So far I am enjoying this new 7 Plus, it's a fresh and different
Just waiting for the more stable Jailbreak release, and I'll tweak the **** out of this phone to be uber unique
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What's your impressions of the camera?
Having a specific animation speed is not "lag". There are real example of "lag" floating around the Internet, but I just wanted to understand what you meant.
My experience is that iOS has always been more organic than android and still is. For example when scrolling, on android the graphics moves a bit faster than the finger while on iOS, the graphics follows the finger on the millimetre. The rubber band effect when scrolling out of a page and the animations are things that ad to this experience. Some like it, some hate it but to call it lag is just naive.
iOS has lag, but slow animations isn't one of them.
I wish Apple had an equivalent to Android's Developer Options. I'd turn those ridiculous animations right off. As it is, I need to wait for a stable jailbreak in order to do this.
Thanks! I didn't know that.Don't forget 3D touching the left side of your screen activates this as well. I almost never use the home button for this functionality anymore.
I had the 6S Plus but didn't really use 3D Touch. I'm making more of an effort this time because I want to really get to know all of my phones and OS variants better.
Simply carry a small hammer around with you in back pocket. Each time you think of your old android phone, place your hand on firm surface and hit with hammer. I guarantee that within several days you will stop obsessing over you android phone. And you will have to learn one handed use of you Appple phone.
To answer one of your questions, it takes a very light touch and hold to activate the shaking apps so you can move them around. The least bit of pressure will be interpreted as a push.
Oh and if you want to turn off most of the animations for a quicker response set reduce motion on in settings>general>accessibility>reduce motion. You might also try reduce transparency within the increase contrast setting. It's less for graphics chip to do, especially on a plus phone. Just some options to play with.
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Turn on reduce motion, it turns off the animations.I hear what you are saying. I would like to turn off all animations like I can on Windows. No animations would be fine with me and would speed things up considerably. But that isn't lag I guess, or lag by design.
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So one os is faster then another but it's not lag. Ok not sure what else you would call it. Lag is kinda the word invented to describe the action.
On my phone it just opens an app. Pop it's there. Not sure I'd call that an animation. With reduce motion off the app like grows onto screen. That's an animation.Well, it's a different, less busy animation, anyway. And it will be a boon for those frame-drop-obsessed among us.
I spent many years on Android and now it would be weird to me. You will acclimate. If you look at top left of screen there is a choice to "Go Back" in many screens. To Safari, Twitter, or Gmail. There are little back cursors on top or bottom of screen. You may have to swipe screen up or down to see them. I have no lag that I perceive. No weekly reboots/freezes. There are many advantages to the iPhone. 3d Touch, Handoff, Copy/Paste between products like from iPhone to MacBook etc. With a family on Apple products the "Ecosystem" (interconnectivity) is nice. I don't see ever going back. Just to get immediate updates when they are released by Apple is worth it. I know we could get around that by running custom roms. But, I got tired of rooting and all the time it took to stay up on everything. You will enjoy it.
Thanks for the tips
The Reduce Motion makes it a lot faster and smoother feeling. [doublepost=1482800511][/doublepost]I will say iOS and Android seems to be closer in operation than before. At the the end of the day, I use a a smartphone to Text, and watch YouTube, make Phone calls, E-mail, surf the web, and use it for Sports scores. Yeah I feel Android does it a little faster, and has a cooler OS, but iOS 10 especially Jailbroken isn't far behind, and practically does all those same tasks very similar now. I will say this iPhone 7 Plus is so far giving me extremely stellar battery life, like way better than my Nexus 6P.
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Personally widget on my iPhone has made slot of things better coming from android for me. The contacts widgets for phone and what's app are useful as are all the news widgets I have set up. Even better than on android for me
No back button I struggled with at the start but now it just feels natural without one.
No back button I struggled with at the start but now it just feels natural without one.
App switcher and moving the cursor or selecting large areas of text are what I use it for the most. It's the most surprising "thought I'd ever used it and end up using it many times a day" feature Apple has added haha
That's not actually true.
If you 3D Touch the left edge of the screen it will begin to open the app switcher, if you press a little deeper (like peep and pop) it will open in to the app switcher without the need to swipe.
Alternatively you can just press and swipe but you don't have to.
I use the press and swipe myself as I find it easier but on the times I have tried the method I mentioned I haven't had any problems.
The lag you are experiencing is common for 7 Pluses as I own an iPhone 6s and I have zero stutters or lag on iOS 10 so a future software update could fix it because I remember the 6s a Plus had a similar issue where it would lag when you 3D Touch and Apple fixed it.
Question in regards to voicemail ? I had a missed call from a customer, they left me a voicemail, and I have a red dot notification on the Phone icon, but it's just a red dot, it doesn't have a (1) inside it.
But anyways, right now to check Voicemail on my 7 Plus, it shows the old school way, of dialing a phone number to access my VM, uh no thanks.
I'm on T-Mobile, and for my Nexus 6P I downloaded the 'T-Mobile Visual Voicemail' app, it worked perfectly and transcribed my voicemails, etc... But nothing like that in the App Store. How do I enable visual voicemail on my iPhone 7 Plus, and not have to sue that old way of dialing into my voicemail number ?
But anyways, right now to check Voicemail on my 7 Plus, it shows the old school way, of dialing a phone number to access my VM, uh no thanks.
