iOS 7 Beta 5 Tidbits: Icon Settings Redesign, New Control Center Options

[juanmanas]

THIS is what Apple has been doing for the last year and a half? How about a new large screen cash cow Iphone 6? You made me go to Samsung from my Ip5!!

Bye.

 

[tito2020]

This is a multibillion dollar company we made them rich I'm very disappointed in there progress on ios7.

 

[Stack Overflow]

The Google+ app no longer crashes !

Thanks, no doubt, to all ten users filing a bug report.

 

[Jaligard]

First off - it's not a design flaw. It's you not liking the design. You not liking it doesn't make it a flaw.

Some of the things that I don't like are flaws.

New icons, I think they're garish and juvenile. I don't think it's a flaw.

The general lack of contrast: that's a flaw.

It's not just that I don't like how it looks, the OS actually makes me work harder to process what I see. The dark borders in iOS 6 tell my brain where to focus. The sea of white we get in iOS 7, I have to read it all to make any sense of it.

There's definitely a lot I don't like in iOS 7. Some of it is just my taste. Some of it is a genuine usability issue.

 

[TheGenerous]

Urgh. They are destroying the clean consistent refreshing look that was one of the good points about iOS 7. What's with the random coloured background for the icons - why is cellular green, wifi and bluetooth blue, Airplane mode orange, Do Not Disturb purple?

Blue as in 'blue'tooth, green represents health as a healthy network signal, orange is dynamic as an airplane, and dark blue is a lower energy color as for Do not disturb.

 

[AnonMac50]

nope but i can see where apple is going with this. colorful UI all over the place just in time for the iPhone 5C and its blinding neon colors

I was just thinking that.

 

[Motawa]

That weird blury effect is gone.now its just transparent.

 

[Gudi]

Most people like iOS 7. Don't talk like you represent a majority.

Stop spitting this bolshevism crap. Majorities do not matter. Only the truth, right and wrong.
Good design and bad design. Im talking about user interface usability science.

Truth is singular. Its versions are mistruths.

Why should I ever care about what a majority of people thinks about anything?
I've always only been interested in undeniable facts of life, not stupid democracy.

 

[nickpro]

Urgh. They are destroying the clean consistent refreshing look that was one of the good points about iOS 7. What's with the random coloured background for the icons - why is cellular green, wifi and bluetooth blue, Airplane mode orange, Do Not Disturb purple?

sounds like you don't currently own an iPhone if you're asking about the colors. if you do currently own one, however, look at the current icons and settings icons and you'll find your answer.

 

[_bnkr612]

If you don't like it, don't use it. Apple won't force you to upgrade your current device to iOS 7 when it comes out.

Additionally, change is good and I welcome it. A lot of improvements coming through to the new iOS.

Design on…

 

[AgentElliot007]

For whatever reason, I've never been able to get software update to run on my 4th gen. iPad. It can never find the server. Connecting to iTunes feels so archaic at this point. Did anyone ever figure out a solution to this issue?

 

[Hephaestus]

Urgh. They are destroying the clean consistent refreshing look that was one of the good points about iOS 7. What's with the random coloured background for the icons - why is cellular green, wifi and bluetooth blue, Airplane mode orange, Do Not Disturb purple?

I personally think the new colours look much better, and I tend to like simplicity also. Why should everything be blue? What's the significance of blue anyway? The settings would still not be consistent either because if you scroll down the settings page you would see the individual app settings which comprise hundreds of different colours.

It looked far too bare and plain before, it didn't look right with everything being blue but then multicoloured as you scroll down. This way, colour is throughout and each option retains its own identity.

 

[fes2000]

App Store updates and downloads no longer work for me.
I only get a blacked-out app icon that does nothing.

 

[Aznboy1993]

Skype app finally works now! (Used to crash when you tapped on the "Recents" tab.)

 

[benji888]

The oversimplification that has been done with the icons was ridiculous. I find myself spending more time reading the text than choosing the icon.

Finally, DO NOT punish your users by removing things that have become natural to them. Going left on the home screen MUST, send you to "spotlight"/search iPhone. Why make everyone angry about something that is useful and everyone is used to?
There is no inovation in sliding from the top, it is just someone's fit out of lack of innovation. Wake up!

