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

I can't agree enough with the OP, the way how they blurred out the bottom of the background makes my iphone feels so small, like I'm trying to see through the vision of a tank or the slit of a knight's visor. Not to mention our beautiful wallpaper are wasted. Please Apple give us a option to remove the blurred blackground on the docking icons.

I agree. This "dock" has to go. It completely blocks the bottom portion of a beautiful picture of my fictitious girlfriend!! It took me hours to figure out how to hide the god-awful ios 7 icons that cluttered up my home screen. Now, I'm left with a great picture and a frosted blurry bar at the bottom of the screen that I can't remove? $600 for this ipad device and Apple won't give me any more customization than this? Good luck getting more of my money 🙂

No one agrees, eh?

Add my vote to the "new dock is ugly" crowd. I've been holding off on 7 for this exact reason. I'm going to have to upgrade, though. Alas. I'll miss my beautiful Hawaii wallpaper. Oh, and 20 icons on the screen for a folder. 9? 9?!?!?!?

Kick out that idiot who created the dock for ios 7 without any pension plan.

I agree- the dock is ugly. BRING BACK THE CLEAR DOCK!

I agree totally with the original post -- I have just updated my ipad and discovered the change. I had my son following me around asking to take the dock away (he still thinks that parents can fix everything). We do hope that Apple will fix this.

On a more general issue of updates that impact on the visual, I don't appreciate very much updates that don't make it clear from the beginning about the change of interface and don't give one the option of sticking to the old one (or not updating). I waisted a lot of time trying to 'fix' the dock, until I found out on this posting that it is not possible.

Completely agree that we need an option to make the menu bar transparent, i feel like it detracts from the majority of picture based wallpapers and makes the home screen feel a little claustrophobic especially in landscape view, the aspect ratio and resolution now differ largely from what we are used to seeing. Feedback given... Play your part ppl, we want a see through menu bar!

Unfortunately there is no way to adjust dock settings through your iOS device.

However, that doesn't mean the dock settings can't be altered. The dock (or the ugly bridge that houses your favorite app icons) has nothing to do with what iOS your running and it isn't a permanent fixture on the iPad. The dock is a feature associated with your iOS device's theme. The default theme that's installed on every new iPad/iPhone has the dock feature enabled. I most certainly agree with everyone that Apple should have a "remove dock" feature added to future operating systems. For now, here's the solution to all your problems. You need to edit your theme. I found this website very useful. It's user friendly, and you can completely revamp your iOS device to your personal preference.

http://www.codethemed.com

It's an awesome website. Even let's you customize your icons. You have to create a theme and install it on your iOS through your USB cable and voila. No more dock...or if you prefer the ugly bridge, to each his own.

Hopefully this answered all your questions.

You do understand this is about iOS 7 w/o Jailbreak, right?

It's not only that the ios7 dock is UGLY. It also eats up screen space! It looks like a high-water mark, as if someone had damaged the lower part of the screen. The same goes for the grouped apps. In the middle of colourful icons of single apps we get these dull murky squares where we have stored more than one app.

What was wrong with pseudomorphism anyway? We spent years looking forward to increasing hi-res in our graphics and now Apple wants to go back to a 256 colour world!!! If they really want that level of simplicity why have wallpaper?

And what's the safari icon doing with a compass??? It's a browser, not a navigation instrument.

IOS7 has a lot of good things but pleasing aesthetics is not one of them! Fortunately it can be fixed ... but only if Apple does it!

redisle wrote:

What was wrong with pseudomorphism anyway?

Pseudomorphism:

(crystallography) The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species

Perhaps you mean skeumorphism?

pseudo (Greek) = false

morphism (Greek) = change

For me pseudomorphism is just as good a description as skeumorphism.

Anyway, you know what I mean!

Apple made a big deal about doing away with the realistic calendar and then give us dirty frosted glass in the dock! Bring back the pseudomorphic skeumorphic dock shelf!

redisle wrote:

For me pseudomorphism is just as good a description as skeumorphism.

Other than the fact it's wrong, sure. On a technical support forum, it's general a good idea to use accurate technical terms. It helps everyone understand the issues. However, as your problem isn't one of technical support, you can make up word meanings however you like as it won't change anything.

Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Absolutely agree with you!

The current dock is EXTREME ugly and is DAMAGING the whole APPLE Image. It just look like another ugly Anroid CRAP!

Please get rid of this ugly dock, Apple!!!

The ios7 dock is TERRIBLE. Another example of poor software design. It's UGLY it's ANNOYING. Sack the iOS design team. I want the old iOS back this is a joke.