Safari Icon Not Changing Anytime Soon?

[djtech42]

The ugly Safari icon in iOS 7 (only icon that still looks off for me) may not be changing anytime soon. A patent was filed on April 30 for the Safari, Music, iTunes, and Voice Memos icons.

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...os-7-icons-are-now-registered-trademarks.html

 

[ionjohn]

The ugly Safari icon in iOS 7 (only icon that still looks off for me) may not be changing anytime soon. A patent was filed on April 30 for the Safari, Music, iTunes, and Voice Memos icons.

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...os-7-icons-are-now-registered-trademarks.html

You have to be kidding

 

[CosmoFox]

I haven't spent more than a second staring at that icon or having an opinion about it.

 

[antiprotest]

Good. I like the icon.

 

[Richardgm]

Icons change, trademarks can change.

Because it's trademarked doesn't mean it has to stay that way now. See the calculator icon. Poor thing keeps changing every few years.

 

[BillyMatt87]

If these apparently leaked screenshots of iOS 8 are anything to go by, it looks as if the Safari icon will be tweaked.

 

[Tanegashima]

Yeah, I would do the same to Safari's icon.

But it doesn't really bothers me.

 

[Simplicated]

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If these apparently leaked screenshots of iOS 8 are anything to go by, it looks as if the Safari icon will be tweaked.

They are fake. The font is wrong. The iBooks label is off.

 

[richwoodrocket]

I don't see anything wrong with the icon for safari.

 

[arefbe]

I don't see anything wrong with the icon for safari.

That's because there isn't anything wrong with it.

 

[richwoodrocket]

That's because there isn't anything wrong with it.

Exactly.

 

[SMIDG3T]

The ugly Safari icon in iOS 7 (only icon that still looks off for me) may not be changing anytime soon. A patent was filed on April 30 for the Safari, Music, iTunes, and Voice Memos icons.

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...os-7-icons-are-now-registered-trademarks.html

Get over it. It's a bloody icon.

 

[kmj2318]

It doesn't mean much. They've been trademarking some of the iOS 6 icons right before iOS 7 came out.

I actually like the safari icon. And all the mockups I've seen make it worse.

 

[djtech42]

Only problem I have with it is the white space around the compass. It looks bad when it is in the dock.

 

[CutterSlade]

I don't understand why people whine about the icons. What matters is whether they're gonna improve the browser itself or not, not its icon.

 

[dannyyankou]

I care more about how an app works than the icon that I look at for a split second.

 

[bkends35]

I've never thought the icon looks out of place.

 

[slimm432]

To the original poster. If you despise the safari icon so much why don't you change it with a short cut? That's what I did with that ugly Instagram Icon.

Check out icustom.

http://icustom.tooliphone.net/en/config#.U2V7M4m9LCQ

 

[ionjohn]

I haven't spent more than a second staring at that icon or having an opinion about it.

You have no opinion? :/

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I don't understand why people whine about the icons. What matters is whether they're gonna improve the browser itself or not, not its icon.

to me, the browser is perfect as it is so now they should focus on the icon haha

 

[CosmoFox]

You have no opinion? :/

About a safari icon? Who cares.

 

[djtech42]

Everybody acts like I really care that much about the icon haha. I posted this for the people who constantly complain about it.

Yes, I think it is ugly and can be improved, but it's not a deal breaker for me.

 

[ionjohn]

Everybody acts like I really care that much about the icon haha. I posted this for the people who constantly complain about it.

Yes, I think it is ugly and can be improved, but it's not a deal breaker for me.

Yeah exactly, it's not a deal breaker but it could definitely be improved!

 

[Hezzaa]

Personally I don't mind the safari icon, I think it's decent, but the "leaked" one sure looks better.

 

[afsnyder]

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If these apparently leaked screenshots of iOS 8 are anything to go by, it looks as if the Safari icon will be tweaked.

Woah where is that from?!

 

[LordQ]

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If these apparently leaked screenshots of iOS 8 are anything to go by, it looks as if the Safari icon will be tweaked.

Mark Gurman already said those are fake.