I see, doing something the same way since 2007 is no problem. Then go back to iOS 6 and quit whining, no one is punishing you, it's just that change is soooo hard for you, so go back to what worked best for you.

If no one ever innovated, then there would be no iPhone, blackberry would be the standard, with the old keyboard, small screen and scroll thingy.

...Apple is sure to win many new iPhone converts that have never owned one with what they've done with iOS 7

 

[henhowc]

peggle and bejeweled work again. time to play on the toilet.

 

[Gudi]

Some of the things that I don't like are flaws.
New icons, I think they're garish and juvenile. I don't think it's a flaw.
The general lack of contrast: that's a flaw.

Icons have a job to do. They need to speak to your subconscious and assure it, you're still on the right way.
If you ever have to think consciously about an icon, it has failed its purpose. Most icons in iOS7 are major flaws.
For example: Why does the AirDrop icon look like a radar and not like a parachute? Why does it not match the AirDrop icon in OS X? These are major usability flaws. They make everything harder to use.

 

[johnseattle]

I like Apple's new design and find it adds to a better overall user experience.

I too am an Apple customer who's opinion is valid.

What are we going to do now?

Your quote in your signature represents one if the cheesiest things ever heard. It nearly made me vomit when he issued that cocky defensive line.

 

[benji888]

That skeu argument was always BS. It was another element of fun, and I really never noticed it much. I use game center and calendar maybe one day a year. BFD. If you want to complain, complain about something real, like the bizarre task switcher (which I was happy to see they stole from WebOS in 7).

I'd say, at least for the first week of using it, that iOS 7 makes it harder to use my phone because it's harder to identify the various pieces parts. What's a button? What's a static element? What can I touch/manipulate?

Here's the endpoint of iOS 7: a text-rendered WAP screen. Beautiful and clean.

And you're right, I have iOS 6...until everyone stops writing software that works on iO6. And due to the way iTunes works, it'll happily update all the old working versions of my apps with incompatible, non-working versions...so next time my iPhone syncs it'll delete the old versions and won't install the new versions.

The worst thing is I probably won't be able to jailbreak and get an iOS 6 theme, so I have to use the even crappier android.

Why is it always the ones that are NOT even using the new thing that have the most negative things to say about it? ...try it (in the fall), you might like it (functionally, it is a big improvement over previous iOS's).

 

[isacikgoz]

any positive or negative influence on batter life comparing to ios7b4?

 

[johnseattle]

peggle and bejeweled work again. time to play on the toilet.

Yep been waiting to play peggle. Finally! No better place for gaming than on one the toilet.

 

[freezingmariner]

I think the new color coded Settings panel is a bad idea. All you have to do is put the same panels from b4 and b5 side by side with each other. It should be immediately obvious that the b4 blue on white icons are infinitely more readable than the b5 icons with color background. I also have a hard time figuring out what the colors mean. In this specific area, it's step backward for the UI team.

 

[latts]

What a nightmare!

Who the hell knows how iOS 7 will look like now! The design is going in all directions! Isn't there at Apple a single Art Director with the balls to be taking charge in there?? Meanwhile we are left here to suffer the hits and miss of these, sometimes godawful, design ideas. I've had it!

Suffer? OFFS!

 

[sympathetic owl]

So I have a question. I update my ipad mini 32gb att black, and now I'm seeing this keyboard on the home screen View attachment 426973 dark and non transparent, which I don't think I've ever seen before, but the white keyboard in safari and other places. Anybody else seeing this behavior?

I like that colorful wallpaper. May I ask where you got it?

 

[Jaligard]

Icons have a job to do. They need to speak to your subconscious and assure it, you're still on the right way.
If you ever have to think consciously about an icon, it has failed its purpose. Most icons in iOS7 are major flaws.
For example: Why does the AirDrop icon look like a radar and not like a parachute? Why does it not match the AirDrop icon in OS X? These are major usability flaws. They make everything harder to use.

I'm with you on some of the icons. They fail to tell what they do. Game Center, Photos, Reminders.

Some of them just look hideous. The Calendar icon isn't flawed. It's just ugly. Same with Camera, Stocks, and Notes. Personal opinion.