“Apple seeded the second beta of iOS 7.1 to developers nearly a month after 7.1 beta 1 was released,” Buster Heine reports for Cult of Mac.
“Once again, Apple’s beta doesn’t contain any major new features,” Heine reports, “but there are a couple useful tweaks that you’ll enjoy hidden among all the bug fixes, performance improvements and speedier animations.”
The five biggest changes Apple made to iOS 7.1 beta
• Button Shapes
• Calendar Is More Useable
• Tweaked Control Center
• Death Of The Dark Keyboard
• Speedy Animations
More about each five changes, with screenshots, in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Related article:
Apple releases iOS 7.1 beta 2 to developers – December 13, 2013
Slowly but surely iOS7 evolves.
Some welcome changes there. Cult of Mac should work on its own dogshit site. I have never seen a site so constipated and overrun by slow-loading ads.
MacDailyNews isn’t any better. It pretty consistently crashes FireFox…. I know, use Safari instead, right? I use Safari for work stuff and use Firefox for browsing… part of the problem is that I work with WordPress, and there’s a persistence issue when I come to MacDailyNews (it logs me out of other WordPress sites). Also, if it’s crashing FireFox, there’s a good chance that bad code is affecting, or going to affect Safari at some point.
Looks pretty nice and runs well on Firefox. Oh yea, as long as you’re running Adblock and Ghostery. These guys really have tons of trackers.
Ya, I don’t like to run Adblock because I want the content providers to get paid for their work. For now, I’m just dealing with the issue and hope it gets fixed.
MDN is the slowest most ad ridden site that I have seen.
Gradually and hopefully it will change back to skeuomorphic iOS 6-like interface and speedy animation
Amen to that!!!
What was the point of the dark keyboard by the way, it just suggested confused design popping up now and then
Calendar changes, thanks apple!
I second the ability to keep the dark keyboard, I like it. Global override to keep one or the other please..
Apple needs to make MAJOR improvements to their iOS Calendar app if they want to truly dominate the corporate sector. Try to make a recurring appointment for the 4th Thursday of every month with the Calendar app on your iPhone. Go ahead, I’ll wait……
Here. Here. The degree to which they screwed. Up the Calendar app is inexcusable. It is so bad that I wonder if it was intentional, which would of course be ridiculous.
You could never make an appointment like the one described above on an iPhone. Just like trying to send an email to a Group in contacts from an iPhone. They’re intentional limitations that have been built in forever. Why is a good question. But nothing’s been taken away.
I was referring to readability and general ease of use. I should have specified. I’m always an early adopter, so change doesn’t bother me much. But, I still find the Calendar app very tough to use in iOS and Mavericks. BTW, are they ever going to release Mavericks 10.91? Why so long?
I’d like to be able to send invites from Calendar via iMessage, text, or Facebook as well.
What is “Dark Keyboard” or is that “Invert Colors”
Dark keyboards are already available to see in apps with dark backgrounds, like Tweetbot and Twitteriffic.
Go to your home screen and swipe down. It should appear.
The hell with faster animations. How about a ‘get-rid-of-all-animations’ toggle? While one can stop ’em, having to do so through the accessibility menu is not a great solution.
How it is not great solution? You have to go to the that menu only once, and that it is, animations are turned off.
But that could take TWO SECONDS! opsono wants to do it in one second.
Good Lord, are you really that lazy?
It is super smooth like high-quality butter and this is on my test 4s.
os 7 in slower on my iPhone 4 any suggestions
Upgrade your phone.
Get a 5s, it’s super fast.
In before the BLN Bitchfest!
In before the BLN BITCHFEST! Barely!
How about being able to customize what is in the control centre. Like I need another way to access the camera. A link to the Settings app would be ideal. Overall the Control Centre is a great improvement, but it still maintains the underlying difficulty in making basic system modifications, like making Bluetooth Connections, for example.
An easy way to post to Facebook right after you take a pic would be nice.
Button Shapes and additional Calendar views gets two thumbs up from me!
Calender sync still iffy.
Wifi dropout…but that could be my hardware.
Buttons and calendar changes are good moves. The look of iOS 7 has been growing on me, but lack of defined buttons was always a problem. I generally knew what was a button, but buttons should still have *some* definition. I will be turning that on.
I was hoping we’d see some changes regarding album artwork, with iOS 7, I wish artwork didn’t exist altogether. Ironically, it’s the worst case of skeuomorphism Apple has ever created, and it’s in iOS 7. The worst is when you’re going through playlists which now are vertically spaced really far apart to show the album artwork, but the album artwork is chosen from one album in the playlist which may totally not reflect what the playlist is about. And god forbid you turn your iPhone sideways. There’s no playlist labels at all, just album art. It’s bad enough in artist or album view where you may or may not remember what an album cover looks like, but with playlists, it’s entirely impossible to tell playlists apart by an album cover that may be in multiple playlists.
I’m surprised Apple isn’t getting more complaints since this is really where skeuomorphism goes bad. We have a whole new environment to browse music, why did Apple choose to recreate flipping through album covers as a model that so grossly does not apply anymore? I could see this as an option, but when it takes over as the sole method, that’s just way worse than any green velvet or stitching we’ve ever seen.