Then don't use it. Problem solved!
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Not Really Loving iOS 14
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Then don't use it. Problem solved!
Still waiting for your definition of "hot mess". Don't see the need for "drive by" negativity - it serves absolutely no purpose. Of course, you are free to not like it or to think it's a "hot mess" ... but would like to know why you think that... what is wrong with it, in your opinion?
works as it has always worked, the initial statement is incorrect.
A work around perhaps, but you could just put all the weather locations you use in the stack, then scroll through then like that. Should work just as well.
Vague and totally pointless post. Thanks for sharing? 😂
Anyway, would be great to disable it, or just show the Search A-Z list instead of the auto folder lib. The auto folders are really a senseless sorted hot mess.
The alphabetised app view is great, and very Mac like really. The folders, well who cares. They’re not in the way, at all. There would have to be a screen for the appdraw anyway, and this is actually pretty useful if you happen across it and see the app you need. I normally have my most used apps on one screen and organised folders on another - whilst using spotlight often too. I can still have this, only now I can hide apps I don’t need often in the app draw. I don’t really see the problem.
i have no idea why it’s not implemented in some way on the iPad though. Annoying.
The problem is, everybody sees “category sorting” differently. E.g. (for me) a banking app, paypal is not productivity, but finance. Apple Remote, Bitwarden, Ms Authenticator app i see as utility. Other people sees them in different categories, etc.. Which means most people will just avoid using it, because their category perception won’t fit to what Apple suggests and this will lead to many annoying time wasting look ups into these auto sorted folders.
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I like the app library for the sole purpose of hiding apps I need but don’t need to open. For example, adgaurd runs in the background but I never need to open it. Same with settings, app store, etc.
Since the categories are provided by the developer when the app is submitted to the App Store, the only one to whom you can complain is the app developer. Lobby them to change the category. If they do, they risk making the guy next to you unhappy.
Also, finding an app with an initial letter of W, X, Y, Z will take significantly longer to scroll to in an alphabetized list that it would take to just pull down on the screen and start typing the app name.
Bottom line: if you don't like the categories that the apps are put in, then create your own folders with titles/categories as you see fit and ignore the App Library. Apple has not CHANGED the way you use your home screen, they have given you an ADDITIONAL way of using your home screen.
100% untrue. I also launch many of my apps through search. Works as expected in both dev beta 1 and 2.
I mean you don’t have to add those features. They’re extras, on iOS 13 you wouldn’t even have that option. But hey, I like ios 14.
Hmmm...obviously if I posted that I was having issues it’s not 100% untrue. Happy for you though.
Why do people need to use hyperbole here so much? Why isn’t it enough to say “it’s working for me” and leave it at that, instead of essentially calling people liars?
Hmmm...obviously if I posted that I was having issues it’s not 100% untrue. Happy for you though.
Why do people need to use hyperbole here so much? Why isn’t it enough to say “it’s working for me” and leave it at that, instead of essentially calling people liars?
Because the claims were that the behavior had changed, which is not true. While it might be true that someone is experiencing a bug, the two posts I saw pretty clearly claimed the functionality had changed.
Are you saying when you type into the spotlight search bar, your matching apps don't show up?
Yep, that’s the only decent usage for it so far, as app waste repository. My prophecy: The App Library will vanish away, because of no user acceptance, else it gets a major overhaul, and the iPad will never see it. Anyway, at its current state it makes no sense.
You could put all those apps onto one homescreen and then hide that screen.
My point is: it may be true for you; it was not true for me. Therefore, your over the top statement that what I said was “100% untrue” was not, in fact, accurate. I don’t care what the reason was, when I did the search the app the name of which I started typing in did not appear in the search.
I am using your post to make a general statement in here: stop assuming that your experience is everyone else’s experience. Clearly, that is not the case. It would be a pretty dull place here if everyone’s experience was homogenous.
I agree entirely. Which is why when I experience problems/bugs/etc, especially for functionality I know is/should be there, I usually word it as "for me, this thing doesn't work" rather than "it doesn't do this anymore". As an example, I posted on someone else's thread some days back who was/is having issues with Exchange/Office365 mail accounts with his Mail app. He didn't come out and say "Mail doesn't do Exchange/Office365 anymore", which is how things read here. Instead, he mentioned he was having problems with those types of accounts. When I responded, I empathized with it not working for him and mused that it could be a server side issue as the two Ex/O365 accounts I have configured in my Mail app are both working fine.
When someone says something that can be read as "this feature is gone" when it's not, responses of "that's not true" should be expected.
I understand that but I really don’t even have the need for that. IOS 14 I discovered also lets you do the same with individual apps. You go through the motion of deleting the app but choose “Remove From Home Screen” Its easier for me just to select the individual apps I want rather than moving them all then hiding the screen. Other examples, apps on my control center like camera, calculator, voice recorder, etc. I have no reason for the redundancy of an icon. IOS 14 is a welcome change for me.
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Isn't that its designed purpose though? Much like Windows start menu. Bring your useful icons front and center and hide the other apps that are necessary but don’t need to be in your face all the time. Although I will say that the initial view of the app library is basically useless to me. I wish it would just default the alphabetical list as shown below.
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I wonder how many non-forum/non technical people will have real issues when 14 gets installed on their screens and they can't understand/find things or can't make their phones look as they are used to and like.
Unlike normal I hope Apple puts out some training materials for this release
Unlike normal I hope Apple puts out some training materials for this release
The App Library is not a ‘wanna be’ Home Screen. That is not its purpose. It is part of the search indexing system.
with every new version of ios, people adapt. some learn new things, and (probably) most just continue to use their phones as they did on the previous os. if you're on ios 13 and you move to 14, by default, it all looks the same. app library is pretty self-explanatory, and ppl will investigate new things... if they choose to.