Virtually no one goes to the iPad forum. I question even why it’s separate. I realize there are differences but not enough to justify a separate venue, IMO.
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Virtually no one goes to the iPad forum. I question even why it’s separate. I realize there are differences but not enough to justify a separate venue, IMO.
I actually created the first separate thread a couple of years ago, but only because iPadOS was brand new and thought any differences should be discussed.
I didn’t do it after that initial thread as like you have stated, I just didn’t think it was worth separating out.
I don’t contribute much over there but it is nice to have everything in its own category.
It was definitely a good idea, but as the features in both OSes largely track each other, if only separated by a year, it doesn’t make much sense to have them in different places. If anything, have iPadOS in a separate thread, but in the iOS forum, which could be called the iOS/iPadOS forum.
One of my favorite iOS updates in a long time, I love the look & sounds of some of the new things. Such a satisfying experience, I love the animations for AirDrop/NameDrop etc it feels like you're in the future
Ok, I was confused at first by the post until iPadOS was mentioned at the end, and I do look into the iPadOS subforum for related information.
I updated my work phone to iOS 17 this week (they told us to wait so it could be tested, etc) and the first time I put my work phone and my personal phone in my pocket together I got the weird NameDrop transfer sound and it freaked me out.
It’s not optional, and I’m not the only one to notice See here on MacRumors
It can be a monogram only. That doesn’t let you set a photo in the center of the screen and away from the Phone.app call UI. You have to take a photo and use an app to put it on a rectangular background and use the modified photo as a contact card to get the minimal effect of seeing your contacts photo and not have the entire UI hijacked. It’s full screen photo, monogram, or both. But not name, small 1/3 screen photo, untouched call UI.
I don’t understand how you don’t see that your whole screen got hijacked if you want to see your friend/families photo during a call. I don’t care about business contacts. But it would be nice to trim the UI elements back or have a classic style photo card that keeps certain elements inline with prior versions of iOS that did caller ID and contact cards much cleaner and a bit less distracting.
If you like the changes Apple made, that’s okay. I live with it. I’m not at the point of buying Android. But I don’t like it. I shouldn’t have to take 1,000 degrees and metric ton of denial based copium because I don’t like it and I’d like more customization to tone down the caller card and phone app interactions a little.
There’s a heavy heap of narcissism going on in contacts & phone app for iOS 17. It’s not all optional. I’ve set monogram for a few users now. I had to. Their photos often had bright colors that didn’t frost well behind the phones UI. It made the thinner buttons have less contrast and made the user experience worse. I would have preferred to see their smiling face when they call me. But I’m not taking their photo and making a custom card that centers their photo in the middle of the phone app and contact poster for when the phone rings.
I don’t think one “classic” style contact poster or in place of that, a toggle for classic style for the phone app in settings, is a bad option. It would also give more choice.
You’re way late to conversation here. The moment that was seen as optional I was the first to call mea culpa. So far back, I’d have to dig to reference it at this point.
The non-optional matter of contention is with the contact posters and the way phone app now treats contact photos by letting them take over the whole screen, sometimes bleeding out the Phone.app call UI buttons. This needs refining.
You’ve decided to reply to me 3 weeks after the post you quoted, so your way late to reply….. everyone else had moved on long ago mate.
If you wanna harp on, go for it.
Your point about having to sacrifice the caller's actual smile for a frosted backdrop or custom-made poster to avoid UI clash is valid. It would be great if Apple offered more flexibility.
Anyone else annoyed that when you set a lighter colored wallpaper you can't see the time and signal bars on the top easily? Is there a way to fix this?
Can we talk about why editing the Home Screen is still such a mess on iOS?
Every time I try to move an app to the folder on another page, this crap happens. I literally have to put the folder on another screen first, to be able to add an app inside cuz it keeps flipping back and forth. Infuriating and I am not exaggerating.
This could easily be avoided by finally letting us put those damn apps anywhere on the screen after 17+ years! Does android have a patent on that or something?
