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

[Mactendo]

Wrong.

The blue circle simply means the app has been updated but not been opened yet.

Thanks for clarifying. Not intuitive and totally pointless design idea.

 

[jebbe]

I doubt this. The Twitter app is one of my most used apps.

And it has not been updated since last few days. I used it just before updating to iOS7 Beta 3 actually.

So, unless I am missing something completely... I think its something different.

There was an update to Twitter today, you probably have automatic updates enabled so you didn't see it actually update. Go to your updates and you'll see it recently being updated.

 

[Supermacguy]

fonts

THANK GOD someone came to their senses and made the fonts a little thicker!

 

[j-a-x]

THANK YOU APPLE for removing that damn .com button in Safari right where the space bar used to be. It messed me up every time. Holding dot down to get .com and .org makes a lot of sense to me.

 

[jkichline]

Had to uninstall

I had to uninstall iOS 7 beta 2 since I couldn't really use my phone any more. The battery life seemed poor and things were always crashing. I sure hope they decide to fix those things before release.

 

[jebbe]

THANK GOD someone came to their senses and made the fonts a little thicker!

And if you want them a little thicker then they already are, enable Bold Fonts in Accessibility.

 

[Jack97]

are the icons still ugly?

And the award for least original comment goes to...

 

[Smith288]

My battery has been acting strangely. It would drain VERY rapidly with iOS 7.
Now with beta 3 it's just sucked the life out of it.
Right now, the iPhone's connected to my iMac and there is absolutely nothing going on; no Apple logo, no battery charging, no sign that it's on at all - just a black screen. Bricked.
iOS7 bricked my iPhone.
Dead.

Press and hold home and power for 10 sec, after that, let go of home and then let go of the power after about a second. Should come to life.

 

[ajneedles]

Grrrr

I'm not a fan of the thicker font...

 

[apierrec]

It's a funny bug, but I've had one "unread message" for quite some time now! I deleted all my messages, and the badge is hanging around. Even now, after the Beta 3 update.

Looks great. I want the final release now! I guess, keep those beautiful tweaks coming! <3

 

[Scyanide]

Worked up until Beta 3 for me.

Here's one of my notes from Beta 1

Interesting.. Never noticed before. Of course, looking around I don't see a way of customizing the home button clicks. You used to be able to that in previous versions of iOS. Guess it was removed some time down the road.

 

[apierrec]

And the award for least original comment goes to...

It's time we completely ignore them

 

[rikbrown]

My battery has been acting strangely. It would drain VERY rapidly with iOS 7.
Now with beta 3 it's just sucked the life out of it.
Right now, the iPhone's connected to my iMac and there is absolutely nothing going on; no Apple logo, no battery charging, no sign that it's on at all - just a black screen. Bricked.
iOS7 bricked my iPhone.
Dead.

Why were you installing beta software on your main phone?

 

[sleitch86]

Anyone else having issues with the apps actually downloading. Mine is stuck in the waiting to download mode.

 

[ddeadserious]

I'm not a fan of the thicker font...

Same. I liked the thin fonts. Bummer.

 

[Spaceboy88]

Twitter / Facebook Post Shortcuts

I was hoping Beta 3 would bring some Twitter/Facebook post options like you have in iOS 6 Notification Center but still nothing.

I'm also really curious as to what will go in the area that Spotlight used to be on by swiping left on page 1. I have a feeling that we will see this space used for something soon, maybe when they announce new iPhone. (Widgets, perhaps?)

 

[diddl14]

My battery has been acting strangely. It would drain VERY rapidly with iOS 7.
Now with beta 3 it's just sucked the life out of it.
Right now, the iPhone's connected to my iMac and there is absolutely nothing going on; no Apple logo, no battery charging, no sign that it's on at all - just a black screen. Bricked.
iOS7 bricked my iPhone.
Dead.

Flat dead?

 

[Mr.damien]

Never were.

Glad to see they are blind peoples visiting this site.

 

[comptr]

For the first time since its release over a year ago?! I'll believe it when I see it.

I ended up switching to iCatcher, which has more options and is frequently updated (although not without its own quirks). We'll have to see how Podcasts is in the final release of iOS 7.

same here I also switched from the apple podcast app to downcast and don't miss it one bit.

 

[Big-TDI-Guy]

And the award for least original comment goes to...

Given the post you quoted ended in a question mark... making it a question, the least original comment award stays with "Safari seems snappier".

 

[Thierry ba]

Do I have to have Beta2 on the phone to run OTA update?

 

[apierrec]

If they do change stock icons, they'll wait to unveil those in the GM. Otherwise...

- Beta 3: Changed icons. - "Wow they're even worse than before!"

- Beta 4: Changed icons. - "OMG are you kidding me?!?"

- Beta 5: Changed icons. - **Gouges eyes out**

Can't wait for the final unveiling. (That's coming from someone who is digging pretty much everything / all iO7 designs etc - it's just f'in icons no matter what! )

 

[jroadley]

Things I've noticed:

Bookmarks bar displays in Safari again on iPad.
Bookmarks bar drops to bottom of screen instead of stopping half way.
Had re-enable Keychain in iCloud settings.
Job serve app now works again.

 

[dekadent]

No more x2 mode on iPad?

Read in another thread that the x2 mode on the iPad is removed for retina apps. Was this in the earlier betas also?

 

[mjoshi123]

I don't know about others but the background looks very much inspired from Aero glass interface from Win 7, Vista days.