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Good lord.. iOS 7 is hideous.
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I keep hearing this animation complaint. I guess I'm just less picky and don't notice. But would you give me some examples of what you think are too slow?
- When the phone is sleeping, hit the home or sleep/wake button to wake it up. It takes about 1-second for the fade out animation to complete. Cool at first, but gives the illusion of Windows-like slow wake up. Thankfully, one can swipe to unlock before the animation completes. Putting the iPhone to sleep also takes 1-second.
- Slide to unlock. Another 1-second animation, except in this case, you cannot launch or swipe to different home screen until the animation completes.
- Launch an app, then hit Home button to go back home. The animation is about 1.5 seconds long on my iPhone 5, and again, the animation is not interruptible.
- Open or close a folder in the Home page. Again, another non-interruptible 1-second animation.
- Open an app. Another 1-second non-interruptible animation.
- Double click to open multitasking tray. Yup, another 1-second non-interruptible animation.
What I want: make all animations interruptible and bring it down to half a second.
That wasn't the case for me. After comparing my iPhone with iOS 6 and iPad Mini with iOS 7, it actually made me appreciate the beauty of iOS 6 so much more. The tremendous level of detail they left out in iOS 7 is unforgivable. Despite useful features like control centre and remembering website login details, I had to upgrade my iPad back to iOS 6.
Same complaint existed all through the betas with most simply saying "it'll be all good in the GM"...well, it's not. And we are pretty much stuck with that until Apple decides to change it in some future update (if ever) and/or there's a jailbreak tweak that would take care of it (when a jailbreak is available and for those who decide to use it).
90% of iOS 7 is absolutely atrocious and hideous, IMO. Nice new wallpapers, but the bottom BLOCK of a dock ruins them..... guess i'll get use to it......
Don't install/use it then....
And when a bunch of apps update to be only iOS 7 compatible (sometimes just because), that kind of messes up staying on an older version that might be perfectly fine otherwise.
90% of iOS 7 is absolutely atrocious and hideous, IMO. Nice new wallpapers, but the bottom BLOCK of a dock ruins them.
Shame that your position is to 'get used to it' rather than do something about it.
Kids....
My first computer was an Apple ][. No hard drives then. No floppy drives. You had to provide your own cassette tape recorder for storage. My first Mac was the 512k model. I got it upgraded to a 512ke so I could use the vast 5mb Profile external hard drive.
I can't look at iOS 6 now, it looks so old and out of date compared to iOS 7. However, the niggling issues on iPad 4th Gen are taking away from the experience somewhat.
I'm close to going back to iOS 6 on my iPad for that fluidity even though I'll miss the cleaner look of iOS 7.
I'm close to going back to iOS 6 on my iPad for that fluidity even though I'll miss the cleaner look of iOS 7.
I reverted back to iOS 6 on my iPad 4th gen last night. Man what a difference. While I do miss the look of iOS 7(minus the horrible excuse for a music app), iOS 6 just works. Its snappy, functional and everything is smooth as buter as it should be.
Live wallpapers were around on the iphone 3G as a Jailbroken tweak before Android was even a sparkle in Google's eye. This "Android had it first" thing is getting old and tiresome.
P.S. Android's implementation of what it considered to be animated wallpapers did nothing but animate you battery life down. At least Apple was intelligent enough to map the wallpaper movement to the accelerometer so it wouldnt be using cpu cycles unless you were moving the phone around.
I can completely understand where you're coming from, and it's annoying we have to revert back simply because Apple haven't gotten their finger out for the iPad build yet. I refuse to believe this is the best the A6X can run iOS 7, especially as my 4S runs smoother overall and is way less powerful.
I don't get any stutters when rotating from portrait to landscape or zooming in when selecting an app from the multi tasking view on my 4S, but I do on my iPad 4. Nuts.
Indeed, too bad there is no option to speed up or disable animations like in Android.
Had the beta from day one and didn't like all of it!
lived with it and liked it more
have a 4 and a 4s in the family and they look really really dated!
now running the GM and for the first year since 2007 i am considering not buying the new IP
lived with it and liked it more
have a 4 and a 4s in the family and they look really really dated!
now running the GM and for the first year since 2007 i am considering not buying the new IP
I had to because this constant moaning about iOS 7 looks is ANOYING. Get over it. You've been looking at the same design of iOS 7 for more than 3 months now, and you've been moaning about it for those 3 months, and you still have that desire to moan about it, although it WON'T change that "ugly" design. The choice is yours, get used to the iOS 7 and upgrade or stay on iOS 6 (or move to the brilliantly designed Android or WP).
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I'm in the exact same boat dude. 4S runs fine aside from the battery not lasting quite as long, but I can live with that.
Staying on iOS 6 isn't a great alternative.. There are security updates and lots of new desirable features. Apps also are updated to match the new themes.
I think iOS 7 in many ways looks nice, but all the white space looks unfinished. The music app is probably the worst.. You can't even play all songs by an artist unless in shuffle, because apple insists on splitting up each album (great when you have 3 songs from different albums but same artist).
The white borders and backgrounds with light text is brutal. And now apps are mimicking this, such as Google Drive spreadsheets... The labels for the rows and columns now blend with the cells.
I love many new features and the overall look of iOS 7, but parts of it really ruin it.
Also, I run with inverted colours half the time, and the fade-in effect causes a burst of white.
Would it seriously kill them to allow a dark theme after so many years of retina burning?
I think iOS 7 in many ways looks nice, but all the white space looks unfinished. The music app is probably the worst.. You can't even play all songs by an artist unless in shuffle, because apple insists on splitting up each album (great when you have 3 songs from different albums but same artist).
The white borders and backgrounds with light text is brutal. And now apps are mimicking this, such as Google Drive spreadsheets... The labels for the rows and columns now blend with the cells.
I love many new features and the overall look of iOS 7, but parts of it really ruin it.
Also, I run with inverted colours half the time, and the fade-in effect causes a burst of white.
Would it seriously kill them to allow a dark theme after so many years of retina burning?