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?
I would like to hear about any new and hidden features that people are discovering.
There is a difference in the calendar between the iPad and the iPhone. Maybe because of the screen size, the iPad gives more detail in the month view.
No problems at all so far, great update!
I’m still getting used to it. My first impression was that it looked like a bag of skittles candy puked all over my phone. Once I switched to a darker home screen background, that helped a bit.
Being left-handed, the swipe from the left to go back option is making me a little nuts. Where’s the “use left-handed” option in settings?
The animations are a little slow for me. I’d like a way to either skip or shorten them.
Love love love the Photos app. The Years view puts the last several years of my life in a whole new perspective.
Only been using for 30 mins, but so far biggest disappointment is only showing 9 apps at a time in folders.
It has many nice, new features; oddly though, graphically less appealing to me than iOS 6. Simple things like the phone buttons: I prefer big rectangles over smaller circles. Simplification is good, but I think a lot was changed because it COULD BE rather than NEEDED TO BE.
We’ll, basically I like it and despite the fact that it is VERY different from previous versions of iOS basic usage is all the same!
I wonder why AirDrop isn’t available to older devices. It uses wifi or Bluetooth both of which are available in older devices.
I miss having the ability to post to Facebook from the notification screen.
I am getting some interference with the control center. I try to move a tab in a particular app and keep pulling up the control center instead.
The new UI is very bright. Both in actually light levels and in the intensity of the color. The layered/moving wallpaper is cool and intriguing.
Time will tell, but I see little if any degradation in the user experience.
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AirDrop uses a dedicated ad-hoc WiFi network and needs its own separate hardware for that. So it doesn’t use BT or the standard WiFi. Only the later devices have the AirDrop antennae…..
Made my iPhone 4 come ALIVE again! Liking it so far…!
iOS7 turned my iPhone 4 into a slow ugly mess. The new interface is absolute shite!!!
I am going back to iOS6.
I am fairly in awe of the new capabilities of iOS 7, but the color palette seems less professional and more 13 year old girl. Purple fonts? C’mon man! But again, I love the capabilities of the iOS. The up swipe access to turn off and on airplane mode, wifi, and Bluetooth actually makes it easier to turn off the Bluetooth/wifi, letting me save battery life. And way to go Safari– love the improvements.
Love it. It intelligently combined all my news apps in one logical place. Did that for other apps as well. So many things I am still discovering. And, and… I love the new Notes App. Clean like paper, it is.
Made the mistake of putting 7 on my iPhone. NOT making the same mistake with my iPad. Everyone seems to love it so what do I know?I DO know that the constantly bright UI looks very Playskool and is a pain at night.
I love the new effect in messages. When I scroll down the messages seem to bump into each other
I am wondering why keypad on my iPhone 5 became not very responsive, and at times it accumulates my typing into rapid successive letters. It happened with everything I typed, either message, notes, and even putting in my passcode. This did not happen in my 128 GB iPad 4
Hey! Where did my ” APP STORE ” icon go after upgrading to iOS7?
APP STORE icon? I figured it out. never mind…
LOVE iOS 7!
Thank you Apple Inc!
Can not wait for Mavericks OSX!
Thx Jony
I just updated my 3rd generation iPad, and I have to say I’m anything but impressed…
It’s quite laggy – but hopefully this issue will be resolved soon.
What really bothers me, though, is that the blur/transparency effect doesn’t seem to be available my device! I remember having read that it wouldn’t work on iPhone 4, but it wasn’t mentioned anywhere that it’s not supported by ipad 3. I checked apples website beforehand to see if any features wouldn’t work and it wasn’t listed there, and although there’s a myriad of articles on updating your device to ios7 (and I read a couple of those), none of them mentioned this. The only info I found when googling the problem were forum posts saying that it was removed in one of the beta versions although it had worked before, and people there were still hoping it would come back in time for the official release.
… Well, it didn’t, and it looks ugly. A lot uglier than the new icon everyone is so upset about.
