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

[Tech198]

This can't go um-credited either :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU

 

[SMIDG3T]

Keep an eye here:
https://developer.apple.com/support/appstore/

Ah, thanks

 

[ugahairydawgs]

They got rid of full screen contact pictures for incoming calls on 7.1. Why they did that I have no idea.

 

[bawbac]

it ceased work entirely...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5982552?tstart=0

Wow, they broke the touch/finger print scan or... is apple to busy downloading/backing the finger prints for their archive for "testing purposes."

Guess I'll wait to upgrade my 5S until 7.2.

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They got rid of full screen contact pictures for incoming calls on 7.1. Why they did that I have no idea.

Was this mentioned in the upgrade notes?

 

[C DM]

Did that. Apparently the two apps causing this in my phone are Nike+ Move and Google Now. Even if the Apps are closed from the multitask screen.

You can check and change the settings for those apps to disable whatever is using that or disable the location setting or background refresh setting for those apps.

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Still finding that the only thing I don't like is the size of the text on the Notification Centre/Today view... That and the pitch black slide to scroll... I'm not sure why it can't just be the same semi-frosted so the background image affects the colouring.

I also really like the lock screen keyboard, not sure why I like it so much.. Would be nice to choose the default keyboard between that, normal and dark. I reaaaally like the new Caps and Shift buttons... daft as that might be

I DID notice that some of my ringtone/tone/vibration settings had been reset, but that may have just been due to me playing with them when the update kicked in.

I've noticed a few little quarks while Darken Colours has been turned on, certain apps not responding to it, but nothing major in the OS.

McTube and Facebook are good examples of this. Facebooks tabs along the bottom all show in a darker blue, as does the return arrow when applicable, however the main blue doesn't change in the header. McTube has a very iOS 7 minimal red theme and this applied to all pages in the app. With Darken Colours on the full screen video player (after caching video) now has dark blue (which I think is what the standard video player now has with this on, so understandable) menu items (hide/done).

Overall, I've noticed a little more accuracy in push notifications, stability all round is good (i've only ever had 1 or 2 resprings on previous iOS7.0.x builds). I tend to run quite a lot on this phone, multi-task a lot. Background Refresh seems to be handling itself a little better (re: Tweetbot) and the change in animation speeds has made a big improvement.

Overall they've definitely gone in the right direction, hopefully we'll see a 7.1.1 pretty soon to balance out some of the smaller inconsistencies and App Developers will start releasing updates to their own apps to better use the new accessibility options so that consistency can be raised a bit.

Worth note, the update to the Remote App that's just landed is a welcome addition to an under utilised app. Go grab it if it hasn't already updated.

As for those complaining about Weather and Reduce Motion .... if the main motion is the bit that annoys you and you could cope with the loading animations, you can always turn Reduce Motion off and set your wallpaper to non-parallax and you'd probably find a nice halfway house there.

Darken Colors doesn't darken all colors or elements, essentially just the link/button text/icons like the ones you described.

 

[Michael Goff]

Ah, I see. Well you've convinced me but some others here just won't let up. I can see if this was happening on nearly every common website but some people here keep posting links to webpages that looked like they were coded from the same developer who coded Myspace. . Their mentality is "If it doesn't work on this crazy website then the iPad is defective or has bad ram or Apple just screwed up". They wouldn't dare blame the website developer.

Yeah, I gotcha about the RT loading better than the iPad, it's because it's using I.E. and most likely that developer coded with that browser in mind. Luckily times have changed and not many websites are dedicated to I.E. anymore.

I actually run into more sites these days that are "best in Chrome".

1 GB of LPDDR2 is cheap. 1 GB OF LPDDR3 is more expensive. 2 GB of LPDDR2 is even more expensive, and 2 GB of LPDDR3 is most expensive. Apple went one level up and I agree with them.

Is that why iSuppli has the Air RAM costing a whole 10$? Because they went above and beyond? Seriously, people, stop assuming that whatever Apple gets is "obviously premium". :|

 

[C DM]

My calender in notification center shows from 8am to midnight (I have an calender event starts on a day, finishes 15 days later).

That's a hell of a lot of scrolling down to see my reminders. Not impressed.


To me the whole look of ios 7 with its greys and blacks looks dirty.

I prefer reduce transparency on because I like the black notification center but it looks like its a I don't want to do this effort. Maybe because it resembles Scott's work too closely.

And I liked the dock. What is this **** grey bar? Wtf

You can move the reminders up to appear before the calendar. You can also change how the calendar events appear by changing the view in the calendar app itself now.

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Yes this was unexpected, and it is outstanding. Thank you Apple

This was actually quite expected for a while now.

 

[Abazigal]

Installed it, tried it. I appreciate the performance improvements (like Touch ID feeling faster), but I can't say I am a fan of the new UI changes. For example, the dial to switch off my phone seems like a step back. I can't say I was a fan of the old red / green rectangles (which felt a tad lazy in my book), but I would take that over this abomination any time.

Feels to me like 2 steps forward, 1 step back. It's still an improvement over ios6 (for me at least), but I wonder just how much is simply to silence the naysayers.

