Chiming in to say that the 7.1 betas, but even more specifically b3 have made the iPhone 4 feel 100% better to use than before. I've been using 'reduce motion' since it was made available and just right now tried with it off (aka fly-through animations on) and they feel just as fast as my GF's iPhone 5. Normal beta kinks aside, it's night and day using an IPhone 4 compared to the stable releases of iOS 7.
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iOS 7.1 Beta 3 Bug Fixes and Changes
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Just to clarify for others, this new setting you get as you set the wallpaper doesn't turn on the "Reduce Motion" accessibility option, it just stops the wallpaper moving. This reduces the parallax effect, but doesn't turn it off completely as the icons still move, and all other motion is still there.
I've always thought that the UI practically didn't exist in 7.0 and now we're seeing the dream come alive. <cough> It's frustrating that Apple hung it's future on something that looked like an alpha. I'm not sure what it's going to take to get past all the bad press and opinions for blue text on a white background that ends up being a button like it used to be.
The sites what still crashed my iPad air on safari don't seem to do it anymore on beta 3 hopefully that's the end of the memory bug
Reduce motion on, reduce motion off. Either way images that are displayed full screen without zoom in photos app get zoomed in if I set them via photos or the wallpaper settings.
When I turned off my iPhone 5 using the power button it would not turn back on. I had to hold power plus home to turn it on? Anyone else have this issue? Not like I'll be turning it off much but just wanted to try it. Edit: I could not see the spinning wheel that's why I had to do a reset. The phone was not off yet lol.
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As far as I can see no noticeable scrolling lag in apps, and between home screens.
You can scale it with your fingers when setting wallpaper - you tried zooming out?
Actually you're right. You can zoom out further in 7.1 than in 7.0, but you still can't choose to have some empty/black space around your photo like I think you could in iOS 6.
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I noticed that if you set a wallpaper with a light top part, that area of the image is darkened to enhance the clock.
Yeah, none. Haven't been on iOS 6 since June so I don't have a direct way to compare, but as someone who's been on the beta's since that long and has been dealing with the awful lag since day one, I can tell you scrolling/swiping in every app/pane feels fast and natural again.
Activation error
Just updated my iPad Air to the beta3, getting an activation error even though the device is registered a couple of weeks ago with Apple.
I updated to beta3 from the 7.0.4, tried the iPad Air before updating my Iphone 5, any ideas or is anyone experiencing the same thing?
Thanks!
Just updated my iPad Air to the beta3, getting an activation error even though the device is registered a couple of weeks ago with Apple.
I updated to beta3 from the 7.0.4, tried the iPad Air before updating my Iphone 5, any ideas or is anyone experiencing the same thing?
Thanks!
Seems like it might not be registered with a developer account after all. You might want to double-check on that.
So far beta 3 is exceptional on my iPad air. Beta 2 was good anyway, but the fluency of everything seems to have improved considerably with this release.
It seems more of a noticeable jump between beta 2 and 3 on iPad than on iPhone.
Yeah, you can scale, but the full image is never visible, even If it takes up the full screen without zooming In.
Yeah. It does mean that photos the same aspect ratio as your device's screen (e.g. 16:9 for iPhone 5+) can now fill the screen without any cropping... but probably not much consolation for many, as iPhone photos are 4:3.
edit: Actually, iPad screens are 4:3, so it can at least use its own photos without cropping. Still this isn't really a lot better than how it was in 7.0.