Anyone 'slide to the right' from the 'HOME ' screen and get the 'pre-Home' screen which now appears to be useless ? Unless its a setting I have the attached is what I get if I 'slide' the Home Screen right...but this (pre iOS 15 screen) won't allow me to use its space. Widgets I place on it just stay in a line on the left of the screen. Anyone else notice this?
Yeah, this seems a little weird now, but I use it for widgets I don't care to have on my Home Screen. They probably left this there so that the old style widgets can still be used since they can't be put on the Home Screen (like your Verizon one).
You can remove the App Library from the dock. Check under the Home Screen & Dock settings...
Yes...But are you able to put the Widgets anywhere on that page? When I tried it placed them only in the row currently at the left of the screen ????? (While leaving the rest of the space empty as posted...).
It's the same for me too. I don't think Apple updated or changed anything here though. This screen is called the Today View, and I typically access it from the Lock Screen, or when I'm in an app (swipe down for Notification Center, then swipe right). It'd be nice if widgets weren't limited to that one column though.
Is that what sidecar widgets look like in iPadOS 15? I.e. blurred screen and no option to slide in/out on homescreen like iPadOS 13/14?
Yes, but sidecar isn't the right word to use here. (Sidecar is using the iPad as a secondary display for the Mac.) Apple calls this screen the Today View, and is the same as iPadOS 13/14. You can put any widgets here (old and modern), but the older style widgets that haven't been updated to the new modern style can only go here and not the Home Screen. Also as mentioned earlier, this screen can also be accessed from the Lock Screen, and when swiping right from the Notification Center.
No...not about 'sidecar' widgets....unless you're joking? I was just showing how on that 'first' screen' you can only locate widgets in that single left column; not anywheres on the page.
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What’s the point of having public betas if we leave all the bidding up to the tech press? Seriously the whole point was for average people to test the software and report bugs or suggestions. This isn’t the first time either. There were massive bugs that were reported early on in the iOS 13 betas that were not fixed by release.Most of us have been on here since June complaining that this was a colossal mess and offered some really straight forward ways to solve it (like simply adding the ability to choose between the Today View Home Screen or Widgets Anywhere Home Screen) but now that the iOS 15 upgrades are happening en mass it's good to know it wasn't just a few of us who detested the "upgrade". I saw The Verge put up an entire article today talking about how bad iPadOS 15 home screen is. Maybe now Apple will take notice and offer us a way out of this.
iPadOS 15 ruined my iPad’s homescreen
Wasted space, icons that move around, and other annoyances.
Hit the nail on the head, they've danced around real multitasking improvements (namely floating, resizable app windows) and instead made superficial changes which interfere with people's workflows and muscle memory just to have something "new". Either the people designing and approving this stuff aren't heavy iPad users (or their workflows are diametrically opposite to normal people), which is hard to believe, or this is the deliberate direction Apple is going in to make the iPad even more distinct from the Mac. Instead of a legit tablet computer, it's supposed to be an entertainment terminal for consuming Apple subscriptions and maybe some light work on the side. I'm staying with iPad OS 14 for the Today view and the tighter grid placement. Every extra screen I have to swipe to or app level I have to dig through is a waste of time. I've been burned by enough recent iOS "updates" that change the look, feel and UI of core apps to not fall for it again.
Refusing to upgrade to 15 on daily device having tested ios15 on another device. For iPads, in my view, the ios14 layout is far superior.
Same here. The 11" iPad Pro has a different aspect ratio than the other iPads. It's taller/narrower, so I think that helps eliminate the "wasted space" seen on other iPads. The 5x6 grid is nice too. I've always thought it was weird when it used to be a 6x5 grid...6 icons across the shorter length, and 5 icons across the longer length. Now it's 5 the short way, and 6 the long way.
