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Image from August 23rd, 2020 at 11:38am
I used Scriptable to build an iOS 14 home screen widget to display the air quality in my neighborhood š·
Image from July 29th, 2019 at 8:22am
A few changes have resulted in updates to my home screen: running the iOS 13 beta and returning to stock apps like Reminders, moving from Dropbox to iCloud for file storage, and my return to Twitter
Image from April 20th, 2019 at 10:44am
The main changes from my last home screen are replacing Micro.blog with Icro, Reminders with Memento, Castro with Overcast, and the addition of Audible
Image from August 13th, 2018 at 1:56pm
The main changes since my last home screen are switching from Pocket Casts to Castro (which I love) and replacing Spotify and Todoist with Apple Music and Reminders as Iāve moved from the Amazon Echo to the HomePod
Image from March 10th, 2018 at 3:46pm
My current iPhone X home screen
Using Blur To Create A Wallpaper For iOS 7
iOS 7 looks completely different from previous versions of iOS so after installing it on my iPhone I decided to change my wallpaper to better fit with its design.
The iOS 7 lockscreen is now much cleaner and lends itself to highlighting a photo, but I found using the same photo as my homescreen wallpaper too distracting. iOS 7 āuses translucency to provide a sense of context and placeā so I wondered if using a blurred version of the same photo would look good on the homescreen.
Blur is a $0.99 universal iOS app that allows you to blur any picture and set it as your wallpaper. The interface is simple, but beautifully designed and allows you to quickly import a picture, adjust the blur effect and export the blurred picture back to your camera roll.
Using this blurred version of my lockscreen photo on my homescreen leaves it clean, but keeps a visual connection back to the lockscreen and I plan on using this technique whenever I change the photo on the lockscreen.
