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peridot said:
Thank you, especially for the tip about disabling reminders in Today View! Yes I have used the twitter app, that was the first thing I tried. I'm getting some of my notifications but not all of them. I seem to be getting more and more lately, so maybe the issue is resolving itself.


Reposting my stupid questions in case anyone else has any other ideas:

-in the notifications menu, is there a way to disable checking off reminders? I use reminders to keep track of my bills, and accidentally marking them as complete could be very bad.
-is there a way to select which calendars appear in the notifications menu?
-is there a way to get the notification menu to show upcoming calendar appointments in point form? I'm not loving the 6 hour calendar view. I'm also not loving that it will tell me I have am event tomorrow at a specific time, but not what the event is.
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The answer to all three questions is no. That's the only way the reminders can be shown in notification center. It will show all active calendars, you can not choose specific ones to be displayed here. And no; no way to get upcoming events shown in point form.
 
A little help please. I can send text messages, but for some reason I'm not receiving them after updating to ios 7. Help.
 
So when I go to set my background picture it won't let me scale it it just makes it so it takes up the whole screen. Is this how it's supposed to be?
 
Why did they move the bookmark button in safari to the right of the page? Now browsing is a two job endeavor on an iPad.
 
Accidentally touched Newsstand, now it will not go away, it has replaced the home screens. How do I exit this thing?
 
How can I back up my ios7 phone via iTunes without using iTunes11? Impossible?
 
Sydde said:
Accidentally touched Newsstand, now it will not go away, it has replaced the home screens. How do I exit this thing?
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It acts like an app, so just taping the home button should minimize it and take you back to your home screen.

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I have to say it feels like Apple went too simplified on this one. I live by my iPhone Calendar and I hate the new interface. It's way to hard to jump from month to month and see what's going on at a glance. Instead of clicking a day in month view and seeing a list of my appointments that day, I need to scroll through a whole 24 hour view of my day? Same with notification center- I need to see a bunch of empty hours instead of just a list of what's scheduled that day? Obnoxious.

Safari- the disappearing forward and backward bars are driving me nuts. Is there a way to make them stay present? I feel like it's a pain to get them back when I need to navigate. The easiest way I've found is by clicking the website name. This is an extra click every time I want to navigate. Alternatively, I can swipe, but this doesn't seem consistent?

How can I make my clock more "contrasted" on the lock screen? I have a light blue background and it barely shows up. Am I just going to need to pick dark backgrounds from now on?

iTunes Radio- I know Match subscribers aren't suppose to get commercials? I have Match and keep getting commercials for iTunes Fest. Does this not count as a commercial because it's Apple endorsed? Or am I getting commercials because I don't have iTunes Match enabled on my phone?
 
someone28624 said:
It acts like an app, so just taping the home button should minimize it and take you back to your home screen.

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I have to say it feels like Apple went too simplified on this one. I live by my iPhone Calendar and I hate the new interface. It's way to hard to jump from month to month and see what's going on at a glance. Instead of clicking a day in month view and seeing a list of my appointments that day, I need to scroll through a whole 24 hour view of my day? Same with notification center- I need to see a bunch of empty hours instead of just a list of what's scheduled that day? Obnoxious.

Safari- the disappearing forward and backward bars are driving me nuts. Is there a way to make them stay present? I feel like it's a pain to get them back when I need to navigate. The easiest way I've found is by clicking the website name. This is an extra click every time I want to navigate. Alternatively, I can swipe, but this doesn't seem consistent?

How can I make my clock more "contrasted" on the lock screen? I have a light blue background and it barely shows up. Am I just going to need to pick dark backgrounds from now on?

iTunes Radio- I know Match subscribers aren't suppose to get commercials? I have Match and keep getting commercials for iTunes Fest. Does this not count as a commercial because it's Apple endorsed? Or am I getting commercials because I don't have iTunes Match enabled on my phone?
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In calendar, tap the magnifying glass at the top - that's how you get to list view.

And I believe you need iTunes Match enabled on your phone - but can't say with 100% certainty. I have it enabled and get no ads.
 
Is there a way to turn spotlight search off? Sometimes when I am swiping from page to page, the spotlight search comes up......It's getting very annoying now...
 
audiokeeffe said:
Is there a way to turn spotlight search off? Sometimes when I am swiping from page to page, the spotlight search comes up......It's getting very annoying now...
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The only way I could think of would be to go into Settings, General, Spotlight, and uncheck everything.

And really? I've been using iOS 7 for three months and have never had that issue. Just have to make sure you're swiping horizontally, not diagonally.
 
