iOS 10 Clock

The issue being discussed in this thread, the widget called "World Clock", is NOT which scheme is better. The widget used both black-on-white and white-on-black for graphic display of information. The contrast was meaningful. One meant night, the other meant day. By eliminating the alternating schemes, they wiped out a simple visual contrast that conveyed information faster than the current, updated design, which relies solely on black-on-white with numerical times rather than analog clock faces.

And the answer to the issue is to download one of the 100+ clock apps that best meets your definition of what a "good" clock app should do. I have two that I really like:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/world-clock-pro/id393335869?mt=8

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emerald-chronometer/id284953670?mt=8

Your two alternate apps are complete visual garbage. Apple had an excellent, simple app. It came with the phone. Apple chose to change the design. We don't know why. That is what this conversation is about.

jane_000 wrote:

Your two alternate apps are complete visual garbage.

Which proves to me that you didn't try either.

Apple's previous clock was terrible. That's why I never used it. The current one is no better, which is why I'm not going to use it. The World Clock app is really outstanding, allowing analog or digital displays for each time zone, choices of backgrounds, and one of the best displays I've seen for planning multi-timezone meetings. It also supports a display that is almost identical to the previous version of the Apple clock, so if you think that is visual garbage then you must have thought the same about the Apple clock app in the previous version. But either way there are over 90 additional choices.

Apple chose to change the design. We don't know why. That is what this conversation is about.

Then there's no point to the conversation. There's no way we can find out why in this user-to-user technical support forum. Apple doesn't read posts, so they have no way of knowing your opinion (and it is an OPINION, not fact). And even if they did, they wouldn't respond here. To let Apple know your opinion go to https://apple.com/feedback.

Have you even attempted to do a search on your own in the iTunes App Store? The first world clock that displays for me is "The Clocks: Alarm Clock, World Clock" which gives you a choice of Digital, Analogue, or Flip. Analogue shows a black clockface for night and a white clockface for day. And, apparently, it has a lot of customization you can do.

GB

I agree, don't like it either, this is cr*p.

Thanks for sharing.....

GB

gail from maine wrote:

Thanks for sharing.....

GB

Why can't people write responses with words that don't need to be asterisked out? Is it due to a very small vocabulary? Or just rudeness?

-Your other self.

Wilton (may I call you Wilton?)! I never knew! If it hadn't been for the photo of the baby kitten 😝 (I'm ashamed to say I don't remember her name, but looking for it led me to the post where you laid your soul bare, so to speak....but I had found you out before I got to that post - nice try....) Google is MY friend. Looked up Idris, and voilá, there you were....kind of.

So, as for the philosophical discussion re: civility....well let's just say that if we tried to explain the concept of "civil disobedience" to the very un-civil people out there, we would probably be in the midst of the next Civil War....(pun intended).

That, and the lack of knowing how to use that very handy digital Dictionary/Thesaurus that we all have at our fingertips on every electronic device we own. I imagine if people had to actually look things up in an actual tome, we'd be down to a full language consisting of emoticons and asterisks only....

Sign o' the times

GB

The little monster's name is "Tache". 😉 There are posts explaining the change in the usual places.

This color change is just marketing appealing to the crowd that thinks changes=new. Apple, it's a trivial matter to make this and many of the other UI features user adjustable. Now that would actually be new, for Apple that is. Why do you think you know what's best for everyone?

ray_in_oceanside wrote:

Why do you think you know what's best for everyone?

I'm not sure why they do, but they always have. This is hardly new for them. Submit your feedback directly to them.

I shall remember those sources if a future question arises! 🙂

GB

I must admit I agree with the user who said "The white lettering on black is so horrid to look at, I can't stand to open the Clock app"!

The main reason I've used Apple since the 1980's is their esthetics. But, to my personal taste, the white lettering on black is really, really hard to look at.

I know other people disagree, but Apple could make it an option. There's no reason not to do that. Of course I know this is not the place to make suggestions for Apple, I'm just grousing here. But I feel that in general, design quality for Apple software has been declining and the number of bugs has been rising. It's sad and depressing.

But a whole lot of younger people prefer dark mode and apparently sent enough feedback to convince Apple to change it. They would say that this, combined with Night Shift, etc. is a great improvement in Apple's software.

But thankfully there is no shortage of clock apps available in the App Store.