I was looking at my iPhone today, and the thought crossed my mind that I don’t really need to see the names of apps beneath their icons. Just as with the four apps in the Dock, I recognize my apps by their icons; their names just get in the way, adding clutter to my iPhone’s home screen. Imagine if it looked like this:
Doesn’t that look a lot better, a lot cleaner? Compare it to this, where the texts of some apps are pretty compressed to make them fit on one line.
It would be great if Apple offered an icon-only option on iOS. One advantage is that it would be possible to decrease the spacing between icons, allowing for an extra row.
These are apps I use daily, and I don’t need to see their names, and I can understand that people who download lots of apps may want to see the names for new apps. So perhaps the option could be just for the first home screen, and only for apps, not for folders.
I need the names of my apps. Some I rarely open. Sometimes updates create new icons. Uber changed theirs and I couldn’t find it. The name made it possible to find it. The old icon had no resemblance to the new icon.
This is a great idea! I love how clean and stream-lined the screen looks without the names under the apps. Maybe Apple can allow people to choose between names and no names.
If there were to be a change, I’d like the choice of 3 options in Settings.
All icons named (as now).
All icons unnamed
Unnamed only on First Home Screen
That would cover all tastes, I reckon.
Next idea: clones of icons so an app could be both on a page and collected with its kin in a folder.
I agree. Have options on or off.
I agree. So many icons are self-explanatory, such as Camera, Find My Friends – notice there isn’t enough space to include “My” under the icon – and Kindle. A classic example is SONOS, which is writ large across the icon itself. Sonos however gets my prize for the most boring and unimaginative icon ever designed in the history of iconography.