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

[usarioclave]

Lucky for you you still have iOS 6 with green felt, faux leather and linen in all its glory.

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.

 

[Dealwagon]

Slide to unlock sound is gone.. Hmm.

 

[emt1]

Cellular settings now displays data used by apps that have been uninstalled.

This is not new.

 

[zorinlynx]

I thought I was imagining this, but just compared on my iOS 6 iPad and the one I have iOS 7 on...

Anyone notice the home button takes longer to go back to the home screen? It feels like it takes twice as long. Not sure if this is a bug or as intended...

 

[bretm]

Poor Jonny Ive.

The first IOS7 Beta designs where a perfect match to his minimalistic hardware design. I really loved the integration.

Now a wild internet mob forced apple to make compromises in den IOS7 UI and destroy it.

I really wish the day´s back from Steve - he do not cared about the customers opinions - he told the customer what is right and what he really wants. And he was right so many times. Not always. But many times.

With Steve & Jonny still team working and SKEUOMORPHISM gone, IOS7 would be a UI design icon.

Sad. Apple ignore the Internet mob.

Except Steve is one of the biggest lovers of skeumorphicism there was. It's what the original Macintosh was all about. That's why it's called a desktop, and folders instead of a filesystem and directories. It's why you drag and drop instead of typing in commands. It's what modern is is based on. Using different colors and themes gives instant recognition and feedback. Making email, notes, safari, settings, iTunes, etc. all look exactly the same is pointless. Buttons that are text make you feel you have to click right on the text. Buttons that are surrounded in skeumorphic buttons and use icons and colors are quicker to ascertain meaning without being read and without feeling like you have to click directly on the word.

Ugh. Not a ios7 fan.

 

[talisto]

Lol, yeah that's a good way to run a business. Ignore what your customers want.

I think the appropriate Steve Jobs quote here is that "people don't know what they want until you show it to them".

 

[Northgrove]

Unlock sound seems to be missing...

Or it's not meant to be there anymore?

 

[thisisdallas]

It is now easier again to change songs on the lockscreen. Last beta was way too sensitive. It seems unlocking from that area is now disabled.

Great! It was literally impossible to switch songs while I was exercising with Beta 4.

 

[jtwistermac]

I have an original iPhone 4 16GB, how is Beta 4 or 5 running on it?

 

[unplugme71]

This is the most UI changes I've seen across beta. Usually its just fixing bugs.

I wonder if Apple is doing this to stir up rumors and go back to its original plan?

 

[Hedwigg]

Does it drive anyone else nuts that they got rid of the bars displayed in the status bar for the signal? I can't stand looking at these dots.

Epitome of #firstworldproblems.

 

[Northgrove]

I like the new settings icons at all. However, from that screenshot, I'm not sure what the colors represent exactly. Are they categorized somehow by color? Cellular stuff = green; local wireless stuff = blue; OS settings = grey; is that it?

I think you answered your own question. I personally find the new setting list easier to skim thanks to this, but on the other hand, I think it's a bit unfortunate we got back to the iOS 6 style rounded squares again. Oh well, maybe it's hard to win this one. One option might be to just keep the old style but use varying colors rather than just blue.

 

[jmmo20]

I'm installing the beta and noticed the progress screen is now white (I have a white iphone). I think it used to be white over black in earlier versions right?

 

[c613m]

Did you try pulling down from the top of the screen?

That's my point though, I don't want to have to swipe. There's lots of real estate under the clock to put a tiny icon with current weather. I mean they've done it with the timer, the timer now appears on the lockscreen, really tiny but functional.

 

[Northgrove]

And still no changes to the Settings icon itself?! C'mon, Apple, I submitted this a while ago:

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What, are you saying Apple isn't respecting your designs!?

 

[Dealwagon]

My black iphone still has a black screen.. Guess they did it per device color.

 

[G-StaR]

Pascode lock screen is no longer transparent




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It still is but it is reduced quite a bit, it seems to use your wallpaper colours

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My black iphone still has a black screen.. Guess they did it per device color.

Yes white screen is only for white phones

 

[Roessnakhan]

Poor Jonny Ive.

The first IOS7 Beta designs where a perfect match to his minimalistic hardware design. I really loved the integration.

Now a wild internet mob forced apple to make compromises in den IOS7 UI and destroy it.

I really wish the day´s back from Steve - he do not cared about the customers opinions - he told the customer what is right and what he really wants. And he was right so many times. Not always. But many times.

With Steve & Jonny still team working and SKEUOMORPHISM gone, IOS7 would be a UI design icon.

Sad. Apple ignore the Internet mob.

You're making assumptions. None of us know why Ive and Apple have made the changes they've made.

 

[nagromme]

That color variety is very helpful for quick navigation. The reverse of the mistake they made when taking color out of the OS X standard folder icons, making my Finder sidebar (by default) too uniform to help me navigate!

 

[IGregory]

I'm not sure how, but Apple took the iOS personality and snuffed it. The UI is ultra-boring, just like bauhaus architecture: it looks great, but you wouldn't want to live in it.

The UI has moved from delightful to cool. Using it makes me want to throw my phone away. It's like Apple has sucked all the joy out of the UI and replaced it with futura.

Can't please everyone I guess.

 

[iomar]

It's funny, on this latest update of iOS beta 5, if you look on the satellite view of the maps app it seems like all the cars have been crashed they look as if they're damaged or a hurricane has passed through.

 

[ClemyNX]

No! I've lost blur effects on iPad 2 snif snif
Transparent but not blurry. Is it a only me?

 

[thisisdallas]

Poor Jonny Ive.

The first IOS7 Beta designs where a perfect match to his minimalistic hardware design. I really loved the integration.

Now a wild internet mob forced apple to make compromises in den IOS7 UI and destroy it.

I really wish the day´s back from Steve - he do not cared about the customers opinions - he told the customer what is right and what he really wants. And he was right so many times. Not always. But many times.

With Steve & Jonny still team working and SKEUOMORPHISM gone, IOS7 would be a UI design icon.

Sad. Apple ignore the Internet mob.

What are you even talking about?

For the most part, iOS 7 beta has only been refined to look and work cleaner and smoother. You've clearly never actually used the beta because it hasn't really changed drastically enough to be them reacting to the "internet mob".

Are the five or six extremely minor tweaks really big enough to warrant such a dramatic post?

 

[0134168]

What a mess of colors and icons. Not a minimal harmony.

 

[Grahamwho]

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 actually really like the change. The old way I never used and don't really know anyone who did, but the new way is so much more convienent because it's available on every screen. No thinking of which page am I on I need to scroll over, just straight up wherever I'm at on the home screen pull down to search. I actually use it way way more now. Everyone is different and everyone has there preference but to say there is no value in sliding down on any page versus having to navigate to the search page I don't agree with.