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

lk400 said:
but how do you know that they arent?
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Ignorance regarding what a software development project entails. Utter ignorance, and the most appalling thing is the exuberance with which people arrive here to express said ignorance. It's an offence to software developers the world over, and yet I assumed for a long time many people on this forum were in fact software developers and would know these things, but I think now at least most on this forum don't even come from the world of IT, despite the fact that so many claim to know the world of IT, especially that of the chair of the CEO.
 
petsk said:
Why don't you fix the broken Touch ID instead? Or what about the constantly crashing iPad Mini Retina? It's a nightmare to use either of them. I never thought Apple would sink this far. SJ would never have agreed to releasing such ****** software as iOS 7.
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Maybe they arent broken. My touch ID isnt broken, and my retina mini doesnt crash any more often than my other devices.

Dont forget Steve Jobs agreed to release Mobile Me, Ping etc.
 
Seems my iPhone 5 will stick with me a little longer, still running iOS6. Even now owning an iPad Air could not convince me of iOS7 - and the changes mentioned in the article can't sway me either. Rather the opposite!

I understand it takes time to find a completely new design language, but why for heaven's sake does it have to be in form of a year long public beta? Why abandoning a well-established design language prematurely and without need? Only to destroy every remnant of one's former personal enemy in the OS as soon as possible?!

Apple's head of design may be a genius, but such people need someone to bridle them, otherwise they run Amok in the Company. To me this iOS7 disaster looks like a prime example thereof...
 
yucky

leave the look alone it is not broken

eww the changes or suggested changes what ever they are, yuck. what is this make the look appealing to dummies?

stay classy not trashy
 
Definitely keeping my jailbreak and not updating to 7.1.

Unless, you know, there's a jailbreak for 7.1 :p
 
Has anyone noticed the sliders in control center. You can flick the knobs, so awesome

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C DM said:
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.
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Thank you. Wow people are so ungrateful these days. I never shutoff my phone lol i usually do a reboot.
 
sero323 said:
Has anyone noticed the sliders in control center. You can flick the knobs, so awesome
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This is a nice touch!


And the shut down screen looks fine. Loving the new animations for it, as well as the phone call screen. People are just being cry babies.
 
prowlmedia said:
Why? Not trolling. Just interested what you actually do with it that makes you life better?

I tired for a while and other than pirated crap and notifications ( still not great ) didn't see the need.
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Adblock
date + free ram in status bar
lots more toggles in control center
launch/do anything from control center (apps,
unlimited itunes radio skipping
nitrous for faster facebook/chrome/other non-safari web apps
default browser/maps changer
f.lux
faster animations
airdrop + blur on my ipad3
change system fonts
customize the look and feel
improved video recording
nested folders


the list goes on...
 
The best way to relieve your server load at launch is to make the update unnecessary so no one will download it until the old one died from no support. :p

In terms of the small and round button.. so we are getting ready for a iPhone G (stand for giant)? :eek:
 
C DM said:
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.
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True, but my dislike extends to the direction that concept / look / feel is heading.
 
C DM said:
Perhaps part of the reason they did it is because more people were having issues accidentally tapping on the call button before they were done entering the number they were dialing, so the smaller button requires a more deliberate tap to activate it, decreasing the accidental misdials.
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Perhaps, but a larger button for ending calls is still preferable. So preferable, in fact, that Samsung copied Apple for it:

iphone_galaxy_s_end_call_button.jpg


(The above image is one of many documents from the Apple versus Samsung trial.)
 
kwikdeth said:
get back to me when there's some news on stability and usability. seriously? a slightly different hue of green? unreal.
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As was clearly stated in the article, this was a list of just the visual tweaks added in the most recent update of 7.1. Even then, there were several listed; yet you only noticed one.
 
secDJ said:
This is the first time Time I think apple has gone in a wrong direction. So many circles... So heavy even though it's smaller. It looks cheap!! So cheap. Unfinished. The answer call screen is the worst thing I have even seen in my life...
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How I envy your life.

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Analog Kid said:
Does 7.1 still light up my passcode when I type it, because that's freaking stupid.

"Just in case you're having a hard time following my thumb, let me flash the numbers in sequence to burn it into your visual cortex."
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So true, especially with bright backgrounds. Select a dark background for your lock screen and this problem isnt as big.

