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New iOS 9 Default Wallpaper?
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I would guess it's an ocean view of some kind of fish. Kinda blurry. Jellyfish maybe?
A new dock and more drop shadows would fix all of our issues. The lack of drop shadows makes all the icons run straight into the wallpaper and it makes it look like a busy piece of garbage. The dock covers too much of the wallpaper, I don't have much of an issue with the coloring being based on the wallpaper (I actually like that) it's just that it contributes to the busy-ness. The way that iOS 4-6 had a drop shadow above the dock that covered hardly any of the wallpaper was just perfect. Nothing really ever looked too busy. I don't want Apple to fully remove the dock altogether though, it would look weird with just some icons thrown across the bottom with nothing really "holding" them or differentiating them from the other icons.
Anyway, I quite like a lot of the new wallpapers. I just don't agree with the removal of so many older ones. The orange/blue gradient wallpaper was pretty good, as well as the snowy trees, ice forest, purple sky, blue/green wave, etc. I also kind of liked the brown circular shingles in iOS 7, as well as the dark green blades of grass or whatever. Oh well.
[Edit] I'm appalled by the gray feathers wallpaper. It's so blurry and pixelated!
Awesome question - I'm interested in the answer to this as well!
To someone's point earlier about different lock screen and home screen wallpapers, it does look like Apple promoting this more. Their latest ads do show this in effect.
Finding wallpapers that work on iOS 7 and up has become very difficult. I don't mind the dock but dropshadows is very much needed.
The problem with choosing different wallpapers on lock screen and home screen for me is that it first fades to black and then to the wallpaper when unlocking which just looks weird. It didn't do this on iOS 6 and down and actually still doesn't if you unlock to an open app. Then it fades to the app instead of it first going black.
I would the like lock screen to just slide away offscreen like Notification Center. That would be a nice transition and actually make it feel like a lock over your phone.
The problem with choosing different wallpapers on lock screen and home screen for me is that it first fades to black and then to the wallpaper when unlocking which just looks weird. It didn't do this on iOS 6 and down and actually still doesn't if you unlock to an open app. Then it fades to the app instead of it first going black.
I would the like lock screen to just slide away offscreen like Notification Center. That would be a nice transition and actually make it feel like a lock over your phone.
I think it's a shame all the nice iOS 7 ones have gone, like the geometric pattern and the space scene which was the default in iOS 7. Don't really like any of the new ones.
I know I can download them, but it was easier with them just being there!
I know I can download them, but it was easier with them just being there!
Apple always does it the same way. The first wallpaper they come out with when they announce the new iOS is never the default wallpaper when the new OS comes out.
That's what they did last year, and the year before that, and the year before that.
True, but last year the new wallpaper (purple space sky one) wasn't available until the new iPhones came out.
I'm pretty sure that iOS 5 was announced with the gray/blue water drops wallpaper and iOS 6 was announced with the blue ripple wallpaper. iOS 5 was released with the gray/blue water drops wallpaper and iOS 6 was released with the blue ripple wallpaper.
I don't remember what iOS 4 had, it seems like it had the gray/blue water drops wallpaper as well.
The default wallpaper is the very first blue one in wallpaper selection. It was same for both iPad Air 2 and iPhone 5S.
Is it true that black pixels don't use as much battery, (however minuscule) and that they could be a reason for the change?
If the iPhone and iPad had amoled screens like the Apple Watch, yes, but they don't. (Major reason why the watchOS is mostly black. To save as much battery as possible, since it's so small.) On amoled screens black pixels are basically off and not using power. (Each pixel has its own backlight and why it can do this instead of a backlight on the whole screen.)
I think the flower ones are intended more for the lock screen. That's how they were used during the iPhone 6 introduction keynote.
Its kinda obvious some were designed for the lockscreen and some for the homescreen.
Please read the entire thread, this point has been made and addressed already.
Again, read the thread. iOS 7/8/9 doesn’t let you freely choose a wallpaper, because your choice is constrained by legibility and aesthetics and when Apple is promoting wallpapers that are only good as lock screen wallpapers, the point I was making about the loss of some really good wallpapers still stands.
Maybe to you, but last time I checked we're all entitled to an opinion. I actually don't mind the new ones and in my opinion the new default is better than the beta 4 default which was too bright after a while. I almost always use one of my own pictures for the lock screen, but it's nice of Apple to include some that are best used on the lock screen.
LOL that was longer then it should have been. Dude you do what you want. We all have our own tastes.