Question about launchers on the note 8

[o. l. t.]

Before i set up my new replacement note i'd like to find a launcher or theme that mimics the iphone ios. I have several themes that are kinda close from samsung themes, but nothing really decent. A launcher would be best as it would handle the entire skinning and actions.

I've seen fake android iphone clones running ios launchers over android and they look identical to the iphone ios. I know samsung has this phone locked down and that limits my choices.

As some know i just paid $250 to replace my cracked 8, and i own an iphone 8 plus I've been using. My carrier offered to take my note in on a new iphone x and i told them I'd answer them tomorrow. I love my note 8 and would like to keep it, but I'm not fond of touchwiz.

Since i just got this phone its brand new unsetup bone stock. What are my options from here!? Can i root the device on the latest oreo? (given that will help what I'm trying to achieve, otherwise i don't care). How about themes i haven't seen or a launcher you have seen close?

This is my current setup:





For touchwiz that isnt too bad. What i really want more than anything is to change the messages and phone section. The best launcher I've found from the play store is ios 12 launcher. It looks perfect and acts just like my iphone 8 plus. The only complaint is the phone and messages are still stock. This launcher even has wiggling icons and swipes like ios.

Is there any launcher that can change those? Here's the launcher.

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Here’s my iphone 8 plus for comparison. As you can see that launcher is REALLY close. It just doesn’t handle the messages, phone, and internet browser skin. That’s what i want most.

 

[tatootie67]

I wish I could help you but I just hate the iOS screen setups where you place every app icon on the same screen instead of keeping them in the app drawer like they should be.

Why would you want an iPhone setup on an Android??

 

[o. l. t.]

Did you read my reason? I have an 8 plus, and i do like the way it works. I have a note 8 and love the phone, but can't stand TouchWiz. In an "anything but TouchWiz" situation I'd obviously go with the first thing ilike. Then whatever else works. Any launcher that works properly and isn't touchwiz is worth looking into. Google touchwiz sucks and see what you get back.

I've dealt with it for a year, I'm ready to see my options. I really love my note 8 and I've always preferred it over my iphone 8 plus as a phone, but always hated the touchwiz since i upgrade my phones every year and this year the note 9 isn't an upgrade, I'm trying to breath some newness into the note before i go swap it for an iphone X. Next year the note 10 will be a worthy upgrade and I'll pop back to the note series.

The launcher i posted about above is nearly flawless, but i still have the same phone, messages, and browser. I could probably live with it, but it's not good enough for someone expecting a new phone and it's that time of the year i do an upgrade.

I'm very attached to my note and when they took my note 7 TWICE in the recall and left me with an iphone 7 plus, all I did for 10 months is wait for the note 8 to come out. I'm trying to find a way to hang onto it until the note 10 comes. Samsung has put me and many others in this spot that upgrade every year and didn't give us anything to upgrade to. I spent $250 3 days ago to replace this phone due to a cracked screen and I'm invested into it heavily. I'm bored with it though and ready for my upgrade.

 

[Dooki]

first, it's not TouchWiz, hasn't been for years.
second, something new and iOS is an oxymoron.
the phone and messages app can both be replaced with third party apps. I'm not a big fan of either on my N8 so I use pulse sms as it has cross platform and device use use and lots of ways to make it look. mood has tons of customizations, Google messages is very clean and has a web browser and progressive web app for tablets, Textra can be made to look like anything.
as for the phone. I wouldn't mess with it. third party apps are a bit wonky sometimes. you can use the cracked APK for the Google phone and it works really well, check XDA.