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?
Only a few things not working the way I’d like. Lost is the ability to swipe and delete an email without actually opening it. Also, KTLA.com in Los Angeles does not stay active when streaming to AppleTV when the iPhone goes to auto lock. (I prefer not to keep the screen on). YouTube.com and the dedicated YouTube app continue to play on AppleTV even while other apps are active (like MDN). Thoughts? Fixes? Tweaks?
You can still swipe. Its just the reverse of swiping from left to right. You now swipe right to left and have a choice to do a couple of things.
Ah, there it is. So simple, as it should be. Still, the sleep thing is tricky. Maybe the KTLA website is powered by something Apple doesn’t like. Will keep experimenting.
Is that an APP from the App store? Perhaps thats what you need to try and use instead of the actual web site in mobile safari.
Love iOS 7! Still discovering the multitude of new features and improvements. Hoping they’ll also have an update for the Find My Friends ‘leather stitching'(?)
My opinion on iOS7….ok, here ya go. First, on the performance side…it works and works well, enough said on that. On the style side….
1. Minimalist style when it wasn’t necessary. I hate it when people change things just for the sake of changing things with no real justification. The old saying is true: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
2. The flatness of the design makes me feel like I’ve eaten salad, instead of steak…I’m still hungry.
3. User Interface designed by the Power Puff Girls…now just throw in a pony and Barbie and you’ve got a complete set.
4. Gold iPhone 5s, great for chicks, pimps, and metro guys. Gaudy for the rest of us. It should have stayed black or white. These are and will always be classic colors. In clothing, in cars, etc…The moment you deviate from that, your caught up in being trendy instead of being the symbol of quality.
5. As for the iPhone 5c. I didn’t know they still made Chicklets.
Overall it’s nice. Seems to work well. Have only come across a few little things. Haven’t found any of my programs that stopped working — which is quite impressive. I’ve got some pretty kludgy old stuff.
Some of the thin-line icons could be a darker grey. Bold text in Accessibility has helped, but I can’t see where Increase Contrast does much. The in-icon progress bars don’t show up when apps are updating (like on the Updates page). That’s a little too little information for me. I didn’t know what was going on at first. A thin border around some things would help (like the ones around just about everything being displayed in the App Store). Don’t like the 9-icon ‘pages’ in the home page folders, especially on an iPad. Should be more. Turned off the parallax stuff. It was cute, but not that impressive. It would be nice if you could bring up the Settings|Wi-Fi page from the Control Center. I have to fiddle with different networks and stuff and sometimes the wrong network gets picked then I have to stop and go to the Setting. I also don’t like how the network you select to connect to jumps up under the Wi-Fi toggle button. I wish it would just stay in the list of available networks. The Dock is a bit big. It would be nice if the icons in the dock were smaller and/or shrunk as you added more icons and made it so you were able to put more than six in there. Maybe that’s coming since everything is dynamically sized now. There are some places on an iPad2 where things seem to ‘pause’ for a bit (like when changing wallpaper) and there’s no indication like the spinning picket fence to tell it’s working. The app displays in the quick launch display could maybe be smaller? It takes a lot of scrolling to get around, where just the icons in iOS6 were packed together. All-in-all though, pretty nice.
Both thumbs up.
Great suggestions, I hope you send them to Apple.
Please read my entries above for suggestions on who to send your comments to. Maybe Apple will allow the users to make a few necessary adjustments.
It is good but the iTunes application does not work well. It is no longer possible to play or view all the songs in a single genre or to view all the songs of an artist rather to view than by album.
Mostly positive a few negatives
Likes
– Airdrop is really cool
– Control center is a much needed improvement
– Passcode required to disable “Find my iPhone”
– New multitasking
– Improved Siri (impressive)
– Voice dictation is much improved
– We can add more apps in a folder
Dislikes
New narrower, thinner and sometimes gray font (Calendar, timer, keyboard, etc.) are more difficult to read. Why go that way? This is form at the expense of function!
