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Post your iOS 14 home screen layout
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I'm a bit late to this stuff. Am I right in thinking that the customised app icons briefly open the Shortcuts app before they actually open the app they relate to? Or has this stopped happening with iOS 14?
...100% correct.
Currently its the only way for custom app icons. There is another way (which I saw on YouTube) but that's even more convoluted and involves installing lots of profiles on your phone.
OK thanks. Tried that a while back and the brief opening of Shortcuts does my head in, so I'll avoid this again!!
Yeah, I perfer the look of shortcut bookmarks (icons) on the homescreen rather than using the Shortcuts widget but had the same issue with it opening (and returning to) the shortcuts app itself.
I know there's been some apps released to make custom widgets - could someone tell me if any of them would allow me to make a widget that just had custom text in it? I want to create a setup where each page has a 'heading' (made from a custom widget) e.g. one page might have a custom widget that just says SOCIAL.
My only useful widget:
...the batteries widget is super useful - especially if you also have airpods and a watch! Well worth using IMO.
I don’t use AirPods but do have a watch but one of my icons is a battery indicator. I only need to glance at my watch for that and I have the percentage on the top bar of the iPhone homescreen anyway. The widget for my use was rather large for what was information already easily accessible.
What app do you use to do the pack icons?
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Seems to be the only downside....think that would bug me.
I’ve tried the custom app thing and for me it makes the experience so laggy. You are essentially sacrificing speed and fluidity just for an app icon aesthetic. Not for me personally.
Yeah seems like it, think personally the icons are fine. Widgets is something i would use...even on my fold 2 i don’t have different icons so i wouldn’t do it on the iphone. Widgets though. I would pack my screen with them but remains to be seen if the apps i use will make widgets for them.
..its literally an extra 1 second whilst the app icon redirects to the Shortcuts app which then redirects to the correct app. I thought I would hate it too but its really not that bad!!
The app is called 'Themes'
My particular theme cost £4.99 - you can unlock the lot for slightly more, I didn't bother as I only wanted that one theme.
Each theme gives you custom icons and several matching wallpapers for the lock screen and home screens.
You say just ‘one extra second’ but it negates the whole ethos of upgrading for faster processors and a more fluid interface. We have people on here arguing that FaceID/TouchID is 0.3 seconds faster than the other and even that the Apple Watch S6 is 8% faster than the S5 in app switching which translates into just tenths of a second. Now all of a sudden the pausing for opening an app is fine because the icon is personalised lol. I just fail to see the logic on here sometimes...its literally an extra 1 second whilst the app icon redirects to the Shortcuts app which then redirects to the correct app. I thought I would hate it too but its really not that bad!!
The app is called 'Themes'
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My particular theme cost £4.99 - you can unlock the lot for slightly more, I didn't bother as I only wanted that one theme.
Each theme gives you custom icons and several matching wallpapers for the lock screen and home screens.
Not saying it’s wrong to customise app icons by turning them into shortcuts, but it does significantly slow down the navigation within the OS by doing so. I tried it for the Tapatalk app but I just found it nicer just to press the stock icon and not have that weird window switching animation while the shortcut routes to the app.
...I don't disagree with you - it does indeed slow it down. Some are happy to have this slow down for a much better visual and aesthetic appearance until such time (if Apple even invent such a thing) that we may be able to customize without resorting to the shortcuts app.
First I tried a completely clean home screen only using the dock, but that felt like wasted space. So I was thinking about, which apps I really use most and ended up with this:
(the notes widget is a stack btw, so I can easily switch between my iCloud- and my iPhone account)
(the notes widget is a stack btw, so I can easily switch between my iCloud- and my iPhone account)
I only have 1 widget, as I don't really like to use them as they create more pages for apps making it more complicated. but because the battery is 'not so great' in my iPhone, this one is useful.
