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Apple Seeds iOS 7.1 Beta 2 to Developers [Updated]

illusionmist said:
I think it'd look better if they made them look like the BUY button in App Store, i.e. a color-matched border running around them, instead of grey background.
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I never understood all the hysterics around buttons. Do people seriously not know what to tap? Thankfully this feature is optional.
 
It feels like they slowed down the fade animation when reduce motion is turned on. Maybe they are trying to sync it to the speed of the other animation so you're screwed with the slowness either way.
 
Rogifan said:
I never understood all the hysterics around buttons. Do people seriously not know what to tap? Thankfully this feature is optional.
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Agreed. $10 says people will now find something else, complain and when it gets fixed commence the cycle once more.
 
locoboi187 said:
I really hope iOS 7.1 is fluid as iOS 6 for me to update my iPhone 5. I've had both my iPhone 5 and an iPhone 5s run against each other with iOS 7 and performance was exactly the same. Then when my iPhone 5 broke, Apple replaced it coming with iOS 6. I was shocked at how much smoother everything felt. I did the same tests with iOS 6 vs iOS 7 and the iPhone 5 beat the iPhone 5s in many fluidity and responsiveness tests. Battery was also much better with iOS 6. I really want to update as I can't get many of the apps I want, please Apple!
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I totally agree with this. I got an iPad Air and was really expecting a fast, fluid experience from the latest A7 chip and new hardware. Whoa, was I disappointed to find gestures are laggy, switching between apps is slow, jumping around the system is sluggish and painful. It came with 7.0.3 pre-installed.

I used an iPad 4 and my iPhone 5 on iOS 6 and I cannot believe how fluid and wonderful they were together. Using it was genuinely fun. iOS 6 was ready and waiting for you, iOS 7 is reluctantly carrying out your commands in it's own time.

Interaction speed with an OS is possibly the single most important thing you can right and so far with 7.0.X I'm pretty disappointed. I find it harder to believe that iOS 7 UI is slower considering it's so much simpler - way more single colour space, less shadows, no more textures and gradients to chew through. The opaque stuff is clearly eating into ti but even when turned off (Increase Contrast setting) it's still much worse than iOS 6.
 
Rogifan said:
I never understood all the hysterics around buttons. Do people seriously not know what to tap? Thankfully this feature is optional.
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dont get it either. its not like i actually read or care what it looks like u just tab it out of habit. like if someone would move an app icon on my springboard id 100% tab on the wrong app cuz its all just a habit knowing where what is by now
 
SMIDG3T said:
There's just no pleasing some people is there? People complain about where to click, Apple add something that helps with the original problem and yet people still moan.

Yes, you're lucky they're optional, you won't have to see them ever again.
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Compared to usual Apple quality, they are awful.
 
zorinlynx said:
Just a warning to non-devs who might install this:

Apple is enforcing registration of the device with beta 2!! I updated and suddenly was told I had to register the iPad in the developer portal to activate.

I did (we have an account through work) and was able to activate, but to those who are not developers you might be SOL updating to beta 2!

So don't update to Beta 2 if you don't have your device registered with a dev account. I for one think it's pretty damn sneaky for Apple to let people install Beta 1 but then enforce this on Beta 2. 🙁
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Thanks but learned the hard way lol. Had to restore to 7.0.4 and at first couldn't restore my ios 7.1 backup. But if you go to the backup folder and find the info.plist file then edit
<key>Product Version</key> <string>7.1</string>
to
<key>Product Version</key> <string>7.0.4</string>
Then iTunes will restore the back up fine.
 
faizoff said:
Curious as to what the connection between the jb and this is.
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JB is a pain to setup and create, it often gets broken by Apple with the next incremental release. So, the dev team tends to wait until x.1 before releasing the first JB for a new OS version. x.x.x fixit updates tend to come faster, so it is better to wait for the first decimal.
 
zorinlynx said:
This is a Beta, crashes are expected.

Next time don't run a beta if you want an unstable device! I'm willing to put up with it to try new features and know what's coming, but I know the cost.
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I agree with this, while so many are here complaining about crashes I haven't had much instability at all, ok the odd thing has been a bit funky but 98% of the time it's fine.

Stay stable and you'll (hopefully) be ok.
 
Rogifan said:
I never understood all the hysterics around buttons. Do people seriously not know what to tap? Thankfully this feature is optional.
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In a completely new look, with no visual differentiation in 90% of everything and text you need young eyes and 20-15 vision to see? No, they don't always know.
 
johnmacward said:
I totally agree with this. I got an iPad Air and was really expecting a fast, fluid experience from the latest A7 chip and new hardware. Whoa, was I disappointed to find gestures are laggy, switching between apps is slow, jumping around the system is sluggish and painful. It came with 7.0.3 pre-installed.

I used an iPad 4 and my iPhone 5 on iOS 6 and I cannot believe how fluid and wonderful they were together. Using it was genuinely fun. iOS 6 was ready and waiting for you, iOS 7 is reluctantly carrying out your commands in it's own time.

Interaction speed with an OS is possibly the single most important thing you can right and so far with 7.0.X I'm pretty disappointed. I find it harder to believe that iOS 7 UI is slower considering it's so much simpler - way more single colour space, less shadows, no more textures and gradients to chew through. The opaque stuff is clearly eating into ti but even when turned off (Increase Contrast setting) it's still much worse than iOS 6.
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You and I must be using differing software then because outside of Safari crashes (very annoying) I have no issues on my Air. Everything is fast and fluid. And Safari was a dog with iOS 6 on my 3rd gen iPad too. Not sure why it causes so many problems.
 
Has the issue where apps "jump" back into place on the 5s been fixed yet? If anyone else knows what I mean please elaborate as it's kinda hard to explain.
 
illusionmist said:
Those buttons need padding. Also, I don't think this looks great at all.

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This option in my opinion is necessary although this is a bad implementation. The amount of times I miss something like the Safari Tab button (a thin plus symbol) in a day becomes so frustrating. Although I don't even know whether it's an accuracy thing or just a poor UI which misses or is delayed on the odd click.
 
JAT said:
In a completely new look, with no visual differentiation in 90% of everything and text you need young eyes and 20-15 vision to see? No, they don't always know.
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My 72 year old mother upgraded to iOS 7 on her mini and is using it just fine. I think this "affordance" BS is overblown.
 
Rogifan said:
You and I must be using differing software then because outside of Safari crashes (very annoying) I have no issues on my Air. Everything is fast and fluid. And Safari was a dog with iOS 6 on my 3rd gen iPad too. Not sure why it causes so many problems.
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Everything was a dog on the iPad 3, it started out ok but eventually a few updates in became painfully slow and un-reactive even with iOS 6. The iPhone 5 however ran like an absolute dream on iOS 6.
 
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