I get headaches, dizziness, and blurry vision when looking at ios7. Visually impaired individuals should have the option to continue having the phone they paid for, and not have stress and inconvenience forced upon them. Just like when I repurchased the same 4S months later, the storage space (for the same phone- same price!) 32G to 16G... Where can I get real help online? Suggestions?
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iOS 6 Users Expressing Discontent Over Automatic iOS 7 Over-the-Air Downloads
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Actually, there is no option; the update is downloaded whether you want it or not (if there is space for it on the phone).
Then please tell me how to disable automatic OTA updates and how to get my 3GB back.
I understand what they're trying to do with the OTA updates including the ever-present badge on your settings icon, to get people that are less tech savvy to know there's an update available....and this is good, mostly. But I think the automatic notifications/prompts/downloads shouldn't apply to large point upgrades like iOS 6 to 7 as there are many people who prefer to stay on the older software. Also, if I had a 16GB or less model and the update I don't even want takes up 3GB of space it just seems rather stupid. Hope Apple changes this in the future, I think it'd make a lot of people happy.
How do I disable this over the air update feature in my iPhone 4S? I don't want to lose 3GB of space when I don't want the sucky new OS. I currently don't have enough space on my phone anyway, but if I decide to delete some stuff then I may get this problem also.
The update was not only downloaded to my iPad 3, but installed as well without my intervention.
The background is that I hadn't used my iPad for quite a while, and it was completely out of battery. I attached it to power, and forgot about it.
About 20-25 minutes later I looked at it and it was on iOS 7.
Unexpected, and not desired behavior.
Granted, I had gotten my iPad out to upgrade it to iOS 7, but Apple didn't know that. Who's to say I didn't have a mission-critical app on there that doesn't run on iOS 7?
Disappointed in Apple - either they missed this particular scenario (iPad attached to power source after weeks of should not have been upgraded) or they did it intentionally to boost their iOS adoption numbers artificially.
The background is that I hadn't used my iPad for quite a while, and it was completely out of battery. I attached it to power, and forgot about it.
About 20-25 minutes later I looked at it and it was on iOS 7.
Unexpected, and not desired behavior.
Granted, I had gotten my iPad out to upgrade it to iOS 7, but Apple didn't know that. Who's to say I didn't have a mission-critical app on there that doesn't run on iOS 7?
Disappointed in Apple - either they missed this particular scenario (iPad attached to power source after weeks of should not have been upgraded) or they did it intentionally to boost their iOS adoption numbers artificially.
Not on an iPad 2, unless you like waiting for too-long animations to complete before your device (and apps you start, and apps you close, and...) become(s) usable. It's less of a problem on the iPod touch 5th Gen, but probably only because the screen is smaller so the animations naturally complete relatively faster. I'm honestly not sure if this is due to the hardware or just a bad design feature.
Plus there are other things in iOS 7 that not everybody will like, like the fact that app folders got worse (particularly on the iPad, where the size per page is way too small) and the fact that not everybody will like the new appearance.
So your opinion is subjective. However, this is not:
Yes, you are, unless you jailbreak. If this has changed someone please say how.
Plus there are other things in iOS 7 that not everybody will like, like the fact that app folders got worse (particularly on the iPad, where the size per page is way too small) and the fact that not everybody will like the new appearance.
So your opinion is subjective. However, this is not:
Yes, you are, unless you jailbreak. If this has changed someone please say how.
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This is GREAT I reckon, both users and developers. For those who doesn't want to upgrade, well I don't understand those people. First world problem lol.
This is the same for almost everything, keep all the software up-to-date! I mean eventually iOS 6 users will need to update because of the apps computability.
Just UPDATE IT!! YOLO!!
This is the same for almost everything, keep all the software up-to-date! I mean eventually iOS 6 users will need to update because of the apps computability.
Just UPDATE IT!! YOLO!!
Bit of a moronic thing to say.
How about the fact that some people on 4 and 4s are having issues installing the OS and then if it does, its buggy. Perhaps some people don't want to update the OS for this reason and also can't afford/don't want to hand over approx $750 to upgrade the handset.
Aaaaand the entire jailbreak community rolls their eyes at once.
Seriously. I cannot tell you how happy I am not to have upgraded. I upgraded my family's (non-jailbroken) devices for them, and I'm so, so glad I'm still on iOS 6.1.2. I don't care for the new aesthetic, and I'd prefer my set of jailbroken features over the iOS 7 additions. I'm sure whenever I grab a 5S this winter I'll be fine making the move, but until then, I'm happy right where I am.
Ope this would be me ✋ I'm still trying to find a way to break software update before this happens. I have no intention of updating (yes, tried it, not a fan) and I wouldn't dare lose storage as a result. At least until someone jailbreaks 6.1.4.
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My iP4 now is sickly slow. Apple should have excluded this device from its upgradable list in the first place.
The iPhone 4 was already very slow on iOS 6, when I updated my parents' iPhone 4, it actually runs faster [than iOS 6, of course not as fluid as newer phones] now.
3GB of downloads... OUCH!!!!! $$$ For a lot of people I know who are on regional internet plans and get 1gb of bandwidth a month (then are charged at ~1 per mb for anything over that.)
Expensive!!!! Although I can't say iOS7 has downloaded for me without my permission.
If this happened you guys would've complained that Apple dropped support for such a popular and powerful phone in order to force you to upgrade to the iPhone 5s.
There is no "automatic over-the-air update facility" for iOS (only for apps) so there's nothing to enable or disable.
You get a notification that an iOS update is available and then you are supposed to have to okay it before it even downloads, let alone installs. Apparently however it downloads iOS updates automatically without you doing anything and only lets you stop them from actually being installed, which is really too late given the space the downloaded update will use up.
The performance boost unfortunately doesn't happen for everyone. I question whether the increased performance is anything more than a placebo effect. My iPhone 4 and 3rd-gen iPad are notably slower.
pretty much every major IOS revision has had a bug with mail and calenders. Usually the .1 version fixes this.
Most IT departments of major corporations are forbidding their users from installing 7.
I am allowing ours, but they have to let us turn Calendars and a few other things off.
You… do know it only downloads over wifi at all, right? Like, you can't even ask it to download updates over cellular data.
Sucks, but it's also what gives the iPhone the least fragmentation. With iOS 7 being on over something like 60% of iPhones, a huge number of developers are aiming to develop apps specifically for iOS 7 and above.
The white is actually a breath of fresh air. Once you allow your eyes to adjust. It's like someone opened the blinds and turned the lights on. iOS 6 just looks dark and murky in comparison once you go back and compare after using 7 for a while.
It's not perfect everywhere, but it really does feel like a warm and welcome change. But that's the keyword, change. It's different, it's not what people are used to. People almost always reject change on first impressions. You really have to give change time to settle, and that doesn't happen by looking at a few screenshots.
People groaned just as loud (if not louder) when Apple introduced Aqua in 2001. Now they're clinging to that same UI they once groaned about when it was the new change.