Am 28 Mar 2018 17:57:10 GMT, schrieb Jolly Roger:
>> What technical tricks can iOS users use to create intelligent "spacers" for
>> better organization within folders?
>
Thanks for that suggestion of using the online "iEmpty" web site on my new
iOS 11.2.6 iPad to add an invisible folder spacer inside of the current iOS
folders.
a.
http://i.cubeupload.com/1d0FXC.gif iOS 11 iPad home screen
b.
http://i.cubeupload.com/LrMEeS.gif iEmpty web site GUI
c.
http://i.cubeupload.com/leLi8k.gif Springboard screenshot
d.
http://i.cubeupload.com/Qf7R98.gif iEmpty web site selection step
e.
http://i.cubeupload.com/xfv7ys.gif iEmpty creates a black icon
f.
http://i.cubeupload.com/biy5ML.gif Add that icon to the home screen
g.
http://i.cubeupload.com/iuNMjX.gif It shows up as a keyhole white icon!
h.
http://i.cubeupload.com/tlDBtO.gif With a name which needs changing
The process is not the normal App-Store process, apparently, in that there
is no iEmpty app on the Apple App Store, so you have to work through the
iemtpy.tooliphone.net web site, but that's OK, if it works well.
This seems to be the site's Youtube somewhat dated tutorial of the process:
https://youtu.be/MZElJAyu6gM?t=57
The first thing I did was I noticed the comments on the tutorial, which are
(verbatim, in order):
"This bullshit doesn't work but it doesn't surprise me"
"Can you update this for iOS 10? The website detects iOS 10 as iOS 0."
"This actually does work �� it was a little confusing but basically you
have to go to the icon that you want (I'd suggest the upper left hand
corner) and make it a icon on your homescreen"
"it don't work anymore"
"I thought it didn't work. It works if you follow the instructions on the
website. Go into wiggle mode and take a screenshot of the last (blank)
page. Then go back to the website and upload that pic and it'll work."
etc.
But it's often that you see such comments, so I moved on, hoping that it
works with iOS 11, and it sort of kind of does work. It's close, but the
wrong color in the end, for some unknown as yet reason.
I tested it a couple of times, and, well, it did create an icon where the
only two technical issues to surmount are that the icon is the wrong color
(it's the opposite of what it should be) and the wrong name (I didn't see
where the name could be set to what we'd want the name to be).
If you have it working, maybe you can see which step was the wrong step in
my ad-hoc step-by-step action log below (written so that others could
follow more easily in our footsteps).
1. Open up Safari on the iOS iPad
2. Point Safari to
http://tooliphone.net
3. The video says to choose "iEmpty" in the menu but that menu entry
doesn't seem to exist at that web page.
4. The video says hit the "CUSTOMIZE!" button but that entry also doesn't
seem to exist on that web page.
5. The video says then his "CUSTOM Mode" but it also doesn't seem to exist
on that web page.
6. However, there is a "Customize iOS" section which is on the web page so
that's good enough to move forward without trying to follow the video
(which must be old so the menus changed).
7. Under that "Customize iOS" section is "Create BLANK icons".
8. The arrow at "Create BLANK icons" leads to "Upload" and "Add" buttons.
9. Hitting "Add" says to upload your homescreen background.
10. The
iempty.toolipyhone.net site says to go to the last empty apps page
on the iOS device after long pressing a folder, which takes you to the
wiggling-icon springboard, and to then snap a screenshot of that mostly
empty springboard page, which I did, which saved that screenshot in the
screenshots section of the camera roll.
11. I then hit the "Choose File" button on the
iempty.tooliphone.net page
12. I selected "Photo Library"
13. I selected "Screenshots"
14. I selected the springboard screenshot created moments ago.
15. I then hit the iEmpty web page orange "send" button.
16. That created a section on the iempty web page asking:
"Select the slot where you want to set the blank icon on your home
screen" Detected device 2048x1536 pixels / iOS 11.2 landscape
17. I chose the very first folder, at the top left, labeled 1x1
18. That came back with a black "Your << blank >> icon, Row 1, Column 1"
19. I tapped on the image in Safari that was created on the iEmpty web page
and now Safari loaded that icon in a web page.
20. I pressed the "sharing" icon at the top right of the iPad screen.
21. Then I pressed "Add to Home Screen"
22. It said "1x1.png 152x152 pixels" & I pressed "Add" on the iPad
23. Huh? This added a white (not black!) icon named "1x1.png 152x152
pixels" as if it were an app, where it went to a second screen and I
brought it back to the first screen to place it inside the folder.
Here's a summary of what worked:
A. The web site does create a 152x152 pixels app icon (that's good!)
B. The icon is the wrong color (which is ok, I guess, but it's the opposite
of invisible because of that)
C. The icon needs to be renamed from "1x1.png 152x152 pixels" to something
more useful.
With those two issues in mind, the process does work.
The icons aren't intelligent like the Android icons are, but they're
certainly better than nothing.
What's left to figure out is whether others have the opposite color when
they run through the same steps, and whether others can change the icon
name to something meaningful.
If we can solve those two remaining issues, that's good technical progress.
Thanks.