Do you remember when the settings gears actually spun during a software update?

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Let’s chat about those nostalgic software updates and their animated settings gears. Did they really spin on the home screen or just inside the app menu?
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It’s 2024. Smart phones have advanced so that they no longer use actual gears.

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The gears moved inside the update menu not the icon itself.

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Joss said:
The gears moved inside the update menu not the icon itself.

No, they spun on the app icon too. I remember it clearly.

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Teo said:

Joss said:
The gears moved inside the update menu not the icon itself.

No, they spun on the app icon too. I remember it clearly.

That sounds like a Mandela Effect. It never happened.

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@Briar
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@Briar
There wasn’t an official feature, but there was definitely a Cydia tweak for this back in the day.

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@Briar
I swear, 9-year-old me on my iPad 2 was mesmerized by those gears moving during an update.

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Teo said:
@Briar
I swear, 9-year-old me on my iPad 2 was mesmerized by those gears moving during an update.

That didn’t happen. I’ve been around since iPhone OS 1.0. It was only inside the settings menu.

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@Freddie
We need to revisit some memories here. I think there was a Cydia tweak that did this, but not in the icon itself.

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@Briar
Yeah, I thought the only animated icon was the clock.

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Teo said:

Joss said:
The gears moved inside the update menu not the icon itself.

No, they spun on the app icon too. I remember it clearly.

You’re not alone. I remember seeing it too, right on the Home Screen while updates were downloading. It was cool but then they removed it.

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Joss said:
The gears moved inside the update menu not the icon itself.

The icon also spun, which was cool.

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They only spun inside the app menu.

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I remember that… it’s a classic.

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Jesse said:
I remember that… it’s a classic.

I came here to say the same thing

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Sully said:

Jesse said:
I remember that… it’s a classic.

I came here to say the same thing

I second that old meme.

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Actually, I’ve never noticed or heard of it doing that until now.

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Robin said:
Actually, I’ve never noticed or heard of it doing that until now.

It didn’t happen on the icon. The settings symbol in the update menu was the one that had the animation.

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Check this out: https://youtube.com/shorts/pXC3Aj3_1x4