“I was a ‘late’ adopter of iOS 7. That is, I updated just a few days ago,” E. Werner Reschke writes for T-GAAP. “By delaying my update I was able to watch other people’s reaction without any prejudice.”
“What’s interesting is there is a lot in iOS 7 that is just different. The new über thin font is a glaring example,” Reschke writes. “Font treatment is just a stylistic change. It doesn’t make anything more readable, it doesn’t take less space, it’s just different. The change is like going from bell-bottom 70’s jeans to straight leg 501’s in the 80’s. Both were pants, but one was cool during a certain era and another was not.”
“Beyond different, iOS 7 has added some additional functionality. Control Center is a great example,” Reschke writes. “Is iOS 7 different? Yeah. But better? Yes.”
Read more in the full article here.
It’s better in almost everything, there are still minor bugs and issues but it doesn’t interfere with the experience
It’s not better is EVERYTHING, and that’s for sure.
Has anyone else added a Handbreak’d movie to the “Movies” section of iOS 7 yet? The background to the Video player window used to be BLACK (in iOS 6), but now it’s WHITE! The problem here? The title/text for each movie remains WHITE . . . which disappears completely in the new window!
Want to select a movie to play? Well, good luck with that. Thumbnails galore with no titles–and all on a blinding WHITE background!
And there you have it: Change for change’s sake. (Same thing with the boot-up screen on the iPhone. Used to be black; now it’s white. OOH, that’s an improvement.
Do you have a white iphone? Because my start up screen is still black. But I have the black 5s. The start up screen Must match the phone?
Just checked the videos and I see what you mean. At first the thumb nails are a silver box with the name of the movie in the silver part and is easy to read. Then the thumb nails turns into a picture of the beginning credits. Mine are pretty much just the movie studio’s name. A bunch of 20th century fox or disney’s blue screen with the castle behind Where it says Walt Disney pictures over the castle etc.
Those are movies on my Mac that are shared to my iphone to stream if I wanted. That’s why they are grey thumbnails 1st with movie name. But movies I bought from iTunes or a digital download show a thumbnail of the cover of that particular movie. So they made it a little harder if you copied your own DVDs to your iPhone. All though It’s pretty quick to click on thumbnail and see the name of the movie and swipe back to your library. (Really dig the swiping back and fourth on safari and other apple apps that let you go back a page with a swipe instead of touching back button)They’re in alphabetical order. I guess that makes it a little easier If you have a bunch of your copied movies on your iPhone.
I just did it and it’s fine, I have no idea what you are talking about.
More to the point you have no idea what you are talking about , re:
“Has anyone else added a Handbreak’d movie to the “Movies” section of iOS 7 yet?”
WTF is the “movies” section of iOS7?
You sound like someone who isn’t familiar with iOS
Do you mean the movies tab inside the video’s app?
Seems more like you are yet another of the trolls that have been recently infesting this forum, the fact that you already have 23 (almost all positive) really screams troll.
(in case other forums users weren’t aware apparently, the trolls are creating multiple personas and then replying to and voting up their own comments)
However the real truth is I just dropped a movie (that I converted with handbrake) into the video’s app (in the movies tab) and it turns out you are completely full of shit
There are no titles in the movie tab, it ONLY shows thumbnails. However if you tap a thumbnail it displays the title (in black)
Ah…. I just found out
A frend just told me the android does have a “movies” section in the filesystem.
You only knew android and just assumed that iOS had a “movies” section as well didn’t you?
Hehe, well not so, different system paradigm in iOS,.
It’s app (not file) centric
Good luck with your ‘roid, whatever though.
Have you ever noticed that Apple users don’t infect your ‘roid new-site forums?
Do you ever ponder how pathetic that makes you?
“Has anyone else added a Handbreak’d movie to the “Movies” section of iOS 7 yet?”
There is no “Movies” section of iOS 7.
“The title/text for each movie remains WHITE . . . which disappears completely in the new window!”
This is completely false.
Go back to using your ‘Droid, you paid shill.
Not even close! Failed attempt to copy Android, BB OS10 and Windows OS. Ridiculous features and nothing more than another opportunity for Android to move to 95% worldwide marketshare. IOS 6 in my opinion was top shelf and all that was truly required was a better notification drop down and easy access to wifi and Bluetooth switch.
Without the iPhone there wouldn’t be any touch smartphones, so you can see why most of us laugh when shit-heads like yourself complain about stolen features.
