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iOS 7 Beta 2 Tidbits: New Welcome Screen, Updated Siri Voices, iCloud Fixes, Voice Memos App

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Anyone thinking that iOS 7 sucks obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. I've been using it since beta 1 came out and i gotta say it looks better and better the longer you use it. And with beta 2 fixing some of the bugs, i can see where apple is going with this. One issue i noticed in beta 2 is if you have icons on the top row the badge hits the status bar and actually goes under it. See attached to see what im talking about. Also i recommend to turn on the Larger type (if you need it), Bold text, Increase Contrast and for those people who dont like the Parallax Effect there is a switch for it (not sure if it was there for beta 1)
 

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.Asa said:
+1!
With all the translucency in iOS 7, I'd expect the camera button to be translucent so I can see that part of the picture. But no, it's solid red! Jony Ive confuses me :mad:
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One jailbreak tweak I loved is an app called Transparency or such. It allowed you to adjust the camera buttons/sides transparency, allowing for a full view of the image. Wish iOS 7 implemented such a concept. It seems awkward now with the black bars, no gradient and white/yellow text.

The more I use and discuss iOS 7, the more I dislike it. The Keynote was exciting, it seemed a good step in the right direction, but the concept falls apart during everyday use.
 

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Any chance someone could screen cap before and after views of the option to have bolded text? I agree the system font is far too thin, would be really interested to see what that option does...
 
sero323 said:
Anyone thinking that iOS 7 sucks obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. I've been using it since beta 1 came out and i gotta say it looks better and better the longer you use it. And with beta 2 fixing some of the bugs, i can see where apple is going with this. One issue i noticed in beta 2 is if you have icons on the top row the badge hits the status bar and actually goes under it. See attached to see what im talking about. Also i recommend to turn on the Larger type (if you need it), Bold text, Increase Contrast and for those people who dont like the Parallax Effect there is a switch for it (not sure if it was there for beta 1)
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Sad that we need to turn ON Accessibility items to make the text on the home screen readable.
 
Exotic-Car Man said:
It consumes too much horizontal space for me. Look at the screenshots. The wifi bars are right next to the time, which looks awkward and causes other items to now be transfered to the right side of the status bar (such as the spinning loading circle). To me, having the loading spinning circle constantly next to battery seems out of place and unnecessary; it's not worth the "shine" of the dots. Granted, "AT&T M-Cell" is a long carrier title, but it's not much longer than "Verizon" or "T-Mobile".

Code: 
AT&T M-Cell
Verizon
T-Mobile

The dots consume too much horizontal real estate in a place where such space is already sparse; it makes for a cumbersome status bar.
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I understand your reasoning, but I personally still like them, to each their own I guess.
 
hobo.hopkins said:
It still fades away for me.
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Me too however, the Macrumours website doesn't work for me. It just keeps flashing top of the page then bottom and so forth.

It seems some of the pages even if they don't have transparency are still trying to do that "look behind" affect like the home screen does.

It may be a nice trick but until it's a lot smoother (betaing on an iPhone 4S) it looks very very poor

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jamestechtaylor said:
is anyone else not getting the voice changes in siri im on iphone 5
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There isn't one for UK English, US and Canadian have a choice
 
Multiple Apple ID Issue with iTunes Match Fixed

For those who might have had the same issue, iOS 7 Beta 2, does offer improved functionality to those users who use 2 Apple ID's. This is most often a symptom associated with those who were Mobile Me users prior to iCloud. In order to get the free year of iCloud storage, these users converted over their Mobile Me to iCloud, which caused them to have a separate Apple ID for iTunes and iCloud.

Anyways, when I tried to log in with my separate iTunes Apple ID for iTunes Match, it told me that my device was already associated with a different Apple ID and iTunes Match would not work with this Apple ID for 90 days (this is not the exact message, but similar). This was rather infuriating, but I was able to activate my iTunes Match account no problem in Beta 2.

