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?
A total disaster for elderly eyes. I guess Apple doesn’t see big bucks in us old folks, but everything about the UI has become 100% worse for elderly eyes, which often lose contrast sensitivity along with acuity. Thinner fonts. tinier icons in subtly colors (no contrast). lighter fonts…. I’d pay an old folks fee to be able to have the old UI with new functionality. I honestly don’t know if I will be able to use it efficiently….
Yes there is a contrast option in Settings, which brings back maybe 5& of the 100 loss….
I don’t understand who this redesign is supposed to cater for – except Johnny Ive’s ego and a few sycophantic bloggers. All my children, nieces, nephews, brothers, and parents ageing in range from 8 to 85 hate the new look and what to go back to the old version. It is just unpleasant to use – hard to read, too much glare, ugly.
Honestly, who authorized the new look? It’s boring, not inovative at all. There are no clean lines, no sharp sleek look that apple usually gives you. Listen up guys, If I wanted a low budget looking ipad I would have bought some crapy tablet by some random company that no ones ever herd of. This new look sucks. It’s border line bullshit, run of the mill crap. Needles to say, “I hate it”
FIX IT,
this app is cool http://flixel.com/
I agree
Can’t read the fine gray type in the calendar appointments now. All the developmental money is useless if a huge part of your audience can’t read it. Too bad, being able to use calendar on the devices as well as the computer was really great. Camera is confusing still, but now it stays in photo or video. No more accidental switches.
I want my old iphone back
Very unpleasant to use. The look is just pig ugly – how can anybody pretend that the new Notes app is better than the old? There is too much glare from all white apps. It used to be a pleasure to pick up my iPhone and fiddle with it when I had nothing to do – now I never play with it and my heart sinks whenever I hear a notfication that means that I have to use it.
The New Look of IOS 7 is very disappointing – this is childish – Kindergarten !
iOS 7 is an unspeakable disaster. sure there are some improvements. but in general it feels boring, weird, unfriendly and in general looks like a mistake.
but the worst thing are all the added transitions, animations, jerking, twitching, fading, zooming and other convulsions – i guess they all are part of “simplicity”. they overall make iPhone look and feel like an annoying, irritating and distracting jelly. the user experience turns into constant cringing. iPhone became something i just don’t want to touch and use anymore.
At least for the animations, which I personally like, you can choose to partially reduce motion in the accessibility settings. This mostly just reduces the parallax effect rather than having an effect on zooming. So, now that I’ve spoken I realize it’s about as much help as the increasing contrast option which has hardly any real effect either.
Can not Adjust Font Size In the New iOS-7 Safari “reader”
Dynamic text does not work in ipad 2 contacts.
Hate the light grey keyboard.
All in all ios 6 I miss you
There’s so much crying on here. Most is due to user error (seriously), and the remainder just needs to get used to change. Every major OS update has whiners, and this is no exception. These folks just need to move on and make room for other Apple users.
It’s not perfect, but neither was iOS 6. JUST BE OPEN TO CHANGE.
WHHAAAAAAA
nope this is wrong. it’s Apple who should be “open to change” and make the change if users demand.
we shouldn’t be “open” to ugliness, irritation and horrible user experience.
but we can be open to a different change indeed – and that is a change to a different phone (as sad as it may sounds). but the current Apple’s experiment with “simplicity” just gone seriously wrong.
Well, I guess sales will tell.
Enjoy Android!
lol. according to you i also have to switch from Mac to Windows because the “sales” are good – after all over 90% of people are using it. Android sales are actually also very good – so what’s your point?
no sales will improve the disaster called iOS 7. i do have the faith in Apple that they’ll be able to make it normal though.
Don’t say “according to you” and then make stuff up. I said none of those things, nor did I imply them.
Enjoy Android!
Enjoy Windows!
I am totally open to change. Totally love my iPhone (and pad, and Mac) but these 60 year old eyes simply cannot use the phone now with its faded, skinny text (and, no, the bolding, text enlargement and “contrast enhancement” don’t fix it). Aside from the washed-out, Hello Kitty design motif (which I think is really cheap and cheesy-looking, but which I could accept) the problem is that the various “fixes” allowed for the pale, faded text do NOT provide for any adjustment on the crucial phone keypad, alarm clock or calendar. Want to go home to iOS6, otherwise gotta look for a phone with a user-friendly interface – geez, never thought I’d be saying that about an Apple product…..
I do not like the interfface on an iphone. Too hard to read, touch items fade into background. Borders/numbers, letters font too slim to see. Would be ok if User could customize.
