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iOS 7 Tidbits: iMessage Timestamps, App Switching, Spotlight Search, and More

jimbobb24 said:
Problem is that Cook has no eye or taste so he just trusts Ive to do his magic. There is no one to say No, like you said. Someone to say - hmm this looks wrong or too much or whatever. So we get "extreme OS" instead of innovative OS.
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This is the base for the future IOS. Things that don't work based on user complaints will be changed.
 
Dsreilly said:
Hi all. My Apple Weather App is gone since I upgraded to iOS 7. Is there a way to get it back? All the Google answers seem to point me to just download another from the App Store but I like the simple one that came on my device.

Thanks.
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Did you check your folders, if you have any? I remember that, after one iOS upgrade, some of my apps that were on the main screen somehow got moved into folders.

I thought that my Apple Weather app had disappeared after the iOS 7 upgrade, so I went to the App Store, and I couldn't find it there for download. I later found it in a folder, and then remembered that I'd put it there after switching to Yahoo Weather. :p

If you still can't find Apple Weather, you might try backing up your iPhone, restoring it to factory settings, and reinstalling your apps, which is a pain, if you have a lot of them. Otherwise, I recommend Yahoo Weather, which looked like iOS 7 long before iOS 7 was released. It displays more information than Apple's version, so I'm keeping it as my default weather app.
 
bekahlou75 said:
Before the update I could go to Settings, General, Usage, Cellular Usage and see up to date what my cellular usage was. I could reset the count when I wanted. That is not there anymore. Does anyone know how I can track my cellular usage? Is it in a different area?
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Someone might have already responded, but...
Settings>Cellular>at the very bottom is "Reset Statistics"

Let me know if that is not what you were looking for. My brain was cooked before the upgrade, now it is fried.
 
Rogifan said:
I'm most excited about 3rd party apps. I use those way more than Apple apps. Some of the redesigns look sweet. They'll show Apple how its done as usual. :)
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Agreed. I'm already happy with the changes to ToDo; they really took off with the new design scheme. Evernote a little less so, but it's still a welcome update. Can't wait for others to roll out
 
The UI animations jitter on my iPhone 4. The frame rate of the animations is simply too low. Here are some scenarios where it's choppy: when exiting multitasking, brining up the control center on the home screen, the animation after "sliding to unlock" and right before entering the passcode, etc... :(

I know its not because the iPhone 4 is old hardware because it did handle similar animations at a very high frame rate.
Anyone else having these problems on iPhone 4? If yes, please send feedback to Apple!

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
 
Daws001 said:
The look is nice. The effects are a bit jarring but that may also be due to the slight delay with transitions. My biggest complaint, the more I think about it the more bitter it tastes...why isn't Personal Hotspot in Control Center???? Is it really not popular enough to warrant it? Because I'm toggling it everyday and was really looking forward to quicker/easier access to it.

Le sigh.
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I'm hoping that we will eventually have some control over what is and is not in control center. I don't need my calculator right there but would love to have a quick-access toggle for my to do list. I'm sure I use that thing 50 times/day
 
Newsdork said:
I don't have a temperature display in the notification center. At all. Anyone know how to get this back? One of my favorite features in iOS6.
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When did you update? I had to go into the weather app and let that update first, then it still took a while to show up in Notifications

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itguy06 said:
:) Either way it's a HUGE functionality and productivity hit. And for no good reason too.
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They want you to use Spotlight
 
Notification Center is by far the worst new thing. Its the biggest waste of space I've ever seen. Half a page just to tell you the temp and 1 calendar entry. Its just crap.

Actually all the white might be the worst thing. I haven't decided yet. They are tied for now.
 
sshhoott said:
The UI animations jitter on my iPhone 4. The frame rate of the animations is simply too low. Here are some scenarios where it's choppy: when exiting multitasking, brining up the control center on the home screen, the animation after "sliding to unlock" and right before entering the passcode, etc... :(

I know its not because the iPhone 4 is old hardware because it did handle similar animations at a very high frame rate.
Anyone else having these problems on iPhone 4? If yes, please send feedback to Apple!

