Don't you mean, copy the Safari Pages from the first iPad?
Regardless, I've tried both types of appswitching methods as Jailbreak mods, and I preferred the way iOS7 works.
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Wow. iOS 7 is a disaster.
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Don't you mean, copy the Safari Pages from the first iPad?
Regardless, I've tried both types of appswitching methods as Jailbreak mods, and I preferred the way iOS7 works.
Major flaws that completely spoil iOS 7
Seems like a disaster to me.
1) Way too many Apple apps are broken in that you cannot select the top row of the scrollbar: this makes it impossible to select the most recent caller who left a voice mail, you can't ADD a stock to the stock tracker app,
2) The calendar fonts are such that you simply cannot tell the difference between days with calendar items and those without.
3) Scrolling of email is jerky, and delayed at random intervals, so the action is not smooth at all. Horrible.
4) The photo/video control buttons are impossible to decipher. You can't tell when video is on or off. They abandoned the usual VCR controls and now you can't tell whats going on. They injected some crazy animation that leaves pictures out of focus most of the time.
5) They broke quite a few other apps that rely on search or other controls on the top row of a list. You simply cannot get to the top row, especially if teathering is activated.
Seems like a disaster to me.
1) Way too many Apple apps are broken in that you cannot select the top row of the scrollbar: this makes it impossible to select the most recent caller who left a voice mail, you can't ADD a stock to the stock tracker app,
2) The calendar fonts are such that you simply cannot tell the difference between days with calendar items and those without.
3) Scrolling of email is jerky, and delayed at random intervals, so the action is not smooth at all. Horrible.
4) The photo/video control buttons are impossible to decipher. You can't tell when video is on or off. They abandoned the usual VCR controls and now you can't tell whats going on. They injected some crazy animation that leaves pictures out of focus most of the time.
5) They broke quite a few other apps that rely on search or other controls on the top row of a list. You simply cannot get to the top row, especially if teathering is activated.
Wow, most of what you listed is beta bugs, which will be resolved by GM, if you're claiming the OS is a disaster due to the bugs in a beta, you need to get off the Internet and not touch betas ever....
It's a beta, not a finished product ready for public consumption.
If it had been Jony Ive who had done this, you'd be on your knees proclaiming it as the best design since the Pyramids.
get off the internet you are giving sane people cancer!
you can't assume to get perfect operation with a beta meant for developers?
I wouldn't say disaster, but...
-With the iPad version, in year view of calendar you need to scroll to see september - december; it seems unprofessional.
- (mentioned loads of times) calendar needs dots / way of viewing how many events on each day.
- The selectors at the top (day|week|month|year) seem tacky.
- Elements need shadows to show layering, especially popups (like the share button) -- more on iPad than iPhone and iPod
- The content needs to be more separated from the UI by shadows and contrast (a light grey background, with grey options, which are highlighted darker grey, with UI bars that are light grey means the whole app becomes a splodge where you don't know where the content ends and where the UI starts.
- the popups on both iPad and iPhone need redoing - it's a mix of coloured icons, with outlined icons, with white UI bars and white options with small text, and grey smaller text and a larger blue cancel button) - clean it up. You can also see why it needs shadows.
eg: Link
- transparency can look nice, but not the UI bar in maps - it looks a dirty green colour.
- talking about UI bars they need subtle gradients with shadows (see attachment)
- Space in notification center (especially on iPad) can be better utilised - a little pictures of upcoming weather is better than a wall of text. What's the point in showing me an empty grid with no events in - show me some reminders instead, or better yet -- some actual notifications!
- icons
- icons need shadows
- text need shadows, or needs to be adaptive so it can stand out even in wallpapers that change colour (a wallpaper which is white at top, black at bottom makes the half the text unreadable and the other half readable.
- the dock looks like poo
- Calendar month view needs improving (by dots) and at a glance viewing of events on a specific day.
- On iPad and iPhone, notes needs better icons (yellow on a pale yellow background, really?) and on iPad, there needs to be a better definition between the 'notes selector' (left hand panel) and the right hand side.
