Apple released iO 7 today.
iOS 7 has hundreds of new features, including Control Center, Notification Center, improved Multitasking, AirDrop, enhanced Photos, Safari, Siri and introduces iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service based on the music you listen to on iTunes. In addition, iOS 7 has been engineered with deep technical and design integration with both iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c.
iOS 7 runs on iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later, iPad mini and iPod touch (fifth generation).
So, provided you successfully navigated your way through the flood of traffic that ensued with so many downloading the new operating system for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and/or iPad mini, what do you like or dislike about iOS 7?
Love.
Love it. Been using it since first beta, was great to watch the progress. I’m really impressed at how quickly they got this to GM. I’ve also had no major problems compiling for 7. Spritekit needs a bit more work but will really take off when devs start adding support for level layout etc… I think this is a great release, and will really spur a lot of excitement in IOS.
Why did this get down voted?
I love the new iOS. My only disappointments so far:
– the Parallax is so weak, even with Apple’s dynamic and static range of images, that it really is a negligible feature. If it consumes any significant amount of energy I’d sooner turn it off.
– iTunes Radio is playing mostly my own music or music by the artists I’ve indicated I like, even when the Tuner is set all the way on discovery… I was hoping they would at least avoid playing anything I’ve already purchased. Otherwise I love it and I know it’ll be the most used feature for me.
– Wish I had the ability to invite contacts thought the Calander using iMessageand to strictly email. Anyone know if you can airdrop invitations to Calander events? Is Facebook the only alternative to email?
you forgot the ugly childish cartoonish inconsistent design and colours of the apps. A 12 year old could have designed those ugly fairy coloured apps.
Beautiful
Mucho likey. Can’t wait to install.
Hopefully Samsung and Microsoft’s innovative research departments got their iOS 7 download so they can get started copying … I mean innovating again.
Feels like i got a new iPhone.. and still cant wait with 5s.
Truly glad so many people love it. For my part, I’m not sure I even like it.
My main bitch: The whole experience seems like Jony playing with himself at the expense of usability. iow, feels like my iDevices just went for smart beauties to dumb blonds.
– too much hipster white; doing simple things like reading email, or using the phone at night is like staring into a flashlight. wish there was a basic black option for excessively Ive’d apps.
– in practice, transparency and parallax are more silly than useful/elegant
– moving between web pages via swipe gestures doesn’t work well.
– app switching used to be fast, now I only see three apps in the tray and need to swipe though three pages if I want to see the same number of apps I could prevoulsly see.
– lots of little points of laggyness (on the latest gear)
– notifications used to show multiple info from multiple apps, now it shows one per screen
sadly, I do like the new font treatments, but Jony pinched that from android.
Flame away.
This is precisely my issue. We gave up faux 3D and textures so Jonny could fap himself with a white iPhone
warbux, shockme (or are you one in the same?)
I really hope you are being compensated for ‘turfing. I’m serious. Because otherwise hanging out in news forums for a product you hate and posting nonsense would be utterly pathetic…
Question:
Have you given a good stare in a mirror recently? Because when you think about it, neither of those scenarios is particularly flattering.
I wish I was turfing. But the icons and colors are just a mess. The world just got uglier today.
I like many things about the new release, but I’m experiencing some eye issues and as a result, certain icon sizes and how things overlay, it’s often very hard to read/understand. I may be having eye issues, but think about older people with compromised sight. Is this an OS for just the middle aged and younger?
Some examples, look at the Find Your Phone search indicators…ridiculously small. The faintness of commands/icons on the lower part of the screen (bookmarks, mic, return, Airdrop, etc) also seem to be designed for a slice of users with little visual challenge–if any.
iOS# up until 6 was for all ages – accepted by ages 1 to 99 – easy to understand and use. iOS7 has improvements yet should have offered options for skinning modifications or custom appearances. Classic iOS or new.
