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

abukarim wrote:

Thank you. The ability to edit the original post, is usful, so new users can read a summary that was appended after the original posting. Another detail, Apple may want to work on. Thanks again, Meg St._Clair

The software that runs the forums is not an Apple product. It's made by a company called Jive. Additionally, there are good reasons for restricting editing. It preserves the continuity of the conversation. It prevents people from saying one thing and then going back, editing it and trying to claim they never said it.

Best of luck.

For Apple developers - Please make the dock view in transparent way or let users prefer the colour . . Please update the software as fast as you can before other users blame ios.

Please grand my suggession as soon as possible 🙂

Muhzin wrote:

Please grand my suggession as soon as possible 🙂

Nobody at Apple is reading your post here in this forum.

You must use their feedback procedure:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Hi jbeexx,

To change the apps that appear in the dock, place your finger on one of the app icons and hold it down until they all begin to jiggle. Slide the ones you don't want in the dock up. Slide the ones you want in it down into the dock.

If the icons you want on the dock are on a different Home page, slide to the screen to the left or right the way you normally would to go to a different Home page.

Once you have everything where you want it, click on the Home key to "set" it.

P.S. Don't accidently click on one of the "x"s - that will delete the app from the device.

Cheers,

GB

In case Apple is listening, I also can't stand this new ugly dock. Please, please, please add a transparent option like before, and as someone else asked, restore the old slide to unlock option. Thank you.

It looks transparent to me.

It depends on what wallpaper you use. Why not find or make another? You don't have to use ones your iPad came with.

My dock isn't like yours at all. I'm using a lighter blue wallpaper and it looks nicer.

I can't see an edit function. Where is this?

Thanks

I do agree the old dock was superior, however I didn't really notice it was ugly until I saw your screenshot

Experiment with different wallpapers, get creative. That's the key here.

You can't get the old dock back.

If you're that hooked on this dock, then google for an image of the old one, or create your own dock on your own wallpaper. That's what I'm going to do when I'm in a creative mood one day. I will design my own dock.

I do not think so that our creativity will help to cover the dock. The transparent or not, it is a question of taste but for me it is not, simply because I am not able to see anything behind it, only some colors. It is too big and fits well only iPhone5. Most of us will appreciate the simple transparency function instead of google some wallpapers that fit or cover the dock. Unfortunately I must agree with one thing, I do not belive in come back of the old dock.

Apple is not listening here - this is a user to user forum. Tell it to Apple:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Cheers,

GB

I'm not saying you can cover the dock. You can't.

I'm suggesting to experiment with different wallpapers, that might help make the dock a little nicer.

I'm using the 6th still in the iPads wallpaper. Its the light blue water with the white bubbles. It's quite nice, to me, it makes the dock and bookmarks a pretty Tiffany blue.

On my iPhone, on lock screen, I use a black wallpaper of my own that has a blue butterfly. When I use the keypad to do my passcode, the numbers glow blue, very cool. They pick up the other colour in the black which is the blue butterfly, but I can't see the butterfly behind it, just the black.

You are definitively right. Experimenting helps, I found something that is good enough, not as simple as the previous but somehow the blur-freeze effect works for this wallpaper.

However, look what is behind the icons. This mean value of the background is simply not good and applied algorithm for most of the wallpapers is not working well. The icons are in many cases gray or get strange color. You are not able to fit all that, the dock and icons.

I like parallax effect and many other things Apple made in iOS7 and that is why the dock-icon stuff is in such contrast with what was made extraordinary.

None of my icons turned gray.

However apple changed the icons, there's no longer a bevelling. They're just flat now. Icons that I previously made myself for websites I own, are ok and I don't have to remake them. I wish I could redesign the apple icons, but that can't be done.

This dock is transparent, so whatever colour it's over top of, goes lighter. Black will turn gray.

I think what might help is if apple gave an option to adjust the transparency level. To be able to lower it to 10% or less, or even none at all, from what appears to be at 50% or higher. Then you wouldn't notice it as much and could therefore use a homemade WP with the old dock pasted onto the bottom.

What I meant are the icons in the folders which contain more programs. The flat icons I like and they are consistent with the layered structure. The folder icons turn gray, blue or whatever the mean value algorithm predicts. And that what the discussion is about: to add the transparency settings. That is all we need to overcome something which cannot be done automatically with every wallpaper you like.