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Still afraid to upgrade to iOS 7?
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GalvaJ
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I'm not worried about bugs so much. More that the hardware can handle the iOS without stutter or slowdown.
Sort of.... iOS 6 animation were linear and sudden whereas iOS 7/8 animations are fluid. iOS 6 animation were a hair faster than iOS 7 but personally I'd take fluidity over a fraction of a second. Just makes for a better UX imo. On iPad though iOS 7 animations are much quicker.
XboxMySocks
macrumors 68020
Me!
Sticking with iOS 6, not for fear.
The aesthetics of iOS 7 and beyond are just disgusting. 😡
So not!
And Yosemite suffers the same fate. 🙁
Sounds like you need to grow up 😛
I can't speak for him/her, but I still encounter stock app crashes on my iPhone and iPad Air. Even the Phone.app crashes...
But I can live with that, really, I can. I can forgive everything about iOS 7 except for the loss of speed when navigating the OS. The delays between everything are still problematic, even though 7.1 (which took half a year) helped quite a bit. I can live with longer loading times, but I can't forgive the screen for displaying something (such as the keyboard), appear settled, and not respond for another beat.
Someday it will happen, but I imagine they might try updating to the latest and see if it's okay by then, and consider shopping around the other platforms if they don't like it or need a new physical device. It stands to reason that if the Apple product isn't to their liking anymore, it would be time to try another.
Miguel Cunha
macrumors 6502
Maybe your comment refers to the fact that Apple thinks we're kids, by throughing at us, what some people already called a "kiddish look".
Maybe Apple needs to grow up in order to be ripe. 😉
I find this baffling; it's so far removed from my experience on my own iPhone 5 and to be honest it always has been, even on 7.0. I've been through every version of the OS since 2.0 and never found the speed an issue in IOS 7, particularly since 7.1, although I don't see the odd millisecond of animation as an issue anyway - the underlying system speed was always good.
As for crashes, it's rock solid and has been since the first update or two, and that's the impression I get from other iPhone users in my friends and family too.
I strongly suspect that those still clinging on the idea that there is something "wrong" with IOS 7 actually have something wrong with their devices. These isolated hardware-related issues are by no means exclusive to ios 7 and have plagued a minority of handsets on every OS.
Maybe if it were just one device. In my and my partner's family, there are 8 iPhones and 4 iPads, including 4S, 5, 5S, iPad 1, 2, and two Airs. They all have the animation delays. This is something built in to the system and something people have tried to address using various jailbreaks.
I agree that the underlying speed of the OS has generally been good, and it still is with iOS 7. That is not the issue however.
The issue is that the animations, while much quicker than 7.0, disable the input of the touch screen entirely until the animation releases and control is active again. The biggest problem is that there is a delay where things look settled and ready to go, but theres another beat, if you will, before it starts responding. This can apply to the physical input buttons too (for instance, if you're exiting an app, then double tap to bring up the task switcher, it often will only catch one of those double taps... of if you lock and press the home button before the animation is done, it won't respond).
The reason it is so bothersome isn't simply because it's slow. The reason is you press a button or tap a virtual button when it looks ready and it ignores it, leaving you waiting to see if it will acknowledge it.
Worse yet is typing. I very often unlock the phone into an iMessage, the animation plays, it settles and the keyboard pops up... I start typing, and it doesn't start acknowledging input until I'm 1-6 letters in already; it makes a mess because autocorrect usually picks some other word based on what it received, you have to backspace and start over. If you see the keyboard, and it's settled in place, it should respond. There's simply no excuse for such a delay, especially considering how much better it used to be. I remember seeing a chart that showed how iPhone touchscreens are 10-20ms more responsive than the leading Android devices... yet a full second gap doesn't seem to matter.
I completely understand that this will only affect people who tend to use their phones very quickly, usually from muscle memory and habits learned on previous iOS versions. Plenty of people wouldn't be affected, although I personally know several who made the complaint without having been the one to bring it up.
If you'd like, I can try to take a video showing an iPhone 4S or 5 on iOS 6 compared with a 5S or iPad Air to show you the delays. The 5 on iOS 6 is by far the snappiest device we have.
PS Sorry this is long... I'm just trying to provide a detailed account for you.
ron7624
macrumors 68020
I upgraded all of the devices to iOS 7 as soon as available. My wife almost killed me. She gave me grief for weeks for messing with her iPad. It was a 2 at the time. She finally got over it after she figured out where everything was in 7.
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I'll upgrade all of them to 8 too, as soon as available. Her IPad Air will be well suited for that 😉
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I'll upgrade all of them to 8 too, as soon as available. Her IPad Air will be well suited for that 😉