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iOS 7 Beta 3 Tidbits: New App Download Animation, Thicker Fonts, Safari Improvements

I also noticed the term "LTE" had vanished too which is a good thing for most people, because unless people work in the industry like I have, most wouldn't have a clue what "LTE" is short for. For everyone else its "Long Term Evolution". Simplifying it to 4G or 3G makes it a lot more straightforward, no more ambiguous terms for the non-technical.

I noticed the bug I logged regarding killing off a separate app and going back to home screen, resulting in a black background has not been resolved.
 
deadcantdance said:
I'd love to have the list view for calendar as default again :(
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The list view is still there, if a little unintuitive.

You can bring it up by tapping the search icon. I assume the thinking is that by default that's bringing up all search results.
 

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ROTTEN-AAPL said:
Dude, dream on...

The only reason people continued to buy Apple stuff after Android had caught up on the technology side, was the much better UI. With iOS 7 that advantage is gone - it looks bland, unsophisticated and people will get bored with it very quickly. I can look at the old Safari icon for a minute and still find interesting details - with the new icon I'm bored in half a second. That the UI can be modernized without losing that love for detail was shown in the original concept I linked to (here it is again: http://www.behance.net/gallery/iPhone-6-An-edgy-concept/7617209).

Ive had some good product design ideas in the past (the new Mac Pro sucks, too), but he has no clue about UX/UI design and what it takes for people to create an emotional bond with a piece of technology. It's sad, but it's true....
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Jog on, troll.
 
ROTTEN-AAPL said:
Dude, dream on...

The only reason people continued to buy Apple stuff after Android had caught up on the technology side, was the much better UI. With iOS 7 that advantage is gone - it looks bland, unsophisticated and people will get bored with it very quickly. I can look at the old Safari icon for a minute and still find interesting details - with the new icon I'm bored in half a second. That the UI can be modernized without losing that love for detail was shown in the original concept I linked to (here it is again: http://www.behance.net/gallery/iPhone-6-An-edgy-concept/7617209).

Ive had some good product design ideas in the past (the new Mac Pro sucks, too), but he has no clue about UX/UI design and what it takes for people to create an emotional bond with a piece of technology. It's sad, but it's true....
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Seriosly, get yourself together. If you really analyse icons and you get bored, you need to get yourself tested.

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sparkyfied said:
Happy that they got rid of the .co.uk/m button!

Very weird behaviour with SMS at the moment. I sent a message to a friend that I know has a Samsung phone. Phone sent it as a iMessage (blue and labelled) and returned with a delivered then read receipt!

Any one else had this? I couldn't believe it! The read receipt seems to be correct too!

I know what you are thinking, my friend has got a new phone. They haven't, they take great pride in the fact they use a Samsung! I asked them, they told me they are using their samsung.
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Probably your friend one of those trolls that come to macrumors everyday, and too embarrassed to admit he was using a lagging/fragmented OS
 
ROTTEN-AAPL said:
Dude, dream on...

The only reason people continued to buy Apple stuff after Android had caught up on the technology side, was the much better UI. With iOS 7 that advantage is gone - it looks bland, unsophisticated and people will get bored with it very quickly. I can look at the old Safari icon for a minute and still find interesting details - with the new icon I'm bored in half a second. That the UI can be modernized without losing that love for detail was shown in the original concept I linked to (here it is again: http://www.behance.net/gallery/iPhone-6-An-edgy-concept/7617209).

Ive had some good product design ideas in the past (the new Mac Pro sucks, too), but he has no clue about UX/UI design and what it takes for people to create an emotional bond with a piece of technology. It's sad, but it's true....
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If you have the time to stare at iPhone icons for a minute to look for details, then you're a polar opposite from those of us who want a UI that lets us get things done easily and efficiently. Not that icons and other elements shouldn't be visually pleasing, but functionality is paramount.
 
You still have to wait until the unlock animation has finished before you can use the phone.

So annyoing. Apple needs to speed up the animation or allow us to use it before it has finished.
 
I can see how the ultra light font might not work for everything, but personally I prefer it to "bolding" everything; couldn't they just switch to the bold version above a certain size?

Regarding the grey dots for calendar events; are they always grey? I have several calendars which I colour code; I'd prefer to be able to see which calendar a day has one or more events for. For example, if I day has events for home (blue), work (green) and friends (purple) then I would see a blue dot, a green dot and a purple dot. Or maybe a grey dot with a blue outline, a green outline around that, and a further purple outline around those.
If it's just a single grey dot then it still doesn't really convey enough information to be useful.
 
I don't know if anyone posted this before, but icon text shadows might come back to iOS 7. Atm they are only shown when you go into spotlight.

Wow, this is funny. I wanted to make screenshots for you to show the effect, but on the screenshots the shadows also appear in normal state, even though they are not shown on the phone itself. Funny.
 
johngordon said:
I had a similar thing - sent a text to someone who would be the last person on this earth to have a fancy phone. Turned out he didn't, of course, but did have a different number since I last texted him. I assumed his old number had been recycled and now belonged to someone with an iPhone.
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Good friends with this person, definitely no way they have lost their number. They replied too. Initial text was to say happy birthday, they replied with Thanks James.
 
Two things:
First I still don't have weather in my notification center.
Second, please tell me how to delete the phantom messages (2.5gb) that show on my usage

You need to go into privacy>location

services>and make sure it's turned on for the weather app. Then it will show in notification center
 
ArmCortexA8 said:
I also noticed the term "LTE" had vanished too which is a good thing for most people, because unless people work in the industry like I have, most wouldn't have a clue what "LTE" is short for. For everyone else its "Long Term Evolution". Simplifying it to 4G or 3G makes it a lot more straightforward, no more ambiguous terms for the non-technical.

I noticed the bug I logged regarding killing off a separate app and going back to home screen, resulting in a black background has not been resolved.
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Mine is still showing "LTE" at the top. :confused:
 
Moving in the right direction esp with a thicker font that was badly needed.

I still think the settings sliders need to lose the green colour and that a number of the main icons need changing. Esp the facetime app which needs to lose the green colour as phone and message having that is more than enough.
 
maverick808 said:
No.


No.
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Sheesh.

Oh well, thank's for letting me know. What is wrong with Apple? :confused:

Almost every single person, if they really admitted it, would say it's a pain when you want to just enter 1 number, say at the start of an address or in the middle of your iTunes password to have to flip the whole keyboard screen just to get to the 0-9 keys, and yet Apple won't put them there and they won't allow anyone else to put them there, and, on the iPad's larger screen especially it's such an easy thing to improve. :confused:
 
I'm not sure I have a good solution to the .com button, and I don't think Apple do either.

Safari is now worse for typing in addresses than iOS6, but it was in beta 1 and 2 too.

I'd much rather get rid of the dictation button, or the unibar entirely. I have no idea why people like those.

Not a big fan of the font revision either.
 
that's shaping up quite nicely.

Things yet to improve -> battery life, that's it
 
Yes. They are inconsistent on the way they do the quick nav / A-Z scroll list. It isn't on the play lists (I have a lot), not on the lists when you are trying to add songs to a playlist and other places. I think it needs to be anywhere there is a list in the Music app.


ohbrilliance said:
Agreed. The first album of one artist on my phone has ~200 or so songs. It's a pain to navigate through.
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JAT said:
I disagree completely. You run into a lot of spaces in URLs?

I want that button on my Win & Mac computer keyboards. .com is basically a punctuation mark, typing it out is annoying, esp on a phone.
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Geebuz, people just love to blah and too lazy to read everything or comprehend what they see in cyber web.

You still have the option not too type it, in fact they will save from typing a couple more.
 
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