New concept reimagines iPhone Home screen inspired by Apple Watch

BY Jason

Published 28 Oct 2014

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Although the iPhone and iOS have changed in a lot of aspects since their launch in 2007, one aspect remains the same: the home screen. It has remained a grid of square icons with a dock through each iteration of the iPhone and iOS.

With the Apple Watch, however, Apple didn’t carry over the same grid of app icons, and instead chose to introduce a new way to organize the home screen, where each app was represented by a circular icon in a diagonally aligned grid, with icons becoming smaller as they move farther away from the center.

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The folks at 9to5Mac posted a concept of what such a design could look like on the iPhone, and developer Lucas Menge took this concept one step further by creating a working prototype of this Apple Watch inspired iPhone home screen. As you see in the video below, scrolling around brings icons into focus, at the center, and tapping on an icon launches an app with a circular animation.

If you want to try out the prototype, it’s available via Cydia, through this repo address: “http://cydia.myrepospace.com/lamerz/”. Alternatively, you can check out the code for the prototype on GitHub.

Here are the instructions install via Cydia:

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  • Tap on Edit on the left, and then tap on Add at the right.
  • Now Cydia will add the repo, and fetch packages from this repo.
  • Search for “Apple Watch Springboard” and install the package.

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Let us know what you think about this Apple Watch inspired home screen in the comments below.