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iOS 7 GM on iPad 3 and 2

Seems quite nice on my iPad 3 thus far. I haven't used it enough to speak for battery life, and while it's possible that I could run into some serious bugs with continued usage, it actually feels better than iOS 6 for me so far. iOS 6 always gave me a lot of problems, though.

I find the four finger pinch animation to be a bit unfinished looking, but aside from some very, very minor rough edges, things are looking good. I also noticed some freezing issues when trying to change my wallpaper. I'm glad Apple took the time to try and fine tune things for my device, since it's not really that old. Definitely a lot better than what happened when I tried putting iOS 5 on my iPad 1...

I'm sure that within a few weeks of release, there'll be a patch out to smooth out whatever problems remain. Nice job.
 
hashholly said:
iPad 2, GM user.

I haven't come across any major issues, and I'm surprised by how responsive everything is compared to people with the iPad 3.
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Running great on my iPad 2 also. I am actually very impressed. I did a fresh install with out any back up restoration. I have had safari crash once, but I am sure it will be fixed with a minor update. Everything else is great.
 
Some bugs

These are some bugs I encountered frequently since I've done a clean installation of iOS 7 on my iPad 2:

1. This bug happens almost everytime I use the multitasking switcher. As you can see the app thumbnail disappears while the app icon remains in the switcher.
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2. Sometimes the wallpaper doesn't rotate and remains in landscape mode even though I switched the orientation.
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3. The right side of the interface remains lower unless it start manipulating it (only in settings)
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I honestly can't believe this will be the final version.
 
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I really think Apples plan is to do an update when the new iPads ship in November, but they should have just waited to release the GM for iPad at that time. Now people updating on the 18th will be annoyed, if they waited for another month of optimizing it would be much better.

I'm surprised the UI is so much like the iPhone, really I think the UI could be much better if they looked at differently than the phone. I could see this when the iPad came out, iOS was just for phones and they updated it to fit the iPad.

But you would think by now the UI would take on a much different approach on the iPad, they did that I thought when they made siri a smaller pop up, that was a good idea but now it's full screen like the phone, and kinda too much space for the info...unless they do more with that space at some point. And at this point in development I should be able to run 2 apps side by side.

I'm not nearly as happy with the look and feel of iOS 7 on the iPad as I am the phone, it's almost a step backwards in ways.
 
tudy25 said:
These are some bugs I encountered frequently since I've done a clean installation of iOS 7 on my iPad 2:

1. This bug happens almost everytime I use the multitasking switcher. As you can see the app thumbnail disappears while the app icon remains in the switcher.
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2. Sometimes the wallpaper doesn't rotate and remains in landscape mode even though I switched the orientation.
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3. The right side of the interface remains lower unless it start manipulating it (only in settings)
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I honestly can't believe this will be the final version.
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Try changing the language my romanian friend:D
 
I've been happy with the GM on my iPad3 so far.
I've only noticed the orientation bug once, which is still one time too much for a GM.

And the same music app hangs that affect the iPhone 5 are resident on the iPad 3 as well.

Scratching my head how they think this is out of beta.
 
The performance seems in line with the first public releases of earlier versions of iOS. Certainly as good as iOS 6 was at this point - iOS is far more radical in its changes, but iOS 6 really was quite buggy for me at release. Just give it a couple of weeks, and things will be smoothed out. It's already come a long way. I know those bugs are annoying (I've only encountered the multitasking bug so far), but they're really pretty minor as far as overall system performance is concerned.
 
My iPad Mini runs as fast as iOS 6 and multitasking is faster.
The only transparency/blurriness missing is from the keyboard. Status bar, control center, menu bar on apps, all show the blur effect. But they took away keyboard transparency in one of the Betas.
 
Joaolx said:
My iPad Mini runs as fast as iOS 6 and multitasking is faster.
The only transparency/blurriness missing is from the keyboard. Status bar, control center, menu bar on apps, all show the blur effect. But they took away keyboard transparency in one of the Betas.
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Thanks for pointing out why we all are disappointed by apple. It's not like you are boasting around that your mini gets a head start on blurs while Apple disabled it on similar devices.
 