I hope in the future Apple creates a way to have multiple Apple ID's associated with one iCloud account, similar to the way iMessage links several emails and phone numbers.
 
sero323 said:
Anyone thinking that iOS 7 sucks obviously doesn't know what they're talking about....

i recommend to turn on the Larger type (if you need it), Bold text, Increase Contrast and for those people who don't like the Parallax Effect there is a switch for it (not sure if it was there for beta 1)
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It's great, just tweak Accessibility settings for those with bad eyesight and you should be fine.

Oh, the irony. :p
 
Anyone else notice that navigation is painfully slow-talking? By the time she finishes speaking the current direction I'm 10 miles down the road.
 
bedifferent said:
It's great, just tweak Accessibility settings for those with bad eyesight and you should be fine.

Oh, the irony. :p
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lolll im just hoping for the best bro... i think apple should pull those out of the accessibility menu and make a new name for them lol like 'Customize' or something ;)
 
sero323 said:
Anyone thinking that iOS 7 sucks obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. I've been using it since beta 1 came out and i gotta say it looks better and better the longer you use it. And with beta 2 fixing some of the bugs, i can see where apple is going with this. One issue i noticed in beta 2 is if you have icons on the top row the badge hits the status bar and actually goes under it. See attached to see what im talking about. Also i recommend to turn on the Larger type (if you need it), Bold text, Increase Contrast and for those people who dont like the Parallax Effect there is a switch for it (not sure if it was there for beta 1)
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The more I use it in my dev, the more it makes me cry. It's down right boring and dull, they ripped the soul out of it. The buttons are just bland and have nothing going on. Seriously, a big round red circle for a button on the camera ?

Navigation items no longer have context on what they are. You have no way to tell if it is text or a button. Just changing the color of the font isn't an indicator of clickablity.

The feature set of iOS 7 is awesome, but the UI is a train wreak.
 
They need to restore the share option back in the notification center (tap to tweet/Facebook post), have one unified notification center instead of three tabs, unblurr contact photos when you're on a call, have an option to turn off spotlight (I don't know anyone who uses it), allow explicit music for iTunes radio (maybe there's a way to turn it on, but I couldn't find it), redesign the clock app in control center because I had no clue that was supposed to resemble a clock (and reading through the comments I don't think a lot of people did either), and finally having an edit button back in the messages app so we can delete certain messages (I know you can delete it by holding the text, but I'm sure early users & people who aren't tech savy won't be able to figure that out.
 
sero323 said:
lolll im just hoping for the best bro... i think apple should pull those out of the accessibility menu and make a new name for them lol like 'Customize' or something ;)
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That is a great idea! Seriously, I might suggest it as a "bug"/UI issue, along with other options. :)
 
album artwork is properly displayed for each album, not sure if that was a beta1 glitch or not.

Wish they would add shuffle all when in Artist/ All Albums mode


Also noticed it says Cupertino is one hour behind Phoenix, and that new york is one hour off its current time (says 4:44pm when it should be 5:44pm).
Reset my time zone and all that, still display incorrect times for other clocks.
 
zachkolk said:
The Music app shows pictures of the artist rather tan the album artwork [when availible]. Also the Now Playing button top right always shows an ellipses and no longer shows the whole phrase.
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If you have multiple albums for an artists you have to scroll through all the songs (for example) on the 1st album to get to the 2nd album and so on.

Not good, should just show 3 albums and then tap to go to the songs for that album like it used to
 
bedifferent said:
One jailbreak tweak I loved is an app called Transparency or such. It allowed you to adjust the camera buttons/sides transparency, allowing for a full view of the image. Wish iOS 7 implemented such a concept. It seems awkward now with the black bars, no gradient and white/yellow text.

The more I use and discuss iOS 7, the more I dislike it. The Keynote was exciting, it seemed a good step in the right direction, but the concept falls apart during everyday use.
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The camera UI in iOS 7 looks like any normal boring camera app in Android. What ever happened to Apple leading in design.
 
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