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What DON'T you like about iOS 7?
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Something that really bothers me is that they removed swiping right to delete an item. It use to be you could swipe either right or left but now it's only left that brings up the delete option. It's trivial and a minor annoyance at best but why they removed the option for no other functionality puzzles me.
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I have some after market lightning cables, and I get that error every time I plug it in now. In my case the cable still works, iOS just claims that it won't.
Obviously Apple build something in to the OS to pitch a fit about non-Apple accessories. Personally I'm about done with Apple.
This. ^
I don't like that there is no cellular data toggle in control centre, I forget to close the flashlight toggle sometimes(but that could be just me), zoom on the wallpaper because of parallax. And that's it, I generally like iOS 7 but the speed has to seriously be bumped up. I'm reminded of my old android and when I use to flash roms that we're in beta phases when it comes to the animation speed.
I do not like art at the expense of functionality. Specifically:
1) Fonts too thin to read
2) Needless animation delay when waking phone
3) Virtually unusable color bars to tell which calendar an appointment belongs to
4) UI so "flat" that the old useful contrasts between sections on an app's screen have been removed, making it hard to tell what's what on the screen.
5) Having to press + in calendar in order to get the view I want, but then not being able to add items in that view.
I hope these things are all fixed in some rapidly released update, but I'm not holding my breath. Sadly, my view is that iOS7 is a wonderful O/S, hindered by its artistic and sub-functional UI. And this from a very long time Apple fan. I feel let down.
Dan
1) Fonts too thin to read
2) Needless animation delay when waking phone
3) Virtually unusable color bars to tell which calendar an appointment belongs to
4) UI so "flat" that the old useful contrasts between sections on an app's screen have been removed, making it hard to tell what's what on the screen.
5) Having to press + in calendar in order to get the view I want, but then not being able to add items in that view.
I hope these things are all fixed in some rapidly released update, but I'm not holding my breath. Sadly, my view is that iOS7 is a wonderful O/S, hindered by its artistic and sub-functional UI. And this from a very long time Apple fan. I feel let down.
Dan
Ok
Overall nice ios
I hate the :
1) keyboard!!! Keyboard!! What is the deal with the white keyboard? Hard to see, and tap. This is the most annoying thing
2) the note app need urgent redesign and color scheme. It is too simplistic.
3) when someone call and you go to different menu the small green bar above the home menu appear with white text. This is completely impossible to read and see.
4) battery life on iPhone 5
5) something is not completely designed in the notification center. Again too simple and look unfinished.
6 all day toggles ( calender...) miss the TODAY in blue so you know where you are.
Overall nice ios
I hate the :
1) keyboard!!! Keyboard!! What is the deal with the white keyboard? Hard to see, and tap. This is the most annoying thing
2) the note app need urgent redesign and color scheme. It is too simplistic.
3) when someone call and you go to different menu the small green bar above the home menu appear with white text. This is completely impossible to read and see.
4) battery life on iPhone 5
5) something is not completely designed in the notification center. Again too simple and look unfinished.
6 all day toggles ( calender...) miss the TODAY in blue so you know where you are.
I dislike the fact that there is STILL no option to show battery percentage on the iPod Touch. It seriously can't be that hard to implement.
1) No Twitter and Facebook buttons.
2) No Panoramic wallpapers
3) No custom contact details labels.
These need to be put back in. Sure they may still need working an optimising to make perfect for release in the way of panoramic wallpapers.
But custom labels was great in the beta and should still be in there, just like Twitter and Facebook buttons. An update should add features not be removing them.
2) No Panoramic wallpapers
3) No custom contact details labels.
These need to be put back in. Sure they may still need working an optimising to make perfect for release in the way of panoramic wallpapers.
But custom labels was great in the beta and should still be in there, just like Twitter and Facebook buttons. An update should add features not be removing them.
Overall I like iOS 7 (I only got my ip5 in January, so i haven't been using iOS for ages like some). It seems to work pretty well in my iPhone 5.
I don't like the new calendar app. What happened to the day view on the month view?! Day view is just a waste of space.
For notification center I wish it still showed the calendar as just the events for the day and some for the next day. I hate the new view. I also don't like how much space weather takes and how it's behind by a few hours.
I don't like how much space album artwork takes up in music. It's especially annoying on the playlists page. Also don't like the use of words instead of symbols now. I can see the a-z.
In safari I'm not a fan of the start up page with my bookmarks bar from my Mac and no way to change them. Also don't like how hard it is to find the X to close pages.
Apparently auto correct doesn't understand me or the English language anymore. I was sending a text and it wanted to make food into good.
I don't like the new calendar app. What happened to the day view on the month view?! Day view is just a waste of space.
For notification center I wish it still showed the calendar as just the events for the day and some for the next day. I hate the new view. I also don't like how much space weather takes and how it's behind by a few hours.
