7 iOS features that disappeared from the iPhone forever. Many miss one

Of the recognizable elements of iOS from the first version of 2007, only the application grid and the clock in the center of the lock screen remain. Widgets, command centre, customization, screen increased over 16 years of development of the system.

Even Push notifications implemented only in iPhone OS 3.

Every year, Apple announces features loudly, but quietly and very discreetly. Something did not fit because of the new sense of style, another was obsolete or lost its initiative, and somewhere it was necessary to simplify and expand the combination experience.

Below look at the features of iOS that have gradually fallen off over the course of the evolution of the system. The fact that everyone is long forgotten, but something belongs in the hearts forever.

Consider what you would like to return?

1. Legendary Slide to unlock



The interface of the first version of iOS resembles real world objects to make it easier for users to connect to the new participation experience.

A simple “swipe to unlock” feature taught women things right away. She explained that here “everything works like a real one”, as for, in principle, it is necessary to be obvious. The swipe gesture was also immediately shown, organized for a 2D interface, but rarely seen in the reality of the world.

Slide To Unlock also showed that you don’t need to hold anything, as was the case with unlocking on the phone button. And, finally, the mechanism immediately said that now the entire surface can be buttons that change dynamically.

For 10 years of OS development, special training has disappeared, and the transition to the screen Home replaced with a faster “press the home button to unlock”. In addition, the new models are the moment when the third year came out with a fingerprint scanner, so the optimization of gestures was necessary.

With the release of the iPhone X, the method was partially unlocked, although it looked much neater. Now you need to swipe up with a small stick, and not a large slider.

2. Interactive album art in Music



The function was called Stream cover. Allowed you to find your library in the Music app if you turned your iPhone horizontally. Album covers flipped realistically with 3D effects, slowed down, speeded up and reflected.

There were not so many benefits from the mode, but the chip demonstrated the innovativeness of the smartphone and entertained. Migrated from Mac.

Cover Flow disappeared with the release of iOS 7 in 2013. The skeuomorphic design of the mode did not fit into the new flat-gradient era, which is still with us.

3. Separate applications Game Center, Video and Kiosk converted into services



game center calculation still for iOS 4 in 2010. The app has played the role of a social gaming platform and provided an opportunity for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users to compete and compete against each other in games.

They watched leaderboards, connected multiplayer, watched games from the App Store, tracked their achievements, and looked at the activity of other players.

When iOS 10 came out, the standalone app disappeared. Game Center now lives on as a supported video service that links many App Store games, friends, achievements, and progress.

Who knows, maybe someday it will be reborn as an Apple Arcade app. Because two other apps for iOS 7 did just that.

Application Video reworked as a set Apple TVto promote the Apple TV+ streaming service.

Kiosk changed to Newsfirst a free news aggregator, and then received the speed of the service from Apple News + (not available in Russia).

4. Landscape mode desktop on large iPhones



If you change any iPhone 6, 6S, 7, and 8 Plus to landscape, the desktop buttons change orientation. The same was true for some applications, for example, Settings. This was convenient for motorists, no longer had room to rotate the smartphone after using the navigation.

When the iPhone X came along, the feature stopped appearing in newer models. With the launch of iOS 14, it did not stop working even on existing devices, if you add at least one widget to your desktop.

The probability, the reason is in the new screen proportions. Up until the iPhone 8 Plus, they were 16:9, and now the narrower 19.5:9.

5. Readable battery percentage



The iPhone X received a new screen design that didn’t provide all the useful information right from the start. Apple left only the battery icon, which gradually melted away, but did not always give an accurate assessment of the charge level.

The features have not been in every model with Face ID for really 5 years.

Recoverable only from iOS 16. Enabled via Settings > Battery > Charge percentage.

There is only one problem: the numbers that have now been received have been sent to a white or gray substrate. They read a very familiar large font, placed on a contrasting background.

6. Easy Access to Control Center



When the iPhone X came out, it wasn’t just the battery percentages that were gone. Changed the long-familiar swipe gesture from the bottom edge.

He calls Command centrebut now replaces the parameter Home. For the sixth year already, to change or change a track, one has to reach for the right on the ear of iPhones that have already grown diagonally. Even on mini models, it is inconvenient to do it alone manually.

The opportunity remained only in the iPhone SE. And even then, not for long.

Will the gesture ever return to flagships? Far from being a fact, because there are often faces with two bonds, this is not the smartest solution. But here’s a bind call Command centre to the right or left corner (to choose from), in my opinion, it is quite possible.

As you already understood, this opportunity is what I miss the most. But just recently, something else was taken away from us.

7. Live wallpapers and promotional new iPhone images



When Apple introduces the iPhone, it always comes with a series of gorgeous abstract images in different shades under the color of the models, and animated ones at that.

You could always put them on the wallpaper, on the lock screen, and pay attention to see a beautiful pacifying animation. These were with the iPhone 6S, that is, since 2015.

In 2022, iOS 16 was released, which completely redesigned the lock screen. Now other “watch faces” are expected to be selected, so there are no gestures left for animations.

Along with live wallpapers, all the images that were part of the new iPhones were also removed. Owners of even a terabyte iPhone 13 Pro Max for 200,000 rubles will not return what came to them from the “box”.

Of the dynamic wallpapers, only the flying translucent circles, introduced with iOS 7 in 2013, have survived. Why can’t anyone tell.