How to make the dock (buttom row) in IOS 7 transparent?

What I find interesting is that everyone is complaining about the dock, but no one has mentioned how cool it is that the entire photo or whatever you have for the Lock Screen photo is now completely visable....That used to be covered by the "Slide to Unlock" bar....

GB

gail from maine wrote:

What I find interesting is that everyone is complaining about the dock, but no one has mentioned how cool it is that the entire photo or whatever you have for the Lock Screen photo is now completely visable....That used to be covered by the "Slide to Unlock" bar....

Isn't that cool? I love that feature!

I agree, that is why after that marvelous unlock screen you end up with something so homey. I do know that is consistent with the folder icon but it does not fit quality of the screen and wallpaper, whatever you put behind the dock. Some crazy fractal things help but still I do not like it and will try to dispose of it.

*sigh* yes a nice feature but its not being mentioned because that's not what this discussion is about. The lock screen doesn't have anything to do with the dock now being an eyesore and reminiscent of the Windows taskbar, (which has a transparency option, might I add). If windows can do it, surely Apple can figure out what jailbreakers have known for years

I don't like this new dock, either. I had to change my wallpaper due to the changes Apple made in the color of the folders. When I selected another wallpaper, not only did it take a long time to apply, but I found that I did not have the option to change the color of the dock. It seems to assign its own color scheme and unfortunately, I do not like the color it selects. I have a dark blue wallpaper with stars or speckles and the dock is now a strange shade of light blue which is not the look I am trying to achieve.

I disagree with Orange Marlin. The dock is a problem. It won't color coordinate with your wallpaper. It looks terrible. This is not a classy look!

I took your advice and submitted feedback to Apple. Hopefully more people will do that and something will get changed.

And to all who think the dock and icons are UGLY, I agree and if you look at other posts, you will see there are more than just a few of us out there that agree with this. They need to be able to be changed in color or at least made clear so we can see our wallpaper pictures.

Hi All,

I like so many here hate that horrible looking dock. It amazes me that they can change the lockscreen to give the full screen affect and then bugger the home screen with a dirty grey box. Its even in folders when you open them....Im putting it down to a monday morning job and hope they amend it or at least give customers the option to de-activate it/change colour/transparency.

BUT I GUESS WE CAN ONLY HOPE!!!!!

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1.- I hate the dock.. it just looks anoying, I shouldn't need to change my wallpaper to suit the dock I should be able to modify the doc to suit my wallpaper, I think what users want is the possiblity to customize things as they please.

2.- having to change my mac 10.5.9 to a windows pc to upgrade to ios7 was the worst thing ever. not because itunes on 10.5.9 will not even give me the option to upgrade to ios7 or the fact that I loose control of my phone in my own computer but because now I have to use my wife's computer every time I want to put music on my phone. Apple totaly fail supporting old systems. I have 10.6 but I choose not to install it because it just makes my computer really slow (but that is another story)

i Agree, i do not like the new dock, the old and glassy dock was my favourite, i think that they should add an option to bring back the glassy dock and the old slide to unlock, i cannot use some of my favourite backgrounds such as:

Alot of good backgrounds were specifically designed to work with the old look.

What controls which 4 apps appear in the dock? They aren't what I want and I can't find how to more an app onto the dock

Yea, + 1 on getting rid of the lame gray dock bar that is 2 inches thick. Also these app buttons are gargantuanly huge! Time to let the user adjust these things. It amazes me that a company of this market cap puts out this garbage. I can't even resize my photos for wallpaper. I'm left with wallpaper photos that are way to magnified. The bugs and lack of aesthetics in this release are unconscionable. Steve is rolling over in a big way.

In my opinion the iOS7 was designed to match only iPhone devices. The dock on 5th generation does not look very bad, only normal and does not bring your attention to it. Also when you look at the Music on iPad why do we have to scroll tons of it to get what you want to listen at the moment? Even iPhone4 has a better solution. Is that so difficult to design different solutions between the devices you use for different purposes? I think that is a handicap when you do not use advantages coming from a bigger screen on iPad. In the iPad case the better is the enemy of the good if you think about some iOS7 new look.

Apple is pretty clear on the feedback page that you are unlikely to get an answer.

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