Turning them 'off' gives you the same speed as iOS 6. Just wish they would actually turn them all off, not some.
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7 weeks later, those animations are getting worse and worse.
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What the hell android are you using. The animations on android are like half the length of those of ios6 let alone ios7.
There were a lot of people complaining about how old iOS 6 UI was .... Now there are people complaining about iOS 7 animations ...
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Android on my son's S3 surely isn't faster than iOS 7 on my iPhone 5 ....
To be fair, the look of something and the animations used are two different and really unrelated things.
And, realistically speaking, there are different groups of people--those who didn't have any issues with iOS 6 design, those who wanted something new (just for the sake of it being new and nothing else), those who wanted something new for some actual reasons, etc.--so different groups can complain about different things at different times (depending on which thing is affecting them the most at that time).
iOS 6 was fine in mine opinion, but it was aging nonetheless ...
iOS 7 isn't perfect, it has many flaws, but is something new with some strong points.
Yeah, I would say that I agree with those takes on iOS 6 and 7 in the overall sense.
- They're ugly
- They're still slow
- You still have to wait for the animations to finish before you can interact with the home screens
The animations are fundamentally flawed.
On my iphone5 and iPad2 I turned on reduced motion and now it's super snappy. It is not slow and I don't have to wait longer than I can tap... The new "animation" of fading works much better than the stock ios7 animations. I am very happy with the reduced motion settings.
I am well aware of the differences between iOS 6 and 7, and this thread is about the animations only. Is that a problem?
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Still not as snappy as iOS 6. Sorry.
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Agreed.
It's fast enough. It's a non issue in real life. You might not like the animation which is a totally fair opinion but it really does not make the phone less usable. You're measuring milliseconds.
To some milliseconds matter and affect their usability of the phone. To others, that might not be the case. Tiny or not, it's still different and realistically for no useful purpose.
One useful purpose is that it provides visual feedback that the user closed an app rather than the app crashing. Sometimes people use assistive touch or multitouch gestures and don't tap the home button so the visual feedback is useful. Maybe Apple should have offered 'stop all animations' so for people who want everything to go super fast and don't need the visual feedback they can do that.
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All of that was/is still working fine in iOS 6 which has much "snappier" (for lack of a better word) animations, right?
And, sure, offering better controls of some things can be helpful to those who might want/need to use those controls.
um well then in that case the forums shouldnt exist at all!!!!!!!
your comment above is not productive.
what OP is doing is raising awareness that hey, iOS 7 should be made better.
without people like OP, Apple would not feel as much pressure to keep improving in that direction.
If you dont agree, then respond why. But if you agree but dont feel like doing anything about it, be quiet and let people who would do something about it have their voice. that's what forums are for
Okay, I get your points. Submit the feedback and maybe Apple will listen. iOS 8 or even 7.x could bring us what we want if we make it known to Apple.
How much of a difference can 0.2 of a second make?
The gap in touch response is a lot longer than that.
When I swipe to unlock directly into the messaging app with the keyboard already open, I can see the keyboard, everything settles, and I can type 2-6 letters before it even starts acknowledging that I'm touching the screen.
Of course, this means even missing 1 single character (which you only realize after the word), it never picked it up, it causes autocorrect changes it to something else... you have to backspace and start over. Now much more time and effort has been wasted. And why? Because there's a completely unnecessary gap in touch response.
Funny how everyone praises Apple's touchscreens for having milliseconds better response time than Android, yet when Apple creates 1-1.5 second gaps where everything looks loaded and settled, but won't work, it's all of a sudden not a big deal.
I don't care how the animations look. But when I touch the screen, it should respond at least as well as it used to. Not everybody casually strolls around their devices like Sunday drivers.
Tried an iPad Air yesterday. Unlocked it, swipe... swipe.. swipe.. finally it responds. It runs apps very fast, yet can't navigate its own OS in a timely manner.
Also try going into an iMessage, then back out of it (to the list of messages), back and forth.
I'd be upset if a keyboard wouldn't let me type more than 75 words per minute. Just because others can't, or it doesn't affect them, doesn't mean it's acceptable.
iPhone 5s - click the home button hold my thumb for a second unlocks - swipe left right find the app I wanted to run and click it - run app - click home button - press power - DONE... did I see animations? maybe... did I notice they were slow, no... did I mentally care... no... I don't get it. Maybe less time on the phone studying ever little aspect would help? No? Sorry OP I just don't get it I guess. If you switch to android you can change the animations, slow them down even speed them up. You would probably like that... although the app draw still generally speaking has a slight delay that will probably bother you.
They keyword in all of that is "I". It's great that you don't notice/care about it. But, it really doesn't mean anything to or about those who do.
I just want to have my voice too. That's what forums are for. Take your own advice.
no by all means if you think OP is wrong, have your voice and tell him why????????
well.........??
Theres only one animation I like in iOS7 and I think all the animations should look like that. When youre in an app and its icon is not on the current homescreen, when you hit home button, closing animation fade quickly into the center of the screen. Thats perfect animation we all know from the iOS6.
I agree. Apple focused on 'experience' by adding animation everywhere where it wasn't needed.
It's a neat idea that dialog look like they come from 'behind' you, then float inwards when you close them, but their and all animations in iOS7 are too slow, even with 'Reduce Motion'. A user interface shouldn't have lag. After five actions you've already waited a whole second extra than needed.
(Look at an analog clock and see how slow just one second is)
The fade-in from sleep to lock screen is the worst.
It's a neat idea that dialog look like they come from 'behind' you, then float inwards when you close them, but their and all animations in iOS7 are too slow, even with 'Reduce Motion'. A user interface shouldn't have lag. After five actions you've already waited a whole second extra than needed.
(Look at an analog clock and see how slow just one second is)
The fade-in from sleep to lock screen is the worst.
Don't know about TouchWiz but I'm currently trying out the Nexus 5 and the animations are fantastic on Kit Kat, very impressed.