iOS 7.1 Beta 3 Tidbits: Revamped Keyboard, Darker Icons, New Phone Look, and More

[Slayter101]

Agreed 100%. Additionally:

• Splitting information into multiple screens means you can never get everything in a single, quick glance.

It boggles the mind that someone at Apple thought this was an improvement!

Agree with both of you + you forgot to mention also "missed" tab, such useless space. Instead of fixing this, they rather ruined call accept buttons :-(

New slide to answer is absolute joke. I have already wrote to Apple feedback, asking them what the hell this supposed to be...

All this just when I thought iOS7 can get any worse..

 

[Zzzoom]

While I like OS 7 overall, the fetishism of the designers with "circles" is in my view detrimental to the user experience. I loathe the circular photos on the favorite screen and in the address book. Consequently, I'm not happy with the new call screen. It looks odd and is easier to miss.

 

[attila]

So i some places they removed text and replaced with icons, other places they removed icons and replaced with text. And now we have icons that are not outlined.

What's going on over there?!

 

[Polaroid]

How often and for how long do you even really look at it? Most people probably never even see it and perhaps don't even know it exists.

Even so, I can still hate the design, it's fie. How it is now, no need to change at all.

Besides I'm a designer myself, so very fussy about any form of design lol, even if it is being seen for a second.

 

[p3ncil]

Also, auto-brightness doesn't work...

Edit : it's disabled by default. You'll need to enable it.

 

[Tyler23]

finally... the Parallex can be turned off...

Its just seemed strange to tilt a device and see the wallpaper move.... cool and also confusing... Its supposed to be a static picture, it was in the past...

So, this is a good thing.

Apple also keeps changing keyboards/keys..

It already cheeses my off when I KNOW i come across an iOS6 app, because the keyboard is iOS6 keyboard, but then you see iOS 7 keyboard everywhere else..

Why Apple never forced all developers wanting to make their app compatible with iOS7 to use the new keyboard, i'll never know... Maybe a coding issue ? But Apple has a knack of "making it work"... In this case, they failed, giving developers to choose..

There was once a day I could have said "Apple is consistent" , This is no longer the case, as they drift further out to sea.

Looks like allot of complains over the icons, so its good to see some shades have been done. As for the "Phone.app" i go via Voip app anyway, as i use data all the time now. for cheaper calls, s i'm not that fussed.

1) there has always been an option to turn off parallax if you don't like it.

2) Apps that still use the iOS 6 keyboard likely have not been updated to iOS 7 yet. Just like how some apps still haven't been updated for the 4 inch screen. That's on the developers.

 

[MaSx]

Why does Music app's back, next, shuffle and repeat button are so cramped up together.. even on iOS 7. *Smh* seriously? Why not make it a little more spacious? I don't think anyone cares about album cover size as those control buttons being cramped up together..

The only few things I like about iOS 7 is the fact that Safari is more cleaner and neat. We have a new "Control Center" ripped from Android obviously. This is probably one of the best feature of iOS 7..ofcourse along with ripped webOS multitasking feature as well. Beside that pretty much everything else is blahh..I was hoping for some good changes in ios 7.1 but that's a fail. I still don't get why Control Center need to be swipe from buttom to top? Why not add it to swip from top to bottom..? Implement everything into one notification settings. Also add a way to turn off data as well not just wifi. Simple things like this goes a long way. I hope they see to it and make one great Notification Control Center. Use swip up for something else like swipe up for multitasking..

 

[iAmirul]

no, just no.

 

[mentaluproar]

I don't like it. The power slider and new phone design in particular are ugly. they remove clean, simple function for...nothing. There is no advantage to those changes at all.

 

[Malbrute]

Yeah agree with you...these are joke changes..nobody really cares if the call button is rectangle or circle.

I can’t read that without picturing ashton kutcher yelling “get out!” from that iJobs or whatever trailer..

 

[TC03]

I guess you haven't looked at android in a few years then. They changed the UI significantly in 4.4, Kitkat.

