Perhaps so you can go out of the app switcher without using the home button, as many people actually have been hoping you could do one day.
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iOS 7: All The Little Things! (Featuring iOS 7.1)
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You could argue that the home screen is just a screen view like apps (since apps can only have one window). To get back to the home screen without using the home button, I'd tap on it and the app switcher closes. If you close the last app, you're back on it anyways. Imo no need to show a preview in the switcher.
That's one thing they should likely add, since it doesn't do that automatically so far.
K...just wasn't sure since "all the little things" have been listed by Beta on page one very well by the OP and I have been following this thread closely since it started. Certainly could have missed it...but I think this is a really cool change (and possibly SKEUOMORPHIC!
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but I think this is a really cool change (and possibly SKEUOMORPHIC!
Shhhhhhhh! If they hear you, they might take it away.
Automatically going back to the home screen after closing all apps would elimiate the need to tap the home screen or press the home button.
So this could've been mentioned but I don't think it has been...in the iOS 7 video, it shows the movie controls sliding up and down when they leave the screen...however, so far in the betas it just disappears. No animation or anything. Thought it was interesting.
Right, but only in that case when you close all apps. If you closed only one app or a few apps and left others, it's still not a bad thing to have it there so you can tap on it and go back to the home screen instead of pressing the home button.
Maybe they can make it so that it'll only automatically go back to the home screen when you exit every app.
Which is exactly my point. Thanks everyone for backing me up on my wonderings on why the home screen wouldn't automatically been brought to the front when you closed all apps.
I was nearly doubting myself, but it still leaves me clueless as to why Apple devs didn't figure this one out themselves. I mean, from a user experience point of view it's all too obvious it should behave like this... if there's nothing there anymore, close it and go back to the home screen.
@mcdj: pressing the home button to go back to the home screen is pressing a physical button which is subject to wear and tear from pressing it too often (been there, mine had to be replaced once). So, automatically going back to the home screen when all the apps are closed, potentially means a longer lifespan for your home button, too
Sure, that can work too, and perhaps would be an improvement, short of perhaps accidental taps that close out the app switcher before someone is done. But even that's not there, while at least the home screen card is.
Which is exactly my point. Thanks everyone for backing me up on my wonderings on why the home screen wouldn't automatically been brought to the front when you closed all apps.
I was nearly doubting myself, but it still leaves me clueless as to why Apple devs didn't figure this one out themselves. I mean, from a user experience point of view it's all too obvious it should behave like this... if there's nothing there anymore, close it and go back to the home screen.
@mcdj: pressing the home button to go back to the home screen is pressing a physical button which is subject to wear and tear from pressing it too often (been there, mine had to be replaced once). So, automatically going back to the home screen when all the apps are closed, potentially means a longer lifespan for your home button, too
This is a good suggestion. You should send it to Apple.
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K...just wasn't sure since "all the little things" have been listed by Beta on page one very well by the OP and I have been following this thread closely since it started. Certainly could have missed it...but I think this is a really cool change (and possibly SKEUOMORPHIC!
They should have added the Sun as well. When you're looking at the dark side of the Earth, The Sun should be directly on the other side. It's not a big deal, but it could be more accurate.
and three with three fingers, but then you will have to position them pretty precise so you can reach them with three fingers (on my iPhone 4, that is, probably easier on an iPad though).
[edit] Oops, double post, hadn't seen shandyman's answer yet.
The same reason there isn't a "close all apps" option, because Apple doesn't want you to close all your apps. So if you use iOS the way it was designed to and leave all apps open and let iOS do the memory management you would never have that issue.
Yet when I brought in my iPhone 5 for repairs the Genius told me it ran out of memory due to the amount of open apps. So apparently the system isn't working as well as it should.
Personally I would welcome it if iOS closed off some apps that are inactive for a long while but still running.
I haven't had an issue with it. You can't judge a whole operating system off of what one "Genius" said. I never close out any of my apps unless an app is frozen.
I sometimes do to kill background tasks of apps I rarely use (like once every three months). I've never ran into a RAM problem though.
I understand and I agree. However he was running diagnostics and the tool clearly showed my iPhone 5 ran out of memory. Not that it had anything to do with the lock button not functioning, but okay.
The genius was wrong. Apps are suspended in the background. They don't use resources and they aren't "open" in the traditional sense.
I understand and I agree. However he was running diagnostics and the tool clearly showed my iPhone 5 ran out of memory. Not that it had anything to do with the lock button not functioning, but okay.
OS X uses up all the memory it can get, it might not have been a problem. If it were, it's more likely it had something to do with a buggy app that wasn't backgrounding correctly.
iOS circular contact images
Does anyone else think that the change to circular contact images throughout iOS is a possible indicator of the iWatch's physical form? Circular images would fit nicely onto a circular face. Just a thought, but I was wondering if this had come across anyone's mind.
Does anyone else think that the change to circular contact images throughout iOS is a possible indicator of the iWatch's physical form? Circular images would fit nicely onto a circular face. Just a thought, but I was wondering if this had come across anyone's mind.
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