70 MACWORLD SEPTEMBER 2020
FEATURE 5 THINGS WE LOVE & HATE ABOUT iOS 14What’s not so good
While the new home screen is way more
customizable than before, it’s not without
its annoyances. The biggest frustration is
that apps and widgets still stubbornly stick
to the grid. If you have multiple home
screens, apps and widgets will jump
between them and if you start from scratch,
icons and widgets will jump to the top of
the screen. That makes the whole system
feel more constrained than it should.
It’s also a little tricky to figure out how it
works. I’m sure Apple will provide a tutorial
for new iPhone buyers, but as it stands,
there isn’t much to indicate that home
screens can be hidden or even how to do
it (by tapping the dots at the bottom of the
screen when in jiggle mode). And it’s
sorely missing from the iPad.- APP LIBRARY
What’s good
The App Library may be the smartest
feature I’ve ever used on a phone. Not
only does it blow Android’s app drawer out
of the water, it makes it incredibly easy to
find and launch apps on your phone.
Accessible by swiping all the way left past
your last home screen, the App Library
organized your apps by category and use,
with suggestions of your most recently
used apps and recently added apps at the
top and other categories following based
on your usage. It’s nice to look at and a
downright
pleasure to
use.
What’s not
so good
For
everything
that’s great
about the
App Library, it
has one
major
shortcoming:
You can’t
customize it.- So if you