Friend, Have you heard of Sony ericsson P900 / P800. It was a touch screen phone and a good one. I have used the P900. It was released in 2004-2005 or may be earlier. The best thing when iPhone came out was that the UI was way better than all the other phones. Now they have changed it. Good luck to them.
ummmm, this isn’t TDN (Troll Daily News)…. you are on the wrong website.
All the more mysterious why iOS 6 users, who ought to’ve been satisfied with a top-shelf experience, senselessly updated en masse to iOS 7. My word, the number of deluded people grows at an alarming rate. We should consider heading for the hills…a zombie apocalypse seems imminent
Ha ha ha ha. You’re funny!
Junk in every way! What a fail! Look for Android to move to 90% international market share.
I’ve tried it, and while I like some functional improvements, the stuff everyone notices are the stylistic changes. And in most cases they do nothing to improve iOS – sometimes hinder what once was easier.
I know on this site that is sacrilegious thinking, but hey … I gotta be me 😉
I know, because you’re a paid troll just trying to feed the little trolls. It’s okay.
I wish I was paid! No, I’m just a guy who got home from work early and fired up MDN, like I do every day, but this time I added my opinion.
So, basically, I came here for the abuse from dummys like you, FREE OF CHARGE – and you are welcome buddy. Enjoy yourself hahaha!
I disagree with you, but I gave you 5 stars for being honest. Everyone gets one, just ask Spidey.
After spending time with iOS 7, I much prefer iOS 6. I find I’m doing more key strokes with 7 to get the same info I did in 6. 7 IMO is less intuitive as well.
iOS 6 had a feel to it that I liked. 7 is more frustrating than anything else. I still haven’t found anything in 7 that has bettered my experience. I would gladly go back to iOS 6 if allowed.
Downgrading to iOS 6 is allowed. I did it on one of my iPads, no problem.
Nope. Not. Allowed on the iPhone. If you know a way show me.
And that’s goddamn angering as hell. This is the kind of thingI HATE about Apple. Let me freaking install whatever version I want. I can CHOOSE not to upgrade but I can’t CHOOSE to downgrade. Ugh.. very glad my 5 is still on 6.1…
Most people agree one of the things that haunts google the most is their “fragmentdroid” situation. So love it or hate it, Apple’s pressure to keep us all in step is definitely a good thing for developers, and probably for consumers as well.
Many things are harder to read, Maps especially has issues with this. The Phone app- numbers are difficult to paste into it, It used to be clear.
Siri should have stayed in Beta. The home button should take you home not to the folder your app is in. Dismissing or closing apps needs to be better mapped out, you have to move you finger perfectly vertical to make this work.
I find dismissing/closing apps much easier. I can double click the home button and dismiss apps one handed, using my thumb. I couldn’t do that with iOS 6.
Have you tried the Bold Text setting (Settings > General > Accessibility > Bold Text)? My eyes had trouble with the iOS 7 fonts in their default form, but since making it bold, I’ve found things easier to read than they were in iOS 6.
Better
Better in some parts, worse in others. Very mixed feelings about iOS 7. It needs a lot of polishing.
iOS7 is absolutely no darned good for the visually impaired. So my 90 year old father will have to stay on iOS6 with his Retina iPad.
Have you tried changing the Dynamic Type settings to use a larger font?
I have tried everything and the best thing of all is iOS6. Even the slide to unlock feature in iOS7 is very difficult for macular degeneration suffers to see.
7 is a triumph of style over usability.
People keep telling me to just increase the size of the dynamic fonts. They are not the fonts which are difficult to read! Open the Music app, then look at the “buttons” at the bottom of the screen with the labels “Genius”, “Playlists”, “Artists”, etc. SMALL gray fonts on a white background? Really? That’s insane! I can’t say it enough times Jony Ive should be fired!
Try:
Settings/General/Text Size
and
Settings/General/Accessability/
Turn ON Larger Type
Turn ON Bold Text
The settings changes cause issues with the rendering of emails in Apple’s own email client for iOS 7.
More Betaware, and No – it is far from better.
Which of those settings is causing rendering problems in Mail? I’ve been using bold text since day one of iOS 7, and have been very pleased with it in the mail app particularly.
On the iPad it renders poorly in Mail. Cannot speak to the same issue on the iPhone as I upgraded to a Galaxy Nexus 4 due to the shiteous iOS 7 on iPhone.
You’ve never owned a Apple device there major troll.
Bold talk as I a m typing this on a Mac Pro connected to my charging syncing iPad & iPod Touch.