Open folders. Now we see 9 apps instead of 16. We need to swipe to see the others.
Old calculator was MUCH nicer looking
Bottom line: At least use bold on the new fonts and please bring back the view with 16 (or even 20 apps and keep the swipe function
Agree with your suggestions. I hope you send them to Apple. If you need a few addresses just look at my earlier posts. Apple needs the feedback.
Thanks for posting!
I loaded ios 7 on my iPhone 5. It definitely works quicker, but it also seems to eat up the battery quicker.
I’ll chime in. Overall, I like it, but it’s a mix of joy and annoyance that averages out to a net positive. (I have a 4S, btw.)
— I’m not a big fan of the flat icons, but I’ll get used to it. I do like the zoom effects as you unlock the phone or start an app.
— I love the Control Center, but I found pulling it up trickier than expected. You can’t just put a finger at the bottom of the screen and pull. It want velocity or it won’t recognize that you’re trying to pull up the Control Center. Eventually, I figured out that I needed to start off the screen at the bottom and quickly swipe up across most of the screen. That usually gets its attention.
— iPhone won’t complete a sync with iTunes anymore. It hangs on “Waiting for changes to be applied”. But I’m not sure I need to sync anymore, so I’ll live with this until it gets fixed or I get a new phone.
— Not a big fan of the new way they organize music. When you open an artist, instead of seeing a page of albums, you get all the songs, organized by album. Not a big deal, it just means more scrolling if you want a particular album. I guess it does make finding an album with a specific song easier.
— For some reason, the OS polls location services every time I wake up the phone. No idea why.
— I’d like to hear what luck people have been having getting the Podcasts app on iOS7 to play with Podcasts in iTunes 11.1. It was my understanding that iCloud was supposed to keep your podcasts and subscriptions in sync, but that wasn’t my experience. I have a feeling I’m not doing something right.
That’s about it. Can’t think of anything else.
——RM
I actually like iOS7 a lot. It also seems snappier on my iPhone 5. The colors and interface are different (of course, duh) but I really like the new look. Kudos to Sir Jonathan Ive and team. Now, with what I’ve seen with iOS 7, I can’t wait for Mavericks to make its debut. I’m a very happy with the upgrade.
Sounds like too much trouble to get it to work they way I want to bother. I wasn’t impressed with it on my friends iPhone at all. WTF do they have to re-invent the bloody wheel ??
I like the interface of iOS 7 just fine, but my battery life (iPhone 4s) has taken a bit hit.
Net negative here on iPhone 5. As someone else here said, “did Hello Kitty barf on my phone?”
likes:
control ctr.
air drop
Siri improvements
dislikes:
battery life takes a noticeable hit
juvenile colors
washed out contrast & blurs
annoying slow animations
skinny font sucks (inverting colors is not a valid solution)
no borders on many clickable elements
flat look icons are all bad
calendar takes a step back
default location tracking & notifications on sucks battery life
iTunes arrangement is worse
The wait is over and now I have a completely new iPad2.
Thanks Apple.
UNBELIEVABLE! I don’t miss the leather stitching! Good job Jonny!
I installed it on an iPhone 4 and an iPad, third generation, first Retina model. On the iPhone, it runs. It’s not snappy. The graphics kind of lurch along a little. No parallax effect, no dynamic wallpapers. On the iPad, it’s much snappier. Only the slightest hesitation from time to time, but, in general, pretty responsive. Parallax effect is there but barely noticeable, and dynamic wallpapers are available and visibly work. I imagine that, on an iPhone 5, it’s pretty damn good. Well, this is the HUGE selling point for iPhone 5s. With the separate graphics processor, this fucker is going to be STUNNING. I may think I’m fine keeping the iPhone 4 for another couple of years, but if I ever get my hands on a 5s, I have a feeling I’m going to be spending some money.
Updated the iPhone 5 before packing it up to Gazelle. It is just as shiteous as I feared it would be.
Form over function instead of dorm follows function.
