Simple answer is to change the background from light to dark? Not sure what you are saying....it's not intuitive or you think there should be a separate button.
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Why is Apple reluctant to allow customisation of the homescreen?
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Simple answer is to change the background from light to dark? Not sure what you are saying....it's not intuitive or you think there should be a separate button.
In iOS 7,8 when you are viewing a photo the background is white and so are the top/bottom action bars. If you tap once on the photo itself the surrounding "chrome" disappears leaving just the photo and a plain black background. This is inconsistent. In previous versions of iOS the photos app had a dark theme and when you tapped once a photo the top/bottom buttons and actions would disappear and leave you with a black background. It felt consistent, whereas right now it's as if they couldn't decide if the Photos app should be a white or dark theme.
Apple doesn't really care much about boring, at last in comparison to other things they see as more important (like many of those that various others mentioned in this thread), and it doesn't appear to be something that really comes into play for the vast majority of their users either.
Call me simplistic, but I have no issues with customization:
I can choose whichever pic I like for my screens, I can add shortcuts to my home screen, that's all I need. *is happy*
I can choose whichever pic I like for my screens, I can add shortcuts to my home screen, that's all I need. *is happy*
I like that the background can be switched between light and dark. iOS 6 is way to far in my distant memory to really care how it looked.
The app itself, like pretty much other apps, is off of a white background, but for full-screen viewing of content a dark background is used. It's basically a difference in the use case in a sense, not so much of being inconsistent. (And this is something coming from someone who would love a dark mode for iOS.)
Because Jony Ive is smarter than us peasants. We need to understand that he knows what's best for us.
I think it would be cool if you could install custom icon packs and remove the app name text below, but that's all I'm interested in. There are a lot of really nice icon packs out there that look way better than stock icons. I couldn't care less about widgets. They make home screens look like a 12 year olds windows machine.
I don't see where the harm would lie in allowing a customised home page to be an option that you put together in Settings. For all base level users, the home page would be as we now know it, for more advanced users, it could be how they want it to be. If the base level users want to move up a level, it's as easy as toggling a switch and installing widgets.
Think of the headaches people have had over third party keyboards functioning, just think if the whole phone/home screen was that way. Also, don't forget about the occasional hiccup with the notification center widgets.
Lots of reasons to do it and don't know what Apple's issue is.
When I have jailbroken my device in the past, theming and widgets were great
On my S6 Edge, I have a page with my stock ticker and all related stock/trade apps.
That is something I seriously miss on my 6+.
Then there is theming.
When I have jailbroken my device in the past, theming and widgets were great
On my S6 Edge, I have a page with my stock ticker and all related stock/trade apps.
That is something I seriously miss on my 6+.
Then there is theming
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Lots of reasons to do it and don't know what Apple's issue is.
When I have jailbroken my device in the past, theming and widgets were great
On my S6 Edge, I have a page with my stock ticker and all related stock/trade apps.
That is something I seriously miss on my 6+.
Then there is theming
This is the reason I couldn't have an iPhone as my only phone. It is handy to use and in size but it is way too restrictive.
The answer is quite simple; branding.
Apple want all of our phones to look and act the same, so that they match their adverts and promotions, so that whenever someone else looks at your phone they immediately know it's an iPhone. That's why the basic shape of the handset always stays the same, and why we'll always have the same stock icons and layouts
Simply put, if you want to customise, you need to move to Android (for now anyway)
Apple want all of our phones to look and act the same, so that they match their adverts and promotions, so that whenever someone else looks at your phone they immediately know it's an iPhone. That's why the basic shape of the handset always stays the same, and why we'll always have the same stock icons and layouts
Simply put, if you want to customise, you need to move to Android (for now anyway)
You have widgets on the Notification Center. You can jailbreak if you want more customization.
What else do you need?
Then, after Apple allows customization of the home screen, you will complain the design is inconsistent, laggy, drains batt, needs 4gb ram.
Please close this topic.
What else do you need?
Then, after Apple allows customization of the home screen, you will complain the design is inconsistent, laggy, drains batt, needs 4gb ram.
Please close this topic.
Standard OS X desktop is nothing more than a menubar, a dock, a background and some icons. You can customize de wallpaper and the way icons are placed on your desktop. iOS derived from the same idea, so it's only logical for it to be even more dumbed-down. Does it really need anything more? Not in my opinion.
Jailbroken iOS devices with custom icons and fonts, or OS X desktops with custom icons are nice to have if you're really into it, but I don't believe that the average user (or 90% of the users) actually want any of that. They probably don't even want to arrange the icons on their iOS homescreen or use folders effectively
Its nice to have a standardized look and feel of the system, it really helps people to understand the products and, eventually, they will buy them for that reason.
But a dark theme would be nice to have in iOS, I'll give you that
Jailbroken iOS devices with custom icons and fonts, or OS X desktops with custom icons are nice to have if you're really into it, but I don't believe that the average user (or 90% of the users) actually want any of that. They probably don't even want to arrange the icons on their iOS homescreen or use folders effectively
Its nice to have a standardized look and feel of the system, it really helps people to understand the products and, eventually, they will buy them for that reason.
But a dark theme would be nice to have in iOS, I'll give you that
If we take your argument as the definitive answer to this topic, then my reply to your question would be the following. What I need further is for Apple to stop trying to prevent me from jailbreaking and to allow the ability to downgrade. That's what else I need.
I don't think you can provide that though.
notification center/widgets are not what im looking for. i dont want to pull down and/or then scroll back and forth. i rarely use it.
jailbreak if you can, you always cant or you will stay behind several updates... how about those apps for a customization then? getting them from appstore?
allowing a customization doesnt remove the ability not to change anything. you can still use it as you wish. you can do same with android, you can customize it or not, keeping it as simple as you want or complex if it is what you are looking for.
They probably don't even want to arrange the icons on their iOS homescreen or use folders effectively
90% doesnt even know that they can have a blank first page. 90% doesnt even know thay they can put more icons to the dock.
or maybe it is 99%. but im pretty sure that 99% would change something if it was possible. the 1% are those who still would use the first version of ios becaise it was all that people needed.
i would be fine with a widget panel u can swipe to from the left on the home screen cuz the notification center is very cluttered and i dont get what their widgets have to do with notifications anyway. plus i would like to be able to move my icons anywhere. dynamic grid so to speak. has been annoying me since the iPhone 3G days lol