Answer me this: How many Windows PCs did you own before you decided buying a Mac was the trendy thing to do or are you still using your Dell?
I still have my IIci from 1989 troll boy and I have never had anything other tan Apple. Still have a Performa, 150, 400, 2006 MBP 17″, oh my 2012 13″ MBP. Goodbye troll.
Not a troll and I have a II GS in the attic.
Fanbois are an intolerant bunch and have ruined MDN. People always disagreed, but did so with snark- not hate. I guess listening to Viagra Boy Rush LIMPaugh got to you.
Evidently you’re one of those brainwashed lemmings who gets their spoon fed news from CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, the NY Times, etc.
No, the website comes up fine on my computer.
Maybe you need a new ISP.
People keep telling me to just increase the size of the dynamic fonts. They are not the fonts which are difficult to read! Open the Music app, then look at the “buttons” at the bottom of the screen with the labels “Genius”, “Playlists”, “Artists”, etc. SMALL gray fonts on a white background? Really? That’s insane! I can’t say it enough times, Jony Ive should be fired!
I have some sympathy with that. The thin icons look Like cheap colouring books from the 60s and I find unintuitive. And no improvement whatsoever in placing the cursor in longish text input I find where it just goes anywhere but where you wish. Yes a mixed bag but overall an improvement though not as great as I had hoped.
Tell your grandfather to go to settings, general, accessibility and turn on “increase contrast” increase the text size and then turn on bold text.
My 90 year old grandmother loves iOS 7 and she is visually impaired.
You’re full of it. Everything you just described doesn’t help with the real problem of the font thinness. This only changes dynamic font sizes. Many other phones are still ridiculously small. And changing the contrast makes IOS 7 look even more ugly.
Jony Ive should be fired!
Minus a few teething bugs it’s amazing and blew all my expectations.
Do keep in mind the apps that have come out publicly haven’t yet shown it in full glory. There’s a lot of good stuff underneath still to be explored.
My main gripe with iOS 7 is that the playback controls for podcasts and music do not function from the lock screen. They appear but they do not work. Not sure if I’m alone on this.
If I access the control centre the volume control works but the pause and forward / backward don’t. This is true if I access it from the lock screen OR the home screen.
Yeah, just tried it out. Looks like it is from both the look and home screens. Volume control only. Playback controls are currently worthless and non functional.
I just tried playing a Podcast, locked the screen, pressed the home button, and successfully used both the play/pause/advance/repeat/volume controls that appeared at the top of the screen, and all worked fine, as did the controls in the bottom screen pull up Control Panel, so I’m not sure I understand what controls you say aren’t working. iOS 7.0.2.
They’re probably trolls. Paid shills and Apple haters thinking they’re cute. Most of them are 300 lb. dorks living in their Mommy’s basement with nothing better to do. Ignore them. They live off of attention. Best to not feed the troll.
I wish someone would pay me to post in on here. Until then I’ll keep posting for free.
7.0.2 update fixed it on my iPhone 4. Works with both podcasts app and music app.
The controls work perfectly fine for me, and I use them literally every day. My favorite feature of iOS 7 is the full playback controls from the lock screen, including a progress indicator. Under iOS 6, you had to double-click the home button to bring up the playback controls, and they were basic controls.
I also love how the control center makes it easy to adjust the volume before I begin playback.
——RM
I like some of the new functionality (control center, for example), but still think it looks less mature than before. Definitely buggier – much more common for apps to crash (even Apple’s). To be honest, it looks, acts, and feels more like an Android or Windows version that we would have made fun of 2 or 3 years ago, if it had come out parallel to iOS 5 or 6. It’s like iOS starting over in a parallel universe, not like a logical advancement.
But I guess that’s just my opinion. I also delayed upgrading, and now that I’m here and even while I’m not thrilled with it, I can live with it. Looking forward (somewhat pensively) to seeing where iOS 8 goes, as I’ll be looking to trade up on my iPhone 5 by then.
It is both better and different,
My impression of iOS 7, after extensive hands on experience, is that it a mishmash of hastily cobbled together ideas that have no basis in consistency and clear development path from iOS 6. It breaks many UI conventions that St. Steve himself laid down, namely that the user should at a glance figure out how to work the OS without extensive reference to a user manual. This means clearly marked symbology and clearly demarcated areas of where you are at within the OS and within the apps so that you can navigate back from the page you came from using guideposts as markers.
