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What's on Your iPhone Home Screen?
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Yes. It’s a shortcut creation that allows the wallpaper to change every so minutes. Not something I know how to do, but can be done
I concur. It shows up on Apple TV as well, blank. Wish they would make what I do with my iPhone coordinate with my Apple TV.
Adding Widgets to your iPhone Home Screen is just an upgrade. They can be pretty helpful sometimes.
I absolutely love the zen like feel. You have won the internet today, game over, lock the thread 😎
i swipe left for all my widgets. Although I never use them. Cause you can’t interact with them. My Home Screen is nothing but rows of Siri suggestions that change of my most used apps. And I swipe right for my App Library.
Well, I still cannot find the widgets useful. I prefer having more apps on the Home Screen than a widget that takes up space for four apps at once.
I need quick access for too many apps plus few others via the Control Centre.
So no widgets for me at this time.
Maybe in the future... 😜
I need quick access for too many apps plus few others via the Control Centre.
So no widgets for me at this time.
Maybe in the future... 😜
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It’s nice that Apple finally gave iOS owners a taste of the futility of homescree customisation that Android users have had for the last decade.
Changing icons is a waste of time. It only applies to the home screen and not the app drawer and certainly not at system level (eg in settings or the card view) which ruins the homogeny.
Android is equally messy in this sense: only OEMs like Samsung and Huawei let you change things at system level but only with the crappy icons on their respective stores. You have to use 3rd party apps if you want play store icon packs at system level but their integration is messy to say the least.
Widgets on Android are a mess because there is no design language between even Google’s own widgets. Apple’s widgets look nicer but lack interactivity. Plus if you want to quickly check the weather or batteries then you’re better off just sliding over the left hand screen rather than unlocking your phone, at which point an extra click takes you into the app with further details.
Your home screen is the hallway between the rooms on your phone which are the apps. Sure, you can decorate and hang some pictures but who spends any amount of time in a hallway?
Changing icons is a waste of time. It only applies to the home screen and not the app drawer and certainly not at system level (eg in settings or the card view) which ruins the homogeny.
Android is equally messy in this sense: only OEMs like Samsung and Huawei let you change things at system level but only with the crappy icons on their respective stores. You have to use 3rd party apps if you want play store icon packs at system level but their integration is messy to say the least.
Widgets on Android are a mess because there is no design language between even Google’s own widgets. Apple’s widgets look nicer but lack interactivity. Plus if you want to quickly check the weather or batteries then you’re better off just sliding over the left hand screen rather than unlocking your phone, at which point an extra click takes you into the app with further details.
Your home screen is the hallway between the rooms on your phone which are the apps. Sure, you can decorate and hang some pictures but who spends any amount of time in a hallway?