MinEderPlayz said:
Thanks for pointing out why we all are disappointed by apple. It's not like you are boasting around that your mini gets a head start on blurs while Apple disabled it on similar devices.
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What? Boasting around?
I just stated my experience with iOS 7 on the iPad Mini.
 
stooovie said:
Same for iPad 4. Laggy, jerky mess. If 3 is even worse, I wouldn't install it.
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My iPad 4 has animation glitches when pinching your fingers to close an app. Just quickly pinch and let go and see the bugginess. Laggy other places as well. Idk why this is happening, especially on the iPad 4.
 
MinEderPlayz said:
It seemed to me like you were sharing YOU got the blurs while we don't. Sorry if i misunderstood this.
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That was not what I meant, sorry if I made it sound like that. I just wanted to state my experience. The experience can be different for some but I think that a more general look is better for someone who wants to know about it so I gave my look at how it works in my case
 
Today I installed the GM onto an iPad 2 and an iPad 4. I must say that iOS 7 is surprisingly quick on the iPad 2 and very fast on the iPad 4.

The only bug I have noticed is the long time it takes to change a wallpaper on the iPad 4, but apart from that, I'm very happy :)
 
Hopefully this all gets fixed and Apple did not run into an inherent performance limit with the new OS design on existing hardware. That would suck.

I would hate it if management decided to just target the new processor and leave the old hardware behind to encourage upgrades. Sometimes it feels like Apple is doing that. There is really no excuse for leaving the ipad 4 behind.
 
I think there has to be some sort of bug with the translucency in iOS 7. Upon updating both an iPad 3 and iPad mini, I noticed that the iPad 3 has more translucent effects (such as the cut/copy/paste and contextual menu popups) than the mini (here it seems the only translucency is the top bar in Safari). However, in both cases, translucent effects seem to be inconsistent, appearing in some apps but not others and at random in Safari. I don't think that this is due to some sort of device-dependent active decision on Apple's part, but due to initial release wonkiness.
 
If you turn on "improve contrast" in Accesibility, it make a lot of the animations smoother. Not perfect but better. There is a huge issue with all the gaussian blurs going on. Even the iPad 4 renders them very very slowly for a lot of the fading transitions. Unfortunate since turning them off renders noticeable improvement.
 
I just installed my ipad ios 6 3 and the speed difference is huge.
Only when you realize you've been using a few days ios 7 and you delude yourself into thinking that goes almost like ios 6.

I hope tomorrow is not happening to Apple this release for ipad, because it will be a great misfortune for all owners of ipad, it will have a smooth and fast tablet to have a tablet clumsy, slow and much lag for anything.

In the iphone 5 the only difference are the animations, than the ios 7 are desperately slow.
Apple only accelerate at twice the speed, the general perception will be much better.
 
as11ley said:
Hi,
Does anybody know how iOS 7 GM runs on these devices? is the transparency back? I don't think I will upgrade from iOS 6 unless the transparency frost comes back because I think it looks ugly without.
Thanks :)
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I have 2 ipads 2 and its smooth as silk for me so :) all positive reviews.
 
Out of curiosity, did Apple ever put anything about transparency changes to iPad 2 and 3 in any of the release notes for Betas 5, 6, or the Gold Master?
 
as11ley said:
Hi,
Does anybody know how iOS 7 GM runs on these devices? is the transparency back? I don't think I will upgrade from iOS 6 unless the transparency frost comes back because I think it looks ugly without.
Thanks :)
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You don't have to upgrade. The translucency is gone, maybe forever. Well, the good thing is, transparency is still there, just a little ugly.

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a643 said:
Out of curiosity, did Apple ever put anything about transparency changes to iPad 2 and 3 in any of the release notes for Betas 5, 6, or the Gold Master?
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In beta 5 release notes, they noted "twisted the blur and translucency effect across the entire OS". Simple single sentence like this sentenced the translucency on iPad 3 to death.
 
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