I don't like how much space album artwork takes up in music. It's especially annoying on the playlists page. Also don't like the use of words instead of symbols now. I can see the a-z.
In safari I'm not a fan of the start up page with my bookmarks bar from my Mac and no way to change them. Also don't like how hard it is to find the X to close pages.
Apparently auto correct doesn't understand me or the English language anymore. I was sending a text and it wanted to make food into good.
Hate the white theme throughout.....
Gestures work poorly
Music app is quite buggy
Lack of text reflow in Safari is disappointing
I am about 80% satisfied with it overall.
Gestures work poorly
Music app is quite buggy
Lack of text reflow in Safari is disappointing
I am about 80% satisfied with it overall.
Seems like lots of change for the sake of change without clear improvements in function. Animations seem a little superfluous and just slow things down. Calendar and Notes apps have been pretty much ruined IMO. I paid $5 for Fantastical calendar app after loading iOS 7 onto my iPhone 5 and realizing they'd removed the features I liked from Calendar. Now I'm looking for a good simple notes app. Too much white space overall in the UI. As my daughter said, "It's like they were too lazy to replace what they removed with anything but white space and thin fonts." And why are arrows/text intrinsically superior to buttons? Don't like the new folder format either.
I DO like the pull-up control center and the improved notifications, although both could be even better. Android's notification center is still superior IMO. And why not be able to look for a wifi connection through control center rather than 3 clicks into Settings?
I like the cleaner look but believe they took it overboard/to extremes. Yes, it kinda seemed like I got a new phone after loading it but after playing with it a few days I am again aware of Apple's arbitrary limits. I like iOS better than android but the physical home button is starting to feel archaic after playing with the Nexus 7 and getting a feel for Android. I am NOT loading iOS 7 onto my iPad 3 at this point as I think it would look awful with all that white space on the iPad screen. Hopefully they will maximize it for iPad soon.
I DO like the pull-up control center and the improved notifications, although both could be even better. Android's notification center is still superior IMO. And why not be able to look for a wifi connection through control center rather than 3 clicks into Settings?
I like the cleaner look but believe they took it overboard/to extremes. Yes, it kinda seemed like I got a new phone after loading it but after playing with it a few days I am again aware of Apple's arbitrary limits. I like iOS better than android but the physical home button is starting to feel archaic after playing with the Nexus 7 and getting a feel for Android. I am NOT loading iOS 7 onto my iPad 3 at this point as I think it would look awful with all that white space on the iPad screen. Hopefully they will maximize it for iPad soon.
New Music app is horrible: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1601540/
Youtube crashes very often.
AirDrop is a neat idea, but often it takes awhile before my iphone sees another device that's just inches away from it.
But overall, I like the new OS.
Youtube crashes very often.
AirDrop is a neat idea, but often it takes awhile before my iphone sees another device that's just inches away from it.
But overall, I like the new OS.
I was sort of hoping Apple might change the way "Pick a Song" works in editing the World Clock's desired sound for an alarm when one wants to pick a music track instead of the other options. But it seems to work in iOS7 the same as in iOS6.
If your finger slips and you make a bad pick, that selection sits in the set of your picks until it eventually moves off the top of a five-slot list. This is because the list is fed from the bottom, like processing a stack first in first out.
At first I thought that you could probably check any track already in the list and then your next addition would replace THAT pick. Nope. Strictly FIFO. Whatever track you check gets used by the alarm, but when you pick a new track, it goes at the bottom and gets checked. The checkmark only means "yeah, when the alarm goes off, play this one."
This way of having the user operate an edit is not like Apple's usual swipe-to-delete or slide-around editing. Now I do get it that ordering the list means nothing, since the alarm plays only one selection when it goes off. Still, it's time consuming and a royal pain to go back to music library level of the device and re-pick favored tracks back into the list until the erroneous pick pops off the top so you can try again to add the choice you meant to add when that pick got bobbled.
Meanwhile one realizes that making a bad pick doesn't immunize against doing it AGAIN while tryig to fix the list. I almost put my 4S out the window once over this gig. C'mon Apple, anyone can have a fat-fingered day now and then. Help us out here.
A fix to make this a little more friendly seems trivial and its impact pretty local. I'm trying to remember if I ever put in a feedback.
If your finger slips and you make a bad pick, that selection sits in the set of your picks until it eventually moves off the top of a five-slot list. This is because the list is fed from the bottom, like processing a stack first in first out.
At first I thought that you could probably check any track already in the list and then your next addition would replace THAT pick. Nope. Strictly FIFO. Whatever track you check gets used by the alarm, but when you pick a new track, it goes at the bottom and gets checked. The checkmark only means "yeah, when the alarm goes off, play this one."
