iOS 6 Homescreen Concept (OLD THREAD USE NEW ONE)

[cmChimera]

The fundamental problem with this concept is that is essentially the same. I don't want a launchpad because that is actually ADDING steps to finding my apps. Honestly, it is hard for me to find a real flaw in the way the iOS home screen is set up. I can find flaws and room for improvement on how folders are implemented, notification center, and the lockscreen. But the grid layout is fine by me. For example, I like widgets but I think I actually like them BETTER in the notification center than on the home screen.

 

[Drunken Master]

I can only think of Android Settings for global stuff, and the Launcher's settings menu for its stuff.

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What I think was a goof in iOS was letting applications put settings in Settings. I've had to help a lot of iOS users who had no idea that the setting for the app they were using was waaaaaaaaaay off somewhere else. It doesn't even make sense.

For example, when you want to clear history on a browser, on most devices you just:

• Click the options menu within that browser.
• Find and click Clear Cache

With iOS, I have to:

• Click the Home button to quit Safari,
• Go find and launch the Settings app.
• Find and click the Safari section.
• Find and click clear cache.
• Click the Home button to quit Settings.
• Find and relaunch Safari.

It's just silly to put an app's specific options in another application.

See, I don't know if that is a goof. If anything, Apple probably figures that the average joe would mess with the settings unintentionally more often if it was contained within the app.

It's also still necessary to keep all that stuff within Settings anyway, so there's a one-stop shop for all system-wide settings, otherwise people would complain about that too (and people love to complain).

Every computer has a System Preferences that gathers everything in one place, iOS should be the same, it's just good organization.

 

[AustinIllini]

See, I don't know if that is a goof. If anything, Apple probably figures that the average joe would mess with the settings unintentionally more often if it was contained within the app.

It's also still necessary to keep all that stuff within Settings anyway, so there's a one-stop shop for all system-wide settings, otherwise people would complain about that too (and people love to complain).

Every computer has a System Preferences that gathers everything in one place, iOS should be the same, it's just good organization.

I think these are good hypotheses, but I would also add that it could have something to do with Apple being able to dictate what you are allowed to do in terms of app settings. This way, it's easier to dictate what you can do within the interfacing between iOS and the application.

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

See, I don't know if that is a goof. If anything, Apple probably figures that the average joe would mess with the settings unintentionally more often if it was contained within the app.

It's also still necessary to keep all that stuff within Settings anyway, so there's a one-stop shop for all system-wide settings, otherwise people would complain about that too (and people love to complain).

Every computer has a System Preferences that gathers everything in one place, iOS should be the same, it's just good organization.

Nah. It makes sense for system wide preferences and fundamental things like contacts, email, etc. Basically all the Apple apps.

As someone stated above, I just don't think Apple really anticipated the explosion of apps. The first year there were no 3rd party apps, perfect sense. The second year apps appeared and were slowing becoming more mainstrain, but it was still a workable solution. At the end of the first year I had maybe 15-20 app settings, and I considered myself an app junkie. Then apps exploded! Then we got folders which causes us to download more and more apps. Now it's just becoming a usability problem. Same thing with the notification system that was designed for iPhone OS 1.0. It started to break.

I think there should be a settings location in both the app itself and the settings app which mirror each other.