Every time I try to move an app to the folder on another page, this crap happens. I literally have to put the folder on another screen first, to be able to add an app inside cuz it keeps flipping back and forth. Infuriating and I am not exaggerating.
This could easily be avoided by finally letting us put those damn apps anywhere on the screen after 17+ years! Does android have a patent on that or something?
Had the same issue. I edited the wallpaper (in Preview on my Macbook) and added a black bar across the top. Not the most elegant solution but at least I can see the icons now.
I use Smart Invert Colors (for websites that don’t support dark mode) and have it assigned to the accessibility shortcut (triple-click on power button). That also happens to be a workaround for the problem you mention.
By the way, do you have a source for that wallpaper?
I mean it makes sense...your background is nearly white and the text for the bars and time are also white.
Apple is about uniformity. Having a haphazard mess like Android doesnt fit that.
Yeah, it's from here:
aliss (@aliss@outerheaven.club)
Instantly fell in love with it and want it as a wallpaper, but kinda want to be able to see my signal bars!
Well, other elements on the home screen turn dark with a lighter color wallpaper, notice the widgets and time are dark. And the notification text at the bottom has a dark shadow so you can read it. But that somehow doesn't apply to the status bar.
I reported it as a bug in any case. I hope it gets fixed so I can use lighter wallpapers like that one.
This is the lockscreen wallpaper I use on my iPhone 11 (it's a drawing from Basel, Switzerland where I live). Apart from the black bar across the top (which has the added benefit of hiding the notch) I also put a black bar on the bottom, as I think it looks slightly better.
I think I'll also log a bug/Feedback.
This is the original artist I believe: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/24431887/artworks (The above image is on the second page. There are some more circuitry-related ones.)Yeah, it's from here:
aliss (@aliss@outerheaven.club)
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Instantly fell in love with it and want it as a wallpaper, but kinda want to be able to see my signal bars!
Sorry for the off-topic.
Hey! I’m used to having the private tab-group right below the regular tabs, like this, on iOS 16:
However, from what I’ve seen on my freshly installed iPadOS 17, now the private browsing tab-group is below all the other tab-groups, to the point that it’s now more cumbersome to switch between the regular tabs and the private browsing.
I’ve tried, on the iPad, to edit the section, but all the tab-groups are customizable except the private tab-group, which remains below all other groups (at the bottom) on iPadOS 17.
I’m assuming this is the same behavior on iOS 17, so my question is… is there a way to move the private browsing tab-group upper, right below the regular tabs? I assume the answer is no, but I’m asking just in case I’m missing anything in the settings…
However, from what I’ve seen on my freshly installed iPadOS 17, now the private browsing tab-group is below all the other tab-groups, to the point that it’s now more cumbersome to switch between the regular tabs and the private browsing.
I’ve tried, on the iPad, to edit the section, but all the tab-groups are customizable except the private tab-group, which remains below all other groups (at the bottom) on iPadOS 17.
I’m assuming this is the same behavior on iOS 17, so my question is… is there a way to move the private browsing tab-group upper, right below the regular tabs? I assume the answer is no, but I’m asking just in case I’m missing anything in the settings…
I don’t think it’s possible to change, but if you use the Safari side bar for switching, there the Private tabs are still above the custom tab groups.
I wonder if the gesture of dragging with the finger from the left edge of the iPad screen to reveal the sidebar of apps such as Files, is an iPadOS 17 thing or it was already on iPadOS 16…
Even tho the feeling is of a smoother experience and the new Lock Screen on iPad is much better, I don’t feel this system version that much different from v.16.6.1, to be honest. iOS 17 feels like a mild update. Not necessarily a bad thing, mind you.
Even tho the feeling is of a smoother experience and the new Lock Screen on iPad is much better, I don’t feel this system version that much different from v.16.6.1, to be honest. iOS 17 feels like a mild update. Not necessarily a bad thing, mind you.