This way of having the user operate an edit is not like Apple's usual swipe-to-delete or slide-around editing. Now I do get it that ordering the list means nothing, since the alarm plays only one selection when it goes off. Still, it's time consuming and a royal pain to go back to music library level of the device and re-pick favored tracks back into the list until the erroneous pick pops off the top so you can try again to add the choice you meant to add when that pick got bobbled.
Meanwhile one realizes that making a bad pick doesn't immunize against doing it AGAIN while tryig to fix the list. I almost put my 4S out the window once over this gig. C'mon Apple, anyone can have a fat-fingered day now and then. Help us out here.
A fix to make this a little more friendly seems trivial and its impact pretty local. I'm trying to remember if I ever put in a feedback.
It's up to the developers of third-party apps to have their stuff running in a stable fashion. I've had no problems with Youtube, but it's not iOS 7 optimised yet.
I found something else, if you go to settings - general - background app refresh/ turn it OFF and you get a warning message where in big red letters it states: Disable Background App Refresh.
Now the warning is nice and all, but it's a shame the wording is sized as such it fails to fit into the box it's displayed in! And this was BETA tested? I can forgive some things but not bothering to format text properly so it fits in its display box is 5 year old level IMO!
My how Apple is falling in quality control..
Now the warning is nice and all, but it's a shame the wording is sized as such it fails to fit into the box it's displayed in! And this was BETA tested? I can forgive some things but not bothering to format text properly so it fits in its display box is 5 year old level IMO!
My how Apple is falling in quality control..
I don't like all the bugs... battery indicator said 7%, but phone died anyways. Album art missing. When you close and app sometimes the icon is still there.... and several other weird things I've seen, but can't remember at the moment.
I love the look though, but com'on Apple this in my opinion has got to be the most buggy update you've ever released.
I love the look though, but com'on Apple this in my opinion has got to be the most buggy update you've ever released.
Wife and daughter do not like the ugly dock. Blocks quite a bit of their favorite background image. It would be nice if iOS7 had an option to make it transparent. At least in iOS6 it blended in better with the background. In iOS7 it just looks so crude looking. Strange that Apple would not pick up on this type of stuff. They are usually very good with aesthetics.
a) 9 item folder pages, with their awful background dependent colors (that generally blend in way too much with the backgrounds)
b) lack of drop shadow on app/folder text leaving the text to blend into anything but the plainest of backgrounds
between the two of those its now got to stage that the only thing I can bear is to drag every app out of its folder and stick em on a plain black background.
b) lack of drop shadow on app/folder text leaving the text to blend into anything but the plainest of backgrounds
between the two of those its now got to stage that the only thing I can bear is to drag every app out of its folder and stick em on a plain black background.
This, I can't access the control centre at all with my case.
The upgrade has thrown up some apps which are being charged all over again (omnifocus, fantastical to come). Whilst i understand a dev has to make money, I really wish there was a better way for upgrades..
Nothing that I absolutely hate, but I do have a couple of suggestions.
Firstly, I think Control Centre would have been better off as a tab in the Notification Centre. I personally don't see much use for the "Missed" section so I'd have replaced that with Control Centre. I'd then replace the swipe up gesture to bring in you in to multi tasking. To me, a swipe up to access open apps, and as a means to get back to the home screen, would be much more fluid than a double tap of the home button. You would, of course, be able to disable this just like you can disable control centre in apps. I honestly don't think a swipe down and then a swipe left ("Missed" tab) to reach controls would be much of an issue.
Secondly, I like how the Maps UI auto brings in a darker look at night/low brightness. I think that applied throughout the OS would be pretty nice, if optional. The Digg app does this now, it detects your current lighting and time of day and then will automatically use the dark theme. Given how much of the UI uses white, I think this would work pretty well.
Edit: Actually, I really hate their decision to put those little grabber/tab things on the Notification banners. I know they can pulled down, I don't need that ugly little bar on each one to tell me.
Firstly, I think Control Centre would have been better off as a tab in the Notification Centre. I personally don't see much use for the "Missed" section so I'd have replaced that with Control Centre. I'd then replace the swipe up gesture to bring in you in to multi tasking. To me, a swipe up to access open apps, and as a means to get back to the home screen, would be much more fluid than a double tap of the home button. You would, of course, be able to disable this just like you can disable control centre in apps. I honestly don't think a swipe down and then a swipe left ("Missed" tab) to reach controls would be much of an issue.
Secondly, I like how the Maps UI auto brings in a darker look at night/low brightness. I think that applied throughout the OS would be pretty nice, if optional. The Digg app does this now, it detects your current lighting and time of day and then will automatically use the dark theme. Given how much of the UI uses white, I think this would work pretty well.
Edit: Actually, I really hate their decision to put those little grabber/tab things on the Notification banners. I know they can pulled down, I don't need that ugly little bar on each one to tell me.
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For my use it's great. If I'm in the dark using the flashlight I want to be able to have the screen off so it's not blinding me. There's a reason why stargazing apps have the red night mode. So I disagree with your last statement.