Jony, you need to go back to sculpting Aluminum.
Overall, I love the new functionality and effects. There is lots to love, but some to dislike. Hopefully apple will listen and correct quickly this time. http://www.apple.com/feedback/
I don’t really like the cartoonish icons, but could get used to those.. Some look better than others. Safari looks the worst.
My friend said it best when he buys apple because it’s like a jewel.. The effects and features are jewel like, but not the icons.
I don’t like the washed out hard to read text and incredibly thin line drawing icons. I find it extremely hard to see the text and icons on the phone app itself… Hate the red on the calendars..
The keypad on the lock screen I find elegant.. This looks like it was designed by someone else than whoever did the other app icons.
Calendars are harder to use. The iPad version just looks like the old version without the leather, except that editing an event looks like a single column in excel with alternating colors. The iPhone version is hard to select the events.
Spotlight search box is tiny.
Love peoples pictures on their phone call list.
Female siri to me sounds different, but just as computerized.
I don’t like the keyboard, how it looks like some of the buttons, like the shift and numbers are selected, by being darker grey, but when you actually select them, they all have a different reaction, but you can’t really tell that they’re selected. Give us Lower Case letters…
The folders that hold more is nice, however the folders on the iPad are the same as the iPhone. Only 3 x 3 icons.. Tiny folder, so you have to keep swiping. they could have made this show about 16 to 20 icons in each folder.
iTunes Radio for me plays only about 20 seconds of each song and skips to the next. I find it difficult to use as well.
I totally agree with what you said! I have a question though – is it possible to give feedback on iOS? I thought this was only about devices like iPhone, iPad, Mac…? (And also, does anyone actually read that?)
To me iOS7 is a total FAIL. The graphics are an abomination and any good graphics design school would give you a big F. I found the cheap tacky graphics so disgusting that I reloaded iOS6. Of course I could not restore any of my apps or contacts, but I would rather go through the trouble to get good looking graphics. Sure iOS7 has some new features, but there is not enough of a difference for me to put up with 1980s IBM-PC CGA graphics on my high resolution retina display. Does anybody really like the flat boring washed out graphics? Why would anybody like the flat cheap look compared to iOS6. I hope this flat low tech style of graphics is not the “in” thing. It is a step back in time to when having a 16 color monitor was a bit deal.
It is not a total fail i find i like the zoom effect when unlocking and i like the background how it moves. But we went from icons that had such detail to flat uninspiring icons. I find it hard to use the call screen because when i press on someones number it just sits there for several seconds i would preer the facetime and message down not on the same line as to call someone.
Also do not like the icons when im in a call. the flat icons looks cheap and most of the icons look like android icons cheap flimsy not fancy like what ios 6 and before did.
Apple hit the nose on a few things but failed on the rest.
Some of the stuff is cool i like having most used settings from the pull up menu rather then going into the settings and finding it. There are some neat features but i dont like having send buttons and others replaced with text rather then an icon. It seems less icons and more text.
The pastel coors get old. I prefer more 3D icons the new ones are so flat.
iOS7 on an iPhone 4S is DEFINITELY slower than iOS6. The animations suck. Battery life is noticeably down. Legibility took a big hit. Not a fan of the flat washed-out look at all. For all the little functional improvements, I think the GUI took a HUGE step backward. I will be reinstalling iOS6 on my old phone. Ive should stick to hardware.
Is it my imagination or has my battery life really improved?
One flaw I find is if I’m on a call or using the maps app it puts a banner at the top of all apps. This really interfers with useablailty of the apps. I have noticed it on eBay, Safari and several others.
I think it’s interface is well Shit. I think the old look was way better. I think Apple is trying to hard to be like Google devices. They have taken things that we’re not broken or hard to figure out and made them more complicated. I think it is a huge step in the wrong direction. They Didn’t think out side the box. They got out of their box and crawled it to Googles Box.
FUGLY !!!
After a few days with it… Learning to turn off battery killing features and such… My final verdict is I love iOS 7!!