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

[Apple_Robert]

Franticly digging for something else to gripe about

They still have the tab reloading to focus on.

I am no programmer. But, it has to be difficult at times, to try and find buggy codes amongst thousands of lines of iOS code. I can definitely see improvement. Glad I didn't listen to all the ram talk and return my Air.

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I'll do it, but before that I'll love to hear someone using iPhone 5 telling me his Control Center is as smooth as butter on the lock screen.

Smooth.

 

[v1p]

Smooth.

Zero difference between the lock and home screen CC/NC animation?

 

[sualpine]

Have you tried a hard reboot? Hold down both the power button and the home button at the same time until the screen turns off and back on.

Never never never do this! You are forcing the operating system to shut down uncleanly. It is a potential issue for the filesystem. You are at a risk of data corruption and data loss if you do this. Absolutely ZERO benefit to do this instead of a normal power cycle. Stop spreading the misinformation.

 

[Menneisyys2]

So how do I get my notes and SMS back onto the phone?

Notes: iTunes synching. (Not restoring.)

SMS: thats's indeed problematic. I myself always wait for the JB for my iPhone (I only use iPads w/o JB, iPhones being enhanced by JB so much more) and transfer the SMS database by hand.

 

[sualpine]

Notes: iTunes synching. (Not restoring.)

SMS: thats's indeed problematic. I myself always wait for the JB for my iPhone (I only use iPads w/o JB, iPhones being enhanced by JB so much more) and transfer the SMS database by hand.

Syncing does not bring back your previous texts. This is an issue Apple has yet to address. While it is always preferable to restore and set up as new any major iOS update, one of the necessary sacrifices is losing text message history.

 

[HenryDJP]

There's a difference between lag and a crash.

People are reporting crashes, much worse.

I was referring to a poster that has been posting the same website in multiple threads. If that site causes Safari to crash amongst others then of course Apple needs to work on it but this poster keeps cross posting with the same website. He's the only one that keeps complaining about that same site and frankly it's getting annoying. It seems to be that people aren't telling Apple, but rather just ranting here. That's not going to fix the problem.

 

[sualpine]

I was referring to a poster that has been posting the same website in multiple threads. If that site causes Safari to crash amongst others then of course Apple needs to work on it but this poster keeps cross posting with the same website. He's the only one that keeps complaining about that same site and frankly it's getting annoying. It seems to be that people aren't telling Apple, but rather just ranting here. That's not going to fix the problem.

Poorly coded/designed websites are not problems for Apple to solve.

 

[Menneisyys2]

Poorly coded/designed websites are not problems for Apple to solve.

You're absolutely wrong. Please read my UIWebView-specific articles / posts (I've posted many in the forums). It's the memory usage that makes tabs reload (and sometimes Safari crash), not the web sites' HTML markup (AJAX calls etc.) being not properly coded / programmed.

 

[sethlution]

Don't know if I should upgrade or keep my jailbreak. My 5S never crash anyway, and I can probably get all these new features through some JB tweaks. Is there really a big different in animation speed for those with a 5S?

 

[Menneisyys2]

Syncing does not bring back your previous texts. This is an issue Apple has yet to address. While it is always preferable to restore and set up as new any major iOS update, one of the necessary sacrifices is losing text message history.

Yup, indeed it doesn't. However, if one can wait until the JB is released, restoring SMS'es is, basically, a simple file copy. (/private/var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db) Unless the internal structure of the DB files is changed, that is - it VERY rarely changes.

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Don't know if I should upgrade or keep my jailbreak. My 5S never crash anyway, and I can probably get all these new features through some JB tweaks. Is there really a big different in animation speed for those with a 5S?

I won't upgrade my 7.0.4 iPhone 5 either. My JB apps (some even written by me - see for example my camera tweaks and muted call recorder) are much more important than improved Safari.

 

[manu chao]

The only way I got rid of that Other was to do a restore from backup when I went from ios 6 to ios 7. I had over 5 GB of other and after I did a restore from backup it went down to 1.2 GB of Other so it freed up a lot of space for me. I just did ios 7.1 and it still shows 1.2 GB of Other so I am happy I have more free space.

I had that Other problem in iOS 7 on my iPad as well, it would go up to 10 GB. A restore fixed it, but only for maybe two weeks. No it's down again and I gained 8 GB of free space. It went so far that iTunes showed a few GB over capacity but I could still add a movie. During the syncing it jumped between showing free space and over capacity a few times.

 

[Jefferson Ng]

After I update my iPhone 5S to iOS 7.1, I found out that the benchmark score is lower than iOS 7.0.4.

 

[sualpine]

You're absolutely wrong. Please read my UIWebView-specific articles / posts (I've posted many in the forums). It's the memory usage that makes tabs reload (and sometimes Safari crash), not the web sites' HTML markup (AJAX calls etc.) being not properly coded / programmed.