This is what iOS 6 excelled in – clear cut paths to navigate the OS that were marked out in clear text and large signposts that prevented the user from getting lost. By user I mean an average user with zero to little technical expertise or prior experience of using the OS, in other words a novice. St. Steve understood that clearly marked out paths guided the user to where he wanted to go so that the user by looking at the OS could instinctively move around the OS with minimal guidance.
iOS 7, by contrast, looks like a designer’s approach to designing an OS which is firstly to abide by some obscure designer’s law to make it consistent with a designer’s creed, in this case Bauhaus minimalism. This ignores the needs of the user and puts the user second behind the whims of the designer. St. Steve always without question put the user first even if it meant subsuming the more egregious design elements and promoting the more obvious, but less design centric, elements.
iOS 7 thin fonts achieves design congruence with the Bauhaus concept but strands the user in islands of illegible text and a designer’s curious lack of attention to the needs of the user such as the lack of back markers. iOS 7 uses confusingly colored text instead to guide the user back to the previous page. This less is more approach also promotes confusion and does nothing to clarify in the user’s mind where he is in the OS. It devalues St. Steve’s iron law of ease of use and violates Apple’s own HIG (human interface guidelines) insofar as they touch upon navigability and context.
Valid points, and I agree with you assessment. I thought the same thing, that there are a few things that would not have gotten past Steve. Hopefully, sanity will prevail, and some of these thing will be addressed with future updates. Still not sure why Forestall got the axe. My guess is he didn’t like the direction Ive’s was going and couldn’t find a good middle ground they could come to a consensus on.
Translation:
iOS 6 and prior- form follows function.
iOS 7 fashion above all.
Skinny blue type on a blizzard of polar white with the most idiotic iconography and added eye candy (zooming folders and parallax home screen, for example) combined with iPad battery life destroying energy consumption.
The ultimate Hipster Phone
http://www.cracked.com/funny-4573-hipster/
Saint Steve? Man, get a grip!
iOS 7 is to iOS 6 as OS X 10.1 was to OS 9. Refinements are sure to follow.
Meanwhile, there are massive changes under the hood, and the animations for Safari and Mail deletions, for example, have sped up the user experience in functionality that counts (though I agree the Home button should take one home, period).
And we haven’t even seen what 64 bit hardware software can do.
I can put up with the rough edges for now.
It is definitely better – hands down – which by default means it’s probably different.
Well, you have to give some examples why it’s better. Just saying it’s better, is an opinion. There are a lot of people who disagree with you.
I like the new folders. I don’t like the red on black of the Calendar; it’s glaring to my eye. However, I do like the way you can scroll from one month to the next.
I like the way multitasking is implemented. I can manage it much easier one handed.
I don’t find the icons for Notes, Contacts, Newstand, and Photos as easy to identify. Even weeks later, I have to look carefully to find them.
Some things are better, others worse. Ease of use has to be the primary criterion, not design consistency.
It will be interesting to see how the iOS evolves over time.
For me, overall the change in eye candy is a step backward. Don’t like the fonts and pastels/white everywhere. I keep having to search for the icons of the apps I want to use. (I agree with previous poster about similarity to old android look.)
The change in functionality of most things, however, is a step forward. Quite a bit to still improve on.
I stuck with 6 when my wife’s os7 causes her confusion, and eye strain and she has pointed out many of the above gripes. I simply don’t hear of great new things about iOS7… It’s sad that this article had to be written. it would not have been if there were no concerns.
Final thought, with so many of the above posts being negative, who thinks that Steve Jobs would have approved this release?
Pros:
Better features
Better sounds
Folders
iTunes Radio
Safari full screen
Cons:
Flatness is too gimmicky
New icons
More keystrokes
Vagueness
Mixed:
Transperancy
Font
Colors
Like others suggested, it needs more polish and there are things that I really liked in iOS 6 that didn’t carry forward like the simplicity and the professional look and feel.
I’d say, it’s mostly different. Some things are better, some not so much. I hate the redo on the Calendar app, and it’s one I use a lot. Not very intuitive, harder to navigate.
Because it has more features, I guess you could argue that makes it better.
It is a lot better BUT… battery life is really bad.
I think Apple has a plan.
They reached a pinnacle with iOS6. But people where expecting things to be different (often just for the sake of being different). So they made iOS7 different. In some cases (e.g., readability), they made it *worse*. This, however, gives Apple the opportunity to improve things in iOS8 so it always looks like Apple is constantly improving their products 🙂
25% better, 75% worse.
On legacy devices, iOS6 overall performs as good or better. iOS7 leaves much to be desired, especially from a stylistic & GUI efficiency point of view. Even taking into account the learning curve and turning many things off in iOS7, one can do things just as fast and far more legibly in iOS6.
