iOS 7 First Impressions

[slackerinabox]

Beta 2 is MUCH smoother on my 4S. There are a few odd bugs, for example the font color on the status bar at the top keeps changing from white to black making it almost invisible on a darker background.

Are you guys doing a clean install for 2 or just upgrading from beta 1?

 

[DnetMHZ]

Are you guys doing a clean install for 2 or just upgrading from beta 1?

I upgraded, it worked fine for me.

 

[Oyeve]

Are you guys doing a clean install for 2 or just upgrading from beta 1?

Upgrading OTA on the 4. Took longer than usual but its way better than the first beta on my 4. First beta made the 4 nigh useless. Now it is somewhat useful again.

 

[sxr7171]

Beta 2 fixed a lot of issues. It's snappier for sure and app incompatibilities have been reducing. Still have one or two misbehaving apps though.

I have to agree the first beta killed the usability of the device. This one makes it workable.

Still can't get over that moving background feature. Makes me feel like I'm tripping every time I see it.

 

[TheStu]

Beta 2 fixed a lot of issues. It's snappier for sure and app incompatibilities have been reducing. Still have one or two misbehaving apps though.

I have to agree the first beta killed the usability of the device. This one makes it workable.

Still can't get over that moving background feature. Makes me feel like I'm tripping every time I see it.

Not that I would know from first hand experience, obviously, but I heard that Parallax can be disabled through the Accessibility Settings.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Not that I would know from first hand experience, obviously, but I heard that Parallax can be disabled through the Accessibility Settings.

Confirmed.

 

[sxr7171]

Not that I would know from first hand experience, obviously, but I heard that Parallax can be disabled through the Accessibility Settings.

Oh yeah me too. I just heard that it trips people out. I kind of like the idea of it actually.

 

[Tyranicus]

Parallax on my phone has grown on me, but I turned it off on my iPad. You see much more of the wallpaper between the icons on the iPad compared to the iPhone, and it was wigging me out.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Nobody remembers the Zune having parallax? Seemed OK to me from the get go

 

[sxr7171]

So, I heard, every now and then it seems to have trouble switching power states say from being connected to a power source to using battery.

It, as I heard, causes the device to not respond at all to screen touch input. So the phone cannot be unlocked. One difference in iOS7, I heard, is that the home button does not unlock the device. One can ONLY swipe to unlock it.

So, I heard, it will respond to a long press of the power button and show a "swipe to power off" band. But then of course the screen does not respond to touch.

The only available option is to soft reset it (holding both power and home button until it shuts off). After which, I heard, it still will not respond.

It only responds when connected back to power for a few seconds, as I heard.

 

[Printer Bandit]

 

[Rakehellion]

It's called the visible spectrum and has existed since before computers.

Mind. Blown.

 

[Rakehellion]

I love iOS 7. There are huge, huge usability improvements that some of you may not have even noticed yet.

My favorites: If someone texts you an address, Maps will autocomplete it and show the name of the person who sent it without you having to copy and paste. Works with dates and other detectable info too.
Mail is context-aware. When composing a new email, your from address changes automatically depending on who you're sending it to.

 

[el-Capitan]

When composing a new email, your from address changes automatically depending on who you're sending it to.

Yeah, Blackberry used to do this. Good to see it's back now. I really missed this.

 

[Railgun]

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[Tyranicus]

So, I heard, every now and then it seems to have trouble switching power states say from being connected to a power source to using battery.

It, as I heard, causes the device to not respond at all to screen touch input. So the phone cannot be unlocked. One difference in iOS7, I heard, is that the home button does not unlock the device. One can ONLY swipe to unlock it.

So, I heard, it will respond to a long press of the power button and show a "swipe to power off" band. But then of course the screen does not respond to touch.

The only available option is to soft reset it (holding both power and home button until it shuts off). After which, I heard, it still will not respond.

It only responds when connected back to power for a few seconds, as I heard.

I have not heard of this issue on an iPhone 5 that I heard is running iOS 7 beta 2.

 

[Phanuel]

It's called the visible spectrum and has existed since before computers.

Mind. Blown.

It's also called Jonathan Ive.

 

[Rakehellion]

I have not heard of this issue on an iPhone 5 that I heard is running iOS 7 beta 2.

Come on, are we really talking about bugs in pre-release software that's under NDA? Try here instead.

 

[Spineshank]

I had mine start spazzing out the other night. Couldnt get it to do much of anything. Had to put it in DFU mode and restore. Currently back on 6.1.4

 

[Subyman]

Installed it on my iPhone 4 test phone and its a lot faster than the first beta. Had to hard reset once already though, so definitely not ready for prime time.

 

[lotust]

A few random reboots here and there. It feels like when I had my android tablet running honeycomb

 

[lotust]

I had to roll back to iOS 6 . I had reboots here and there and crappy BT playback. I'm in no rush for iOS 7 anyways. Nothing thrilling

 

[JavaMomma]

Beta 3 is up ... Haven't loaded iOS 7 yet, as I knew the first 2 or 3 would be a bit rough.
I might load this one up tonight.

 

[Tyranicus]

FYI: Updating to beta 3 over the air is a bad idea. It took my iPhone 3 hours to do so. I updated my iPad using iTunes, and it proceeded at a normal pace.

 

[Railgun]

Only because everyone and their brother was doing the same. Took my phone and iPad 30 min tops.