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
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You're not the only one who's experiencing the lag on a 4. It's silly that they want to be minimalist, but add animations.
 
TOO much WHITE oo

xkmxkmxlmx said:
I have been loving iOS7 since the beta... but I truly can not stand the white letters in Messages.

There is already too much white on the screen.
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Total agreement on too much white! I discovered I could reverse the colors with Settings > General > Accessibility > Invert Colors, but it changes EVERYTHING to a negative, even my wallpaper pictures.

I like listening to music @ night but my wife doesn't want the "bright lights" when I reach down to see what is playing. iTunes Radio is a WHITE screen! I set the home button to a 3-tap Automatic Invert Colors, but it would sure be better if I could change native app background colors myself. iOS 7.1?
 
Papertrumpet said:
Total agreement on too much white! I discovered I could reverse the colors with Settings > General > Accessibility > Invert Colors, but it changes EVERYTHING to a negative, even my wallpaper pictures.

I like listening to music @ night but my wife doesn't want the "bright lights" when I reach down to see what is playing. iTunes Radio is a WHITE screen! I set the home button to a 3-tap Automatic Invert Colors, but it would sure be better if I could change native app background colors myself. iOS 7.1?
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Wow.. I so wish Invert colors only effected UI elements. It looks way better with all the white gone. Of course everything else looks like poop.
 
dabirdwell said:
Call me a compulsive editor, but "cancellation" is misspelled twice at the bottom of the General-> Accessibility section of settings.

Just a note.
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I don't even see any of the sort you're referring to. I'm right here at the bottom or anywhere on General>Accessibility. Don't see any word called "Cancellation". Maybe the menus are different depending on the carrier or country. I'm on Sprint in the USA.

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zen said:
Argh. The delay in the screen fading up from lock when you press the home button is driving me crazy. In iOS 6 you hit home, the screen comes on instantly, you swipe to unlock.

Now you hit home, wait for the screen to fade up, then swipe.

OK, it's only a second or two, but when you're in a hurry it's a pain. I hope Apple adds an option to disable all these animations (fade-up from lock, application and folder zooming) in the next update.
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They probably won't. Maybe it's time for a newer or faster phone. iPhone 5C/S or an Android.
 
badlandz said:
I see now... I bit for the iPhone 3 to iPhone 3S upgrade. And then I bit for the iPhone 3S to iPhone 4 upgrade. But I've never been unhappy with my iPhone 4, even when Siri came out. I stuck by it.

But now, with OS7, my very functional and useful iPhone 4 is now pretty, but dog slow, and I can't even roll back to OS6. So even if the hardware was good, did all it could, was still working, they have OS7 to render the older working hardware so painful to use they want to force and upgrade to a new phone.

Nice move Apple, very Microsoft. Don't do a smaller, tighter, faster working OS, do a bigger more bloated one that forces people to upgrade hardware. Jobs wouldn't have done this (IMHO) because older users lose respect for the great old hardware, the Apple edge that makes it worth paying a premium for it the first time...

K, my rant done... It's inherent bias is obvious... flame away..
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Actually there's nothing for anyone to flame you about, in fact you're helping others. Now people that have iPhone 4's (not 4S) know not to upgrade since you decided to be the beta tester. Great work! :)
 