Nice try though

Nope, they haven't. They changed it allright, but so did Apple in iOS 4, 5 and 6. The changes in Kitkat are just as incremental as iOS 4, 5 and 6 were.

 

[pickaxe]

Nope, they haven't. They changed it allright, but so did Apple in iOS 4, 5 and 6. The changes in Kitkat are just as incremental as iOS 4, 5 and 6 were.

iOS 4 to 6 is around 3 years of development. Have you seen how much Android evolved in the last 3 years? Hint: faster than iOS.

 

[Patrick J]

Sorry but the new slide to answer, slide to power off and the in-call screens are all extremely hideous. What's with that lone circle to call/end call right in the center as a tiny hitpoint?

This. The hitpoint is one third of what it was before. With a wide Call button i just slam in the number and hit green. Now I must precisely place my thumb on the button.

 

[andynoiseboy]

get back to me when there's some news on stability and usability. seriously? a slightly different hue of green? unreal.

Absolutely. This is merely a thinly veiled admission by apple that the aesthetics of 7 are indeed repulsive. With much much bigger issues to resolve with performance, lag, usability and useful functions that went missing, it is particularly embarrassing to release an 'update' that tweaks an ugly mess to make it marginally less ugly.

Unless this is a joke article?

 

[Tyler23]

Absolutely. This is merely a thinly veiled admission by apple that the aesthetics of 7 are indeed repulsive. With much much bigger issues to resolve with performance, lag, usability and useful functions that went missing, it is particularly embarrassing to release an 'update' that tweaks an ugly mess to make it marginally less ugly.

Unless this is a joke article?

People realize that they can change the UI, AND perform performance fixes as well, right?

There are tons of reports about how the 7.1 betas are much faster than previous with less crashes, etc.

 

[rei101]

Can you tell we are getting older?

I am 38 and loosing my vision, these changes are very handy.

 

[andynoiseboy]

Would be interesting if the capital letters on the keys changed to lowercase letters when toggling the "Shift" key. Then people wouldn't have to check the mode of said Shift key.

Ahh yes, like Android you mean. Well, apple would have to spend time developing useful functions instead of marginally changing a shade of green and changing a square to a circle. They don't seem interested in that approach any more.

 

[jkkool]

does it break the jailbreak?

Nope

 

[razmarino]

I'll be honest - I love Apple, but this is the ugliest piece of software I have ever seen.. I was holding to update my i5 from ios 6, but looks like there is no need to do it anymore. This is what happens when genius leaving, so sorry..

 

[jkkool]

Hate the new Phone app, why they turned the background black, its seems like Android now, keyboard is also getting back to iOS 6, instead of doing this they should have changed the home screen layout, put some widgets options and allow us to put the icons as per our choice, everything on main screen now sucks, for that i like Android, but iOS is far better, just need some little tweaks.

 

[Abazigal]

Ugh...I was never really a fan of the red rectangle for slide to turn off, but I would take it over this hideous new slider.

 

[jkkool]

People realize that they can change the UI, AND perform performance fixes as well, right?

There are tons of reports about how the 7.1 betas are much faster than previous with less crashes, etc.

I dont see any tons of reports for iOS 7.1 beta being faster, and its less than 24 hours

 

[RebornProphet]

iOS 7.1 will be a useless cosmetic update

a new keyboard such as Swype would have a much a better improvement

Wrong. The performance leap alone is what iOS 7.1 is about, especially on iPad.

 

[jkkool]

Absolutely. This is merely a thinly veiled admission by apple that the aesthetics of 7 are indeed repulsive. With much much bigger issues to resolve with performance, lag, usability and useful functions that went missing, it is particularly embarrassing to release an 'update' that tweaks an ugly mess to make it marginally less ugly.

Unless this is a joke article?

dont blame the article, they are just telling us whats new and changed in new beta, yes we can blame Apple for not delivering something big, and i don't think we will see anything new till iOS 8, and with this pace i believe iOS 8 will not get anything better.

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

The clock/timer icon on the Phone screen looks strikingly familiar, if not exactly, like the classic old Mac OS (OS 9 and below) wristwatch busy signal (mouse cursor).

Comparisons below.