- On iPad the music app was perfect originally -- now there's 9 options at the bottom and stretched out UI. Make it like iTunes on the mac, with those fancy album views. Make it more 'desktopy' and less big iPhone.
- Folders can be bigger than 3x3 on the iPad - I mean there's space. In fact, make opening folders on iPad like it is in 10.9
- Why are folders so damn ugly?
- Safari's icon (bookmarks, back, forward, share) aren't great.
- Reminders and Notes should look similar (on the iPad), but they look like they were made by 2 different companies.
And little things to - like it would be nice if I could swipe between today, all and missed rather than tapping - it just 'feels' like I should be able to do that. Also, the swipe back gesture works great on iPhone, but on iPad where there's normally two views (a small left panel and a large right panel - like settings), it would be nice to be able to use this gesture as well.
One tiny thing that annoys me is that every time you're in maps you can see thumbnails of photos - I'd like it if I could see the fullscreen version of these instead of being pulled out to the app store and told to get yelp.
Overall, do I like the direction iOS 7 took iOS? Yes
Will I update? Yes
-With the iPad version, in year view of calendar you need to scroll to see september - december; it seems unprofessional.
- (mentioned loads of times) calendar needs dots / way of viewing how many events on each day.
- The selectors at the top (day|week|month|year) seem tacky.
- Elements need shadows to show layering, especially popups (like the share button) -- more on iPad than iPhone and iPod
- The content needs to be more separated from the UI by shadows and contrast (a light grey background, with grey options, which are highlighted darker grey, with UI bars that are light grey means the whole app becomes a splodge where you don't know where the content ends and where the UI starts.
- the popups on both iPad and iPhone need redoing - it's a mix of coloured icons, with outlined icons, with white UI bars and white options with small text, and grey smaller text and a larger blue cancel button) - clean it up. You can also see why it needs shadows.
eg: Link
- transparency can look nice, but not the UI bar in maps - it looks a dirty green colour.
- talking about UI bars they need subtle gradients with shadows (see attachment)
- Space in notification center (especially on iPad) can be better utilised - a little pictures of upcoming weather is better than a wall of text. What's the point in showing me an empty grid with no events in - show me some reminders instead, or better yet -- some actual notifications!
- icons
- icons need shadows
- text need shadows, or needs to be adaptive so it can stand out even in wallpapers that change colour (a wallpaper which is white at top, black at bottom makes the half the text unreadable and the other half readable.
- the dock looks like poo
- Calendar month view needs improving (by dots) and at a glance viewing of events on a specific day.
- On iPad and iPhone, notes needs better icons (yellow on a pale yellow background, really?) and on iPad, there needs to be a better definition between the 'notes selector' (left hand panel) and the right hand side.
- On iPad the music app was perfect originally -- now there's 9 options at the bottom and stretched out UI. Make it like iTunes on the mac, with those fancy album views. Make it more 'desktopy' and less big iPhone.
- Folders can be bigger than 3x3 on the iPad - I mean there's space. In fact, make opening folders on iPad like it is in 10.9
- Why are folders so damn ugly?
- Safari's icon (bookmarks, back, forward, share) aren't great.
- Reminders and Notes should look similar (on the iPad), but they look like they were made by 2 different companies.
And little things to - like it would be nice if I could swipe between today, all and missed rather than tapping - it just 'feels' like I should be able to do that. Also, the swipe back gesture works great on iPhone, but on iPad where there's normally two views (a small left panel and a large right panel - like settings), it would be nice to be able to use this gesture as well.
One tiny thing that annoys me is that every time you're in maps you can see thumbnails of photos - I'd like it if I could see the fullscreen version of these instead of being pulled out to the app store and told to get yelp.
Overall, do I like the direction iOS 7 took iOS? Yes
Will I update? Yes
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I agree with everything you wrote. Noticed a lot of these just a few minutes after loading the beta on to my iPad.
