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iOS 7: All The Little Things! (Featuring iOS 7.1)

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jw1950 said:
First, let me establish that Im an Apple afficiando. 3 generations of iPhone. 2 iPads, Apple TV, Imac, Macbook Pro. That being said...
Well, after a full afternoon, evening, and early morning with iOs7 on my iPad, my review is… I really, really don’t like it. Not just mildly. Really. Its not because its change; I love change that brings new possibilities, opens new doors. That's why I moved from PC to the Apple Universe. Ultimately, to me, iOS7 is a large collection of arbitrary changes that bring no new real functional advantage over the previous configuration, and the interface itself is just plain ugly. Instead of a slick looking dock, we now have a solid opaque rectangle that the docked icons lie flat on. Instead of sophisticated dimensional icons, we now have 8-bit-style flat color images. And all of the tweaks internally? Well, as I say, all I find is a different layout that does essentially the same thing; swipe left instead of right, flick up instead of hover and x-out…and Im finding that Safari is loading slower and clunkier than before. And, of course, the very first app I loaded up, a great little game Ive been playing the last week or so and am ALMOST finished with…dies under 7. Natch.

Honestly, I think the interface makes it look like an iPad made by Playskool.

8 bit icons? They looked that way when they were new because that was the MOST that could be done under the 8-bit, 16 color architecture available at the time. So, what do we do with the world’s first 64-bit phone? Design an 8-bit style interface. Brilliant.

1. I wish, really wish, there was some way to back out of 7 and go back to 6 on my iPad.
2. I am NOT loading 7 on my iPhone. I don’t want it looking the way my iPad looks, not at all.
3. It’s made my deliberations over whether to upgrade to a 5s come to a full stop. I have no interest in committing to a phone that looks like this. I love the phone, but not like this. My analogy is Toyota. I owned a series of Toyotas in the 80s and 90s because they were essentially the highest quality vehicles on the market, and looked great. I haven’t owned one since the last 90s. I still think they are of superior quality. But, they've lost anything remotely attractive in their appearance. While I appreciate the quality, I LIVE in the ambiance of the vehicle itself, and cant stand the vanilla appearance they’ve devolved to. That pretty well describes my feelings about the iPhone/iOS experience at the moment. Its dour, lacks energy, and has lost it’s sense of immersion into a unique environment.
4. One of Apple’s hallmarks has been the way its distinguished itself from its competitors; the OSx and iOS environments LOOKED unique and of higher quality than windows or android, or whatever. This new interface moves closer, not farther away, from those two environments; it’s a convergence I have no interest in. In particular, the flatness and color palate reminds me disturbingly of Windows 8s new blocky interface.
5. Does my opinion matter in the large scheme of things? No, of course not. But, it matters to me, and most definitely influences my purchases, and what I recommend to others. Ive already advised my daughter and wife not to upgrade their personal Apple equipment. I know there will come a time down the road where not upgrading will become unsustainable, and I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it…but not until I have to.


I know this is Jony Ivy’s thing. To me, it truly signals the end of the Jobs era. Somehow, I don’t think it would ever have passed his muster. I sure as hell hope Mavericks doesn’t echo this new look.
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I absolutely agree with you. Unless Apple makes this UI as lovable and unique as the last one, they have lost me as a customer.
 
WhackyNinja said:
Having keyboards like this on an app. It doesn't feel like I run iOS 7...it feels that I still run iOS 6
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Yea I wonder why they decided to leave it to the developers to manually adapt that themselves. Maybe that way developers can launch 2.0 versions of their existing apps and say that those are now in iOS 7-style. Or, maybe the new keyboard has different (a larger?) size than the pre-7 one? That'd explain the move...
 
hard for me to read thru so much!

What other little things....do we have a little recap of this thread?
 
Anyone having problems updating apps right now ?

Update :Now they only show on computer and not iPhone or iPad…

Anyone ????

Never mind , there seems to have been a problem with Skype but it's fixed now .
 
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Has anyone confirmed that notification sync is working in the final release? I don't even see it on Apple's website.
 
I noticed yesterday that with Voice Memos when you end a recording you can name the file immediately. That's a cool feature to me, and that's one of those little things I'm glad to see.
 
I and all my friends HATE io7

I love the iphone and was on line waiting for the 4 and 5 models when they first came out. I own an ipad. I can not contain my anger about this io7!!!! It is a cartoony piece of %#}{. It ruined my iphone and ipad that I spent a whole lot of money on... My gf, who I brought a phone for, can not stand it either ... Her sister hates it., her iphone 4 battery is drained... Her friends hate it I am going to go to the apple store and demand they reinstall io6.... L

Omg what a stupid move apple!!!!!
 
I have a couple of questions about iOS 7!

I plugged in my iPhone 5 last night to charge it and left it on overnight. When I came back to it this morning, the charging indicator in the top right of the screen showed a solid green battery but had lightning bolt charging indicator next to it.
In iOS6, once the phone was fully charged, the phone would should a plug symbol instead of a lightning bolt, meaning that the phone was indeed fully charged. Is this not the case in iOS7 anymore? Is there no plug indicator?

