so they can have their garbage stacked smart widget placed smack in the middle of their screen.
Unfortunately I believe that the glory days of using a 12.9” screen to its full potential are gone and we are stuck with this false narrative that the Home Screen has been upgraded. I personally never gave a single **** about not being able to place widgets anywhere and absolutely loved the layout iOS 14 offered. My screen was filled with apps, folders and widgets and it felt like I was using every pixel of my 12.9”…hopefully the 10% of people out there who wanted this “feature” are fully satisfied with the massive gaps between every icon and the utter waste of space so they can have their garbage stacked smart widget placed smack in the middle of their screen.
My biggest problem is that when I briefly installed the beta on my 2015 iPad Pro 12.9", all my pages went out of wack and completely disorganized. I restored back to iOS 14 just because I wanted to screenshot each of my pages so I can work on reorganizing if they truly get rid of 6x5
Does anyone else find it hilarious how many bitched last year than ipad os didn’t get widgets that can be placed anywhere and now that it does people are still bitching?
It's the lazy implementation that looks like they either couldn't figure out how to do it properly or don't want to.
Yep, I suspect this is why they didn’t implement it last year as there doesn’t seem to be a happy medium. With the phone, there is only one orientation to worry about. Easy-peasy. On the iPad, you have to worry about the orientation…figuring out where the widgets should shift to when rotating the screen. Plus changing the grid-layout so that it’ll work in both orientations.
It’s not perfect, but using launcher widgets is one way of getting around the more spaced out app layout issue. Only thing is that launching apps is a tad slower because it has to route through the shortcuts app.
Still playing around with homescreen widgets, but between launcher and widgetsmith, I see myself running all-widget homescreen and not bothering with conventional apps ever again.
Still playing around with homescreen widgets, but between launcher and widgetsmith, I see myself running all-widget homescreen and not bothering with conventional apps ever again.
I didn’t bitch about either, but it is weird to introduce a more dense layout in iPadOS 13 to remove it 2 years later.
I would be happy if they’d already space the apps like shown in your widget on the bottom in the middle : that would give us 12x6 = 72 apps already.It’s not perfect, but using launcher widgets is one way of getting around the more spaced out app layout issue. Only thing is that launching apps is a tad slower because it has to route through the shortcuts app.
Still playing around with homescreen widgets, but between launcher and widgetsmith, I see myself running all-widget homescreen and not bothering with conventional apps ever again.
maybe the spacing would look a little weird but it’d still be an improvement.
I mean think about it
my iPhone 11 has 24 apps on the screen. (Not counting the dock) the 12.9” iPad Pro can fit 4 times as many
This to me breaks old set layout guidelines from the mail app on the iPad, we have different look seemless if in portraits or landscape. Ok a widget not an app so not really true. The thing is that endusers know this behaviour from apps. From this rule it should be that the widgets change behaviour and what data is shown between landscape and portrait. Giving us that we can have the old spacing back as they use already set data to change form and style from position. *grumble grumble* 😠
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Yes, that is extremely hilarious! I’m cracking up laughing. What makes it so funny is how you’re trying to make it seem like people bitched about not having a feature and are now bitching because that feature is being added, when really they still want it but think Apple did a bad job at implementing it; they just think it looks terrible.
But yes. That was very funny. Good one!
Not funny at all, as people are not bitching at a feature but its implementation.
So no, it's not the same reason and it's quite fair to complain about a lousy implementation, they did it just to do it, that's the problem, it's not well thought out.
Isn't that the whole point in that it is well thought out (how widgets appear when changing orientation etc)?