I’m in complete agreement with you. I’m in my 60s and don’t see as well as I used to. This flat interface of iOS 7 strains my eyes terribly. I can’t enjoy using my iPad anymore. Not to have the choice of reverting back to 6.1.3 is appalling.
Why can’t you offer a choice of interfaces? I’ll definitely have to look into the Samsung Galaxy or some alternative. I’ve been a faithful customer and user of both the iPad and iPhone. Apple has let me down big time now. I’m very disappointed because obviously there’s nothing I can do about my aging eyes. I got along just fine with iOS 6 and most definitely will not be upgrading my iPhone.
You’re about to lose a good customer through no fault of my own. You’re driving me away.
I’ve bought iPads for four different people but now with iOS 7 I will not be buying anymore.
Please give us a choice of interfaces.
People like you ruin this forum. Totally incapable of accepting the another’s perspective on anything apple if its it line with your own.
It’s unbelievably pathetic.
I don’t agree with all his points, but that does not make then invalid or deserving of scorn.
My reply was meant to be to Tesselator if that’s it obvious btw.
And the word ‘not’ belongs as the 6th last word in the first paragraph.
🙂
Oh puhlease his “problems” are all from the proverbial turfer talking point list
It doesn’t look like android, you could make a case for it taking some styling points (the thin fonts & edge to edge) from windows mobile or even the Zune like but Android? naaaa… android has always just been a mess UI wise no one would copy that.
The new app switcher is slow scrolling? Well except if you scroll on the app icons instead of the previews… he didn’t mention that… curious?
It’s slower? If anything it’s noticeably quicker (at least on my 5) particularly Safari.
Little glitches?, it is smooth and fast (better not worse than it’s predecessor on my phone and iPad) though I admittedly haven’t tried it on the 3 year old iPhone 4
I hate to be rude Tess but since you are so indefatigably obtuse, here’s some truth for you: in all probability, the value of my current AAPL position is far greater than your present and future lifetime earnings.
Still believe that I’m doing Samsung’s bidding for a 10¢ a post?
Oh and I’m flying my Gulfstream 650 to hollywood tonight to my Malibu beachfront house to see my wife…. Morgan Fairchild
You know Im not convinced you aren’t all the same person.
Who are you going to reply next as?
Interesting, I never said samsung….
And…. how did you know they are paying 10¢ a post?
good point Balance,
yeah scorning – name calling – hatred etc have no place here this is an open and free forum. everyone has a valid opinion
tessellator,
you attack a person with insults on their opinion of iOS7
its you who is pathetic… warbux didnt say he/she hated any product – iOS7 is nothing with out the hardware – the two things go together as a product – the main bitch was iOS7 feels Jony gave us a dumb blonde.. and gave us actual points where he/she held dislike — not hate.
@ warbux – thx u for your honesty
Sadly, I agree … I’m having a bad experience in that I’m finding iOS 7 a real eye strain to look at. This is the first time ever that this has happened to me with an Apple update.
Go to Settings/General/Accessibility/Increase Contrast. Also, you can turn on bold, which helps. The whole design of iOS 7 reminds me of an appliance.
The controls, font, and type face, and type color are similar yo my dryer and washer. They are both 5 years old, so that design may have been abandoned by the manufacturer.
So far, I’m dealing with the changes, but miss the richness of the icons, the current layout is a little too bright to my taste.
Would like the option to change an icon’s appearance like on the desktop.
All that said, it still works and I like the added functionality.
I tried the contrast controls but didn’t notice any difference. The hardest app to see for me is actually the phone app.. The text is a light grey on white, while other apps have red or black text…
Try adjusting your brightness controls. I found I needed to turn my brightness down, which is great for improving battery life as a nice side effect.
You can now change font sizes with Dynamic Type as well as add in contrast. There also is an option to reverse the color scheme, this may help you. I actually think it looks pretty cool.
I don’t really like the new Calendar and the Inboxes for email accounts. I don’t see the numbers quickly and easily in Mail. This could be remedied by changing the blue number to a red circle with the number of unread emails in it.
