The completely redesigned interface of iOS 7 meant a lot of users lost some familiar, and legitimately useful, navigational elements. Now, with Apple’s recent iOS 7.1 update, you can at least get back one of them: button shapes.
In the menus on iOS, the default is for buttons to be text-only, with a “<" indicating that you can tap there to navigate up a level in the Settings (these text-only buttons are also very evident in the Calendar app). For many, however, this text-only design made it harder to determine not just what was tappable, but where to actually tap. If you fall in that category -- or you're just nostalgic for some of iOS's old design elements -- just go to Settings > General > Accessibility and toggle on “Button Shapes.”
Now, the text buttons within the Settings menu are surrounded by a larger shaded arrow shape. Other text buttons are also filled and surrounded by a darker colored rounded rectangle.
Personally, I don’t like the look of the buttons option as much as the plain text scheme, but it certainly makes clickable buttons more apparent in the OS.
In the menus on iOS, the default is for buttons to be text-only, with a “<" indicating that you can tap there to navigate up a level in the Settings (these text-only buttons are also very evident in the Calendar app). For many, however, this text-only design made it harder to determine not just what was tappable, but where to actually tap. If you fall in that category -- or you're just nostalgic for some of iOS's old design elements -- just go to Settings > General > Accessibility and toggle on “Button Shapes.”
Now, the text buttons within the Settings menu are surrounded by a larger shaded arrow shape. Other text buttons are also filled and surrounded by a darker colored rounded rectangle.
Personally, I don’t like the look of the buttons option as much as the plain text scheme, but it certainly makes clickable buttons more apparent in the OS.