blank spacer icons on iOS

 This medium post on iOS minimalism had this rather striking set of iOS screenshots:

Turns out the secret is iEmpty, letting you add blank icons with empty string captions. (I have not tested the procedure.)

The results can be beautiful, but I'd say a bit fragile... you might be tempted to remove an unneeded icon or slow to add in something new just to preserve the lovely spacing.

Anyway, at work we were just talking about the bad old days of spacer.gif ...