Apple Seeds iOS 7.1 Beta 2 to Developers [Updated]

[TommyA6]

No, not really, but okay lets exaggerate things. iOS 7 runs very smooth and responsive on both the A7 and even the A6.

By the way, the graphics in iOS 7 are far more taxing than the textures and gradients were in 6. Textures don't use CPU, thats just artwork. However, heavily blurring live content in a layering structure, physics engine built into view controllers (UI Dynamics), and particle effects DOES use a significant amount of graphics sophistication to pull off. And 7 runs these graphical effects beautifully and smooth. The graphics in 7's user interface are far more advanced than 6's, even the animations are more sophisticated than OSX. "Simpler" does not mean dumbed down.

You wanna know why its not as PERFECTLY smooth as iOS 6? Because its a brand new piece of software. It still needs optimization. Just like every new piece of software. But as someone who has used Apple software for 15 years, I can say that this is a very stable 1.0 release in Apples long history. Not yet perfect, but nowhere NEAR what you are sensationalizing. You're making things up to justify your disliking of it.

While iOS 7 is far from unusable due to animations (slowness and dropped frames), it certainly has some quirks. For ex. Image preview in the App Store (when you tap on it to enlarge is embarrassingly choppy -when increase contrast is OFF). Also rotating screen with keyboard on is not completely smooth either. This is all on the latest and greatest hardware (iPad Air, iPhone 5s). There are also noticeable dropped frames in multitasking, when you tap on an app to return to it. (Not present all the time).
I expect from Apple to fix those issues though, as iOS 7 is relatively new.

 

[Nevaborn]

You knew the risk going in right?

well yea >.> my point is never seen it before. wasnt expecting it either as I was already running beta 1 and got the beta 2 ota and it then decided i was not on the guest list.

 

[sshhoott]

iPhone 4 performance

Hopefully this update brings the iPhone 4 performance and smoothness to what it was like in iOS 6. I've tried tweaking everything: increase contrast, reduce motion, background app refresh. Nothing works! It's just too darn slow!

 

[mcfly88]

update is running great on my 4S 7.1 is very smooth.

 

[faizoff]

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.

Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense.

 

[Twimfy]

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.

I know what you mean. You quit an app and then it pulls itself back into view again. I'll let you know if it's sorted but I was present in Beta 1.

 

[fardeenah]

is there a way to cancel the OTA once u started downloading it?

 

[willcapellaro]

I understand my blind friend a lot more since 7 rolled out.

What is that community's opinion of iOS 7?

 

[yourmn]

Finding beta 2 VERY fast

 

[Bathplug]

well this went belly up.

I aint on the developer program but have never had any trouble installing and using betas, however that has changed. now I am being told I am not on the Developer after I have downloaded the beta ota. So now I have had to restore and now attempt to restore a backup.

I know I should just get a dev account and will probably but money has been very limited until now.

I 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.

 

[Htin]

Apple is taking forever to add the function of closing all apps in multitask......

 

[illusionmist]

Apple is taking forever to add the function of closing all apps in multitask......

Hint: They don't want you to do that.

 

[SMIDG3T]

I know what you mean. You quit an app and then it pulls itself back into view again. I'll let you know if it's sorted but I was present in Beta 1.

Yes, that's it. It's VERY annoying. Thanks.

 

[Sirious]

Would love to see the new animation for control centre.

 

[atlatnesiti]

Why there is no Kit-Kat update available for my device yet?!
I thought all Google devices get updates
Love Apple

 

[Lepton]

The bounce animation on control center looks REALLY bad.

The bounce involves a key Apple patent. I imagine we will see it on everything..

 

[Nevaborn]

I 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.

not even letting me restore through dfu mode.


Edit: maybe now restoring... this really may be the urge I need to start doing some developing lol

 

[hansonjohn590]

Ok, we get it. Apple does no right.

Hey, it's 3:00! Time for the afternoon Steve Jobs picture burning!

See, I can use passive-aggressive ad hominem attacks as well!

How original. You're like an Apple devoted version of Carlos Mencia.

 

[Parasprite]

I never understood all the hysterics around buttons. Do people seriously not know what to tap? Thankfully this feature is optional.

It reminds me of a DOS program, but with poorer contrast.

 

[larcho]

Hint: They don't want you to do that.

And there is no need for it either.

 

[richardbb85]

hopefully 7.1 will solve most if not all the bugs

 

[TL24]

Since a beta 2 download without UDID isn't available yet, will I be able to install beta 1 and get prompted to update to beta 2?

 

[aziatiklover]

Since a beta 2 download without UDID isn't available yet, will I be able to install beta 1 and get prompted to update to beta 2?

yea, but beta 2 will log you out and will ask you to log in with an apple ID.

 

[jmgregory1]

The update messed up my 5s. Bricked it, forced into recovery mode. Now going through having to re-install back to beta 2 to try to restore my phone. Not what I wanted to be doing now, but I guess that's what having it as a dev phone is all about.

iPad Air updated with zero problems.

 

[Rogifan]

It reminds me of a DOS program, but with poorer contrast.

Wow I wonder how people use the internet every day where tapping/clicking on text is the norm.