Also, I was following a Beta thread and in several of the betas, the line of the Notification Center would remain at the top of the home screen meaning that you could pull it down. Similarly, the line of the Control Center was also displayed at the bottom of the home screen symbolizing that you could pull this up. Have these lines been removed now in iOS7 as I don't have either on my home screen?

Thanks.
 
Dino F said:
I have a couple of questions about iOS 7!

I plugged in my iPhone 5 last night to charge it and left it on overnight. When I came back to it this morning, the charging indicator in the top right of the screen showed a solid green battery but had lightning bolt charging indicator next to it.
In iOS6, once the phone was fully charged, the phone would should a plug symbol instead of a lightning bolt, meaning that the phone was indeed fully charged. Is this not the case in iOS7 anymore? Is there no plug indicator?

Also, I was following a Beta thread and in several of the betas, the line of the Notification Center would remain at the top of the home screen meaning that you could pull it down. Similarly, the line of the Control Center was also displayed at the bottom of the home screen symbolizing that you could pull this up. Have these lines been removed now in iOS7 as I don't have either on my home screen?

Thanks.
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1) There is no separate indicator for when the phone is 100% charged.

2) There are lines on the lock screen, but not the home screen. I've been using iOS 7 since beta 1 and there were never lines on the home screen to indicate NC and CC were there. However, with full screen games, if you swipe once from the bottom or once from the top, it will show the little arrows indicating that you could pull them to reveal NC and CC.
 
Music Bug

I noticed a bug yesterday evening in the Music app. I had the music app running in the background and had my earpods on. My phone was locked. Every time I unlocked the phone, the song playing would go back 5 seconds. Just to be sure, I locked and unlocked the phone several times and this happened every single time. I checked it again today a couple of times today, but it continued smooth playback today. However, what I experienced yesterday was definitely a bug. Anyone else had similar issue?
 
Nice mail update

Writing new emails seems to have a new feature added when you have multiple mail accounts.

While I have a default account I have set for responses, mail in iOS 7 seems to default to the "correct" email address based on who I am writing the email to.

For example, one of me personal accounts is my default, but as I entered the email address of a colleague, the "from" address changes to my work address.

That never happened for me in iOS 6....always had to change manually.

Was this mentioned somewhere? I follow this thread religiously, so apologies if it has...
 
MozMan68 said:
Writing new emails seems to have a new feature added when you have multiple mail accounts.

While I have a default account I have set for responses, mail in iOS 7 seems to default to the "correct" email address based on who I am writing the email to.

For example, one of me personal accounts is my default, but as I entered the email address of a colleague, the "from" address changes to my work address.

That never happened for me in iOS 6....always had to change manually.

Was this mentioned somewhere? I follow this thread religiously, so apologies if it has...
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Yes it has been mentioned in some other thread, I think the thread was named 'Email Intelligente'….

I personally like this feature myself, but as usual there were gripes from some about iOS 7 being rubbish - for being 'intelligent'….
 
sohanangal said:
I noticed a bug yesterday evening in the Music app. I had the music app running in the background and had my earpods on. My phone was locked. Every time I unlocked the phone, the song playing would go back 5 seconds. Just to be sure, I locked and unlocked the phone several times and this happened every single time. I checked it again today a couple of times today, but it continued smooth playback today. However, what I experienced yesterday was definitely a bug. Anyone else had similar issue?
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Happens to me all the time. It started in one of the later betas and still hasn't been fixed.
 
I'm loving this thread, been following it since page 1! might've skipped a few pages here and there.

One thing I noticed today (it's not that big of a deal), is that when the icons in the home screen start to wiggle for rearrangement, the seconds' hand on the clock icon starts to tick instead of doing the flow it usually does.

just thought about sharing this.
 
MozMan68 said:
Writing new emails seems to have a new feature added when you have multiple mail accounts.

While I have a default account I have set for responses, mail in iOS 7 seems to default to the "correct" email address based on who I am writing the email to.

For example, one of me personal accounts is my default, but as I entered the email address of a colleague, the "from" address changes to my work address.

That never happened for me in iOS 6....always had to change manually.

Was this mentioned somewhere? I follow this thread religiously, so apologies if it has...
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Not new
 
Admittedly not the sharpest knife in the drawer so ......

When using 7 on my iPad4 & I open an item in a folder, then close that WS, the folder is also closed on my home screen.

Am I the only one missing this from 6 or ??
 
ThE.MeSsEnGeR said:
I'm loving this thread, been following it since page 1! might've skipped a few pages here and there.

One thing I noticed today (it's not that big of a deal), is that when the icons in the home screen start to wiggle for rearrangement, the seconds' hand on the clock icon starts to tick instead of doing the flow it usually does.

just thought about sharing this.
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Good catch! :p
 
Depending on the light and if I have my glasses on, I'd like to see a few options for changing the colourways (I'm from the UK) behind the telephone key pad. Indeed, maybe across all the text screens. Make them user defined.

Higher contrast options might make it clearer for many. i.e. take a look when you are on a call...

Possible in a later update?
 
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