(There is a very simple transparency effect without blur – notification center and Siri look pretty much black, and control center a terrible grey-ish color. For some reason, though, spotlight search and multitasking have the ‘normal’ blurred transparency and look fine.)
Apart from that it seems fine – it will probably feel better once all the new transitions and everything run more smoothly.
Unfortunately, there really aren’t that many other noticeable new features for me; iTunes Radio (which I was very exited about) is only available in the US at the moment.
Oddly enough, the new method for closing apps (“throwing” them upwards) reminds me of the Blackberry Playbook, as does the look and feel of scrolling through the apps that are open. Nothing impractical about this design in my opinion, but I was a little surprised to see anything reminiscent of a Blackberry!
Love the new IOS 7. Bit of a lag in places on my iPad 3 in places (such as changing wallpapers).
Just found though that my car will now no longer see or connect to my iPhone via Bluetooth. I’ve deleted the pairing, but no joy. I have a 2013 A5 using the Audi MMI (latest generation)
I have a 2013 VW and had the same problem. It would connect sometimes but not stay connected. trying to use siri on bluetooth is also a hassle, won’t hear anything correctly.
i am enjoying it, but have 2 immediate complaints.
1. there is no longer an intuitive way to close apps running in the background anymore. anyone know how to do this?
2. i was hoping they would fix the contacts app. i hate that i can no longer directly view contacts in a group. i have to unselect all groups then select the group i want to see then go back to see the group. i preferred the old method (2 iOS versions ago) when you select a respective group you can view it immediately. performing a search is counterproductive in those scenarios for me. i generally am not looking for a specific contact, but looking for a group and all it’s contacts.
1. If you mean force quitting apps, just double click home button, then you will see app icons and their corresponding “app cards”. Just flick the app card off the screen and it will quit the program.
Finding it really harsh on the eyes, not pleasant to look at, even after going to the accessibility settings and turning on bold and contrast. surprised that turning on bold immediately foreced a restart.
Love it. Totally different but still easy and intuitive. 12 hours and using it all like itnevercjangef.
Looks dainty, washed out, and cheap. A huge mistake by Apple! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Very disappointing!
Thx Jony. Nice work. Lighter, faster, easier to read with my old eyes that should have lenses in front of them! Great new features, Craig(?). Took 4 hours of trying to get both devices updated, would live to know how many updated in the first 5 hours!
IOS 7 is great in terms of features and functions, but the UI is terrible.
All the colors are light, so it is hard to see what’s what. The lines and the font are very thin, so it’s hard to see them against the blinding backgtround. Since the icons are abstract, it’s hard to tell what they stand for. There are almost no dark colors, which means very little constract between one thing and the next. There are also some questionable color choices, such as the Invisible Blue for text (the color they use for nonprinting characters in Pages) and especially when that shade of blue is on a lime green background on the iPhone. Almost completely unreadable.
It’s true that the UI doesn’t get in the way of the content, but it’s almost entirely absent. It’s like a picture of a polar bear eating vanilla ice cream while sitting on an ice flow during a blizzard at noon in the arctic. Too much white on white. The UI definitely needs better color choices, more contrast between colors, and thicker lines.
I suppose the flat “design” is supposed to look contemporary or sometthing, but to me it just looks like the developers took the easy way out.
I’d recommend going to the Apple Store and having an extended session with IOS 7 before upgrading. IOS 7 is a great operating system, but it would be even better of the UI weren’t written in invisible ink.
It’s like you read my mind word for word.
You can send feedback to:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
t “Insert CEO last Name” at apple.com
@craigfederighi on Twitter
I know about the feedback URL. I’ve used it many times. I have heard that they actually read it but I have never seen any evidence that it’s true. It’s a bottomless suggestion box positioned over a wastebasket.
Great. Download and install on my three devices was flawless. So far, the new features are great. One non apple cable got a warning, the Amazon basic one did not.