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iOS 7 Beta Tidbits: Per-App Cellular Data Usage, Live Clock Icon, Panoramic Wallpaper and More

Still, i like the old iOs .. I dunno why... maybe cos I'm not familiar yet with the "new look"

or maybe the dots for cellular put me right off. I dunno, but hopefully if enough people don't like it, Apple would change this back.
 
Rogifan said:
Yes he would have said people don't need quick access to wifi and Bluetooth. Or anything on the lock screen but the time and date. That's why we didn't get useful features like that when he was around.
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**Scott Forstall said this
 
There would be at least two problems with the weather app icon showing the weather at your location:

1. Unlike the flow of time, weather can change over time or if you travel.
So while the clock and calendar can show the time or date, because those things don't need external input to be calculated - weather changes.
If you put your phone to airplane mode for a week, it will still show the correct time and date - unless you travelled to a different timezone.

But weather is different, turn on airplane mode, hop into your car and drive 30 minutes and what the weather app icon would be displaying and what the weather is really like around you could be very different.

The app would need to check your location and what the weather is going to be very often to not display something completely wrong.

More people would be upset by seeing wrong weather information in the app icon than by seeing none at all.

2. Recognizability of the icon.

The clock always looks just like the clock, no matter what time the watch hands are displaying.
The calendar icon always shows a day in red and a large number.

But weather is more complicated.

An app icon displaying the weather would change colors and pictures all the time, in Winter you would see a light blue and a sun, but an hour later the icon could be grey or dark blue with a cloud.

If you try to find your apps by color/look of the icon instead of position, you will have a difficult time finding an icon that changes all the time.

And then there would also be the difficulty of discerning different types of weather in such a small icon, like snow, rain and hail.
 
SILen(e said:
There would be at least two problems with the weather app icon showing the weather at your location:

1. Unlike the flow of time, weather can change over time or if you travel.
So while the clock and calendar can show the time or date, because those things don't need external input to be calculated - weather changes.
If you put your phone to airplane mode for a week, it will still show the correct time and date - unless you travelled to a different timezone.

But weather is different, turn on airplane mode, hop into your car and drive 30 minutes and what the weather app icon would be displaying and what the weather is really like around you could be very different.

The app would need to check your location and what the weather is going to be very often to not display something completely wrong.

More people would be upset by seeing wrong weather information in the app icon than by seeing none at all.

2. Recognizability of the icon.

The clock always looks just like the clock, no matter what time the watch hands are displaying.
The calendar icon always shows a day in red and a large number.

But weather is more complicated.

An app icon displaying the weather would change colors and pictures all the time, in Winter you would see a light blue and a sun, but an hour later the icon could be grey or dark blue with a cloud.

If you try to find your apps by color/look of the icon instead of position, you will have a difficult time finding an icon that changes all the time.

And then there would also be the difficulty of discerning different types of weather in such a small icon, like snow, rain and hail.
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1. Why not use a generic icon if the weather cannot be or has not been updated for a while?
2. Design an icon that does not change in colour/style dramatically. The weather app itself has a very basic style with different neutral pictograms that could just as well be shown on the icon.
 
Obviously just my opinion, but after making picks I find that overall I prefer the new app designs. There are are just a few that need some retooling. That Safari icon is just gross.
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Again, just my opinion.
 
Not sure if anyone mentioned this (I tweeted about it yesterday), but you can now pinch to zoom while recording video in iOS 7. Wish there was another gesture for it because it's kind of difficult to keep the video stable while pinching on the screen. Although once you start the pinch, there is a slider. I wish that tapping while recording would bring up the slider interface instead.

It's also kind of annoying that when recording in landscape, the record time is sideways. I assume this will get fixed, or people will think they're holding it wrong and record even MORE vertical videos than ever before! Yikes.
 
Skips in iTunes Radio
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Wha? Why would there be any limit on skipping stuff you don't want to hear???

I suppose it's some licensing B.S. but I'm not sure what the point is. People won't listen to something that annoys them. You ultimately aren't going to force people to listen to stuff they aren't interested in. You'll just force them to turn the whole thing off. What are your streaming revenues then?
 
I wonder if you can disable auto updating for specific apps, rather than blanket all? I'm still rocking an old version of AVPlayerHD, for example, as it still plays DTS, since removed from later versions due to licensing reasons. I was in a similar situation when AC3 was removed (and later reinstated).
 
anyone know why the software is using my wifi connection although iam not plugged in ? oh and a side question can we remove the all notifications from notification center ?
edit: was able to remove the notifcations there was an x but i could not see it.
Anyway does anybody have Cellular Data issues, no 3G, edge seems to show up but i cannot connect to whatsapp or etc
 
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anyone know if there's a way to NOT have edited music on itunes radio? Its killing me that all of the music i keep hearing is edited and i havent seen any switches to allow explicit content?!?
 
Is it possible to clear individual notifications for a particular app in notification center rather than only being able to clear them all?
 
xdhd350 said:
I'll give you the simple answer. IT"S MY MONEY. I own a lot of Apple products and a good chunk of their stock. What I know about design is that the design needs to make me want to use the product. Period. End of Story.
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Yes, that's what gives you the right to an OPINION. It doesn't allow you to make declarative judgements.
 
terraphantm said:
Elitist much? Just because you cannot afford to design a nice house doesn't mean you can't recognize well or poorly decorated home.

Similarly, just because one isn't trained in creating graphics doesn't mean one can't recognize a good or bad design.

I don't mind flat themes per se, but ios7 seems to be really lacking contrast, and the UI elements don't seem as intuitive as before. Furthermore, the icons are poorly designed. A flat icon doesn't necessarily have to be a poorly drawn icon.
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I was fine with what you said up until the "Furthermore, the icons are poorly designed." You state your opinion there as though it's fact. Also, are they poorly designed or poorly drawn? Or is it both? You do know there's a difference right? The designer is like a book's author. They come up with the concept. The person who draws the design is like the person who typed the book.
 
Interesting Experience so far

baller1308 said:
I was looking for Spotlight. Wish it would populate results with me having to hit Search.
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i think it does eventually. It must be taking time behind the scenes to index your data. Initially it was not working for me too but after a few hours it started to show the results without hitting the search button. I am also anticipating that they will improve the indexing and search results through this beta period.

Also the experience so far has been mixed. It will take some time to get used to the new icons. I guess the Apps will also need to implement the similar flavor since it is jarring to see Apple Apps embracing the new user navigation (no buttons etc) and the rest of the apps still behaving the old way.

BTW, the Apple Podcast App not working for me. Is it working for anyone yet?
 
Btw anyone notice in the brightness and wallpaper setting the lock screen view is still like the previous iOS versions ?
 
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