First of all, I am not wrong. It is a responsibility of the web designer to adhere and test against web engines, not the other way around. You can boast about code correctness all you want, real world performance is what truly matters.
Second of all, Apple clearly made a performance/price cost benefit analysis with 1 gig of RAM in iOS devices. It's been 1 gig for 3 generations of iPad and 3 models of iPhone. Darwin 14 has amazing RAM compression. They clearly believe the kernel can compress and handle load well enough to offset the extra price and energy consumption that two gigs would cost. I believe that they were right. If you have never paged out today, then they were right. Seeing as I haven't yet today, Darwin 14 is clearly doing its job.

 

[trifid]

shut, the 15-sec back/forward on lock screen for podcasts is gone. This was extremely convenient to have, now I have to do more steps to reach the podcast app

 

[Michael Goff]

I was referring to a poster that has been posting the same website in multiple threads. If that site causes Safari to crash amongst others then of course Apple needs to work on it but this poster keeps cross posting with the same website. He's the only one that keeps complaining about that same site and frankly it's getting annoying. It seems to be that people aren't telling Apple, but rather just ranting here. That's not going to fix the problem.

I don't think it is a software problem that Apple can fix, to be honest. The website just needs a lot of resources, and the main one it needs more of is RAM. Software optimization can only do so much. It's gotten a lot better, but there's a reason why my RT loads it better than an Air or an iPad 4.

RAM is important.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Zero difference between the lock and home screen CC/NC animation?

I haven't noticed any difference.

 

[sualpine]

I don't think it is a software problem that Apple can fix, to be honest. The website just needs a lot of resources, and the main one it needs more of is RAM. Software optimization can only do so much. It's gotten a lot better, but there's a reason why my RT loads it better than an Air or an iPad 4.

RAM is important.

RAM is expensive and energy consuming. Check your paging. If you haven't paged out, then you're fine. Darwin 14 is doing its job.

 

[ucantgetridofme]

So this is what the tech-savvy new world order has brought us. People having orgasms over a software upgrade for their telephone.

Good lord…

People and their phones are pathetic

 

[ignusfast]

Yeah, shame on me for simply offering a suggestion in a thread about an iOS point update, on the assumption you predominantly use an iOS device given zero evidence to the contrary.

I can understand your frustration though, it's a real bummer when something you use a lot gets either neglected or is stripped of features or functionality.

Sorry, I do understand that it was an attempt to help. It's just awful that Apple has gone deaf on the whole issue and all we get is workarounds for something that used to work fine, and has now been absolutely broken.

 

[NickVanHoeve]

Finally. #

 

[Menneisyys2]

First of all, I am not wrong. It is a responsibility of the web designer to adhere and test against web engines, not the other way around. You can boast about code correctness all you want, real world performance is what truly matters.
Second of all, Apple clearly made a performance/price cost benefit analysis with 1 gig of RAM in iOS devices. It's been 1 gig for 3 generations of iPad and 3 models of iPhone. Darwin 14 has amazing RAM compression. They clearly believe the kernel can compress and handle load well enough to offset the extra price and energy consumption that two gigs would cost. I believe that they were right. If you have never paged out today, then they were right. Seeing as I haven't yet today, Darwin 14 is clearly doing its job.

Again: you're wrong. No matter how hard you try to make your Web pages standards-compliant and clean, iOS devices will allocate heaps (at least tens of Megabytes for a casual-sized Web page on a high-res device like all Retina iPads) of memory to load them.

It's not the question of proper, well-formed Web coding but that of the memory needs of UIWebView.

Again: I've been coding & benchmarking UIWebView-based apps on iOS for years. I know all its little secrets. I do know how much memory UIWebView allocates - even with "proper" Web pages.

 

[bkends35]

After I update my iPhone 5S to iOS 7.1, I found out that the benchmark score is lower than iOS 7.0.4.

I can't believe people actually care about benchmarks. They mean nothing. It's just an arbitrary number. 7.1 is significantly smoother and faster, that's all that matters.

 

[Prof.]

Found the first bug with 7.1. Sometimes stock apps don't launch and you are presented with just a white screen. What you see here is my iPhone 5s trying to load the settings app. It stayed like this for a solid two mins and then the screen flashed a few dozen times and then rebooted itself.

 

[Michael Goff]

RAM is expensive and energy consuming. Check your paging. If you haven't paged out, then you're fine. Darwin 14 is doing its job.

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RAM is one of the least expensive component in the iPad Air. I don't know what you're talking about by saying that RAM is expensive.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

Still disappointed in the keyboard. Shift key is confusing. What's so hard about changing the keyboard letters to lower case when shift is off and upper case when shift is on/locked? To me, a light background/dark arrow vs a dark background/light arrow is not intuitive to me.

Don't like the underlining of buttons when I change button shapes. Looks cheap. A lined outline would be nice instead or other classy Apple-esque style of signifying what is and isn't a button.

I do like that (for the couple of times I've used it) when I listen to a visual VM, and tap the SPEAKER "button", it acutally plays from the speaker instead of having me have to choose which device I want to listen through, all the while the VM is playing and I can't hear it because it defaults to the earpiece, and I have to replay it from the beginning.