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Post your iOS 14 home screen layout
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My first two screens:
The first page has a stack at the top with weather, calendar and news. The bottom one is a stack of music and podcast but I’m expecting a widget for Shazam or SoundHound as I use it often. I’d then take away the folder Music ID.
The second page has a stack at the top with Maps and Shortcuts I’ve made for it. The first one has a few preloaded destinations, or the option to look up my upcoming events in the calendar to select a destination from there. It then asks me if I want to open the destination in Maps or Waze. The second one has preloaded searches for gas stations nearby, landmarks,and hospitals. And the other two open Waze or Maps.me so I don’t have to have their icons on the home screen.
And then the Fitness widget...
On the other pages I’ve put some News topic widget as placeholders for third-party widget I expect will come out.
I’d like it if they made a small Shortcut widget with two shortcuts, though...
I'm not 100% set on it yet, but it's the direction I'm going with. On a somewhat related note, is there a way to put symbols (like maybe SF symbols) in a Shortcut query? Right now I have emojis for like "Home" and "Office" when my shortcut asks to what location I want directions to, but I'd rather something more monochrome for a more consistant look)
The first page has a stack at the top with weather, calendar and news. The bottom one is a stack of music and podcast but I’m expecting a widget for Shazam or SoundHound as I use it often. I’d then take away the folder Music ID.
The second page has a stack at the top with Maps and Shortcuts I’ve made for it. The first one has a few preloaded destinations, or the option to look up my upcoming events in the calendar to select a destination from there. It then asks me if I want to open the destination in Maps or Waze. The second one has preloaded searches for gas stations nearby, landmarks,and hospitals. And the other two open Waze or Maps.me so I don’t have to have their icons on the home screen.
And then the Fitness widget...
On the other pages I’ve put some News topic widget as placeholders for third-party widget I expect will come out.
I’d like it if they made a small Shortcut widget with two shortcuts, though...
I'm not 100% set on it yet, but it's the direction I'm going with. On a somewhat related note, is there a way to put symbols (like maybe SF symbols) in a Shortcut query? Right now I have emojis for like "Home" and "Office" when my shortcut asks to what location I want directions to, but I'd rather something more monochrome for a more consistant look)
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I like only having one Home Screen. I tried to incorporate everything I wanted on one page.
Can you share this wallpaper? (without the fanboy text
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Enjoying the widgets
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Looks good! I do wish Apple would decrease the gap between the last row of icons and the dock. Looks like we could fit a whole extra row of icons in there.
Agreed. First thing I noticed when my phone restarted after installing the first beta and I still haven't gotten used to it.
Calendar widget in top left corner and Smart Stack in the middle.
I am really liking my setup. Behind the three widgets I have one other widget to swipe to. Clocks and Calendar, Weather and Maps, and Music and Podcast.
For the second page I have a large widget for Photo, News, and Weather along with my folder icons I had no room for.
For the second page I have a large widget for Photo, News, and Weather along with my folder icons I had no room for.
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Here is mine. I am a 37 year old man who works in critical infrastructure on the railroad. I tend to use my phone as a phone rather than an attention black hole. I have absolutely no social media accounts, and cannot stand the constant rings, dings, and vibrations modern phones make.
As such, my phone is pretty boring. I have a single homepage with the apps I use and the weather widget. Notifications are turned completely off for everything except phone calls. I do not keep an email app on the phone. Everything I couldn’t delete due to Apples restrictions, along with apps I use, but access differently than clicking on the icon (Apple Music/Maps/GaiaGPS/Scanner Radio/Outcast all via CarPlay, and Camera) is hidden in the App Library.
Background data is turned off for most apps. Location data and other permissions that could compromise privacy is turned off for all apps except maps, GaiaGPS, and the weather widget.
The phone is on “Do Not Disturb”/Silent 24/7. It may take me awhile to return missed calls or messages, but it keeps me away from this always on, always connected culture everybody seems to be trapped in today, and my stress levels are extremely low because of these choices.
I recently went from an iPhone X to the new SE because I cannot stand huge phones. I really wish the new SE was in the old 5s body still. Heck, if Apple created a flip phone (like in something like the original Motorola Razr form factor) with a stripped down iOS (all I need is CarPlay with the CarPlay apps I use, Apple Music, decent camera, and iMessage), I would buy that thing in a heartbeat AND pay a premium for it.
Return of the red Music icon reminded me of iOS 8, so I went ahead and did this. This is on an SE, I’d be interested in trying it on a gold 6S, then it would be straight out of 2014. Notch phones would break the effect, probably.
Just seems to have randomly appeared and is now available and i didnt do anything to make it appear. No idea whats made it change its mind.
However i dont appear to have Back Taps available in Accessibility for some reason. Is this available for all phones?
List of iPhones That Support Back Tap Feature
- iPhone X
- iPhone XR
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone SE 2020
I’m struggling with widgets as apart from shortcuts, I find I have very little use for them. I think they’ll only be a cool feature once third party developers can bring something to the table. Looking at others use of widgets too for inspiration hasn’t convinced me either.
