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

The Economist said:
I think iOS 7 is beautiful. All the negative comments before it was released were clearly bullcrap and anyone still complaining iOS 7 is lying or has no taste.
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Or, you know, it's mainly subjective and everyone has their own valid opinion. (Although there are a number of plain usability things that are more objective, despite what people might use to try to "explain them away".)
 
Clock

Not sure if this has been noted but the clock now tells you how many hours ahead or behind from your location a selected city is.
 

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App banner was the culprit...

mel823 said:
I have an iPhone 4 and my lock screen wallpaper is the same as it was before the update.
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Your reply made me dig a little deeper...

And so, I figured out why the lock screen wallpaper seemed to be off: I had an app banner appearing on the lock screen and that's obviously the effect that occurs in this situation. Turn that banner off and the normal lock screen appears!
 
Has anyone updated from ios6 to 7 using a geavey sim? if so let me know... BTW this is an iPhone 4s
 
Probably noted somewhere or in the beta threads - but HTML emails!

Now everything is that bit more cohesive when an email chain is responded to on both iOS and directly from outlook.
 
Weather in Notifications screen

I did have my Locations info turned on, but I turned it all off and turned it back on and now weather is back. Thanks!

Anyone know of a way to change the notification sound for apps like Mailbox or MLB? It now sounds like a text message combined with a ding... makes me think I got a new text... but they don't appear to be customizable, just able to turn on or off.
 
How about blocking "Blocked" calls?

That's more annoying than blocking specific person. And that feature pretty much kills the entire reason for it.

I haven't updated it yet but I hope you can deny or block "blocked" calls.
 
Altis said:
If Apple can implement the automatic night time mode based on ambient lighting and local time for Maps...

Why can't it allow this for everything else? Who really wants to stare into a bright white screen at night?

What are our eyes going to be like after 40 years of this... :confused:
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that's one of the more annoying features on my galaxy s3
 
Check your which email account iOS7 decides to use...

I didn't notice it straight away but all my emails, since upgrading the phone, have been sent from a Yahoo account instead of previous iCloud account (and that insisted on using @iCloud instead of @mac).

Anyone else had this?
 
Auto-update app not working.. :(

Am I the only one that has an iDevice with the auto-update app is not working...? I turned it on, but then I realized that an update came to Facebook and Twitter, and I had to go to the App Store and manually update it (I had to give my password as well... I though giving passwords in order to update was left behind...). Is this happening to anyone else? :(
The rest of iOS 7 is great, I love it! At first, you understand nothing, it just doesn't seem good. Use it for some hours (1 or 2...) and you'll start loving it!
 
Fantastic article. Very helpful and needed.

Not a bad idea waiting for .0.1, but server load is hardly an issue right now.
 
Plutonius said:
Is there any way to get list view when you select videos ?

iTunes video that I bought shows up as an icon that's easily recognizable.

Unfortunately, ripped video that I imported into iTunes shows up as an unrecognizable icon and I have to click through the different videos till I find the one I want.

This makes all video, with the exception of video you buy in the iTunes store, pretty much unusable without a list view.
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Oh. This isn't good. As somebody who has 100s of videos that I use for work, that will be an absolute disaster! I'm sure there is a list view. Has to be.
 
I'm not digging the AirDrop requirements...

It's bad enough, that if I want to use it, I have to upgrade my iPhone (4S) and my iPad (G3)... But now it can't be used with my Macs?

Definitely not cool.
 
Normal iPad use has made me nauseous.

Hopefully turning off the motion will help.
 
marksman said:
Actually no, folders allow you to put an unlimited number of items in them. Infinity is better than 12.
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That's all well and good. Before I used to see 12 and if you had, say, 10 apps you could see them all. Now you get 9, have to scroll, all with tons of white space. It's that inconsistency that makes this upgrade nasty from a usability standpoint.
 
Hmm... I can't get the camera focus thing to work. It just takes a photo when I press the volume up or down button. Focused or not. Is it just me? :confused: Running an iPhone 5.

Camera: The Camera app:... focusing photos can also be done by pressing the volume up button rather than tapping on the screen.
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Candlelight said:
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I swipe right to left I get nothing.

I swipe left to right I get the delete option.

Same as it always was...
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Uh, in Mail you have historically been able to swipe either direction to get delete. In other apps, right to left has been the standard. I do not have 7 to compare.
 
itguy06 said:
That's all well and good. Before I used to see 12 and if you had, say, 10 apps you could see them all. Now you get 9, have to scroll, all with tons of white space. It's that inconsistency that makes this upgrade nasty from a usability standpoint.
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That's driving me nuts. I used to be able to access all my apps in two steps. Now, up to 4.
 
Ohhh ohhh I like that "Block Phone Numbers" feature. It should've been a standard feature on every phone 10 years ago. It's the one thing that I kept asking "why can't we block calls and messages like we block emails and chats??? grrr"
 
JAT said:
Uh, in Mail you have historically been able to swipe either direction to get delete. In other apps, right to left has been the standard. I do not have 7 to compare.
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This is what you get now when you swipe from right to left
 

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IMO...one of the more useful features on that list as far as the phone is concerned:

Block Phone Numbers: Specific contacts and phone numbers can be blocked within iOS 7. Go to Settings > Phone > Blocked to add contacts that will be prevented from calling (sending the calls to voicemail), FaceTiming, and sending messages.
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Great for blocking those pesky creditors...
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Deleting Bookmarks in Safari: Swipe left on bookmarked pages to quickly delete them. This also works in Reading List.
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I have soooo many bookmarks to delete but, kind of a pain on the desktop. Now you can swipe 'em away and all is properly synced. Really nice...except for the fact that I love Snow Leopard, yet Apple refuses to let me play with iCloud.

Still not sure about this upgrade. A lot of my colleagues at work have switched to the S4 with the latest incarnation of Android. I see some positive directions for Android, but it's simply too cluttered with features and functions that will never get used. It seems to me that Apple is slowly taking it in that direction with iOS, but also with MacOS.

And on a purely aesthetic point, the only difference I see in the home screen was gloss removal from the icons, flattening of the dock, and changes to the menu bar font. I hate to say this, but I kind of prefer the original look, if I had to choose between either. If Apple's going for minimalism, they're definitely on the right track. Google is taking it too far in the other direction. What to do...what to do...with my first world problem.:confused:
 
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