RMo said:
My complaint isn't that the animations aren't smooth (as far as I can tell, they are); it's that it takes too much time....
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b_scott said:
you're worried about one second? :rolleyes:
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I know it sounds silly, but yes. There is absolutely NO reason to make me wait to use my device after I wake it up. Like I said, iOS 6 was instant, but iOS 7 (at least on an iPad) makes me wait for the pointless animation to complete before it's usable. Further, the fact that it's in animation prevents me from moving my finger to hover over the correct spot so I can touch it when I'm ready because the target keeps moving. This is so annoying when all you want to do is, for example, turn your device on for a few seconds to see if you have new e-mail.

This adds to the device's "boot time" (wake time, really), and distracts from the instant-on that I love(d) so much about iOS. If they insist on a fancy effect that serves no purpose, I'd prefer a fade in so the targets don't keep moving and so it could maybe be usable during this time, but I'd much prefer a simple option to turn it off.

And if anyone finds a way to do that that I haven't found yet, please let me know. :)
 
Tyler23 said:
The only way I could think of would be to go into Settings, General, Spotlight, and uncheck everything.

And really? I've been using iOS 7 for three months and have never had that issue. Just have to make sure you're swiping horizontally, not diagonally.
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Unchecking everything doesn't make the search bar disappear. It will still come up when you swipe down. It just won't search for anything
 
Tyler23 said:
In calendar, tap the magnifying glass at the top - that's how you get to list view.

And I believe you need iTunes Match enabled on your phone - but can't say with 100% certainty. I have it enabled and get no ads.
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i miss the way it was in 6. You could see the month, see dots on which days had activities scheduled, then just click that day and see a list for that day- without going into the list view. It's the same in 7, except now I need to scroll though hours with nothing scheduled as it shows the whole day, not just the activities.
 
audiokeeffe said:
Is there a way to turn spotlight search off? Sometimes when I am swiping from page to page, the spotlight search comes up......It's getting very annoying now...
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While this sounds like the "you're holding it wrong" excuse, but you need to adjust the way you swipe. Spotlight appears only if you swipe more vertically than horizontally; even a straight 45 deg swipe will not make it appear. And bear in mind this is the initial direction of your swipe, so if your thumb makes an arc, starting horizontally and ending vertically, Spotlight will not appear.

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someone28624 said:
i miss the way it was in 6. You could see the month, see dots on which days had activities scheduled, then just click that day and see a list for that day- without going into the list view. It's the same in 7, except now I need to scroll though hours with nothing scheduled as it shows the whole day, not just the activities.
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Going from Week to Month view shows this and pressing on the magnifying glass shows the traditional list.
 
I am guessing that the answer to this is "no" but I thought I'd ask anyway...

I have two Message app questions:

1. Is it possible to adjust the color scheme? Like I said I assume "no" unless I jailbreak, but I inverted the color on a lark and *really* liked how Message looked like that... but not the rest of the device.

2. Is it possible, short of deleting nicknames from the Contacts app, to have messages show under the contact's name instead of their nickname?
 
someone28624 said:
i miss the way it was in 6. You could see the month, see dots on which days had activities scheduled, then just click that day and see a list for that day- without going into the list view. It's the same in 7, except now I need to scroll though hours with nothing scheduled as it shows the whole day, not just the activities.
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Tap the magnifying glass in Calendar to get the list view.
 
wlbaker said:
I guess the importance question depends on the user.

I wish I could actually read the links in my notes. But now they are yellow and hard to see. Bold, large text, enhanced contrast do not help.

I wish I could see the buttons on the phone keypad and the other features. It is really hard for me to read - impossible for those with vision issues. Apple missed the accessibility mark here. And they were so good about it.

Let me configure my own color schemes, thank you. Clearly Sir Ive has better "vision" than I do.
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I believe you can do so much as to invert the entire color scheme under accessibility.
 
someone28624 said:
It acts like an app, so just taping the home button should minimize it and take you back to your home screen.
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No, actually, it does not "act like an app". Open it, then do the running apps swipe (four up), you will see that the home screen (which they added in iOS 7) is replaced by Newsstand. The five-finger close swipe does not work on it, because it is the home screen, all apps home to Newsstand. I only ever use the home button for one thing, to exit the jiggly icon rearrange mode, and to take screenshots. Two things, to exit jiggly icons, take screen shots and force restart – three, three things ...

It is just wrong that Apple should force me to use the home button when I should not have to, they need to fix this (not that I actually use Newsstand).
 
Do apps need to be updated to take advantage of Background App Refresh or does iOS 7 support this on all apps (even for apps that haven't been updated for iOS 7)?

I ask because none of my apps are updating. In fact, when I open them, there's a noticeable lag of about 5 seconds where you can't do anything, then once you can nothing has updated in the background (i.e. in Reeder, no RSS feeds have been updated). I'm wondering if there's a background app refresh API that apps need to be updated to use...

EDIT: I'm on a 4S
 
Game center

Is there any way to play a game without logging into game center? Or disable this?
 
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