Did anyone notice the signal strength indicators?

[iPawd13]

The dots are really dumb and take up more space than the bars

Sure they take up more space, but what else are you going to put on the status bar?
Thought so.

 

[Paddle1]

Sure they take up more space, but what else are you going to put on the status bar?
Thought so.

Notifications.

 

[iPawd13]

Will be easier to read at a glance IMO. There are certain times (color of the screen + certain lighting, etc.) when it takes a second to focus on if you have two, three, or four bars. Not that you'll ever be desperate to know in an instant... just makes it easier.

Yeah i actually changed my mind. i saw better, less blurrier pic and ios 7 def looks awesome!

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Notifications.

What do you mean? Notifications ON the status bar? see pic

 

[F123D]

Notification icons on the status bar are extremely useful.

 

[rfrankl]

I got 5 balls.

 

[applesith]

5 dots plus carrier name and data connection seems very cluttered

••••• Verizon LTE

 

[ZacNicholson]

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I want to remember tasha

 

[richardw]

The dots are really dumb and take up more space than the bars

Really agree with this.

Just awful. Whatever happened to no change for changes sake? What exactly do some dots do better than the normal indicator? They're a step backwards because the old indicator was smaller (but not too small to not be readable) and the old indicator followed convention which counts for a lot.

 

[Anti-Lucifer]

Really agree with this.

Just awful. Whatever happened to no change for changes sake? What exactly do some dots do better than the normal indicator? They're a step backwards because the old indicator was smaller (but not too small to not be readable) and the old indicator followed convention which counts for a lot.

you guys are not seeing the benefits of the dots. The bars are just utter garbage! You need to almost look at them for 10 seconds to figure out which bar is which.

With the dots, it's near instant I can tell how much signal strength I get.

 

[sclawis300]

Probably because it's so short. I'm on AT&T and it does not show.

Edit.

Verizon is displayed.

 

[SONiC5]

5 dots plus carrier name and data connection seems very cluttered

••••• Verizon LTE

I agree, I hope there's an option to hide the carrier name.

 

[applesith]

I agree, I hope there's an option to hide the carrier name.

Looking in the other thread, carrier is there.

 

[deannnnn]

I don't like the dots. Bars are on every cell phone ever and they take up less space. No reason to change it, in my opinion.

 

[furam90]

Man you guys will find ANYTHING to complain about. Are you really whining about dots replacing bars? Who gives a ****? Boohoo they take up 10 more pixels of screenspace that would've otherwise not been used.

 

[iBreatheApple]

Man you guys will find ANYTHING to complain about. Are you really whining about dots replacing bars? Who gives a ****? Boohoo they take up 10 more pixels of screenspace that would've otherwise not been used.

This is a discussion forum. Chill out.

 

[richardw]

you guys are not seeing the benefits of the dots. The bars are just utter garbage! You need to almost look at them for 10 seconds to figure out which bar is which.

With the dots, it's near instant I can tell how much signal strength I get.

10 seconds... This is either complete BS or if true then you have something wrong with your vision.

 

[C64]

Sure they take up more space, but what else are you going to put on the status bar?
Thought so.

They take up more space, and thereby demand more attention of the user. It shouldn't do that, just like the battery indicator shouldn't be green everywhere whereas all the other stuff in the bar is white/black. It's distracting.

 

[morphineseason]

Just for the record - carrier name does still show (in beta 1 anyways). Apple has always left carrier names out of their promotional material and live demos.

 

[kmj2318]

This is exactly how they appear on the phone, with the sizes proportional to each other. The new format is clearly more functional. It displays better in the horizontal space. The problem with the standard icon is that it is square in nature, making it more difficult to easily see your actual signal strength. And it's really not that much longer because the carrier name now has a lighter font, and the wifi logo is smaller.

 

[Jimbo47]

I wonder if Apple has an agreement with the carriers to place their logo on the status bar? The phone has no other carrier branding as oppose to every other smart phone out there which has the carrier name somewhere on the device itself.

 

[C DM]

This is exactly how they appear on the phone, with the sizes proportional to each other. The new format is clearly more functional. It displays better in the horizontal space. The problem with the standard icon is that it is square in nature, making it more difficult to easily see your actual signal strength. And it's really not that much longer because the carrier name now has a lighter font, and the wifi logo is smaller.

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Given that the signal bars don't really play that much of a difference on their own, giving that whole thing more prominence only wastes more space and brings more attention to it, when it's really unnecessary to do that.

The bars are pretty much a standardized thing across the industry, so why change that when the industry mostly standardized on it for a while now?