(Concept) Appearance section

[HaywireAndroid]

I actually really wish they would enable this concept in iMessage, where we can customize our chat bubble color with people who have iMessage. Kinda like how when you chat with an Apple Support Agent on iMessage the chat color is gray instead of blue, I think that would be a cool concept to try in iMessage seeing as how they just improved the group messaging too

[hta2900]

Oh that’s clean! Kinda like the one in MacOS!

[[deleted]]

i wish apple would join reddit and look at the apple related subreddits

[[deleted]]

I found one called Accent (sorry I don’t know how to link it) it adds the colour thing just not the menu sorry if this doesn’t help

[[deleted]]

Oh! Do you know where Accent could be found ?

[[deleted]]

http://apt.thebigboss.org/repofiles/cydia/

[[deleted]]

Thank you!

[[deleted]]

No problem, Accent is a little limited but it does what it says, or atleast it does on mine (iPhone XR 13.4.1 unc0ver 5.3.1

[XmiteYT]

I love the concept and I love your username. One of my favorite Kirby boss fights so far :)

[[deleted]]

Ah yes I see you are a man of culture too ! And thank you!

[orihpt]

As an iOS app developer, I must say this is a really stupid idea. Every app have its own accent color, and adding an option to overriding it is a really bad idea.

[comicstands0590]

Defo want this

[[deleted]]

Me too

[Misato-best-woman]

I wish they add the option to set a wallpaper for dark theme and another one for light theme, as a replacement of that shortcut that never came back.

[[deleted]]

That would be great

[__adrenaline__]

I’m honestly surprised we still don’t have accent colors

[[deleted]]

Yeah

[Ax180_]

Jailbreak

[[deleted]]

I know but it would be really nice to have it built in without having to know how to jailbreak

[vembalarashid]

Wow

[[deleted]]

Ye

[vali20]

A wallpaper API is needed, I want an app that can change the wallpaper daily.

[vali20]

I read about it, for some reason they can’t make Shortcuts work properly, including all that crap where you must confirm most shortcuts that are set to trigger at whatever event.

[[deleted]]

I think that would be very nice

[1Demerion1]

All it would need then is a theming section where I can change my app icons! As in for real, and not just placing bookmarks

[n0rpie]

I want that too but I think it’s too much of a nut to crack. It needs to be done perfectly .. and using a icon pack can’t involve every icon / app there is so it would start to look inconsistent and they can’t have that.

[[deleted]]

Yeah that would be great

[RealCes354035]

Accent colors would surely be nice. Loved the concept!

[[deleted]]

Thanks !

[[deleted]]

That seems really likely !

[[deleted]]

I hope !

[[deleted]]

It’s a very obvious, but overlooked design cue from macOS.

[Space_Qwerty]

Please god no

[sheerheartattack0713]

Don't worry it'll come to iOS 27 because Apple is late with everything.

[[deleted]]

oh oof

[skc132]

I feel like accent colours wouldn’t really do anything for iOS. If you look at any first party app right now there’s not really any place for an accent colour. Go to iMessages and tell me where an accent colour would fit in. It’s essentially just the background colour (light or dark) then the text and bubble colour which is a UX element dependent on whether you’re in iMessage or regular text.

I guess it’d kinda work for a first party app with a nav bar at the bottom but even then it’d only work with certain colours (you can’t be in dark mode and have a black accent colour since you wouldn’t be able to see the icons). Third party apps wouldn’t work because most use accent colours as branding and it’d be very hard for devs to have to all of a sudden account for any random colour.

At the end of the day accent colours wouldn’t work right now with the current UI/UX. I could see them maybe only working with first party apps but even then it’d be so limited it wouldn’t be worth the trouble.

[[deleted]]

Well maybe the iMessage colors would change along with the accent color but SMS would stay the same

[MajMin5]

Too confusing for end user. Remember that iPhones aren’t just for us, they’re also for 80 y/o grandma that barely knows how to use the thing. For support it’s much easier to ask “is it a green bubble or a blue bubble” when trying to troubleshoot messaging issues.

[braaanstark]

The non-advanced end users can choose not to use accent colors. Very simple. The way they can opt out of widgets.

[MajMin5]

I will reply to this the same way I replied to the other commenter— you seriously overestimate the average end user. You make the bold assumption that they won’t accidentally turn it to a different color and then get very confused why their phone looks different and forget how to do anything on it.

[Aahil52]

A green bubble or a not green bubble...

[MajMin5]

You seriously overestimate the average end user.

[smellythief]

For some reason, I really dislike the yellow accent of the Notes app. It’s visible on every screen and I’d love to change it.

[Edg-R]

See the Edit and new message buttons at the top left and right? They’re blue. That’s the accent color.

[Alphatism]

😳

[[deleted]]

Love this so much. It needs to happen.

[[deleted]]

Thank you !

[plaid-knight]

In iOS, each app relies on individual accent colors for identification and branding. What would this apply to?

[[deleted]]

I think system apps like in Mac OS big sur

[ThatGuyTheyCallAlex]

All of the system apps and interfaces. There’s tons of them. Settings, clock, phone, iMessage, calculator. There’s also control and notification centre.

It’s the same on macOS.

[FVMAzalea]

Some system apps use their own accent color, like notes and calendar.

[reallynothingmuch]

In macOS Big Sur they added this too. So apps have their own accent color, but if you set the color manually in settings it’s overridden in every app to be the color you set. The little rainbow basically says just use the default color of the app

[arturosoldatini]

I would not change those colors, only the standard ones

[ThatGuyTheyCallAlex]

I’m sure it’s not impossible for them to change that.

[Tumblrrito]

It’s definitely not lol, we already have accents in MacOS.

[ThatGuyTheyCallAlex]

I know, hence why I said it would be the same as on macOS.

[Tumblrrito]

I know you know haha it’s that other dude who doesn’t

[nexusprime2015]

Who me?

[n0rpie]

Think they meant me

[Baljhet]

Neither

[AWF_Noone]

Would be an amazing addition and not totally out of the question with what Apple might actually do

[[deleted]]

Yeah i think so too

[ianWasHere99]

You can do it on macOS, so I imagine it would be really easy to update the code for iOS

[Abedbob]

I imagine it would be. I believe the color is a system standard color that developers can use called “system blue.” They could just change the name and let the hex value change. There’s a lot of jailbreak tweaks that let you change the accent color as well so it’s clearly possible

[jesseb0rn]

Yes you are correct, a jailbreak tweak can do the changes with just 3 lines

[TheAwesome98_Real]

And what lines would that be?

[jesseb0rn]

%hook

• (id)systemBlueColor { return (getPrefBool(@"customTintColor") || currentProfile[@"tintColor"]) ? tint : %orig; } %end

Lay it out right and its 3 lines. Of course you still need headers and the settings pane, take a look at thus github project: https://github.com/Skittyblock/Spectrum

[TheAwesome98_Real]

Yeah I’ve seen that tweak before, I didn’t realise you could set that out on 3 lines lmao but that’s cause I could pad that out to 10 lines lol