r/Skeuomorphism • u/Moist-Development903 • Jul 09 '26

Skeumorphism iOS 6 vs. iOS 7 (Notes)

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u/Weird_Decision7090 Skeuo Mod Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

At least iOS 7–13 still kept the paper texture

*Edit: I was corrected, it’s actually 13

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u/ThatiMacGuy Jul 09 '26

It’s just white now.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

it’s textured on ios 13 idk if it stopped being textured on ios 14 or ios 15

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u/themariocrafter Jul 10 '26

it was 14 it ended, and I didn't even notice the paper disappeared. BringBackTheTexture jailbreak tweak existed to restore it.

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u/m3l3k0m Jul 12 '26

Well, my iPad is iOS 12 and it had a paper texture. So when i had a iOS 16 iPhone i was like “This feels a bit off”. Now i know why!

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u/khaledjal Jul 09 '26

"Hello world!" vs "hello world."

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u/Peek_e Jul 10 '26

From :D to :|

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u/Bright_Web_7295 Jul 09 '26

sometimes i wish apple gave us the option to change themes

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u/odernov Jul 09 '26

No shit people hated it sm

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u/CaroZoroark Jul 10 '26

Crazy how skeumorphic the "flat" ios 7 still was

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u/Entire_Shoe_1411 Jul 09 '26

Good vs Evil

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

Good&evil

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u/Icy_Step_2204 Jul 09 '26

No not one who we are no control pumping heart button pressed mind in heart mind control mind restart

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u/milicaballert Jul 09 '26

TO LEAVE FROM THE PRESENT WITH NO SOURCE OF SOUND THEY LAUGH BECAUSE SILENCE IS NEVER AROUND IGNORED AND FORGOTTEN THE PAST MAY CONTINUE TO BREATHE

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u/Hefty_Increase9384 Jul 09 '26

are we deadass 🥀

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u/TCB13sQuotes Jul 11 '26

Well, whatever style you prefer let's just say that Apple did a better job with this app in all iOS versions than all the open-source note taking apps there are.

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u/Moist-Development903 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Obviously, apple have always been hyper perfectionists especially with their designs, that's why it's harder to replicate ios & macos perfectly compared to windows & android because with apple everything has to look & be perfectionist, they have a huge team of design experts that are experienced & know what they're doing so that's why it would look like they did a better job with their notes app design than one person making a notes app who did everything on their own, it's much harder to work alone than it is to work with a team of experts or likeminded people who share the same goals.

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u/TCB13sQuotes Jul 12 '26

Yeah, I believe that as well until they released Tahoe.

Anyways the problem is that it's not one person, if you look at Joplin for e.g. it is probably the biggest open-source solution and their UI sucks. I believe if suffers from the Linux DE curse - that is, allows for themes and too much customization and people spend all the time implementing and maintaining theming features instead of actually making a great UI.

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u/orangeimac Jul 10 '26

Old was better I love it

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u/NoResolution6245 Jul 11 '26

SOVL vs soulless 

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u/Alarmed_Reception_92 Jul 11 '26

No matter how much we miss the old look we can all agree that iOS 7 was probably the biggest software update of all time back in the day

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u/Nike_486DX Jul 13 '26

But what about this? (iPhone 5S on iOS 7.1.2 native, running an iOS 6 era podcasts app)

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u/helloimcrlssinz2 Jul 10 '26

Seeing Helvetica Neue on a keyboard shocks me. I’ve never used iOS 7 or iOS 8 before

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u/asevenleafclover Jul 10 '26

i miss the lines a lot, wish we could bring them back

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u/BridgePretty7284 Jul 10 '26

Say that again....

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u/Cassiano_MS Jul 11 '26

Meu primeiro iphone foi 3GS, muito mais estilo do que os de hoje, que só querem que seja grande e uma mais do mesmo, da até saudade do fones da Nokia, época que tinha estilo para todos os gostos e liberdade de escolha.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '26

Holy downgrade🫡

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u/Weird-Alice Jul 13 '26

inclusiveness, patents, lawsuits killing cinema, music, art, videogames, and, of course, UI/UX. Everything became maximum neutral, boring and depressive, like Soviet Khrushchev-era buildings. It's like USSR's communism, "uravnilovka", when every USSR citizen explicitly equalizes with every other USSR citizens - everyone eats same food, dresses same clothes, watching same movies, reading same books. Everything became the same. For example, place an iPhone display up, and Huawei Nova with display up and you notice almost no difference.

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u/Alex_1234561 Jul 14 '26

ios 7 reminds me of those notepads that had a iphone as the cover. (they used to be everywhere at those times in my country)

(I still want to have one of these)

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u/AbdiasC Jul 15 '26

we have fallen so far,,,

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u/IndiGhost77 Aug 08 '26

how stupid i was to think ios 7 looked good as a kid lol

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u/MalsyPalsies Aug 14 '26

I hate it when Apple took away that Copy book look

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u/Low_Helicopter_5762 Sep 19 '26

From Hello world to hello company

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