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iOS 7.1 Launching in March Following Lengthy Testing Period?
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All these issues...makes me glad that I still have my iPhone 4.
Hope Apple fixes these soon both for iPhone and iPad.
Hope Apple fixes these soon both for iPhone and iPad.
Wishlist for iOS 7.1 and/or 8.0
Hope I'm not asking for too much for 7.1 (which is why this carries over into iOS 8 as well) but here goes:
Music App: Original style of the Artist view (album selection list), shuffle and repeat buttons are icon buttons again, the now playing screen resembles the remote app version (album art translucency), ability to turn off artist pictures, ability to change album sorting of a particular artist (alphabetical or chronological), coverflow returns but slightly updated, song/artist/album text highlight (if text is too long for the screen) and ability to delete entire albums and artist collections.
Lockscreen: Click controls for music (so you don't need to rely on Control Center), Ability to decline incoming calls when screen is locked.
Menu bar: Ability to toggle between signal bars, dots or field test mode (all without having to power off and is not only for visual preference but for users with long name carriers), play icon appears when audio is playing.
Icons:
Brand new icons for: Safari, Photos, Calendar, Contacts, Game Center, Notes, Reminders, Calculator and Voice Memos.
Revised icons (gradient tweaks, etc.) for: Music, Mail, Messages, Phone, FaceTime, Maps, Clock, Videos, Settings.
Overall appearance: LESS WHITE!!!! (More contrast and maybe some more silver with white-themed apps and some black/space gray style apps too), return of buttons (they're still useful and they help balance the look), tone down the color pallet in apps and icons to give the OS a more mature and elegant look, 3D translucent dock (which would actually give the OS an even greater sense of depth), drop shadows where they're truly needed and bold (as well as) easier to read text.
That's all I can think of right now but I believe these are reasonable requests.
Hope I'm not asking for too much for 7.1 (which is why this carries over into iOS 8 as well) but here goes:
Music App: Original style of the Artist view (album selection list), shuffle and repeat buttons are icon buttons again, the now playing screen resembles the remote app version (album art translucency), ability to turn off artist pictures, ability to change album sorting of a particular artist (alphabetical or chronological), coverflow returns but slightly updated, song/artist/album text highlight (if text is too long for the screen) and ability to delete entire albums and artist collections.
Lockscreen: Click controls for music (so you don't need to rely on Control Center), Ability to decline incoming calls when screen is locked.
Menu bar: Ability to toggle between signal bars, dots or field test mode (all without having to power off and is not only for visual preference but for users with long name carriers), play icon appears when audio is playing.
Icons:
Brand new icons for: Safari, Photos, Calendar, Contacts, Game Center, Notes, Reminders, Calculator and Voice Memos.
Revised icons (gradient tweaks, etc.) for: Music, Mail, Messages, Phone, FaceTime, Maps, Clock, Videos, Settings.
Overall appearance: LESS WHITE!!!! (More contrast and maybe some more silver with white-themed apps and some black/space gray style apps too), return of buttons (they're still useful and they help balance the look), tone down the color pallet in apps and icons to give the OS a more mature and elegant look, 3D translucent dock (which would actually give the OS an even greater sense of depth), drop shadows where they're truly needed and bold (as well as) easier to read text.
That's all I can think of right now but I believe these are reasonable requests.
Haha! So true! IOS 7 is ugly as hell, not user friendly, incoherent and full of inconsistencies, not to mention buggy like no other Apple product has ever been before. Technologically speaking, its way ahead of the competition. UI and UX wise... A huge step back...
Loved the anticipated release date
I completely agree, these are some of the things that bother me most with the changes made in iOS 7. In fact, they killed a perfectly good UI instead of just toning down on the (sometimes) outrageous skeuomorphic skins.
iOS 7 is the story of a missed opportunity to really bring the changes that users could have wanted: multiple accounts (great with TouchID), resizable live icons (great with background updates), a neat new 3D springboard or something using parallax better...
I'm not upgrading quite yet, waiting for some of the craziness to subside first...
Sounds like you want iOS 6. If apple did everything you just listed it would hardly be any different than it was. This is an old argument. Yes things can be tweaked but really you are describing mostly the previous system.