I'm on T-Mobile, and for my Nexus 6P I downloaded the 'T-Mobile Visual Voicemail' app, it worked perfectly and transcribed my voicemails, etc... But nothing like that in the App Store. How do I enable visual voicemail on my iPhone 7 Plus, and not have to sue that old way of dialing into my voicemail number ?
Did you just move the sim card from your android phone over to the iPhone? If so, you may have to go to a t-mobile store and get a sim card specifically for the iPhone. Apple is on a different voicemail system and at least on my carrier (Verizon) you don't get all of the features (visual vm, wifi calling, etc.) unless you go get a sim provisioned for iPhone. Verizon requires a a whole new sim, T-mobile may be able to just provision your account for an iPhone APN and you'd be fine without a trip to the store.
If they do require a new SIM card make sure and keep the android one. On Verizon's website I can go in and enter my IMEI and ICCID (SIM Card serial #) right on the website to flip flop back and forth between my Pixel and iPhone.
Long time Android user, have had like 15 or so flagship Android phones, and only 3 iPhone's. I wanted to try a fresh new Silver 128GB Silver iPhone 7 Plus, to see what Apple has created, and mess around with something different
I won't BS you, this is a very tough transition so far one day in, please offer any advice or tips please;
Comments / Questions;
- iPhone 7 Plus is a beautifully designed well crafted device. But it seems awfully heavy, weighs a heck of a lot more than it should IMO.
- Home button thing, I am very confused with it. I understand it no loner is a true press down button anymore ? Which is fine by me, by then why does Apple force it to behave like one still ? I'd rather it act like a touchpad, something like the HTC 10, or OnePlus 3 have, where you barely tap it and it works, but with the 7 Plus home button, you still need to sort of press it hard or firmly, you can't just lightly tap it like you would software keys on a Pixel or Nexus, or even a trackpad.
- How do I rearrange the icons around ? I don't want the Music app icons in the dock on the bottom, but every time I press to hold down, to get the icons to dance and have the little x's, it 3D Force Touches on me, not allowing me to x out an app or move them. How do I get the icons to rattle and allow me to move them where ever I want ?
- Weather widget, I set my home city, but the widget keeps showing me Santa Clara, how do I force it to keep my home town ? I don't have Location enabled, I always keep that off, only use GPS when actually running Navigation, but that shouldn't matter ? There has to be an option to force the city you choose ?
- Is there a way to setup a Google Calendar widget ? Or a better calendar widget than stock ?
- Animations and fluidity of iOS 10 feels janky and clunky. Not at all smooth as hot butter and warp speed fast like my Nexus 7.1.1 ROM, which is super smooth and ZERO lag, but iOS 10 seems a little slow or just weird acting. If I am in app, then press the home button, it will hiccup for a second, then show the home page of icons fade in slowly.
- G Board keyboard is GREAT on this phone, that is super cool
- iMessage is also great, best texting app around
- No Back button, HOLY MOTHER OF GOD NO FREAKING BACK BUTTON !!! This is just brutal, just insanity using a phone with no back button, *** swipe or gestures, you MUST HAVE A BACK BUTTON ON A SMARTPHONE OS. Blackberry has a back button. Windows Phone has a back button, Android has a back button. ( rumors are that the iPhone 8 will mimic Windows Phone software key type setup ) The no Back Button on the iPhone is borderline a deal breaker for me. I can get used to the change of OS from Android, but no back key is truly a kick in the nuts, and something I can't get comfortable with.
I was a Nexus/Android preacher if you want to call it that for a while, I'd bash iPhones whenever someone would even bring it up or consider getting one. After the news that Nexus was to be discontinued and seeing the Pixels price tag I now own an iPhone 7 as my daily driver
. I haven't completely turned my back on Android just wish they'd have continued with the Nexus program and maybe I'll consider it back in the future.First thing I noticed immediately about iOS was the lack of the back button, just didn't feel right. Few days later I was over it thanks to the swipe right as an alternative. This option is also there on Android but because it works 100% of the time on iOS 10.2.1 I was sold.
Next thing was iTunes. I feel like iOS is great but it's complete dependence on iTunes for carrying out basic tasks holds it back. I want complete access to the internal storage at least the User space so I can just drag and drop whatever the hell I want. If that's so hard they could also develop a miniaturized version of iTunes that does exactly just that minus Appstore or backup options.
Thirdly, the keyboard dimensions. I am use to be able to resize my keyboards on Android to even take up half the screen. It's great that iOS gives you alternative to the built in keyboard but not being able to resize it is an issue especially if you've got fat finger. Also, not being able to dismiss the keyboard is a pain, even as I write this on my iPhone I don't have the option to minimize the keyboard.
Other than I can't complain much. Overall, whole user experience has been a pleasure. I don't expect iOS to perform like Android but there are these little things that make a difference.
After the news that Nexus was to be discontinued and seeing the Pixels price tag I now own an iPhone 7 as my daily driver
Why do you feel it should cost less?
There is a back button.. It's located on the top left of the screen. Why is it located there and not near where your thumb is? I have no idea but it sure is a bad location given that Apple is suppose to be user friendly.
The scrolling is a matter of preference I for one cannot stand the scrolling on iOS. I find it to slow if I flick my finger on Android its a fast scroll vs iOS which is a slow scrolling.