To your suggestion, I tried adjusting the brightness, but I found that I needed to take it down so far that the entire interface looked grey.
Here’s the weirdest thing I tried that actually got me close to what I’d like to see: in Settings>General>Accessibility, there is an toggle to Invert Colors. This made my mail, phone, & calendar look exactly like I want them to look. Unfortunately, it made things like photos, videos, and many app icons look a little strange.
So here’s my plea: any dev that writes an app that lets me selectively invert the colors (i’m envisioning toggle by app), I’ll buy your wares.
spend some of that stock you have
and buy a company to develop your own
Please send Jony Ive back to hardware, the only space in which his brilliance is confirmed. Skeuomorphic or not, the icons are so trite they look like they were peeled from a toddler’s sticker book.
The “simplify” mantra is open to many interpretations; this one is infantile in the extreme, in tone as well as manner. Regarding nothing more than the visual images themselves, they invoke the patronizing voice of a pre-school teacher, “That’s very nice, Jony.”
I like it but was expecting snappier. I have some lag when Bremen pressing the home button and the home screen appearing. Compared to another iPad that hasn’t been updated the difference is very noticeable.
I don’t think that’s lag, I think it’s an intentional delay to make a smoother transition to the zooming effect (on an iPhone 4S). I think Apple could reduce the delay a bit and still achieve the desired effect.
I am still evaluating. Some things I like… And some things I Don’t. One thing that was a huge disappointment to me is happening radio or whatever they’re calling it. As a Pandora user for years, Apple is nowhere close. Example: Sting Radio. The first song is Sting and the rest are classical. It is the same kind of mis-hits on all channels I sellect. Pandora is spot on.
It is a Complete Disaster!! What market was apple targeting–the preschoolers–where we learn basic colors? My $700 iphone now looks like a $1 toy surprise out of a Cracker-Jack box. Seriously apple–you need to socialize your programmers a bit beyond pre-school.
Clearly you are a 12 year old girl or fag boy who loves fairy colours and ugly horrible designed apps. Those apps are horrendous and look cartoonish and childish.
Steve Jobs would do it better
It’s amazing. I catch myself smiling all the time as a navigate around and find new features. It’s like the first time I used my original iPhone in 2007!
My download/installation has gone on for over 2 hours now. I’m not complaining – it’s awesome that their servers are getting pounded harder than a Jersey girl on a Saturday night!
Fewer bugs, hopefully.
Pounded harder than a Jersey girl? Ha ha, did you just make that up then?
Experience my good man, experience.
Aren’t you from Philly?
Yeah, but he hits Jersey on the weekends. Live in Philly, lust in Jersey.
Have you ever noticed; you can go into NJ free, but if you want back out -it’s going to cost you-
Just saying…
I went to NJ once, and when I got back, my sweater, it smelled like New Jersey
—Roseanne Roseannadanna
Cubert is still struggling with his unintended ‘virtue’ and dubious success with females since he moved out from his mother’s basement. He is striving for some experience without having to pay for it.
Really dickhead??
Pasted the same mysogynistic, sterotypic comment from another thread. Boys will be boys, eh?
Not agonising, merely making a scholarly note in my journal. These tech unveilings can reveal more about social mores than about the tech itself; sort of like turning over a rock to see what crawls out.
I shall take your gallant word for it. 🙂
Still, I find it fascinating that technology and sexuality are so effortlessly intertwined in certain minds. Freud might have talked of projection. Do you suppose it’s because computer tech (and every other product, now I think of it) is constantly being pushed by marketing types—even by Steve Jobs himself—as needing to be sexy in order to sell?
If it really were that simple, could products just be simply rated on a scale from zero to Bo Derek? With accompanying and appropriate graphics, of course! That could save a lot of wasted words in tech reviews and cut down on pretentious blogs, and put the spec sheet boy out of business.
