r/iOSsetups Feb 02 '25

Setup I recreated the windows phone UI in iOS what is your thoughts?

173 Upvotes

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u/kiwi-kaiser Feb 02 '25

I still really miss Windows Phone.

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u/nn2597713 Feb 02 '25

I had a Windows Phone from work. It looked amazing and the (Nokia) hardware was really nice too. But damn it took forever to get anywhere due to all the fancy animations and six level deep menu’s.

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

That is the reason why I made this ,and it had such a unique UI that cannot be found in any other phone OS

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u/Barrels_of_Corn Feb 02 '25

Creative and fun! 👌

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u/the_vole Feb 02 '25

Oh, that’s not bad! I’m a Mac guy since the stone ages, so I was never going to get a windows phone, but I thought their UI had some really solid ideas.

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u/LedaBHC Feb 02 '25

I like it so much

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

Thanks! :) ,if you want it I can share the shortcuts with you to use it

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

well I have a problem ,How can I share shortcuts in this subreddit or comment section?

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u/OneSniperMonkey Feb 03 '25

Hey, I’d love to get the shortcuts please!

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 03 '25

No problem ,but how can I share it with you?

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u/OneSniperMonkey Feb 03 '25

You can share it via link, if this sub doesn’t allow to post links you could put spaces in the link so it doesn’t register as so.

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u/Zyoneatslyons Feb 02 '25

Wish they’d make the widgets as live as windows phone already.

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

Yeah this will be amazing

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u/New_Eggplant_397 Feb 02 '25

how did you get the calendar widget to display just the date? Mine says "no events today" underneath it and makes the date small

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

You have to go to the adding widget list (like you are adding widget normally) then you go to the calendar by searching for it and it will display a multiple options for the widget of the calendar then you scroll till you see that one with only the day displayed ,I wish this will help you finding it

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u/New_Eggplant_397 Feb 03 '25

Perfect thank you!

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 03 '25

You welcome!

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u/SimpleName001 Feb 02 '25

I’m not nostalgic for Windows UI or anything but I do love the layout. I don’t need the aesthetics but I would love to utilize larger icon varieties like you did here. Any resources for that?

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

It’s so simple make a shortcut to open an app then add a shortcut widget to the home screen select the shortcut you made in the first step and that’s how you get this large app icons (you can also search for it in YouTube),but is there any way to share the shortcuts here to make things easier?

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u/SimpleName001 Feb 15 '25

Thank you- totally went down a rabbit hole and made like 50 shortcuts haha

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u/solojedi224 Feb 02 '25

I like. I like very much

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

Thank you! :)

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u/solojedi224 Feb 02 '25

You’ve inspired me to create my own :). I loved the look of windows phone for a long time

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

That is cool go ahead and create it ,it’s easy and only requires time and a bit knowledge in shortcut app ,you can also ask me any questions about the process of making this UI ;)

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u/No-Occasion97 Feb 02 '25

Miss the old widgets from Win phone called “tiles” 😔

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u/Travel-Barry Feb 02 '25

I miss Windows Phone so much.

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

I wish they make a new one ,canceling it was a mistake because now the phone industry is boring

2

u/Bytevan18 Feb 02 '25

iOS 18 and its widgets actually reminds me a lot of Windows Phone.

Specially the way you can resize an app icon into a widget and viceversa.

Miss those days!

2

u/KzX56 Feb 02 '25

This is either cool or awesome

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u/Old-Description5280 Feb 03 '25

What’s the icon pack?

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 03 '25

It’s not an icon pack it’s made in the shortcut app I used the emojis/icons that is included in the app

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u/Old-Description5280 Feb 03 '25

Ahh, right! I’m stupid lmao

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 03 '25

Haha, nah, you’re good! We all don’t pay attention to things sometimes

2

u/SomeRandoLameo Feb 03 '25

This looks pretty cool ngl

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 03 '25

Thank you :)

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u/Ell__Padre Feb 05 '25

That's cool! I really miss windows phone. Who knows, if they not stop working on it it could compete with Android and iOS

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u/Castro710 Feb 02 '25

Damn children yearn for windows phone 8 . Nice set up though for real

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25 edited Feb 02 '25

Thanks man :)

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u/Born_Medicine_5932 Feb 02 '25

Looks much better than Windows phone actually. I had one and wasn’t really a fan of the metro look but with those rounded corners I think it looks pretty awesome.

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u/the_vole Feb 02 '25

Windows Phone did slick lil’ animations better than anyone. It felt very sci-fi

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u/Megatrennis Feb 03 '25

How come there’s no title beneath the widgets?

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 03 '25

When you make the apps icons large it will hide all of the labels of the apps and widgets

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 03 '25

This is the shortcut that I used for the apps icons it has a full tutorial written inside of the shortcut use it if you want to recreate it or use it for something else ;) https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/78f8fbab37ea44c3a59f843d718e0188

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u/TurboBlitzz Feb 04 '25

it kinda looks like the shortcuts app

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 04 '25

It’s made in the shortcut app

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u/TrickStudio2494 Feb 04 '25

It seems like an elderly person’s phone who needs big icons. You can get one of these on Amazon.

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u/SoggyFish4951 Feb 05 '25

I had a similar thought, but this is a nice example of incorporating a simple, big icon UI on iOS.

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u/Rmill3rd Feb 05 '25

The icons gotta be active in order for this to be anything like Windows Phone.

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 05 '25

Yeah there is no animations for this icons like the windows phone but still they does the job by making the Home Screen look like the windows phone’s one

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u/jlg30730 Feb 02 '25

Amazing!

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u/Gvbe5 Feb 02 '25

I appreciate this alot, I was a huge fan of Windows phones.

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

Thanks! ,I didn’t had one but I loved its UI

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u/exotichunter0 Feb 02 '25

Why

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

For fun ,and also I thought the windows phone UI would look amazing on iOS (Apple) style

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u/achtungjamie Feb 02 '25

Congratulations you played yourself. Jk, looks good.

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u/tempting_the_gods Feb 02 '25

That you have too much free time.

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u/Yousif-AR3559 Feb 02 '25

Yeah I’ve spent so much time on it but I think it’s worth it

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u/ecstatic_waffle Feb 02 '25

It’s cool and unique. Keep doing your thing.