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

Tander said:
I wish these sort of threads would stop. It's BETA FFS. Unless we see GM release with these issues - stop bitchng.
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This is a forum for iOS 7, which is in beta...how are people supposed to discuss non-beta issues with the OS? Perhaps petion MR to remove this forum if it bothers you that concerns are discussed here.

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jabingla2810 said:
The multitasking video is how it works in iOS 6. It's because the apps aren't "running" in the background so they take a little time to get back into a "running" state. Nothing to fix there.

The unlock one however is infuriating when you live with iOS 7 and needs to be fixed. iOS 6 lets you swipe to other home screen pages before the animation is finished.
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True. I've noticed the same issue on my Note 8".
 
I'm on 6.1.4 and the unlocking or multitasking "test" produced on iOS6 is almost identical to the one you posted.

What lag are you talking about? Its been there even on iOS6. Nobody scrolls that quickly.
 
jabingla2810 said:
When you live with iOS 7 it becomes annoying.

Sure we're talking first world problems here, but things should get faster as we move forward, not slower. And if you unlock your iPhone 30 times a day (And thats being VERY conservative) it adds up and it becomes annoying.





So if somebody hasn't mentioned something by now, we can never discuss it?

So what if the OP only now made this topic, so what, if you're not interested in it just move along.
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So, 1min max time lost in a day then? Surely you jest?
 
jonnyb098 said:
Impatient little child trolls like this one, thats who. Seriously I knew kids are much more ADD now a days, but this takes it to a whole new level.

Maybe some meds will help.....:D
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It's tens of millions of loyal long time iPhone users who are devastated by this unlock lag.:eek:
 
MacDawg said:
Meh, doesn't look like normal usage to me, and that is what the OS and UI are designed for
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During day to day normal usage, this has not caused me any frustration. Only someone purposely testing it is truly going to be bothered....and probably even more annoyed now that they are so aware and focused on it.
 
Mrg02d said:
So, 1min max time lost in a day then? Surely you jest?
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Imagine if your mentality was implemented thirty years ago, and every year people would say "only 1 minute improvement on this new generation of hardware? Lets not waste our time with that"

Fast forward to today and you're waiting 30 minutes more to boot your device rather than 1 minute less.

Little strokes... ;)
 
Omg I would not update if its like that. I went through this same problem on my jailbroken iPhone for a few days before finding out it was caused by one of the packages I installed. It was annoying.
 
You have to be kidding me. An 0.5 second lag and you felt the necessity to not only moan about it, but also post it online?

Wow, talk about first world problems.

Not only is this a BETA (pre-release software which contains a plethora of bugs) but also....who uses their phone like that? Who actually does an app switch and at the same time tries to swipe around?

Some people are just ridiculous. If you don't like it, make your own mobile OS.
 
mKTank said:
People other than you. This whole "it doesn't apply to me therefore it shouldn't be fixed" mentality is annoying as hell and you should be ashamed.
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I don't use the phone like that either, it loosk like having a seasure or being on fire, lol. That said, the animoation is a bit slow but personally have not come accross a situation when I felt annoyed by it. Ideally animation speed should be adjusted to the user's preferences on the Accessibility section of settings. Just like the text size, reduce motion etc.
 
This thread is useless without the same demo on iOS 6. I have been using iOS 7 since beta 1 and the animations have yet to bother me.
 
considering i've used iOS 7 since beta 1, and have never swiped like that....i don't think i will ever be driven nuts by that....

actually...now that i think about it...who the heck uses their phone like that!?:confused:
 
With multiple threads on this very topic we already established and agreed on that there are extra animations in iOS 7 that last longer in duration. It's unclear if this might be something that will be changed by the time GM is released or not, as it's unclear if this is by design (basically to make things look more "cool"/"interesting" in some way--form over function) or not and is either due to some extra debugging code in betas and/or an actual bug of some sort.

At this point the only thing we can really do is wait and see what it will be like when the GM/final is out and what it looks like then (and even compare it what it will be like on the new iPhone model when it will be released). It's likely that it will be mostly the same where all of this was added for looks at the cost of some usability unfortunately. That's ultimately more or less all there's to it at this point.
 
canucksfan88 said:
considering i've used iOS 7 since beta 1, and have never swiped like that....i don't think i will ever be driven nuts by that....

actually...now that i think about it...who the heck uses their phone like that!?:confused:
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I do. If I know the app I want is in a folder on page 2, I start to swipe immediately after I unlock the phone. As the video shows, I have to do it several times before it takes. That annoys me, but I do expect that the GM won't have that lag.

If you recall, there used to be a similar lag when opening a folder. You had to wait for the animation to complete before tapping an icon. That usually resulted in one or two false taps. That lag was gone in beta 5. I think they'll optimize swiping, too.
 
jonnyb098 said:
Impatient little child trolls like this one, thats who. Seriously I knew kids are much more ADD now a days, but this takes it to a whole new level.

Maybe some meds will help.....:D
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That's quite a dumb reply you have there. The animations are slow OS-wide. It makes operating the phone a slower process than before. If anything, maybe you need some meds to speed up reaction time since you seem to have no problem with staring at animations for 3 seconds.
 
Steve would want it faster

I think he's just pointing out that the lack of interactivity during animations makes iPhone's appear slower compared to Windows Phones and Androids. The only thing that impressed me about the Windows Phone was the responsiveness. If that speed was carried over to the iPhone I would be ecstatic.

And as one of the earlier commenters noted with jailbroken mods, it is certainly possible.

Jack97 said:
oh my what a huge issue! You have to wait a whole 2 seconds for your phone to unlock?!


get some perspective, man.
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What is this thread about? Animation lag or not being able to interact with the UI until the animations are complete? Two completely different topics—the first is hardware: Remember beta 4 where the animations were sped up at the expense of smoothness? Even on the 5? This will be solved with the 5S, as someone already mentioned. What's funny is that when someone rebutted that not being able to swipe in-transition UI elements was a software issue, nobody noticed that the posters (indeed, all the posters on this thread) were talking about two separate issues. Usually the moderators are responsible for this type of mess due to thread consolidation. This time, they can be the instruments of reason and split the damn thing.
 
cleo1 said:
What is this thread about? Animation lag or not being able to interact with the UI until the animations are complete? Two completely different topics—the first is hardware: Remember beta 4 where the animations were sped up at the expense of smoothness? Even on the 5? This will be solved with the 5S, as someone already mentioned. What's funny is that when someone rebutted that not being able to swipe in-transition UI elements was a software issue, nobody noticed that the posters (indeed, all the posters on this thread) were talking about two separate issues. Usually the moderators are responsible for this type of mess due to thread consolidation. This time, they can be the instruments of reason and split the damn thing.
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The iPhone 5 is by no means slow, it shouldn't have this problem. Running a dual core 1.3gHz cpu should make the animations pretty smooth.
 
mKTank said:
That's quite a dumb reply you have there. The animations are slow OS-wide. It makes operating the phone a slower process than before. If anything, maybe you need some meds to speed up reaction time since you seem to have no problem with staring at animations for 3 seconds.
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First off, the animations are not three seconds. Yes its slower and yes its annoying. However these videos are grossly exaggerated. No one swipes their phone that quickly.
 
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