*Pounded harder than a Jersey boy.
Now this I’d have experience in 😉
Just funning you all anyway. Chaucer would fit right in with this lot, laughing and wenching all the way to Canterbury.
Aahh! hjs, the good old days of wenching all the way to Canterbury! Wenching or pounding done right can lead to great creativity in writing, inventing and song writing. Wenching or pounding done wrong leads to an evolutionary dead end. It makes less of a sum total of the possibilities we can strive to achieve by returning us to a caveman mentality. ugg!
Freakin love it!
❗️❗️❗️
Its Really Schnappy!!
The more I play with it, the more I like it. I turned on bold in the Accessibility Setting to make things more readable, and also adjusted the font size in Settings, and that has helped my old eyes. The only thing I’ve found that I can’t make work is scaling a photo to use as my home screen wallpaper. Fortunately, my current wallpaper is OK for me.
You need to turn on reduced motion in settings and that should work.
Thanks for the suggestion of turning on the Reduce Motion option temporarily in Settings/Accessibility. That allowed me to scale the photo to my desires just fine. I turned it back off after the adjustment so I could enjoy the parallax motion in the Home screen.
Agree with the bold type, I am seeing more and more of the superskinny type faces in all forms of advertising, change for the sake of change, hopefully a short term bling fad.
Like the colors a little bit than I thought I might. Liveable even if a bit overdone. If I had the choice, I would tone it down just a bit.
I like the way it operates, as someone else said, smooth operation.
Can’t say much about iTunes, I love music but not obsessed enough to have an app that does so many things that you would actually have to be obsessed to be willing to research the 100’s, thousands? of features. Have heard that Steve was obsessed with music in his later years, and as I said I love music, but don’t want the app to be the world, too much fun going on in the real world to want to hid there. Just my own personal rant.
I was just about to comment that some things are harder to read, but I’ll try your suggestion first. I think some of the new design is just ugly and feel like I’m looking at 16 bit color. Other things look nice. I just tried to check my calendar and didn’t enjoy that experience at all on the iPhone, but I’ll give it another look tomorrow. I’ll say it again, change for the sake of change…. However, I think I like parts of it better than I first thought I would, but then again, maybe a little bit of skeu
….skeu ain’t so bad after all.
Thanks for the tip about Bold. That’ll help my eyes and my wife’s. she complained about the font being too skinny.
Don’t forget you can increase contrast as well, or increase the font size.
I love the Siri/Twitter integration. It makes searching for things on Twitter so simple and elegant.
An Apple message tells me that my iPad3 is “not authorized to upgrade” to iOS7.
I got that too, try again, it will work I am sure.
Hi mate u have to into general in setting then to rest then erase all content and setting to do a fresh install I had the same problem
Very smooth. Still playing around with features, but it feels great. This wasn’t always the case with new a iOS on old hardware (I’m on an iPhone 4, but with a 5S on the shopping list ;-))
What a world of difference you are going to see!
Upgraded my iPhone and iPod touch, but the updating is not appearing for my iPad 3. Really like Control Center
Love using it. Like a new phone all over again. Even easier than it was at os6. Looks great and functions smoothly. Look for reasons to use it.
Started my download about 10 minutes after it was available in my time zone, took about 45 to download, install, and restart my iPad! Great! Loving it!
so far only updated the iPad.
Do NOT like the small folders.. nor the HUGE dock.
I do like much of the rest that I see so far.
Give me back the old dock.. and some of the old icons. The rest I like.
The iPhone 5 shows i’m up to date… lol.
Totally agree with the folders and the dock. The new iTunes has a confusing way of dealing with the folders too. Very clumsy.
So far, I’m loving it and so are my kids. 6 iPhones and an iPad to get updated tonight, maybe even a few iPods. Busy night.
Interesting MDN icon in above photo. It doesn’t match the icon on my iPad or iPhone. Umm…
MY FIRST THOUGHT ALSO:)
Well spotted, hopefully it means that they are going to release an update which makes full use of the iPhone, 5, 5C & 5S screen.
