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Apple Releases iOS 7.1 With CarPlay, Touch ID Improvements, Visual Tweaks

Hustler1337 said:
When I connected my phone via USB to iTunes, it asked that I need to 'Trust this computer', even though I've been using this desktop to sync ever since I've owned my iPhone.

Anyone else being asked to re-trust their computer?
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After every update it will ask I think.
 
Anybody notice the "rubber band effect" on the sliders in control center? Swipe them quickly to one side or the other and they will "bounce". Never heard anyone mention this.
 
ghsNick said:
To leave the zooming icons on or off, that is the question.

What's everybody else doing? They didn't bother me before but they're going so damn fast now!
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I turn it off. For some reason it really jars my neural system. I prefer a soft fade. My guess it will look ok as a 3D hologram coming up out of a table.
 
critic81 said:
So in 7.0 - 7.0.6 when you would kill an app through the app switcher, if that app was using background location, it would stop that background location. Now in 7.1 when you close an app through the app switcher, the background location doesn't stop.

This sucks, i liked it the other way.
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No this is better.
 
Is there any way to change back to full screen caller photos? Without jailbreak? Any apps or something? I can't believe they went with this new design..:/ They touted its attractiveness and usefulness on WWDC, and now seemingly without any reason they change to this ugly small circled picture. Seriously, how is this more useful or more aesthetically pleasing than it was in iOS 7?

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Millah said:
Turn off Reduce Motion and get over it. Reduce Motion does exactly what the name implies, reduces motion effects throughout the OS. The animations are sped up significantly in 7.1, so that is not an issue, and the parallax effect can be disabled separately when changing wallpaper, so you don't have a battery issue but can still have the animations, which is what the weather effect is.

There you go, problem solved.
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While I thank you for the suggestion of enabling motion then manually turning off parallax on a per-background basis, no, that still doesn't address the absurd connection. The weather app is an app, not the OS. Reduce Motion doesn't turn off animation in games or GIFs on web pages or anything else cause that'd be silly. It should just affect app transitions, opening folders, desktop backgrounds.. you know, things which are part of the OS i.e. app-independent.

Also, while I can't say myself if app transitions are faster in 7.1 than they were previously, they're definitely still slower than motion-reduced transitions, at least on a 5C, especially the desktop fly-in after unlocking the phone.

Finally, this is an accessibility option. I don't get motion-sickness like some people do from those new OS transitions, but that is the main point of this feature. Was weather making people motion-sick? I really doubt it; it doesn't rapidly move your perspective to make you feel falling or flying or anything. It's just a slow, pretty animation.

Is it a big deal either way? Of course not. But it baffles me nonetheless. It's a completely pointless thing to have done.

Today I also learned that if you toggle Reduce Motion back on, your backgrounds revert to parallaxing regardless how you had them set. You must go assign them again after messing with that accessibility option if you want them to remain stationary.
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
That is one huge site. Even on my MBP, it takes 30+ seconds to fully load. That is crazy. Now I can see why iPad has problems with that site. I agree with what another said. The site is not a good example of the norm.
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Yes it is heavy website however it shouldn't crash your browser. It could lag, take longer to load but not crash your browser ;)
 
It feels after. The zoom thing for wallpapers looks nice. "Slide to power off" slider looks very ugly.
 
Wow that keyboard is ugly. Not only that, but for the first time I'm actually confused if shift is ON or OFF.

The black arrow (OFF) draws more attention than the white arrow (ON). Do they still have usability studies or are they just changing stuff for the sake of change?
 
spikie said:
Is there any way to change back to full screen caller photos? Without jailbreak? Any apps or something? I can't believe they went with this new design..:/ They touted its attractiveness and usefulness on WWDC, and now seemingly without any reason they change to this ugly small circled picture. Seriously, how is this more useful or more aesthetically pleasing than it was in iOS 7?
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I'm with you on that. Seems stupid to make a pic so small. I want to see who's calling. Small pics makes it to easy to make mistakes answering and forces a user to wake up when they maybe sleepy.

Seems ios 7 is all about reading text where as ios 6 was all about seeing (buttons, pictures etc)

Apple you need assistance. Your choices are hmm
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
That is one huge site. Even on my MBP, it takes 30+ seconds to fully load. That is crazy. Now I can see why iPad has problems with that site. I agree with what another said. The site is not a good example of the norm.
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And yet it loads in less than 30 seconds on my Surface RT.

That's hilarious.
 
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