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IT Troll said:
Really glad they have got enough spare time to change squares into circles and tweak the shade of green used. I assume then that Safari is all fixed now and will no longer crash out constantly with memory overflows.
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If not fixed, i think heavily improved is a fair assumption, yes. Or do you honestly believe they just ignored these issues, because they arent obvious in screenshots posted on rumor sites?
 
osx11 said:
Apple is listening.....a little bit.......
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Yeah, a little little bit.

They've changed things people were mostly fine with for the worse, while leaving the things people didn't like.

Apple design labs said:
"People seem to really dislike the new Safari, Voice Memos, Game Centre and Newsstand icons"

"I know! Let's make the Phone and SMS icons a smidgen darker!"
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Then they went and uglified the dialer and shutdown screens. Is that really Apple's priority?
 
Apple3 said:
Perhaps, but a larger button for ending calls is still preferable. So preferable, in fact, that Samsung copied Apple for it:

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(The above image is one of many documents from the Apple versus Samsung trial.)
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They could have done it for similar reasons for end call too--to avoid accidental hangups that perhaps more people were experiencing and/or to fit in with the round button idea, which makes it impractical to a large circular button to be there without making things even more awkward.
 
C DM said:
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That is, quite possibly, one of the most visually disgusting pieces of mobile software design I have ever seen.

Hold on - are we all sure they didn't totally legalise cannabis over in California, too? Because someone at Apple seems to be on a different planet to the rest of us.
 
I wish they would fix things that are actually broken in iOS vice making cosmetic changes that don't really need to be made. For example: in prior versions of iOS you could play a music video in the Music App, rotate the phone horizontal and get a full screen Music Video, now it puts Album Art up and keeps playing the video in the back ground, all you get is the audio, no video. The only way to play a full screen Music Video is in the Video App, which by the way, won't play a playlist. I was very use to having playlists in the Music App with a mix of Music and Music Video's. When the Music Video would start playing it would be full screen in landscape mode. Now it's just crap. Much like the iOS on the iPad has been with this functionality from day 1.

Give me back my full screen Playlist capable Music Video/Audio mixes!!!
 
It seems that Apple is now simply burying UI options in the accessibility menu for the sake of satisfying people that don't like parts of the UI. It's definitely something that's new. Apple is not sticking to its guns as much on the design by throwing in so many options. The only thing that really needed to absolutely be changed were the animation speed. It borders on laughable when unlocking the device and having to wait for every last icon to fly in before doing anything.

I'm much more concerned with speed and stability than all these silly little visual tweaks. I just want my ipad air to stop respringing randomly when multitasking or using the music app. Those are the things that make me scratch my head. All these engineers and months after release to have a OS that randomly flips out is not acceptable. Thankfully in my case it's not on a daily basis. But for others it happens multiple times a day.
 
Just noticed today...

Like the "button" changes; was noticing today that the "answer" button on the phone makes me want to slide for some reason rather than push.

Nothing groundbreaking, but improvements for the UI.

...now for solving the crashing problems...
 
springsup said:
That is, quite possibly, one of the most visually disgusting pieces of mobile software design I have ever seen.

Hold on - are we all sure they didn't totally legalise cannabis over in California, too? Because someone at Apple seems to be on a different planet to the rest of us.
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It looks quite nice IMO. The only thing ugly about it is Steebers mug. Sorry :D
 
prowlmedia said:
Er. yeah. explain what is brand new there? Nothing. Just polished version of previous. Not that it's bad. Android is actually usable now. Well since Jelly bean, everything else was a mess.

To be honest what can G & A but keep adding services now...

at least Apple can add weird hardware things we didn't know we needed like th fingerprint - hopefully this will become a payment method.

Androids are a little hit and miss. Curved screens.. um. rear buttons...er...

Happy for it all to be honest. Bring it on. It's all good for the end user.
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You said it was only bug fixes which it's far from the truth. There was a noticeable visual overhaul (not as much as iOS 7, I admit) but still much better than 4.3 in my opinion. Also added compability to open GL ES 3.0 along with a new runtime for apps ART.

And also bunch of new features like Google Now from home screen without opening app.

Just bug fixes? Far from it
 
aerok said:
Check again...

Android 4.3
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Android 4.4
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Android has never looked more beautiful. I'm an iPhone user but I think that looks great. For me though, 5" for a phone (Nexus 5) is just a little too big. I'm hoping Apple goes 4.7, 4.8" max with very minimal bezel on iPhone 6. I tried a GS3 4.8" and I could still reach everything. And that's without the thin bezel they introduced for the GS4.
 
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