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

What is the point of circular buttons? That just increases the chance of user error.

The addition of choosing whether or not to use the parallax feature is definitely useful, though, as the old non-parallax wallpapers are obsolete unless Reduce Motion is turned on.

All other changes are welcome, as iOS 7 needs whatever it takes to look less like it was designed by 3-year old.
 
Not a fan of the circles where there's space for bars. Poor use of space for the sake of consistency, where there wasn't really a disconnect to begin with.
 
How about when selecting a playlist in the music app, moving the delete button away from in between the Now Playing butting above it and the shuffle toggle button below it? Those of us with larger fingers have an issue with that.
 
DShap5 said:
I personally like the older shaded buttons in the Music app...

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What is with this? I feel like I missed something. Everyone has been talking about it, but the icon looks fine to me...?
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It's a meme - some people think it's clever to bring up (over and over) that very early in the beta process, some folks decided they didn't like the Photos icon and insisted it be "fixed". It's like the comment "Safari seems snappier": once funny, now tired.
 
Radio said:
wow !

and nobody thought apple could innovate! :D


seriously though these changes are so minor it's a joke.

Apple needs to take a cue from Google and push larger changes on a more frequent manner.
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Just a beta update...not complete update.


Not owning droid in forever, I really don't know who often an update is pushed. But I heard the same kind of complaints about useless updates
from the droid crowd.
 
Can anyone tell if reducing the white point reduces ALL colors on the system, or ONLY the specific white used by the UI?

I'd love to make the UI less "bright" but I don't want to reduce the contrast ratio of the display when displaying photos and web sites.
 
I actually like ALL of those changes. This "long pastel colored rectangles" direction Apple went with (like in the 'call' button) was absolutely hideous. These circles are nice, clean and feel more like Mavericks's (more coherent) flat style.

The power-off screen is LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than the laughably-poor iOS 7 incarnation.

The change to a gray background in the phone app is a lot more attractive and more 'Apple-ish'.

This only reaffirms my belief that Apple is discretely trying to backtrack on many of iOS 7's ill-advised "design" choices. I expect an official Night Mode from Apple sometimes soon.
 
I don't like how the new dialer is in German. It's gonna be a real pain helping my parents figure out how to use it. :eek:
 
Universal approach ftw.

If this version came out in 7.0 then they released the boxy version in 7.1, people would still complain lol
 
Radio said:
seriously though these changes are so minor it's a joke.

Apple needs to take a cue from Google and push larger changes on a more frequent manner.
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Apple calculates, refines, and iterates. Google throws $#!+ at the wall to see what sticks.

This is known.

Update: Though I'll admit, making the "Call" button small and round is kind of a weird move. It's size before seemed proportional to it's function. Now it has equal billing with the number keypad? Seems to get lost.
 
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hansonjohn590 said:
Thankfully, slide to answer is now a button. I've been having major issues with getting my phone to respond to the slide.
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But accidentally hitting the answer button and picking up a call from someone who you would rather go to voicemail would be a bummer. At least the slider prevented the dreaded "accidentally answered the phone while at the bar when I'm supposed to be picking up the kids" scenario.
 
Apple3 said:
What is the point of circular buttons? That just increases the chance of user error.
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Let me get this straight.

We use our fingers to operate the iOS device and you would prefer rectangular buttons? I don't about you finger but for normal fingers circular buttons make sense. Period!
 
All of these changes are terrible :-(

What are Apple thinking with tiny circular icons that leave huge chunks of space?

Why is time being wasted on this rather than things that actually needed fixing?
 
The Phazer said:
All of these changes are terrible :-(

What are Apple thinking with tiny circular icons that leave huge chunks of space?

Why is time being wasted on this rather than things that actually needed fixing?
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You'll live. It's unifying the look and feel of the OS. In a week you'll be used to it.

If they moved the call button to a swipe up screen only then I'd say it's a bad design. This is just changing the look to be similar across the OS.
 
ToomeyND said:
I don't like how the new dialer is in German. It's gonna be a real pain helping my parents figure out how to use it. :eek:
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And if you had AT&T you now have Telekom. Better think about it before upgrading. :eek:
 
room237 said:
Did they fix iTunes and give us the ability to shuffle just one album instead of all albums under the artist?
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They also need to fix Music to not play the next album when browsing under Artist->Album. As of now once you're done listening to an album it automatically plays the next one in the list. It hasn't done that before and I feel it's a bug.
 
RedOrchestra said:
Anything about iOS optimization for iPad ... I thought not ... and the Apple gurus want to come out with a 12" plus iPad ... without optimization.

Once again, Apple, ahead of the curve.
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I'm sure they working on 7.1 on the side because they are working on iOS 8 which will overhaul the iPad's design in order to accommodate 3 different screen sizes rather than shrinking or increasing the size of the current one.

If anything you should be very excited that Apple has been tweaking random designs here or there as it shows that they are stilling interesting in fixing things isn't quite there yet.
 
Anything real?

Does the slightly bolder fonts on the keyboard make the iOS keyboard any less ****** of a user experience compared to their competition?

But hey, I am still trying to find at least one thing different about Android 4.4 vs 4.3 and I have had the update installed for about 2 months, so at least Apple is doing something visually different between versions, as superfluous as they seem.
 
Any guess why I can get any beta updates via OTA after iOS 7 GM? The last OTA beta I got was th GM and since then I can only the public OTA. ANY Ideas???? It was registered.
 
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