No doubt there are a lot of changes from iOS 6; however, I do have some issues with iOS 7 .The main one being the keyboard . When one presses the shift key it becomes a gradient of grey (darker color). I liked it way more before in iOS 6 where the shift key turns blue upon activation. I also don’t like the buttons for settings that go from grey to green….. too subtle and difficult to see
There are 2 major things I’m missing after moving to iOS 7. Swipe to delete emails and finding photos via the location that they were taken. Big losses for me.
Swipe single emails to the left. It’ll give you trash option or a more option. Just can’t swipe to the right anymore to delete.
I don’t like several Aspects of iOS 7. I don’t like the fact that when using the keyboard the shift button turns gray and it is difficult to discern that from the other keys. I liked it before when it would turn blue when the shift key was engaged in iOS 6. The other thing is the on off switches in settings that go from gray to green. That is horrible. I wish there was a way for us to customize it.
Wow – am I seriously in a minority in thinking iOS 7 is generally lighter and more pleasant to use? I am amazed at all the comments complaining about iOS 7. Is everyone doing the complaining using it on an iPhone 4 or 4S? Because it’s genious on a 5, IMO.
I hear you. Complaints are more common than expressions of satisfaction in every public forum. Not just about iOS, but anything, really.
You can’t say anything nice these days without flinching. Someone always seems to be there waiting with instruments of verbal evisceration to demonstrate how wrong you are.
I’m really enjoying the new OS. So do the (approximate) 10 iOS users I know. For me Just a few bugs that need to be ironed out, which are expected and happen rarely for me. Nothing even close to deal breaking. The good out weigh the few bugs, which I’m sure will get fixed pretty quickly.
I was pretty surprised to see so many people here not liking it. But Everyone can’t like everything they do. I been a apple fan for a while like most here (probably not as long as most) but I was getting bored and a little frustrated with the last OS. The same one I had since the 3GS and every phone since. I know people have been with it since the original and it has come along way since then for sure. Not a whole lot has changed since my 3GS. Siri, maps, LTE… I’m sure there were more features but those were most notable and used by me. But it was getting stale for me.
I’m sure I would have been happy with a lot less. My main gripe on the the older os’s was what we got In control center. Easy access to Bluetooth/wifi etc. That was all I really wanted. Most of the other features I didn’t even know I wanted until they were there
The calendar I agree with on some level with a few people. But once you start to get use to the new one I do miss The older one less and less. It did take awhile for me to start liking the new one. I’m still stuttering every time I get in the calendar for the 1st 20-30 seconds. I don’t use every day. Weekly though. Sometimes multiple times a week, others just a few times a week. Depending on my schedule. Def not as simple as before. But I enjoy a little challenge. The good thing about challenge for those who don’t like Challenge, it doesn’t stay challenging. Just gotta get use to it. Just like the whole new OS. Its here to stay for a while. Love it or hate it. For me, even if I didn’t like it, I still don’t see anything that competes in the long run. That just IMO obviously.
JP … used to be a time, oh i dunno, before Steve died when you could download an update and it would make your phone function better. They even called it snappy if I recall correctly. It was ALWAYS full of improvements and new things! Now this ios7 you speak so highly of is sluggish and slow. The look and feel of it is alpha at best and the design could have been done better by a freshman. Worse yet we can’t even downgrade to a useful ios….6! Now I’m hoping you didnt get that lovely iphone 5 for your 14th birthday and love it since you upgraded from a winblows fone, but for the rest who know how apple is supposed to operate, well, were pretty pissed off right now. I feel like they just kicked me in the dick. I see its time to adopt linux on the laptop and android on my new phone which will not be an apple also ran……
“Steve understood that clearly marked out paths guided the user to where he wanted to go so that the user by looking at the OS could instinctively move around the OS with minimal guidance.”
I agree on that, but I don’t think iOS6 was any better, just different. This seems to be a trend at Apple, that somehow users are offended by seeing controls, all screens must be as minimal as possible, and you are just supposed to remember how to access controls.
Overall, I tend to like the functionality better though. Too much white, but if you notice, that is a fad that has infected all advertising too. Bright white backgrounds with washed out images is something that hopefully will not last long.
And iTunes while I am at it: now insists on synching twice, yes I have submitted a bug report. But my expectations on ITunes in terms of operational consistency has never been high.In every version, there is something. Its an app that tries to be all things to all people, and that has never been successful idea.