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iOS 7: All The Little Things! (Featuring iOS 7.1)

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bbfc said:
When I go into 'Mobile' it now says Mobile Data and not Cellular Data. Basically they have replaced the word Cellular with Mobile across settings.
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That's not new; it says the same for me on iOS 6.

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shandyman said:
That's funny cos a lot of people on the forum here practically demanded apple add an arrow as they claimed people wouldn't know what direction to swipe to unlock.....
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Despite having owned every model of iPhone and countless tens of thousands of unlock swipes, with the first arrowless betas, I frequently found that I was mistakenly swiping from right-to-left as though the homepage was on the right side of the lockscreen and I was swiping to move over there.

Then every time I gave my phone to my son, he'd try to unlock it by swiping up (even though he has an iPhone as well and should know better) since the Control Center icon used to be an up arrow.

So, personally, I'm glad the arrow and dashes are there
 
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shandyman said:
That's funny cos a lot of people on the forum here practically demanded apple add an arrow as they claimed people wouldn't know what direction to swipe to unlock.....
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it's not as simple as not knowing which direction to swipe. it's the fact that users have to think about it - even if just for a fraction of a second - and they've never had to think about it before. no arrow might be aesthetically more pleasing - more symmetrical, etc. - but apple's software has always been about removing cognitive overhead, and allowing people to do things on their devices with as little 'mental stress' as possible. and these people aren't all macrumors visitors - some will be very young, and could give up at the lock screen; some will be very old, and could suffer from memory loss. the constant visual indicator of which way to swipe helps both these crowds. apple has always been about accessibility, after all
 
nheilweil said:
Despite having owned every model of iPhone and countless tens of thousands of unlock swipes, with the first arrowless betas, I frequently found that I was mistakenly swiping from right-to-left as though the homepage was on the right side of the lockscreen and I was swiping to move over there.

Then every time I gave my phone to my son, he'd try to unlock it by swiping up (even though he has an iPhone as well and should know better) since the Control Center icon used to be an up arrow.

So, personally, I'm glad the arrow and dashes are there
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warden said:
it's not as simple as not knowing which direction to swipe. it's the fact that users have to think about it - even if just for a fraction of a second - and they've never had to think about it before. no arrow might be aesthetically more pleasing - more symmetrical, etc. - but apple's software has always been about removing cognitive overhead, and allowing people to do things on their devices with as little 'mental stress' as possible. and these people aren't all macrumors visitors - some will be very young, and could give up at the lock screen; some will be very old, and could suffer from memory loss. the constant visual indicator of which way to swipe helps both these crowds. apple has always been about accessibility, after all
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I'm not against it, the person I quoted was, I was just pointing out that a lot of people on here were requesting this during the early stages of the beta. You are probably better off responding to him than me, as I don't mind either way about the arrow.
 
shandyman said:
I'm not against it, the person I quoted was, I was just pointing out that a lot of people on here were requesting this during the early stages of the beta. You are probably better off responding to him than me, as I don't mind either way about the arrow.
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The arrow annoys me because it looks wrong. I don't mind it being there it's just the way they have implemented if.
 
Anyone else getting remarkably frustrated by having to wait for the new animation sequences to finish before other input is recognised? Why should i have to wait for a folder to 'close' and be static before I can swipe?

I'm really enjoying iOS7, but man there are a couple of little things like that which drive me nuts lol
 
DiscoMcDisco said:
Anyone else getting remarkably frustrated by having to wait for the new animation sequences to finish before other input is recognised? Why should i have to wait for a folder to 'close' and be static before I can swipe?

I'm really enjoying iOS7, but man there are a couple of little things like that which drive me nuts lol
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...isn't it the same in iOS 6 though? When you have a folder open and you swipe to close it - you still have to wait for the animation of closing the folder to finish before you can swipe again.
 
Dino F said:
...isn't it the same in iOS 6 though? When you have a folder open and you swipe to close it - you still have to wait for the animation of closing the folder to finish before you can swipe again.
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The animation isn't as slow (though I don't really mind, if it weren't for people complaining about it I wouldn't have noticed.)
 
...not really an iOS 7 feature but I wish that the Calendar would keep people's ages (birthdays) up to date!!

By that I mean I wish I could enter people's birthdays and then the Calendar would automatically update their ages every year!!
 
iTunes Radio

Two things:

1. Hate the color selection used in the app "theme". I've used Pandora and actually enjoy the darker blue look. It makes Apple's version seem very feminine to me. I like a lot about ios7 but, to me, I think Apple made an incredibly weak statement with the Radio app.

2. I wonder if there will be an online version similar to Pandora.
 
hunter49686 said:
Two things:

1. Hate the color selection used in the app "theme". I've used Pandora and actually enjoy the darker blue look. It makes Apple's version seem very feminine to me. I like a lot about ios7 but, to me, I think Apple made an incredibly weak statement with the Radio app.
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You're saying that apps that look feminine are to be decried and/or are weak?
 
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