iPad What is the little square on the home button?

[Italianblend]

Is there any meaning to the little square that is on the home button of the ipads and previous iphones (before the 5S?)?

Does it represent something?

 

[Menel]

Is there any meaning to the little square that is on the home button of the ipads and previous iphones (before the 5S?)?

Does it represent something?

Rounded square icons as on the home screen... where it takes you...

 

[zbarvian]

Rounded square icons as on the home screen... where it takes you...

Now that the icons are more squircles in shape, it would be neat to see them change the look of the icon. But for consistency' sake I think they should've done away with it regardless.

 

[smoking monkey]

I just realised... No TouchID for the iPad Air.

Son of a biitch. Certainly not a deal breaker in any way but still would have been nice to have.

That will be added next year.

 

[Menel]

Now that the icons are more squircles in shape, it would be neat to see them change the look of the icon. But for consistency' sake I think they should've done away with it regardless.

I don't know what this is.

But my icons are still rounded edge squares like the home button etching.

 

[zbarvian]

I don't know what this is.

But my icons are still rounded edge squares like the home button etching.

They changed the shapes of the icons in iOS 7. Slightly, but certainly different.

 

[Menel]

They changed the shapes of the icons in iOS 7. Slightly, but certainly different.

Did Jony Ives say they implemented a "squircle" shape?

They still look like rounded edge squares to me.

 

[TJ61]

Does it represent something?

Man's inhumanity to man.

 

[macduke]

Did Jony Ives say they implemented a "squircle" shape?

They still look like rounded edge squares to me.

He's just referring to the corner radius of the rounded rects in iOS 7 being larger than before, hence a slightly more rounded appearance. I had to design an icon a few weeks ago for iOS 7 and they have certainly changed.

Selecting files in Mavericks is also rounded now. 😀

 

[zbarvian]

He's just referring to the corner radius of the rounded rects in iOS 7 being larger than before, hence a slightly more rounded appearance. I had to design an icon a few weeks ago for iOS 7 and they have certainly changed.

Selecting files in Mavericks is also rounded now. 😀

No, not exactly.

http://www.cocoanetics.com/2013/06/ios-7-icon-squircle/

 

[pear21]

I thought it would have been awesome for Apple to add an LED for the square on the button and have it be used as a notification light similar to how the s3 has the blue light at the top of the phone.