[spoonmonkeyuk]

The app cannot function as you'd expect a screen saver to do: it won't start running after a period of inactivity. That is outside the scope of functionality available to apps.

As such, yeah the name is a little misleading.

[LinaLauneBaer]

Hm. But you can still use it for the purpose screen savers were originally designed to do: save screens from getting burn ins. But agreed: it can't run automatically after a period of inactivity.

Off topic: As a child I loved to look at screen savers that I manually started for hours wondering how they work and how long it took to build them...

[sanxiyn]

United States of America is a misleading name. It is not united.

My point is that XScreenSaver is a proper name, and by now should be considered to have earned its name.

[king_magic]

Last time I checked, I lived in a country composed of 50 states, united into one nation.

iOS does not support screensavers. The app's name is misleading. It seems pretty cut and dry to me.