I have recommended Apple to my mom and grandmother because of how easy it was to read and use. Now I can’t even read the screen well and have to hunt for control features like the teensy circled x’s to exit out of browser windows, and the fonts on the keyboard, labels, etc, are either so small or thin or both, they blur when I am trying to look at them. This is s nightmare. I desperately wish I had not upgraded my iPads, and will NOT be buying any more apple product or recommending them for their intuitiveness until Apple fixes this. I was supposed to buy the new 5S today and instead I am having to go to the store and see if they can put it back the way it was before they broke it. I HATE THAT I CAN BARELY READ THIS AS I AM TYPING IT!
As far as the browser goes, you can actually slide the whole page away to close it instead of aiming for the Xs. But yeah they certainly didn’t make that easily discoverable.
Seriously,
You have turned a valuable working calendar App that has been an asset to my business into a non functioning complicated app that was obviously created by someone who is unfamiliar with how real calendars work in the business world.
Go back to the visual and ditch this DOWNGRADE.
I need a clean (not sterile) month, week or day at a glance.
BOXES!!!!!!!! For the day
I am the President of a company that has been a strong advocate to changing all operating systems over to Apple from Microsoft.
Every sales rep and Manager that I have are ALL asking for an alternative app, there are none available.
You have gained enough support from corporations because of your vision to allow yourselves to fall flat on your face because you tried to get to creative and improve an already exceptional calendar .
Fix it or you will see businesses jump like rats from a sinking ship and fast.
Make me proud! Fix this! ASAP
I found an app that will help. It has the look of the iOS 6 calendar. It was meant for making appointment with people in your contacts list and having a quick way to send them reminders of the appointment by text or email… It’s called ContactSched on the app store. As you create appointments in this app, it creates it behind the scene in your iOS 7 calendar. It’s free with ads or $3.99 without..
The only thing, if you typically use the calendar just to set a reminder of something, you have to choose ‘someone’ for the appointment to be with. So, I just choose myself.
I have 5 apple devices. I will not buy any apple device or accessory, app or any iTunes product until they allow me to go back from Jony Ive ‘hello kitty/barbie phone’ I have to use right now to real Steve Jobs type iPhone I’ve had before this unfortunate update.
Steve Jobs just rolled over in his grave! Way to kill the intuitive elegant extension of the user! FAIL
I genuinely hate iOS7.
I refuse to buy any apple product or accessory, app or music through iTunes until I will be legally allowed to downgrade back to iOS6.
I agree wholeheartedly with the hating it part. I had just purchased a used 64 gig iPad for my sister the week before iOS 7 came out. To my dismay it had iOS 5 on it so I attempted to upgrade it to iOS 6.1.3. Unfortunately, the only upgrade allowed me was to iOS 7. So I took my own iPad and upgraded from iOS 6.1.3 to iOS 7 to see how different it would be. (I had already purchased a “Learn iPad 2 Visually” book for my sister. Of course the interface for iOS 7 is completely different and IMHO, quite ugly and brash. And, as everyone knows, you can’t go back! She would not have been able to use the book I’d gotten her as the interface is totally different.)
I went to Target and purchased a new 16 gig iPad 2 for my sister which had 6.1.3. I kept the 64 gig iPad 2 with iOS 5 for myself.
But of course, I really wanted iOS 6.1.3 and it was no longer possible to upgrade from iOS 5 to iOS 6.1.3. So I purchased a 64 gig iPad 4 which had iOS 6.1.3. I love it! It’s so nice to have an iPad just as I want it again!
Terribly expensive, but worth it! Of course, my original iPad 2 which I unfortunately upgraded to iOS 7 was both wifi and Verizon 3g. The iPad 4 I purchased is just wifi. Not such a big deal unless I go on a trip and need 3g coverage to look at a map while driving in unfamiliar territory which recently happened to me. Luckily, I had my iPad 2 with wifi/3g with me that night, but struggled in the dark with the new iOS 7 interface which was slow to respond and was not as intuitive. NOT FUN!!
Apple has done a huge disservice to its loyal fans by not allowing us to choose which interface we prefer, and not to allow us to revert back to iOS 6.1.3.
My iPhone 5 will keep iOS 6.1.4!!!
IOS & SUCKS..
Ive now jailbroken my 4s and placed a IOS 6 theme on to remove those nasty app designs that were obviously designed by a bloody 8 yr old.
As for the grey backgrounds!! plz….The backgrounds a crap.
DEV TEAM hurry with a tweak to remove the grey back grounds on the folders through the home screens. Dock is gone just folder B ground.
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