I actually would go a little further and say that iOS7 looks to be the closest thing Apple's had to a disaster yet. It is quite bad. Not only is there a lot of work to do just to fix random bugs (like toolbars underlapping or buttons disappearing because they're only text and have blended into a white background), lots of things clearly need to be redesigned (you mentioned popovers - try the bookmarks popover in Safari or the Maps one! Both awful), and on top of it all the OS right now is slow.
So there is an enormous amount of work to be done on iOS7 just so that it works more-or-less as designed.
But I don't actually think it works well as designed. I think the stark white backgrounds (coupled with the extremely bright displays on modern devices) are too overbearing. The system apps at times do an exceedingly bad job of communicating your choices and can be very confusing to use. The blurring behind the toolbars can be highly distracting and this makes usability worse.
When we designed Sterling, we worked by the same principles (deference to content & simplicity) and also chose to merge the toolbar and status bars. I think we came up with a better solution than Apple did.
Toolbars are not content areas; they are fixed (or non-fixed) places where you can find a selection of actions to perform on the content. When the toolbars highly contrast with the content, they become very quick to identify; they're visually separate.
In iOS7, toolbars contain a blurred version of the content underneath them; that means that they visually 'melt' in to the content. Because they also contain the status bar, pretty much the whole screen blends together into a wash of white.
Here's an illustration of what I mean. Notice how much easier it is to distinguish the toolbar from the web page in iOS6. Hold your hand over the other picture while you look.
iOS7 / iOS6
Hey newbie I hate to break the bad news to you but updating
Is not a choice for you......
Oh my goodness - I am so sick of these people who are so clueless - of course its jerky - of course things don't work
It's a frickin' beta.. and only BETA 2 at that!
Stop using it please sir?
Just stop - you are only going to boo hoo all the way through the summer.
I used to use a more subtle wallpaper, but the "frosted glass" look of the dock took on a sickening, salmon color, so I had to change it.
I've noticed that the notification balls are more hard to see than in iOS6.
Static images of iOS 7 icons do not convey what it is like in action.
They have live content behind them, and simple icons would have been required to enable them to stand out against that without the screen looking way too busy.
I was pretty negative about iOS 7 when i first saw the icons on a still screenshot, but seriously, watch the keynote.
iOS7 is going to be awesome.
Good observations on a lot of things. Especially the multitasking icons built into control center.
Honestly everyone is sooooooo happy over the new multitasking but in reality it really does nothing. App states are frozen so it doesn't even show a live or updated thumbnail of your app. Doing so would kill battery life anyway. So showing the "old" state of an app does absolutely nothing. Not sure why people are so excited over that. Its useless. Plus only 3 icons at a time.
Because most people think it's true multitasking and not just state freezing. TONS of tech blogs, articles (e.g., those of iDownloadBlog) spread this absolutely false info - I've spoken of this at, say, https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/17474342/ .
"Hold tight, wait 'till the party's over
Hold tight, we're in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house
Here's your ticket, pack your bags, time for jumpin' overboard
Transportation is here
Close enough but not too far, maybe you know where you are
Fightin' fire with fire
All wet, hey you might need a raincoat
Shakedown, dreams walking in broad daylight
Three hundred sixty five degrees
Burning down the house "
Hold tight, we're in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house
Here's your ticket, pack your bags, time for jumpin' overboard
Transportation is here
Close enough but not too far, maybe you know where you are
Fightin' fire with fire
All wet, hey you might need a raincoat
Shakedown, dreams walking in broad daylight
Three hundred sixty five degrees
Burning down the house "
I, for one, never asked for a change. I always thought iOS 6 was fine as it is.
Yes most people are unaware of the technical meaning of the way Apple does multitasking. Once again that is the reason it should not be design by committee.
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Explain how? It shows less icons and a thumbnail thats useless as it only show the apps "last frozen" state. Its just different thats all not better from any functional standpoint.
i dont understand how people can make long drawn out complaints like this guy about a BETA release. LMAO!
I mean seriously? My god!
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