cutebook7658 said:
Some of you people need to get over yourselves.
Someone expresses their opinion that they don't like it for specific reasons and you guys jump all over them.
Who cares if they find it hard to read, that's their opinion.
You can make the argument that computers and technology are going backwards. We (used) to have these great OS where users could customize as much as possible. If someone wanted a bigger font or a different font, or a different them, or whatever - it was possible, it gave people the choice.
Choice is going down the drain and it's a shame.
Sure you may like iOS now and be cheering Apple, but just wait until they force something on you that doesn't sit well with you and let's see how you like it then. We'll remember to come back and give you a similar treatment when you come to share your opinion.
Gives users the choice, and learn to respect people's opinions. If your eyes are good and you can use iOS7 just fine - then great. Count your blessings because no one escapes from aging so your time will come.
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But your post comes across that you don't respect others that find iOS7 a joy to use either. Also that funny line at the end, wasn't. It's not like we're all going to be using the same phone and OS after several years of our eyes aging. :rolleyes:
And it's more than just people "expressing their opinion" (I love when people oversimplify it like that), I can tell very easily that some people here haven't even installed it or used it. Some are receiving paychecks for their fine and creative "opinions". Early betas of iOS7 got great reviews. Nothing much as changed in terms of the aesthetics. Suddenly there's a lot of negative "opinions". Hmmm.
 
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mrbyu said:
I personally think that the new design is very pleasing to the eye, it's sleek, modern, etc., so generally I like it very much, and I'm also beginning to find the old interface kinda obsolete. BUT... there's one thing that really annoys me. :(

In the old iOS it could NEVER happen - no matter how you changed your home/lockscreen wallpapers - that it went to the expense of readibility. The on-screen elemenets were so well designed that you could set any stupid picture as your wallpaper, the icon names, the statusbar, the time, everything on the lockscreen, they remained perfectly readable. But now, just try to set any bright picture as your wallpaper (there are plenty of them even among the default ones!!!), it's CHAOS, it's pain to the eye, you can hardly read the time on the lockscreen, let alone the statusbar... :mad: Why did they have to do this?? Why was the prettiness in this scenario more important for Apple than the functionality?? Why haven't they used some foggy layer underneath, or anything, whatever, why haven't they thought about this... Honestly, that is my only serious concern about iOS 7, and maybe the somewhat hard-to-use calendar (confession: I actually find the old iOS calendar to be more usable :( ).
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Wow what a change from the top line to bigger paragraph. Doesn't sound like it's "Pleasing to the eye" as you put it. :p
 
For the life of me I can't bring up control center on my iPad 3. No matter where on the bottom I swipe up from nothing happens. I'm disabled so use a special mouth stick stylus, which works fine everywhere else, but not here.

I've had other people try to no avail either. All on the home screen. Any suggestions?

-PN
 
Paulyboy said:
For the life of me I can't bring up control center on my iPad 3. No matter where on the bottom I swipe up from nothing happens. I'm disabled so use a special mouth stick stylus, which works fine everywhere else, but not here.

I've had other people try to no avail either. All on the home screen. Any suggestions?

-PN
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Update: Restarting fixed it.
 
malexandria said:
I shot 2 hours of video yesterday and like a dummy I didn't import it into iPhoto before upgrading and ha, ha... It won't import! It will let me import using iMovie, but so sick of Apple trying to tell me how to work - I want my photos and videos in one location like I've been doing for the last 4 years. I was never the biggest Jobs fan, but under Tim Cook everything they've released in the last year or two has had major issues - that they don't acknowledge until they fix it a few months later. I'm hoping it'll work with Premiere.
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So you are saying that video now only DLs from your iphone into imovie and not into iphoto?
 
xkmxkmxlmx said:
There is already too much white on the screen.
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I TOTALLY agree with the majority here. Looks to me like Bill Gates and not "sir" Jony Ives supervised this POS. Unnecessary animation is nothing but resource-hogging BLOATWARE - what the hell are they thinking? The LAST thing a mobile user who is trying to one-hand a phone needs or wants are screen elements jumping around. It is absolutely incompetent as is all the bright white with no way to tone it down. Yeah I want my cell phone to be HARDER to read in sunlight. Who the F came up with that idea?

To be fair I do like some of the app changes but they're still solutions looking for problems. What we ALL need is an email client where you can sort messages by sender, subject, etc. Stuff Outlook has done for 15 years. But NO, where it matters not much has changed. EPIC FAIL MR. COOK. How do I go back to IOS 6? Or Jellybean ?
 
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