'Smaller mobile devices such as PDAs and smartphones typically use the WIMP elements with different unifying metaphors, due to constraints in space and available input devices. The example 'iPhone OS (iOS) graphic user interface (GUI) - SMS application' was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Graphic User Interface solution from the Software Development area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. Docked at the base of the screen, four icons for Phone, Mail, Safari (Internet), and Music delineate the iPhone's main purposes.' However, it also no longer support YouTube. iOS 6 also added a Clock application onto the iPad's homescreen. iOS 6 added Passbook as well as an updated version of Maps that relies on data provided by TomTom as well as other sources. In iOS 5, Reminders and Newsstand were added, as well as the iPod application split into separate Music and Videos applications. The home screen can be accessed at any time by a hardware button below the screen, closing the open application in the process.īy default, the Home screen contains the following icons: Messages (SMS and MMS messaging), Calendar, Photos, Camera, YouTube, Stocks, Maps (Google Maps), Weather, Voice Memos, Notes, Clock, Calculator, Settings, iTunes (store), App Store, (on the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4) Compass, FaceTime and GameCenter were added in iOS 4.0 and 4.1 respectively. Starting with iOS 7, though, apps can truly multitask, and each open application runs in the background when not in use, although most functionality is still available when making a call or listening to music. However, the apps never ran in the background. Users could double click the home button to select recently opened. Starting with the iPhone 4, a primitive version of multitasking came into play. iPhone applications normally run one at a time. The interface is based around the home screen, a graphical list of available applications. It runs Apple's iOS mobile operating system. is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc.

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