We try not to laugh too much at Apple those days when they add features to iOS that have been on Android for years. Not only is this kind of decision playful, but Google and Android are also borrowing from the other aspect. . That said, we have to make exceptions from time to time when something so wild looms on the horizon that it’s almost hard to believe.
Apple is expected to unveil iOS 18 at its developer event in June, and so far rumors suggest that it will be one of the most significant updates ever made to the cellular platform. One of the key spaces that’s being talked about a lot right now is the home. screen customization, as this is a domain where Apple lags behind Android.
While Apple, despite both, allowed other people to load widgets on home screens in 2020 with iOS 14, they continued to impose on users the weirdest designs that push all the icons to the top of a page, filling one and the other. both areas in a row and sort them before you leave. In other words, you’ve never been able to simply load an icon in an express location on the home screen: Apple and iOS have forced one and both to be aspect by aspect, line by line, as they scrolled through both pages. from the home screen.
As long as I can (until the launch of this site in 2009 with the Motorola DROID), Android allows you to take an icon and drop it in a specific place on any page and in any row or column. For many of us, this means that an app docks on the home screen with another batch of our most used apps right above it in the bottom rows of the home screen, as we can then seamlessly access the apps on the back of the screen. On iOS or an iPhone, some of your most used apps may be at the top of the Home screen, requiring you to scroll to the top to open them. It’s bad UX design, that’s for sure.
In iOS 18, Apple is rumored to remove this forced classification on the most sensitive home screens. Apple (according to MacRumors) would allow iOS users to place apps anywhere on home screens. There will be a grid, like we have on every phone, but setting up an iPhone as we’ve been doing on Android for more than a decade may soon be a reality.
It’s crazy that often most of the basics that existed in Android from day one never made it to an iPhone. And that’s a big deal for iPhone users!There are other people here who applied in 2014 and 2015, but I think there are applications much earlier than those. They’re the headlines of the moment on global iOS and the comments on the concept make him (rightly) the clown. This deserves to have happened so long ago, but I still hope Apple is about to tell us. why they waited. They probably won’t, I just wish they would.