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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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Certainly the time people are spending participating in this post is way more than the cumulative lag time on their phone.
Seems funny that milliseconds are so precious yet some people will write a multi-paragraph post complaining about it.
Seems funny that milliseconds are so precious yet some people will write a multi-paragraph post complaining about it.
Probably because over daily use of their phone those milliseconds will still add up to be more than the time it takes to even compose and write a multi-paragraph post.
Probably because over daily use of their phone those milliseconds will still add up to be more than the time it takes to even compose and write a multi-paragraph post.
Hardly, especially if you factor in that person checking back to see if comments were made and maybe even replying with another witty complaint.
Even then, the complaining and responding actually serves some use to a person like that (even if just entertainment), while the extra duration of animations has no use at all to such a person (and in fact can even have annoying attributes).Hardly, especially if you factor in that person checking back to see if comments were made and maybe even replying with another witty complaint.
Probably because over daily use of their phone those milliseconds will still add up to be more than the time it takes to even compose and write a multi-paragraph post.
I don't think it's that the milliseconds add up, it's that it's frustrating to perform a gesture on your phone and have it ignored. If I want to go to page 2, I typically don't wait for the animation to finish. I swipe, and I keep swiping until it takes. I personally like the animations, I just hope we'll be able to interrupt them in the GM. My input to the screen should take precedence over an animation.
For me the animation speed in ios6 was already very annoying (that's why I jailbreak). If it's this bad in ios7 I will not install it. P
Oh wait, I wouldn't install it anyway without a jailbreak
Oh wait, I wouldn't install it anyway without a jailbreak
Oh man, I totally know what you mean. It's really annoying how you have to wait. When I workout I log each my workout sets in an app and I always get frustrated with waiting until my phone can function.
iOS has usually always prioritised user input over everything else. By the sounds of it, this has changed.
Can you still start scrolling in the other direction mid scroll? That's the main time I can think of where I regularly interrupt animations.
In the videos, they were swiping fast to show you the delay between unlocking the iPhone and being able to swipe between pages of apps or when changing app using the multitasking and before the app is usable.
I compared the two videos to my iPhone 4 (Running iOS:6), my 4 was definitely faster in both cases. This must be just a beta related thing.
I think they sped up some of the other animations, such as actually going into an app, but yes... the unlock one is still absolutely terrible. They need to speed it up a lot and make it interactive while it's still mid-animation.
If you're on iOS 6, try swiping to the next home screen page while it's still doing the unlock animation. It carries on doing the animation as it's being pushed off the page.
It needs to be like that again!
If you're on iOS 6, try swiping to the next home screen page while it's still doing the unlock animation. It carries on doing the animation as it's being pushed off the page.
It needs to be like that again!
^^please see quote from shandyman below \/
HIGHLY UNLIKELY (see quote from shandyman below \/).
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I happen to like the fading there and at other times w/iOS 7, and the animation/fade when turning it off was sped up about beta 4 or 5, so it will likely be a bit faster...but, what makes you think there will be clicking lock sounds anymore? That was skewmorphic, they could give us all new sounds in the GM, and I hope they do, it's time for a change!
If all you care about is function then go get a blackberry!! Some of us like art, and this is functional art, I like the animations, but, read quote above from shandyman^^ so, you see, if you care so much about function, then why are you wasting your time posting about something Apple is working on, this is one thing with betas that is very likely to change by the time it goes GM.
OP and all of you that agree with OP: you people act as if iOS 7 is finished and this is how it will be!? It's a total overhaul of iOS, so let them finish it! Everyone knows betas are not optimized for speed until the GM. If you can't deal with it go back to iOS 6 until the GM is released or shut the ef up already, this kind of post is driving me nuts, not iOS 7, iOS 7 is great!
Thanks iCaramba for the sarcasm, made me laugh, ...the only reason I kept reading this thread!
One good thing...at least no one mentioned battery drain in this thread, ...or the Photos icon. ;O)
I remember when people like you were sympathetic of the maps in ios 6. Calling it as just a beta.
Guess what, the GM came out and it still sucked
Guess what, the GM came out and it still sucked
I can see why this will annoy people, but I can honestly say I've never encountered the problem myself. I must use my phone really slowly!
Some voices agreed, others disagreed.
Looking at many of the user titles in this forum I'm not sure how many were around for previous betas. They may have been just lurking, who knows. The point is that there is a marked difference between betas and the GM and the next x.0.1 and higher releases in many areas including (and especially) performance. If history is an indication then GM will perform better than the last beta and x.0.1 will perform better than the GM, etc.
It's fun do discuss and speculate and rant but this has all happened before, is expected, and eventually the cylons and humans learn to live together.
If you're using beta software on an international space station, you probably deserve to be the fool who accidently doesn't save the human race from a freak asteroid invasion.
There are plenty of funny examples on here since the OP stated "those situations where waiting 2 seconds is not an open". In other words there ISN'T a situation that's realistic where those extra couple seconds will mean doom and gloom.
Just a whiner that can't wait the extra second for animation to complete....in a beta....that's filled with diagnostic and logging code.....yep.
You don't use your phone slowly, probably normally. These kids have had too many stimulants/caffeine
. But, in reality, that little bit of lag won't be there when apple is done.I put a lot of frequently used "mission-critical" apps on second page and I'm forced to look at the animation for no useful reason
Even apps on homescreen don't launch UNTIL the animation finishes.. that is terrible beyond belief.
Even apps on homescreen don't launch UNTIL the animation finishes.. that is terrible beyond belief.
Calm the hell down?!?!
Have you guys been using iOS 6? Do up a comparison with iOS 7 and 6 side by side. You'll realize this so called 'lag" is blown way out of proportion. It existed since iOS 6!
Have you guys been using iOS 6? Do up a comparison with iOS 7 and 6 side by side. You'll realize this so called 'lag" is blown way out of proportion. It existed since iOS 6!
iOS 6 is extremely slick and smooth on my iPhone 5.
But people need to calm down, once iOS engineers remove the debug headers from the betas of iOS 7 (or going GM) the GM will be as slick and as smooth as iOS 6.