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iOS 7 Beta Tidbits: Per-App Cellular Data Usage, Live Clock Icon, Panoramic Wallpaper and More
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Perhaps I'm missing something, but how is it better to have a text area and keyboard covering your game or movie while you reply, than to swap over to a dedicated interface, and swap back when you're done?
itouch battery percentage
can anyone confirm whether the 5th gen ipod touch will get an option for battery percentage? thanks!
can anyone confirm whether the 5th gen ipod touch will get an option for battery percentage? thanks!
Icons that were better as originals:
Newsstand
FaceTime
Passbook
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you want to sell them, not delete them.
How? I'm curious. It looks like they got the existing icons, and designed them in a more flatter and vibrant way. Unless Apple copied themselves, I don't see who else they copied.
I guess they ran out of things to complain about, so they start saying ridiculous things like this.
Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about. No offense.
Of course I travel. And yes, my Android phone has a widget that tells me the current/future weather. When I'm in the air, it's in airplane mode - so no battery drain there. Ever hear of "intervals"? Believe it or not, I can set it up to ping how often or infrequent as I want - PER WIDGET!!! So if I want it to ping every minute, great. Every hour? Cool! Every day? Why not?! Ready to have your mind explode? I can even set it to tell me the weather based on my current location! OMG!
This amount of battery drain isn't even worth mentioning. Give me a break, guy.
Seriously, there are some great features (that unfortunately we had to wait this long to get) and people are whining and moaning about the design of the safari app icon.
To me it's a big thumbs up to Craig and Jony for finally giving us stuff other OS's have had for a while now. And major props to both for taking on a major redesign in only 6 months. It's certainly not perfect but its a good start and actually quite amazing what they were able to so in such a short period of time.
I agree. That was my point.
If I pointed a possibility of battery drain when you are in airplane mode, maybe you'd have a point, but I did not, so good luck with your straw man. In that mode, your self updating icon becomes unreliable, because it neither knows where you are nor what the current weather is. If you have an iPod, this unconnected state happens more often. Of course, you can display a blinking "--" instead of a number like the old VCR screens of old if you'd like.
Some people want to get in a car and just enjoy the ride. Some people like tinkering with every detail on weekends. You seem to be on the latter camp when it comes to your phone and I don't think iOS is designed with you in mind. Most people don't want to think about setting intervals for each widget. To get what? Current weather? That is already obvious most of the time. Most people want to know the weather in the future instead and sometimes at some other place. Far better to click on the icon and get the full information min/max temp, hour by hour breakdown, different places etc.
If you need something that keeps waking up your CPU, GPS and the cellular radio at set intervals, using up your battery to present you information that is almost never useful, that is your preference, but clearly this set of designers do not care and hundreds of millions of happy customers are fine with that.
Lift your eyes from the screen and look out. Current weather where you are is right there.
If you use a Mac desktop, you can share the reminder there. Then once she accepts, you guys will be able to stay in synch on the phones.
What I meant to say is that the icons look like they were drawn by a 3 year old with crayons. I don't know whether they're actually designed that way, or whether the translation from concept art to icon didn't go well. Regardless, they just don't look professional (IMO, since apparently I have to explicitly state something is my opinion, even in the context of something as subjective as aesthetics where it should be implicit that my post reflects my opinion).
Given the new story, seems like even Ive agrees with my assessment.
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How the heck did you make the wallpaper to pan like that on the lock screen?
Panorama pics can be used for wallpaper now, and will pan when you move the phone.
Interestingly the showed nothing on iPad. Here's hoping that at least that large format takes advantage of some of the things you mention.
Luckly for you you have the choice to not use it. Period.
That's true. Apple's mantra is designing the best products out there for their customers and would be customers. They have chosen a design direction I don't like and I'm apparently not alone.
When you have invested time and money into an ecosystem, it's like a punch to the gut to see something like this UI. No different than all the pro editors that got the shaft with the release of FCP X. Will I use ios7, sure. It will be a major upheaval to switch everything to another platform. I just won't enjoy looking at it the way I do now. It wasn't that broke, and didn't need that much of an overhaul.
To be fair I do like a lot of the functionality that is being added to ios7. I just think they went too far in the other direction on this UI. Let's hope that the collective voices of discontent will sway them back towards depth in the UI.
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Agreed.. but that's just my opinion.
I agree. The old one was great. They should have gone just with that and made it flatter.
Yes it is.
It's a thin curved piece of metal, sitting over another piece of metal and makes contact when pressure is applied and bends/pops down, and pops back up when the button it released as the metal is sprung
Apple have been using this same popper button since the 1st iPhone,
they keep adjusting the look, and design, but it's still the same thing.
Removal of Feature to Music App
You can no longer rate (star) your songs in the music app.
I use this feature a lot to drop a song down to 1 star to remind myself in the future to remove it from my playlist as I've decided that I either don't like it as much as I used to, or it doesn't belong in my Workout playlist.
I am also hoping that once iOS 7 is out for the iPad, that they re-introduce being able to see a song's lyrics, which they had removed in iOS 6.
You can no longer rate (star) your songs in the music app.
I use this feature a lot to drop a song down to 1 star to remind myself in the future to remove it from my playlist as I've decided that I either don't like it as much as I used to, or it doesn't belong in my Workout playlist.
I am also hoping that once iOS 7 is out for the iPad, that they re-introduce being able to see a song's lyrics, which they had removed in iOS 6.
They just update silently in the background. Currently, all apps updated this way show that 'downloading / installing' bar but it disappears when I click on the app. Not sure if that is a bug or intentional to tell you which apps have been updated.
I don't know if anyone mentioned this but you can now shake to undo deleting a message in the mail app. Pretty neat.