iPhone 14 Pro: the Dynamic Island makes the customization of app icons almost imperceptible

Since the arrival of the Shortcuts app on iPhone, informal customization on iOS has taken an unexpected turn with a whole new trend of creating your own widgets and custom app icons.

Much better integration on the iPhone 14 Pro

Many users have started to play with the aesthetics of their iPhone home screen via Shortcuts, but with a small constraint. Each time the app is opened, a rather unsightly action banner appears and may dissuade some users from resorting to this type of customization, which is already somewhat tedious to set up.

However, Parker Ortolani of The Verge tells us that the new island of the iPhone 14 Pro now includes the icon of the open app to the left of the punch, in a rather discreet way, instead of a distracting banner.

A choice that turns out to be much more aesthetic than on iPhones that still have a classic notch which, for once, still work in a “traditional” way.

A step towards an assumed personalization at Apple?

This operation thus makes it possible to almost no longer feel that a shortcut is being used, and gives the impression of a better integration of the functionality for the benefit of the user. Knowing that the old way of doing things could cause slowdowns and lead to a delay before using the application.

We remember, for example, a time when you had to open Shortcuts completely before you could open an app. An operation that really broke the expected effect and which has been rectified since iOS 14.3. Anyway, it’s one more effort made by Apple to get closer to the customization possibilities of Android.