The signal bubbles don't really mean anything. I have no idea why they are actually there since the real indication of your signal strength is LTE, or 3g, or edge, or 1x(Verizon)
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iOS 8... please restore iOS 6 look and signal bars
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While the signal bars/dots don't tell the whole story and there's more to it all, they still tell something related to strength of the signal you are getting, while the signal name is really just that, the name.
Personally, I like iOS 7. Not love, but like. I posted one of those "I'm going to hate it!!!!!" threads around WWDC last year, but it's not what I thought. It looks fresh and bright on my iPhone 5 and iPad mini and runs pretty well on both.
Its not going to happen, better or worse, Apple moves forward, they don't go back. The skeumorphism is the main reason I was drawn into iOS. Now that its gone, Im saving a lot of money not wanting any of the new hardware.
Something I can't understand though is the signal bars, much less minimalistic, very non-apple like
Something I can't understand though is the signal bars, much less minimalistic, very non-apple like
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I like the dots...they are, for me, more easily seen with a quick glance.
I'm very big on quick glancing.
I don't care how much space they take up as long as I can glance quickly.
I'm very big on quick glancing.
I don't care how much space they take up as long as I can glance quickly.
While the larger and widely spaced dots are more "glanceable" I would say that in general, given the somewhat limited information they represent, that's one of the least important things to see at a glance, especially when it comes to minute differences between just one or two bars/dots, since the difference between almost no bars and almost full bars is still fairly quick to see at a glance.I like the dots...they are, for me, more easily seen with a quick glance.
I'm very big on quick glancing.
I don't care how much space they take up as long as I can glance quickly.
It wouldn't be so bad if only the black 'active' signal strength dots were shown, it's the empty circles which annoy me the most.
Give me bars every time tho'.
Give me bars every time tho'.
I actually prefer the balls, no homo.
It looks much classier than the bars. A good idea would be the user customize the top bar. As in re arranging the time,dots,carrier name etc. heck even some color change would be nice.
As of now i dont mind
It looks much classier than the bars. A good idea would be the user customize the top bar. As in re arranging the time,dots,carrier name etc. heck even some color change would be nice.
As of now i dont mind
I want new features rather than looks. The notification is still inferior to Android and lack of widgets limits the usability. Whether balls or bars doesn't really matter to me since I don't even remember the last time I paid attention to it.
I think if they reduced the size of the signal dots slightly, it might look a bit better. You don't truly notice how much of a space-waster the dots are until you see them in the lock screen when the status bar size is increased. Also instead of unavailable signal dots being hollow, they should be lightly greyed out. That would look much classier IMO. I still prefer bars though but tweaking the dots like that would be a step in the right direction.
Could potentially make it somewhat more confusing for some of the more typical users who will see fully filled in dots and then sort of filled in ones. Why reinvent the wheel (bars for signal strength) at all when the existing wheel works just fine and doesn't need to be reinvented.
I understand that the fact that the new iOS has a lot of bugs that need to be squashed but its funny how people used to complain that iOS was becoming stale and boring and needed a major design overhaul. When Apple listened to them, everybody started complaining how bad it was.
Just because something needs changing, it doesn't mean that any old change will be acceptable.
my original reply to this was "lol"
but then the mods flagged me for a one word post
why are we allowed to have a bagillion threads on the same topic?
lots of people hate it, lots love it, lots don't care, but one thing is for certain: more iphones have sold than ever before, and apple would never go back to an old design. it's possible this one will change slightly with ios 8, but they won't be going back.
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The only time Apple went back to an old design was with the 4th gen iPod shuffle. The 3rd gen shuffle was such a terrible device that Apple decided to stick with a design that was perfect, made it a bit better while still implementing the VoiceOver feature from the 3rd gen.
no wonder iphone users get a bad rep, they whine about every little thing
who the **** cares about signal bars???
who the **** cares about signal bars???
iOS7 was a total aesthetic overhaul to iOS6, and the signal dots are part of the new aesthetic.
They're on the screen all the time and if you hate them, that's quite a source of annoyance.
So is the battery drain and increased lag.
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For OP complaining about signal dots, just jailbreak and you can get most of iOS 6's look back. The visual cues of 6 were nice, but what makes me hate iOS 7 is not the look, it's the performance. It even lags on my iPhone 5 sometimes when opening up the switcher and doing random tasks. iOS 6 never lagged - it was fast and fluid.