Why iOS 7 will drive some of you nuts: UI lag due to slow animations [video inside]

[Altis]

where else does it lag at?

Even in messages app, settings, etc. it's most noticable when you tap the wrong button and want to go back, because you know where to tap while waiting for it to register.

Music controls get really laggy the more you use them.

Setting triple-click home to anything makes all your home buttons take a lot longer to register. I need this to invert colours as the white is blinding at night.

Why does it need to take longer? It already waits for 2 clicks... If it hasn't registered a second click in that window, it's not going to get a third...

 

[xxBURT0Nxx]

iOS 7 really kills workflow for me. I'm one of these people that knows the next 3 taps before the screen even shows the buttons. I'm just so familiar with the phone/apps. iOS6 was excellent for this because the animations were so minimal and the phone was usually on par with the average person's reaction time (animations stopped a good measure of time before you were ready to tap on something). With iOS7, I'm constantly waiting for the interface to finish its showboating before tapping on the next object. If I tap while the animation plays after unlocking the phone, either swiping doesn't work yet (for like 2 whole seconds) or the app icon will be highlighted but won't actually open until the animation stops.

I'm really bored with how slow iOS7 is because of this. I'd go back to iOS6 in a heartbeat and never look back if I could, but I can't. The only alternative is that keep begging Apple to stop ruining the experience with animations that are far too long or at least offer a feature (like Android) to change animation speeds.

Another thing: if you're one of those people completely fine with the animations (which is fine) but keep insisting that we're using our phones wrong and to "relax" or any of that crap, just save yourself the energy and get out. Not all of us use our phones like seniors. Believe it or not some people out there have the familiarity and reaction speed to find iOS7 animations too slow. You don't? Great, but you don't represent us, so stop trying to.

so you expect for all of your "muscle memory" to still work in a completely changed OS??? You think that you are going to be able to click the same spots you would have on iOS 6 and they should still work on iOS 7?? They CHANGED the OS... if you didn't want CHANGE and for things to be DIFFERENT why did you download it?

Also there is no lag unlocking the phone, you can open an app before the animation is even complete, I have provided video proof. I can open and close apps freely without any lag pretty much as fast as one could want. I don't operate my phone like a grandpa, and there is no way there are 2 second lags in the OS. Maybe if you are on an iPhone 4 I can imagine some lag, but not on newer hardware. Contrary to your OPINION, a side by side comparison shows that apps are actually opening faster on iOS 7 most of the time, but because of a more exaggerated animation, people for some reason think that iOS 6 was faster. Just because there was a "faster" animation before does not mean that the app worked instantly like you people for some reason think it did.

 

[edhchoe]

If a white person says it takes too long, to a Korean that is forever. Things take forever on iOS 7.

 

[SA Spyder]

so you expect for all of your "muscle memory" to still work in a completely changed OS??? You think that you are going to be able to click the same spots you would have on iOS 6 and they should still work on iOS 7?? They CHANGED the OS...

That's missing the point completely. If you learn to use the phone faster, the animations won't allow you to.

Turns out iOS7 isn't dramatically difference in usage so I'm still left waiting for animations to finish before being able to do anything. Not everybody is as slow as you apparently are.

if you didn't want CHANGE and for things to be DIFFERENT why did you download it?

Bought the phone with it on. I'd have bought one with iOS6 but everyone has already updated it seems. Too bad.

Also there is no lag unlocking the phone, you can open an app before the animation is even complete, I have provided video proof. I can open and close apps freely without any lag pretty much as fast as one could want.

No, you can't open apps before the animation is complete. The icon will be highlighted (darkened) and the OS does register the touch, but the app won't "zoom in" or fill the screen until that first unlock animation is done.

It's not lag, it's animation length.

I don't operate my phone like a grandpa, and there is no way there are 2 second lags in the OS. Maybe if you are on an iPhone 4 I can imagine some lag, but not on newer hardware.

That's your opinion too. Turns out each of us have one. Mine was that the phone is too slow for a lot of people (I have a 5 by the way). Your little crusade to try to convince us that we're actually wrong and that the phone is actually perfect is laughably pathetic and you should stop.

Contrary to your OPINION, a side by side comparison shows that apps are actually opening faster on iOS 7 most of the time, but because of a more exaggerated animation, people for some reason think that iOS 6 was faster. Just because there was a "faster" animation before does not mean that the app worked instantly like you people for some reason think it did.

Doesn't matter if apps are opening faster, that wasn't the point of my post. It takes longer to get to be ABLE to open an app, and that's the main problem. iOS 7 does a lot of things faster, but the animations really cripple whatever speed advantage iOS 7 could have had. I could have my phone unlocked and an app open on iOS 6 while iOS 7 is still moving icons into place. And I tested that on my iPhone 5 vs. a 4S on iOS6.

Stop being so defensive. You're going to have to learn that you don't represent everyone, nor any kind of fact.

 

[xxBURT0Nxx]

Stop being so defensive. You're going to have to learn that you don't represent everyone, nor any kind of fact.

But you do????

I just can't understand how people say they lose so much time waiting for animations on the phone.

What is it that you are trying to accomplish that you are seeing so many animations? Usually if you want to get something done, you open an app, and do what you need to do. You don't switch around between apps every two seconds and now a task is taking you so much longer on iOS 7 than it would have before. I don't think you would have been getting much done if all you do is switch around between apps enough that this is seriously a problem to you.

 

[SA Spyder]

But you do????

I just can't understand how people say they lose so much time waiting for animations on the phone.

What is it that you are trying to accomplish that you are seeing so many animations? Usually if you want to get something done, you open an app, and do what you need to do. You don't switch around between apps every two seconds and now a task is taking you so much longer on iOS 7 than it would have before. I don't think you would have been getting much done if all you do is switch around between apps enough that this is seriously a problem to you.

It's not your problem why I and many others don't like the length of the new animations. It's just slower workflow for us than iOS 6.

 

[xxBURT0Nxx]

you must have a really productive workflow staring at animations all day instead of, you know, being inside of an app, getting the stuff done that you need to get done.

 

[BenTrovato]

When you double tap and scroll through the open apps, it feels like I'm using Windows Me on a 486 DX2/66. Fricken horrible. I like iOS 7 but the lag is a but much to have released a product like this. I hope they fix it sooner rather than later.

 

[Fission]

They'll fix it guys. I've seen the 5s, with its super mondo a7 64bit, lag the same as my 5. No way apple intended this to be the norm.

 

[Fission]

When you double tap and scroll through the open apps, it feels like I'm using Windows Me on a 486 DX2/66. Fricken horrible. I like iOS 7 but the lag is a but much to have released a product like this. I hope they fix it sooner rather than later.

Try swiping on the small app icons instead of the open icons. Much faster and smoother.

 

[forza69]

I'm glad I don't have to deal with this.

 

[C DM]

And, as page after page keeps on demonstrating, quite a few of those who don't care about and/or don't notice this somehow keep on trying to put down those who do (for whatever reason)...all while they still don't care about and/or notice it.

And they also clearly don't get the underlying issue--which is simply that of altered/different user experience--probably largely because they don't care about and/or notice it, and probably never really will, despite any explanations that have been provided or will be provided by those who do notice it and care about it. Kind of makes it pointless to engage replies of that sort since it won't result in anything useful.

 

[Bugeyeblue]

Not being able to open apps until the animation is done when unlocking the phone is really annoying. Just as annoying - opening the phone app, clicking on a favorite contact to call, and the app refreshing in the middle of touching the contact, I call the wrong person. I want to unlock my phone and call my work quickly. I do it a lot.