Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I realize that in many ways I'm not exactly normal and maybe I should seek professional help. And that might be why I prefer to have my home screen devoid of apps. An empty home screen has worked great for me until IOS 5. Now, if I sync or power-cycle my iPhone, the blank home screen is gone and the next screen has become my new home screen. Is there a way to keep the home screen empty as shown below? Does anybody else care?
To add to to your "bug report" I also created a ticket with support. In which I spoke to someone on the phone...oddly enough, they did not even know that the old iOS could do this(blank home screen). So...I wouldnt be suprised to not see this addressed anytime soon.
You're not alone in this. I used to have a blank screen with just the 4 major functions in the lower portion for my home screen. What's the point in having a background if you can't exactly see it? Unfortunately I doubt apple even cares enough to reinstate this "bug" - as apparently it was a bug for the ios 4.?.? version(s). I'm also a bit annoyed at the fact that I can no longer delete icons from the ios 5.0.1 version as I find many of them useless. I'm regretting the upgrade already.
I don't think people would buy a phone with a big screen, if they didn't care about what's displayed on it. So yes, you are not the only one with this problem. And yet there's still no fix to this? I would certainly want to see an easier way to get by this besides dragging all your apps to other pages one-by-one each time you boot your device.
Now that I'm at it, an android-style panoramic, scrolling wallpaper effect would be nice too...A company like Apple shouldn't just ignore visuality like this!
Actually you can now have the first page as blank using Wallpaper Liberator.
There will be a shadow under where the icon should be.
However, there are some surprises in the new iOS.. 🙂
https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/wallpaper-liberator/id433922039?mt=8
I want my home screen to be app-free. Possible?
