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Why iOS 7 will drive some of you nuts: UI lag due to slow animations [video inside]
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Similar thing happens in iOS 6. Unlock an multi tasking. The unlock is less noticeable. But when multitasking using the 4 finger swipe gesture, there has always been a good 1+ second lag before you can use he app. New multi task may be using similar process to this. Not a big deal to me.
Quite a few people don't really care for animations, or at least longer animations than before since they aren't using the phone to look at animations but to do things on it.
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I think that's more in relation to the additional/optional iPad gestures, which were always somewhat slower/longer than other interactions.
Right, that's understandable. A lot of people aren't though, and it's a change from what it was like in iOS 6 and before (where things were "snappy").
But they should have a progress bar or grayed-out screen until it's ready. Nothing is more annoying to me than the app appearing ready for use, but then nothing happening when I tap on a control. It should not appear ready until IT IS READY.
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They could have a gesture recognizer that cancels the animation, so that for example as apps are in motion, scrolling in the app-switching view, if you swipe up on an app, it would quit it (like it's supposed to) instead of IGNORING THE GESTURE FOR NO REASON!!
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You can make Spotlight much faster by going Settings > General > Spotlight Search and unchecking everything except Apps. When it was searching through my 35,272 notes and 583,262 mail messages it was not a happy camper.
Is this UI lag stuff due to software or hardware (ie. the 1GB of RAM) or a combination of both?
There's no UI lag. That's not what it is.
It's the delay of apps "waking up" from a sleep state, which used to happen before you saw the app, but now you see the app's last screenshot while it wakes up. That screenshot is not the actual app though, so if you try to push a button, nothing happens, which feels like lag (but is actually just bad design).
Switching between apps doesn't actually take appreciably longer from what I can tell, but seeing the app's preview instead of a progress bar is bad UI design. You should signal the user in some way that the app isn't ready yet.
It's disappointing to me that Apple let iOS 7 out with this bug, which I reported numerous times. I think it was fixable and they should have made the user experience a higher priority over fancy new APIs like multi-peer and beacons, etc.
I don't think there is actually a huge difference in amount of time you wait for apps to open or load, etc. I think that maybe some of the animations are making you think that you are waiting longer, but in reality I bet if you do a side by side comparison you will see very little difference.
You should not HAVE to do that to make spotlight faster, what's the point then might as well manually look for something hell it's probably faster.
or people are overly sensitive and like to complain about anything. Do a side by side comparison and you will see that the difference in app "load times" is pretty negligible... Just because you perceive that the animations are taking longer because they are new, does not actually mean they are taking a lot longer than the old ones.
Newly purchased iPhone 5s, and an extra second required to complete the animations is driving me ********* bonkers. It's pretty much everywhere: unlocking the phone, switching apps, launching apps, control center, notification center.
That's the ONLY reason why I hate iOS 7.
I agree, I have been using my iPad's with both iOS6 and iOS7 and have been since the first Beta and never got use to the new zooming. Sure the animations are fine for some, so it's a personal choice, so why have this all or nothing approach.
The best way to solve this is somewhat how they solved the new sounds, have a switch called legacy animations in accessibility, what is so wrong with preferring iOS6 animations? I don't recall hearing anyone have issues with those, they were fast and opened or closed from the center, the folders just pulled down.
I don't want to turn off animations completely, I would rather have a Legacy switch to use iOS6 animations, or how about let us choose speed and location of the animations, you could choose the animation to open and close from center, and not flying in from the outside which I can't stand anymore.
I remember the old days when software actually required loading and we considered it to be fast. Nowadays people apparently don't even have second to spare. Life is short I guess, better get apple to save time trying to unlock iOS 7 in 0.5 seconds instead of an entire SECOND. This has got to be a joke...
This is what we complain about now? Have we run out of things to complain about? I don't wanna live on this planet anymore.
This is what we complain about now? Have we run out of things to complain about? I don't wanna live on this planet anymore.
You probably meant to say that just because you don't care that animations might last longer it doesn't mean that they don't in fact last longer.
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As opposed to complaining about someone's complaints? How many levels lower is that?
Add me to the complaints list. I've got an iPhone 5 and I find the animations quite irritating. They chose beauty over function, and that's never a good thing.
Just speed up the animation to twice the speed it is now and it will be OK.
Just speed up the animation to twice the speed it is now and it will be OK.
You probably meant to say that just because you don't care that animations might last longer it doesn't mean that they don't in fact last longer.
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As opposed to complaining about someone's complaints? How many levels lower is that?
You seem to misunderstand, I am not complaining. I am merely remarking upon the absurdity of the "issue" in question.