Wasn’t impressed by the new iPhone. Definitely impressed by ios7. Love it
Is anyone having problems with Siri or dictation since updating?
Nope it actually seems to work better more accurate. I’m actually dictating this comment.
The new options are awesome, I just don’t like the new look. Windows just made their logo square, now apple Apple has made their iOS square, flat, and 2D. The gray app folder background does not look great. I would like them to offer some theme option so I can get that 3D look back, where the buttons jump out at you. The look of floating app icons is awesome. The control center is great. The list of awesome features are endless.
Side note, when is MDN going to update this app to fit the larger screen? Thank you.
The “Gray” folders are really semi-transparent white squares. If or when you place wallpaper with some color behind them, they will no longer look gray. The default “space with stars” does turn the folders gray.
I love all the features, animations, fonts, even the flatness is nice… Except for the cartoony icons. They look like so,done drew a cartoon drawing of an iPhone.
My sentiments exactly…nice new features, hideous new look
The new calendar app SUCKS. The Maps user interface is much improved.
All u have to do is tap on the month and it will give u 30 calendar, and then tap on the year and it will give the whole year this is awsome
I like the calendar function changes; I’m not a fan of the sparse look. I think it needs a bit more color/transparency differentiation. Plus I can’t get used to the white icon.
I throughly enjoy the new look and feel. I also do not like the Calendar app. The borders between days and weeks and months are so subtle that they are nearly invisible. A little too cute with the flat design. This is a utilitarian application and the borders mean something. Otherwise, good on you Apple…and best of all it is free.
True. The Calendar app is virtually unusable for me now. If I select a day from month view, I don’t want to drill in to an hourly view… that doesn’t give me a snapshot for the whole day. Moreover, if I have multiple All Day events on a particular day, I can’t see them all as they get cut off. Horrible redesign without any thought put into it.
That being said, the rest of the iOS is phenomenal. Control Center, multitasking, Camera app, multi-page folders, etc. are all fantastic, and the new interface is far more contemporary and readable. All good stuff, except for the Calendar app.
I mostly like the week at a glance layouts, rather than jumping to the single day view. (ex dayrunner) Somthing the stock calender app has never had. If that is what you are looking for I would suggest you check out “easy calendar” and/or “week agenda”. I have them both (easy cal on the iPhone & agenda on the iPad) and love them.
Battery life took a big hit. (4s) Went from 100 to 40 percent in about 3 hours. I’m guessing it just needs some adjustments. I noticed everything was in notification center and push was on etc.. Any suggestions for improving battery life will be appreciated. Of course I could just wait a couple of days for the 5s to hit. Yea .. that’s the ticket an iPhone 5s will solve this
otherwise I think it will be great!
You are on the right track. Just shut down all the notification and push on most of the apps. There are really only a handful that I want doing that stuff anyway. I too have a 4S and have been running iOS 7 since June. After adjustments my battery life is fine, lasting easily all day under normal use. I charge nightly.
Thanks for the great info. I seem to remember doing this after iOS 6 hit. Good to now as I plan to get the 5s and will pass on the 4S to a friend who has gone about as far as possible with his 3G
After iTunes downloaded the updates, it took seven minutes for the iPhone 5 and 20 minutes for my iPad 3 to update.
Love it so far, updated both my iPhone 5 and my iPad 2. I am surprised Apple didn’t update the iBooks, and Find my Friends apps.
I Love The GM Version Of IOS 7!!!!!
and I had ios 7 beta the day after WWDC
love the colors
love the features
love the design
love it all!!!!!
I really like it so far. The only complaint I have right now is that when I create an event in Calendar, it only allows me to create one reminder/alert instead of two.
Yeah. I’ve been using the Calendar for a couple of months now and am not particularly happy with it.
Once you create the first Alert, the second Alert should be enabled so you can set it.