 

[MisakixMikasa]

What tweak is that second one?

GridSwitcher...

 

[MrGuder]

I can also confirm today Siri sounds better so they must have downloaded high quality version while I had it plugged in and on wifi.

 

[gluckett]

You can leave on the main toggle then turn off each individual app that you dont want. So leave weather on in your example but the others off.

Already done now. I've even turned of the weather ones for now because it already does it for home / work, it just needs location if you want warnings for your current location, so I'll just re-enable that if I'm travelling.

 

[Puponautas]

Got safari crash on iPhone 5S and noticed that they changed logs format. Now it is MobileSafari_2014-03-11-054846_Puponautas.ips.

{"bundleID":"com.apple.mobilesafari","app_name":"MobileSafari","bug_type":"109","name":"MobileSafari","os_version":"iPhone OS 7.1 (11D167)","version":"9537.53 (7.0)"}
Incident Identifier: 6C0CDEA3-9A5D-4F30-AFE9-9E1ABAB50777
CrashReporter Key: f4ad873c2b79d43b407d6ee7310411b8190e9a9c
Hardware Model: iPhone6,2
Process: MobileSafari [131]
Path: /var/mobile/Applications/3C1A4F6F-12A8-4DF3-AA1C-0AF9D3036973/MobileSafari.app/MobileSafari
Identifier: com.apple.mobilesafari
Version: 9537.53 (7.0)
Code Type: ARM-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]

Date/Time: 2014-03-11 05:48:46.830 +0200
OS Version: iOS 7.1 (11D167)
Report Version: 104

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Subtype: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000010
Triggered by Thread: 8

Thread 8 name: WebCore: CFNetwork Loader
Thread 8 Crashed:
0 CFNetwork 0x000000018af778ec 0x18aee8000 + 588012
1 CFNetwork 0x000000018af77288 0x18aee8000 + 586376
2 CFNetwork 0x000000018afd03dc 0x18aee8000 + 951260
3 CoreFoundation 0x000000018b30108c 0x18b2f8000 + 37004
4 CFNetwork 0x000000018af58be8 0x18aee8000 + 461800
5 CFNetwork 0x000000018af58a64 0x18aee8000 + 461412
6 CFNetwork 0x000000018af588a0 0x18aee8000 + 460960
7 CoreFoundation 0x000000018b3c3040 0x18b2f8000 + 831552
8 CoreFoundation 0x000000018b3c239c 0x18b2f8000 + 828316
9 CoreFoundation 0x000000018b3c0634 0x18b2f8000 + 820788
10 CoreFoundation 0x000000018b3016cc 0x18b2f8000 + 38604
11 WebCore 0x0000000194c76704 0x194b1c000 + 1419012
12 JavaScriptCore 0x000000018c5e631c 0x18c5d0000 + 90908
13 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x0000000198077e18 0x198074000 + 15896
14 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x0000000198077d70 0x198074000 + 15728
15 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x0000000198075550 0x198074000 + 5456

 

[Dino F]

I can also confirm today Siri sounds better so they must have downloaded high quality version while I had it plugged in and on wifi.

Haven't downloaded iOS 7.1 yet - been reading the posts here to see what the feedback is first (will probably get round to doing it tonight/ tomorrow - 5 iDevices in the household!!)

Listening to the UK Siri voices on this website:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14...ng-siri-voices-for-the-uk-australia-and-japan

The female UK voice still sounds so robotic...?!?!? The male one sounds quite nice and sounds totally different to UK Siri pre-iOS 7.1.....

 

[Menneisyys2]

Is that why iSuppli has the Air RAM costing a whole 10$? Because they went above and beyond? Seriously, people, stop assuming that whatever Apple gets is "obviously premium". :|

Some people will always try to justify Apple's decisions, no matter how anti-consumer those decisions are...

And WRT Apple means "premium" quality, just take a look at my own (!) shots of original swollen iPhone 3GS batteries:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33448355@N07/sets/72157633931601917/

At least some batches of the the 3GS has by far the worst LiIon/Poly battery I've ever seen. I've been using PDA's with Li-Ion/Poly batteries ever since late 1999 and I've had (and sill have!) all major PDA's and handheld PC's ever released (it was then that HP Jornada 520/540/680, the Casio Cassipeia E105 etc. started using Li-Ion/Poly tech instead of AA / AAA batteries of previous PDA's.) but have never seen so badly swollen batteries.

 

[HenryDJP]

I actually run into more sites these days that are "best in Chrome".

Interesting, I've never once seen one website that said, "Best using Chrome". I am not a Chrome fan by any means, I refuse to install it and IMO that browser was created in mind for Windows users to get them off of I.E. I use Firefox when Safari isn't playing nice on certain websites, but then again I'm referring to Mac even though this is an iOS 7 thread.

 

[Michael Goff]

Interesting, I've never once seen one website that said, "Best using Chrome". I am not a Chrome fan by any means, I refuse to install it and IMO that browser was created in mind for Windows users to get them off of I.E. I use Firefox when Safari isn't playing nice on certain websites, but then again I'm referring to Mac even though this is an iOS 7 thread.

