Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Post your iOS 14 home screen layout
- Thread starter PilotTiny
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
To each, his/her own.
That's exactly my point. Exactly. Because you have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.
Last edited:
Us strangers don’t care whether you approve or not, nor do we wish to subscribe to your subjective personalized definition of aesthetic taste.
That is in no way related to what I wrote.
that’s fine. Enjoy ...
Agreed. Maybe in my old Android days almost 10 years ago but not anymore. I wouldn’t be surprised if icon theming becomes a thing though considering all the Android-like features we’re now getting.
Yeah, I recently removed the jailbreak on my iPhone to download iOS 14 and I had a really great black theme on it that I do miss. I think its kind of funny that people are willing to deal with having to use this shortcut method just to make their phones look different. It definitely shows that its something Apple should make available as if people think the current method is cool, they’d be blown away if they could theme and skin their phones like you can on a jailbroken or Android device.
Size means nothing.
If anything, it's the small-time developers like the makers of Apollo and Fantastical who have been consistent in updating their apps right from the very start, likely because their apps need to be in tip-top shape to stand out amongst the crowd. They have too much on the line to dare slacken.
Conversely, the larger companies like Google, Facebook, heck even Spotify have nothing to prove. They know that people are going to download and use their apps regardless of what state they are in, but these are household names and what other choice is there?
I’m not a fan of this craze about using the shortcuts app to place alternate icons on the home screen primarily because you loose badge counts with this method for your notifications.
Needs more work so that the icon you see has a true link to the application it represents.
Apple needs to offer a true “Theme” option. (Hint: look to the jailbreak community)
Needs more work so that the icon you see has a true link to the application it represents.
Apple needs to offer a true “Theme” option. (Hint: look to the jailbreak community)
So I have been playing around with all these widgets and it reminds me of when I had android years ago. It’s fun for a day but now I really don’t care about them... I just have a small weather and calendar widget.
Well, Spotify has acted like they are a small fish in a big pond recently so I don't have empathy for them. I do wonder if there are any facebook alternatives like Apollo to Reddit. You're right they don't need to prove anything but I still think some of the apps I have (Like TheScore, Pocketcasts) are still pretty low on the totem pole.
How so? I never really thought of the iPhone as unique when compared to Android devices. The iPhone OS and Android are both operating systems that control a portable digital computing device. Each OS has its strengths and weaknesses and whether a person picks one or the other is largely a matter of taste and early computing influences.
So it’s basically a binary choice between Apple’s OS and Google’s which doesn’t leave a lot of room for uniqueness. When there are only two choices each ‘side’ can claim to be unique, which kind of cancels both of them out.
I do think it’s true tho that Android and iOS have been borrowing from each other and have become much more alike over the years. In that context they are both less ‘unique’ than they were. One reason for this might be the fact that the internet has become much more standardized, with a handful of monopolistic companies running pretty much all the services people commonly use. So both Android and iOS users are largely running the same apps.
It actually seems like we’re probably talking about the same thing, just from different angles. From my perspective a truly unique smart phone/device operating system is pretty much impossible at this point since it would have to tap into the same services that Android and iOS utilize. That places pretty strict constraints on originality.
I do wish widgets didn’t have the name of the app grafted onto them. e.g, a photo widget displayed with ‘Acme Photo Widgets’ written underneath or a calendar widget reminding you that it is part of the ‘Fantastic Calendar’ app kind of detracts from the aesthetic value of the widget screen.
At the very least Apple ought to give its long suffering users the option of turning off widget labels. Hell, even letting app developers offer this feature as part of a paid pro upgrade or a small one time fee would be preferable to having no option at all.
At the very least Apple ought to give its long suffering users the option of turning off widget labels. Hell, even letting app developers offer this feature as part of a paid pro upgrade or a small one time fee would be preferable to having no option at all.
I agree that would be nice... and to bolster your case, Apple itself does not burden the "Siri Suggestion" widget with a label. I've sent feedback to Apple on this subject a couple of times... sadly, nothing else we can do at this point.
That lost uniqueness on the iPhone part was mainly referring to aesthetics, BR485. How the iPhone has lost its simple, tiled look that even had an emoji based on it; (📱). So now that it has Widgets, it no longer resembles the rooftops of Barcelona.
🙂
On another note, I really don’t like that Color Widget that has the day overlapping the time...
Congratulations... you are free to not use it... and, as always, you are free to submit your request/critique/suggestion to the developer via feedback.
Last edited:
I've just gone for simplicity so have set up one home screen with shortcuts to the apps I use daily. All my Apple apps and other apps I use, are all in the dock:
Top right is the smart stack with Fitness, News, Podcasts, Music, Weather and Calendar (most of which I use daily so they're all easily accessible).
EDIT - just noticed my time in the widget in the top left is out of sync with the phone's time in this photo??! Not sure why this is as on my actual phone, its correct...!!
Top right is the smart stack with Fitness, News, Podcasts, Music, Weather and Calendar (most of which I use daily so they're all easily accessible).
EDIT - just noticed my time in the widget in the top left is out of sync with the phone's time in this photo??! Not sure why this is as on my actual phone, its correct...!!