People confused about no icon change in iOS 9: I'm pretty sure it changes once you subscribe to Apple Music
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So that new music icon...
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It will come as part of the 8.4 update on June 30th. Also, it will likely come for those on iOS 9 beta with beta 3 update, which should be out the day before the 8.4 release.
That's more what I was getting at. On its own, in isolation, the new logo looks fine and the mixed colors all have meaning. It's like the Music product manager alone, designed the icon and it all made perfect sense to him: "Those multiple color gradients really pop, yeah? Makes my baby stand out, huh?" All quite clever
Where it stops making sense is when it is placed in context: On a crowded, multicolor desktop, surrounded by numerous other icons all jockeying to stand out themselves. Then it just looks weak.
As a famous architect once said:
Eliel Saarinen said:
It just feels like Apple isn't paying as much attention to the big picture as it once did.
Based on your post number and not accounting for repeat posters, about 40 people cared when you asked. Most issues and topics addressed on a tech forum about an aesthetically-driven company are going to be first world problems. Who cares?
I updated my music icon because I missed the classic iPod too much too haha
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I thought the colors were supposed to represent Music, Radio, and Connect.
Anyways, I like it. Besides, the icon design is minor. It doesn't impact the performance or value of an app.
I guess it's time to reopen "Jony Ive Redesigns Things"'s tumblr page:
http://jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com
More seriously, for once I can understand the use of gradient shades, representing all the various kinds of music into a single app. And as usual, we complain and in a few months we won't even bother.
I remember we were all complaining about the Safari icon in iOS 7 and in the end lots of us actually like it now.
And for those interested, here is the history of the iTunes logo over time:
http://jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com
More seriously, for once I can understand the use of gradient shades, representing all the various kinds of music into a single app. And as usual, we complain and in a few months we won't even bother.
I remember we were all complaining about the Safari icon in iOS 7 and in the end lots of us actually like it now.
And for those interested, here is the history of the iTunes logo over time:
I guess it's time to reopen "Jony Ive Redesigns Things"'s tumblr page:
http://jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com
More seriously, for once I can understand the use of gradient shades, representing all the various kinds of music into a single app. And as usual, we complain and in a few months we won't even bother.
I remember we were all complaining about the Safari icon in iOS 7 and in the end lots of us actually like it now.
And for those interested, here is the history of the iTunes logo over time:
I think I like 2014 the best... 2001 is by far the ugliest.
...And for those interested, here is the history of the iTunes logo over time:
My fav was 2003. I recently restored an old Mac with a disk image from 2005/2006. It was nice to see the old icon.
What was even nicer was how simple iTunes was back then.
I often replaced the horror of 2010–2013 with the following. As for the new icon, both the redrawn ‘eighth note’ glyph and colour palette are wonderful.And for those interested, here is the history of the iTunes logo over time:
Thanks for the tip! I am in no way a graphic designer, just someone who wanted to replace the music icon with a classic iPod and thought he might as well replace the phone icon while he was at it. I'll definitely take that into account though!
Oh hell f*cking no!!! My eyes!!!
Would there necessarily be a new icon for the Music app? Seems like the icon they used during the keynote could have been simply something associated with the Apple Music service, but not necessarily something that would affect the Music app itself. I guess we'll see, but I'm not completely sure there would necessarily be an app icon change.umm what? The current music icon was one of my favorites. The pink/red/orange perfectly captured the feeling of music imo. And it stood out. Now we're getting another white icon. I guess I can get use to the new one, but I'll always prefer the current one. What do you think about it? Also if you look closely, you'll see that the new icon shape has been redrawn.
Everything I seen suggests it's the new app icon. It's shown as the app icon a few times in the keynote. Also on the iOS 9 page. Also on the iPod touch on the Apple Music page.
Yeah, I do see it on the little device shots at the bottom of http://www.apple.com/ios/ios9-preview/, so seems like there's more to it being the likely app icon after all. I guess we'll see.
Yeah, certainly appears more likely than I originally might have thought. That said, there have been times before when some things (perhaps not as "big" as an app icon) were tweaked on the iOS preview page as new betas would come out. Not to say that's likely by any means, but there's that too nonetheless.Oh it’s happening.
