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[Edit: this method no longer works, as Apple has stopped signing pre-iOS 7 operating systems for installation.]
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Apple's App Store Usage Numbers Suggest iOS 7 Adoption at 74%
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There is a note in that link that you missed.
[Edit: this method no longer works, as Apple has stopped signing pre-iOS 7 operating systems for installation.]
And everyone I know outside MacRumors have expressed satisfaction with iOS 7! And some of them have used the word LOVE!
You know, because I have had all the time to ask anyone outside MacRumors what they thought about iOS7
Thats all you got ...
I'm still a proud user of iOS 5.1 on my iPad 3. Love the battery life, and love everything that is "textury". Hate the plain 7 look and feel. And yes. Too bad I won't be able to use it for too long.
The awful experiences I had on my iTouch 4G when updating to various versions of iOS 4 that this or that slowed down, etc, thought me not to ever upgrade the system. So on my iPad I never did. Original OS and still works and fast.
However, I did upgrade my iTouch 4G from the original iOS 4.x to iOS 5. I even did a complete reset and OS install. Ever since then, it became slow as hell. As I've read on other places, this is a planned manipulation from Apple to get you to buy a faster iTouch.
Which I won't do.
The awful experiences I had on my iTouch 4G when updating to various versions of iOS 4 that this or that slowed down, etc, thought me not to ever upgrade the system. So on my iPad I never did. Original OS and still works and fast.
However, I did upgrade my iTouch 4G from the original iOS 4.x to iOS 5. I even did a complete reset and OS install. Ever since then, it became slow as hell. As I've read on other places, this is a planned manipulation from Apple to get you to buy a faster iTouch.
Which I won't do.
Not everyone. My iPod Touch 5th generation is still on iOS6 with plenty of storage available. I just told iTunes to not ask me again to upgrade to iOS7 when it came out.
My iPad Air (my first iPad!) is on iOS7. There are things I like about both systems, as well as things I don't like on both. I haven't decided if I am going to upgrade the iPod Touch to iOS7 yet.
I don't have an iPhone.
No one. And I haven't. But Apple did steal 2.5 gigabytes of storage I cannot reclaim!!!
Yet another reason I stay logged out of Google. Bad enough that they still track me in other ways. I don't want tainted searches. It's bad enough that they ignore strict searches in quotes now without typing in a lot of -not exclusions.
Thanks for telling it like it is. Even after several months using iOS 7 on my iPhone 5S, every time I pick up my iPad 3 running 6.1.2, I feel SO glad I never "updated" it (and never will).
Other than the improved app-switching screen, there is no benefit to iOS 7.
Safari is the main app I use, and in iOS 7 it's a nightmare. Wanna edit some text in a text field? OOPS it was too close to the top edge of the screen, we're gonna show you the address bar and scroll allllll the way to the top! ARGH!!
Wanna zoom in and pan around with your finger? OOPS that looked like the new "back" gesture to me!! We're gooooing back to the previous page!!
I mean, I like iOS 7 and all, I just also think it has a fair amount of downsides.
The Reed College IT Dept. used to keep a collection of disk images, each representing the "ideal" system for each Mac going back to the SE. They tested which system ran the fastest and most stable on each computer, right down to which version of all the major apps worked best with each Mac system version.
You see, ultimately, it's all about the user experience. The instant it becomes about something else, you're doing it wrong.
Apple has gotten where it is due to its focus on user experience... which is subjective, and influenced by hardware specs. Updating software ain't always wise, especially with no way to go back.
And that's an okay opinion to have. This is a reason I update things slowly, and after consideration. For me though, the consideration lead me to update both my iPad and iPhone.
I'm honestly curious about this. I've never encountered this, and just tried to reproduce it on my phone. No dice. To scroll to the top when the address bar isn't showing takes at least two taps, one to pull up the top header, and another one, above the address field, to get it to scroll to the top. Unless you can explain it differently, it seems like you'd have to really miss your mark (by the width of the address bar) and have double tapped.
In fact from what I can tell Apple has made it harder to accidentally scroll to the top by making it a two step action instead of a single step action.
This one I can understand, even though it has never happened to me. I didn't even know this existed, that's how much it hasn't happened to me. However, I found that it's as easy to do as swiping from the top for notification or the bottom for control center. And unlike the top and bottom, which are always active, the only time a side swipe can do anything is IF there is a previous page. So while I can see that this might take some adapting, I don't know if I understand why it's a bigger deal than notification center?
I think if these are your two biggest gripes with iOS 7, one that should be adaptable like the other two sides of the screen, and one that i"m not sure actually exists the way you describe it, I think iOS 7 isn't as bad as you make it out to be