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Apple just held its annualWWDCevent, showcasingApple IntelligenceAI, RCS messaging for iOS, and much more.
If I’m being entirely honest, the event was rather impressive.
Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile let you resize icons years before Apple added the feature to iOS.
But I’m not here to praise Apple!
We joke a lot about Apple “inventing” things that have been around on Android for years.
Beginning with iOS 18 you’ve got the option to drumroll just move icons where you want.
Yes, that’s right folks.
Up until iOS 17, you cannot place icons anywhere you want on your home screen.
Basically, you could’t have empty gaps between apps right now.
And forget about filling room 10 to leave some space between rooms.
I sat, jaw hanging open, witnessing such a strange limitation on a smartphone.
But it’s yet another example of a feature that Windows Phone had before iOS.
Shout out to Android for having the option to move icons for over a decade as well.
Dan Rice showed this feature on X (formerly Twitter) and included a friendly jab at Apple.
Note that the video isn’t about widgets, which are genuinely more useful than Live Tiles.
It’s not an interactive widget or anything fancy.
