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?
Where is BLN when you feel the need to chuckle at his hate for the icons?
Many others railed at the icons and are now reduced to speechlessness. Likely, BLN observes a fait accompli and preserves his railing for future insults from the UI designers. In that way he is very progressive. 🙂
I LOVE IT!!!
Has anyone figured out how to change the font size once you’ve touched the Safari “reader” button? In ios6 it gave you an icon at the top to change the font of the re-rendered page, which was VERY useful.
And now, to my eyes, the reader (on the iPad, at least) renders the font TOO SMALL.
Anybody know how to change it?
NOTE: I’m not asking how to change font sizes system-wide, or in supported apps. I’m asking how to change font sizes in the safari pages that are re-rendered when you touch the “reader” button.
Thanks!
It’s in the address bar, 4 lines and on the left side of the address.
I know how to turn reader on, I just want to make the font it’s using bigger. You can do that in ios 6, but the button is gone in ios 7.
Love it! No complaints so far! Love the new features and keep finding more! Good job Jony Ive!!
Well while trying to edit this before posting I found that the magnifying glass that comes up when trying to move ur cursor is a bit off. Makes it a little hard to perform edits acturately.
Just downgraded my iPhone 4 from ios7 back to 6.1.3. Long live Steve Jobs , good bye apple. Now need to sell my apple stock and that will be it.
See ya. Good luck.
Poor Sap. So your disappointed that you only got three years use out of your iPhone? See ya!
By the way, iOS7 works just fine on my Wife’s iPhone4 and even better on my 4S. Why do you think all these phone carriers have new contracts that let you get a new phone every year? It’s because you will be lucky if that next Non-iPhone will even last a year. And don’t even hold your breath for an update for it! Your going to need the profits of that AAPL stock to support the next three years of androids your going to have to buy. “A fool and his money are soon parted”
Quick downloads for iPhone and iPad, no problems, works fine.
Upgrade went well after waiting a few hours to allow for the initial download pile-up to pass.
Upgraded iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod 5 and iPad 3.
First impressions, just the looks:
Good:
– I like the paradigm very much.
Less good (nothing that cannot be easily fixed though):
– I’d like to see much less of the all-dominant greyness. It takes away from the intended 3D-effect. The icons in the folder icons used to be fairly distinct in 6, they are less so in 7 due to diminished contrast. Transparency in the folder grey would help a lot.
– The interface has become brighter, not good when you are into astronomy! I want it darker instead.
– The folders are much less efficient in using available space, more actions needed to get to a large portion of my apps.
In the Bad department:
In general readability has gone way down because of flimsy font and white backgrounds. Enabling bold lettering only helps a little bit. The passcode screen for instance was no problem in full daylight in 6, now it’s invisible…….
Love it! But you guys need to update your app and make it iphone 5 compatible. Screen wise at least.
I absolutely love it. Like a great big spring clean. Upgraded 4 household devices so far and two to go.
its working beautifully i like the simplicity and the nice touches like the red line play meter in i tunes i am sick to death of the crawling bubble bar. the thing runs as we say in the high sierras “slicker than snot”
Looks clean , new features great ..design is always subjective but even though it does not knock my socks off it seems a minor trade off to get the new features … And who knows the look will probably grow on me as time passes….
Anyone tried using it in the dark yet? It is way too bright! Any way to dim the light short of putting sunglasses on? I have brightness at the lowest level. Do whit pixels use more battery than black ones?
On screen Keyboard is very unresponsive when switching to special characters.
IPhone 4 now runs like a slug but all other devices are OK.
I feel like I’ve been downgraded.
Nice but what happened to Safari reader button
It’s there
In the address bar. The 4 lines on the left off the address.
Can a brother get a poll going somewhere to the left? Love it. Meh. Hate it. That should sum it up.
Or a sister. I don’t get care who actually gets the poll going. Just saying.
Good self save, bro
Nice put what happen to Safari reader button
My biggest annoyance is the 9 apps at a time displayed in a folder. If I wanted to swipe, I’d have more home pages. Go back to 20 at a time please Apple.
Still don’t care for the lack loss of drop shadows and reflections on the icons or the pastel color palette.
Otherwise I’m very happy with the improvements.
yeah, I’m with you on the 9 per folder thing. I get that they’re showing the same 9 icons but it’s a step down for sure.
What happened to weather and stocks in the pull down notification screen? How can I get it back?
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Just fantastic!
I don’t care for the flatness too much. And there are a lot of “bad” design decisions in the graphics. Too much gets lost against a plain background. In the control panel, when you look at some of the icons on the right they practically blend into the background.
I come from a graphic background and I sort of am tired of web designers and even some app designers who lack basic “page layout” knowledge. Things have to read and maybe not leap out at you but they have to flow. You shouldn’t have to search with your eyes to find what you want.
This even goes to Apples web site design at times. It varies but there are pages that are really…a mess. Heck, even iTunes is nothing easy to read through if you got a big library.
They build these big displays and take no advantage of it. Everything is scaled to laptop screens and even then, they’re tiny.
It seems like everybody is still building wen sites even for old 15″ monitors and nothing else. It’s like still filming movies so they fit on a square 20″ inch tube tv only.
I like a lot of it but I feel they wanted to make a break so bad they threw out some common sense things.
I’m seeing a significant increase in battery drain on my iPhone 5 after upgrading to iOS 7. Anyone else seeing this?
Saw this as well. As Spark suggested earlier, turn off any notifications you don’t need. After the update I had all apps on in notification center. This was not as it was before the update. Also push for me was on. This also was not on before updating.
Yes! I am experiencing crazy bad battery life on my iPhone 5. I will try the notification center suggestions. However I can’t see why receiving notifications would make a huge difference.
Overall the experience is very good, a worthwhile update. Alone thing however stand out. In all the home screens, all the letters depicting various programs are white. On some new home screens, it is difficult to actually read what folders,programs etc because the the white fonts blanches out to near the background and makes it difficult to read at a glance
Perhaps Apple will create new home screens with the font being black
So far, love it. Still getting used to it. Like the Control Center. Super handy. New camera features are cool. Overall usability will go way up once I figure out ALL the new tweaks. A winner in my book.
Why can’t I see stocks and weather on the pull down notification screen on my 4s?
While it took me a while to get it installed due to connection errors, I love the new iOS since it finally installed. Can’t get over the fact that it is really better than the previous iterations. And, MDN, you are correct! I love my iRadio. Definitely much better than Pandora.
Mostly like it –
Exceptions (so far)
– put the delete button back on password screen. “Delete” is dumb and unclear.
– I WANT YELLOW NOTES BACK! It is easier on the eyes than simple white. I also like the lines. Helps me mentally organize
> I WANT YELLOW NOTES BACK!
Indeed! Leather gone is good, nearly invisible buttons and separators are bad.