Are people really that annoyed by re springs?
I've had issues with the music app doing this. Usually happens when I stop, don't play anything for a while, and then going back in.
It's annoying, yes, but people stating they will lose their faith in Apple if it's not fixed before March?
I've had issues with the music app doing this. Usually happens when I stop, don't play anything for a while, and then going back in.
It's annoying, yes, but people stating they will lose their faith in Apple if it's not fixed before March?
For the lockscreen stuff, isn't pretty much all of that already possible there?
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A respring is the while OS crashing...that can't really be seen as anything less than something fairly significant being wrong.
I don't want iOS 6, I want an iOS that doesn't try to fix stuff that isn't broken (like the music app functionalities, etc.) I don't want Skeumorphism, I want something sleek and modern (in the vein of iOS 7) but it should like it was designed by Apple, not Fisher Price. I think buttons are still necessary because, as I have said before, it balances the look but more importantly it helps the user interact with the device better (text does get confusing and bland). Wanting less blinding and wasted white space doesn't mean I want iOS to move back, I would like them to find more appealing and useful ways of taking advantage of the screen real estate. As for the icons, the colors should be toned down so they look less child-like, less white and more gradient shading, have some of them be redesigned to better reflect their respective apps (Photos? Game Center? They make no sense).
I hope Jony Ive and his team are listening to outside input and suggestions for future releases because I still question his UI designing abilities (he's always been a brilliant hardware guy after all).
How about this: an option to disable the carrier name showing at all! I've never really understood why Apple finds it so important to show me my carrier every single minute of the day. I know what carrier I have. Just show it once on the lockscreen or whatever to check my carrier when I'm abroad. Real waste of screen space.
I wouldn't find it terribly surprising if we don't get iOS 8 in 2014. It seems a little early after such a large overhaul with iOS 7. 7.1 takes a big step forward in making iOS 7 as fine tuned as iOS 6 was after years of improvements.
I reckon we'll get a redesigned OSX for Mac, but a simple iOS 7.X update with some new features at WWDC.
I reckon we'll get a redesigned OSX for Mac, but a simple iOS 7.X update with some new features at WWDC.
Maybe Ive been lucky but I havent really had any issues with my Air. However, its quite obvious that something is amiss with iOS 7 and memory management, especially with Safari. They need to get *something* out there ASAP but its not always that easy.
I work in Software QA and I can tell you that performance problems and memory issues are not trivial to chase down and correct. There can be a LOT of troubleshooting required because you dont always know exactly where leaks/crashes originate from. Then, you find them but still have to correct them without mucking up any other functionality or causing other bugs. Not an overnight problem.
That being said, Apple needs to be ON this issue with good QA and their best developers. It has to be handled.
I work in Software QA and I can tell you that performance problems and memory issues are not trivial to chase down and correct. There can be a LOT of troubleshooting required because you dont always know exactly where leaks/crashes originate from. Then, you find them but still have to correct them without mucking up any other functionality or causing other bugs. Not an overnight problem.
That being said, Apple needs to be ON this issue with good QA and their best developers. It has to be handled.
More than likely some part of a contract with carriers (especially since no carrier branding can appear on the phone itself physically).
This has also puzzled me for a very long time.
My carrier name has never changed once. Meanwhile there are other connectivity or in-use details that users - optionally - may like to have in the menu bar. Like the name of the wifi network, date, # of unread messages, etc.
Along with that, why do iPads need to spell out iPad in the menu bar? I knew it was an iPad long before I ordered it, actually when it was first revealed by SJ.
I completely agree with this, the Remote app being better than the native music app is something of a joke. I would love to see Play Next and Up Next from the Music app.
Also big performance improvements are needed for iPad Air users. Lots of parts of the OS are sluggish and slow on my Air and for a new device with upgraded CPU and graphics that's not on.
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I agree, my sister is on Vodafone network in Ireland which appears as Vodafone IE and takes up most of the top of the the screen. In a fact when other elements appear it needs to scroll the name right to left to display it all. I think there's a strong argument to kill it when on home network.