I know people have been horny for this for the longest time - just like the app drawer, but honestly if I wanted this, I would’ve bought an Android phone. I need a way to disable the shitty app drawer and this upcoming “feature” cuz I never asked for it.
I have yet to see anyone use the app drawer in the wild (gods know I sure as hell don’t).
Completely useless especially since pull-down Home Screen to search is so robust.
I use it semi regularly because I’ve limited myself to just two pages of Home Screen, and spatially, it is faster to launch a couple of apps that I use semi regularly, but didn’t make it to the Home Screen. It is faster than Spotlight search for me because it is super fast to short swipe twice and tap the icon, instead of longer pulling down spotlight, orient the keyboard and wait for search results to populate. I understand this is not for everyone as most people I know have more than two screens of icons, and would take more time to get to the drawer, but at least it works for me.
I think another thing that might make it faster is if Focus based Home Screen is used, the amount of pages could be drastically reduced in various customized focus modes… but I’ve never gotten into that and frankly I’m inclined to think that’s a super power user mode very few outside of Apple dives into.
Edit: also spotlight search is slower when you’d need to change keyboard languages to search for a non-default language app, especially if the other language is slower/less familiar to input (Chinese and Japanese comes to mind for me).
EXACTLY! It’s so annoying and I remember you could disable it until you couldn’t for whatever stupid reason. Now I just leave the apps that I don’t use more than once every two weeks in there and search for them. Imagine actually wading through those folders looking for an app and not calling yourself a lunatic when Spotlight is so much faster.
LOL
I’ll believe it when i see it
Oooh wow will they let you change your brightness and font too?
Can’t wait until iOS 19 where they add an App drawer.
App Library. Been in iOS for several years now.
Let’s be honest though, organizing by category is the worst way to do it. Even organizing by color could probably be more convenient.
They are also organized alphabetically
I know you are probably joking but iOS has had an app drawer for a while now.
They’re getting this now? I could do that on my old LG G5.
G5? This has been thing since I got my Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini in 2010
Wtf lol
That’s not a feature already???
This should be fun to play with for a little bit, but I put a lot of thought into my current layout and I’m not sure how much I really want to mess with it at this point.
iOS lookin more like Android with each release.
And as a developer android is looking more and more like iOS as it becomes more restricted on what you can do.
The two are converging
Source: literally spending my day today dealing with every more restrictive APIs on newer Android versions
yea, i get a lot of these changes and lock downs suck, but i can also see why they are needed from a security stand point. Proper sand boxing, requiring permission to access to camera and microphone, ect all seem like good changes.
One of the ones I’m working on today I’m actually exempted from being disallowed its use, although it does still require some changes.
I’m still dreading the moment I submit the app though and their AI declares I don’t meet the requirements, and I go into the doom pit of their non existent support.
At least on Apple it’s possible to interact with a human pretty easily.
What an amazing cutting edge breakthrough. Truly frontier technology. The mind boggles.
What was Android’s most recent groundbreaking feature, and when was it released?
Nobody said android is making leaps and bounds recently either. Just a stupid joke about how long it took them to add this very basic feature lol
Oh, you mean the same stupid joke we can read in literally every comment thread about Apple adding features to iOS?
Oh… you’re one of those apple fans.
Oh… you’re one of those critics.
Lol dude I made a joke and you are clearly just taking it personally. Showing clear anger over phones.
Not sure where I showed ‘clear anger’ but you do you.
I thought we’d seen it all when they finally let people change the default notification sound in iOS 17!
I’m sorry, I’m browsing from /all. You don’t actually mean they only started allowing notification sound customization 17 versions into their OS, right? You’re making a joke?
Because holy hell, what basic functionality that should have been included over a decade ago.
You could change the defaults for a number of things, but not the miscellaneous stuff. The “default” category is new.
It’s really weird, because Apple has been selling tones forever, and they had a tone selection component already. It’s like someone just never prioritized the day of work in their jira backlog.
You’ve always been able to change it for built in applications (messages, mail, phone, etc.). I assume the above poster was joking? Or maybe there’s some nuanced feature they added around it recently.
You could only change certain applications, if they allowed it. But the general, default notification sound was decided by Apple and couldn’t be changed until 17.2.
I will be shocked if they figure out how to use MP3 files as notification sounds. Then I’ll believe we are truly living in the future.
Now that’s just fantasy talk
Look at the new emojis though. Pure art
In other news, Apple sued Google and Samsung for copying the feature
Off topic but I never see articles posted here about what the new features in Android are going to be, but Apple haters will undoubtedly let me know what I can expect to see in iOS.
It’s almost as if this is the c/apple community and not the c/android community, or something.
You’d think that, but really most of the comments are just from people coming in from c/all
What does that have to do with anything? It’s a post about Apple, posted to c/Apple, where people (from wherever) are discussing features of the Apple OS. Shouted’s complaint still makes no fucking sense. If you go to c/Android, where people make posts about Android, you’ll see also plenty of people (from wherever) making all sort of comments, that also include complaints about Android’s upcoming features. It’s the most non-complaint in history. “People are using the website as intended to make fun of my phone! waaahhh!”
This is c/apple_enthusiast, not c/apple
Who cares?
My point is that this is supposed to be community for people who daily drive these Apple operating systems, but that’s not who is primarily commenting on these threads.
You want a…private…community on the Fediverse? I’m sorry Sir/Mme, I think you are pretty lost and confused here. Nowhere is it specified that this community is exclusively for iOS users.
The original iTunes Store app was placed in the bottom right corner. How they resuscitated this tech is beyond me.
Big whoop.
This is not revolutionary as Android had had this for I want to say a decade, but this is a huge deal in usability because the way Apple handles app ordering is ludicrous.