Oh, crap, messed up.

Mobile is usually best viewed in Safari.

 

[Zxxv]

So the calender finally gets the view back we all wanted. But am I alone in thinking Steve Jobs would have said "wtf is this ugly button. Remove it. Make the view standard. No need for that ugly button"

 

[Dino F]

So the calender finally gets the view back we all wanted. But am I alone in thinking Steve Jobs would have said "wtf is this ugly button. Remove it. Make the view standard. No need for that ugly button"

...doesn't make sense to me - we had this functionality in iOS 6, then they removed it in iOS 7 and now they brought it back in iOS 7.1

Just who is running this show...?!!

 

[Zxxv]

You can move the reminders up to appear before the calendar. You can also change how the calendar events appear by changing the view in the calendar app itself now.

I don't see how the event appear change can affect what I said because I have a event set for over 15 days.
Moving the reminders up makes it look different. Not sure as nice.

The calendar in notification now shows the whole day from 8am till 0000 (maybe earlier if I got up early today). Its a huge scroll from 8am-0000. Before it scrolled through a few hours at a time so didn't take up much space. It all seems like a oh **** this we can't work it out just put the whole thing in and be done with it we're out of time. Where as before Steve Jobs would have said work till you get it right this looks ****. No one to tell them that anymore?

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...doesn't make sense to me - we had this functionality in iOS 6, then they removed it in iOS 7 and now they brought it back in iOS 7.1

Just who is running this show...?!!

I don't think anyone with attitude is. I think they all get along way to much now so its all softly softly lovey dove don't want to say things are crap and hurt anyones feelings. Either that or none of them have style or taste.

ps... they brought it back with added ugliness

 

[v1p]

I've removed CC and NC from the lock screen, because they lag there. At least on iPhone 5. No need to tell you they lag as hell on my brother's iPhone 4s. Apple's going down and down.

 

[Hephaestus]

I've removed CC and NC from the lock screen, because they lag there. At least on iPhone 5. No need to tell you they lag as hell on my brother's iPhone 4s. Apple's going down and down.

So I'm not the only one who noticed this. They lag for me too but only on the lock screen.

If I push up the lock screen camera tab and pull the control/notification centre over the camera, they are silky smooth, very odd.

They're also silky smooth everywhere else, except for the lock screen. I even tried setting up my device as a new phone but no luck. I'm on iPhone 5 too. The lag is subtle but still annoying if you have sharp eyes.

 

[v1p]

So I'm not the only one who noticed this. They lag for me too but only on the lock screen.

If I push up the lock screen camera tab and pull the control/notification centre over the camera, they are silky smooth, very odd.

They're also silky smooth everywhere else, except for the lock screen. I even tried setting up my device as a new phone but no luck. I'm on iPhone 5 too. The lag is subtle but still annoying if you have sharp eyes.

Exactly what I'm talkin' about. And it's so much worse on iPhone 4s.

 

[SMIDG3T]

NEW BUG (maybe):

I couldn't get a screenshot as it happened too quickly but here goes. I was in Safari and I received an email, I quickly swiped down from the top and the message appeared OUTSIDE the Notification Center. It's kinda hard to explain. Can someone try and reproduce this if they remember when getting an email.

In Safari. Swipe down quickly and that is when the bug can be seen.

Thanks.

EDIT: I can't reproduce this now!

 

[C DM]

I don't see how the event appear change can affect what I said because I have a event set for over 15 days.
Moving the reminders up makes it look different. Not sure as nice.

The calendar in notification now shows the whole day from 8am till 0000 (maybe earlier if I got up early today). Its a huge scroll from 8am-0000. Before it scrolled through a few hours at a time so didn't take up much space. It all seems like a oh **** this we can't work it out just put the whole thing in and be done with it we're out of time. Where as before Steve Jobs would have said work till you get it right this looks ****. No one to tell them that anymore?

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I don't think anyone with attitude is. I think they all get along way to much now so its all softly softly lovey dove don't want to say things are crap and hurt anyones feelings. Either that or none of them have style or taste.

ps... they brought it back with added ugliness

Moving the reminders up makes them appear before calendar events as they might be more important to you.

As for calendar, go into day view and select the new agenda view button at the top, that way it will simply show a list of events with their times rather than a bunch of hours, and this will apply both to the calendar app and the calendar section in notification center.

 

[Hephaestus]

NEW BUG (maybe):

I couldn't get a screenshot as it happened too quickly but here goes. I was in Safari and I received an email, I quickly swiped down from the top and the message appeared OUTSIDE the Notification Center. It's kinda hard to explain. Can someone try and reproduce this if they remember when getting an email.

In Safari. Swipe down quickly and that is when the bug can be seen.

Thanks.

EDIT: I can't reproduce this now!

I know exactly what you're talking about, it's happened to me a few times when quickly swiping down after receiving a message. It's definitely a bug.

Another bug is if you click on the "Videos" app without having any videos on the phone, it displays a huge blurred out icon that fills the entire screen before it quickly reverts to normal transparency.