iOS 7 Released!

[QueBert]

Agreed. Though there's no real choice on upgrading - you have to upgrade to get security updates - so while I'm dragging my feet for the moment I'll have to do it sooner or later.

While this is true, I'm really really hoping JB + theme can revert the look back to the old iOS. If this doesn't happen and there's an upgrade that's absolutely necessary I'll drop my iPhone like a brick.

 

[Mopetar]

I upgraded my iPad 3 yesterday. A lot of the changes are nice, some are just different and will take some getting used to. I think I might need to do a fresh install though because it seems laggy as hell in some areas. For example, I was changing the wallpaper since it changed that when it upgraded and trying to select a different wallpaper made the device unresponsive for several seconds. I'm guessing that they still have a few bugs to work out so unless you're incredibly curious, I'd probably hold off until they have a patch or two out.

 

[trmiv]

I think the wallpaper changing thing is a bug. I have the same problem on my iPad 4. Seems to be a lot of reports of that issue on macrumors too from iPad owners, and a lot of them did a fresh install and it made no difference.

 

[mosco]

Pretty cool.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/091913-ios7-multipath-273995.html

MultiPath TCP!

 

[dawheat]

Finally got my wife's IP5 to upgrade.

- Some things just look weird, but I think it'll just pass in time (lock screen, dialer, etc)
- The color palette makes some screens, especially with folders that are not full, hard to read due to the opacity. Not really a fan of this.
- The toggles window is a good add, though I wish you could choose what options are displayed. My wife almost never uses any of the available options regularly.
- The notifications pull-down I'm not sure about - maybe having different tabs will reveal some improvement, but at first use I'd rather get everything all at once.
- I do like the Safari changes, though frankly I can't pinpoint what it is.
- Coming from my Android phone, I do like how everything is optimized. Pre-built apps like Safari seem to leap open.

 

[Eug]

Pretty cool.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/091913-ios7-multipath-273995.html

MultiPath TCP!

Maybe that's one reason why Siri is finally out of beta.

 

[Mopetar]

I think the wallpaper changing thing is a bug. I have the same problem on my iPad 4. Seems to be a lot of reports of that issue on macrumors too from iPad owners, and a lot of them did a fresh install and it made no difference.

Thanks for the info. I still will probably do a fresh install anyway. I could stand to clean out some of the clutter.

 

[lopri]

I am not fond of the new skinny fonts.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

@Crono, you're right about WP versus iOS. Windows Phone is cleaner even if its more plain. iOS looked fine in revision 6, although it really needed a design change from the grid of icons.

While iOS 7 brings a LOT of new features, I'm not sure if this whole colorful look is the right approach.

 

[pm]

@Crono, you're right about WP versus iOS. Windows Phone is cleaner even if its more plain. iOS looked fine in revision 6, although it really needed a design change from the grid of icons.

While iOS 7 brings a LOT of new features, I'm not sure if this whole colorful look is the right approach.

This is my thinking summed up exactly.

 

[cliftonite]

@Crono, you're right about WP versus iOS. Windows Phone is cleaner even if its more plain. iOS looked fine in revision 6, although it really needed a design change from the grid of icons.

While iOS 7 brings a LOT of new features, I'm not sure if this whole colorful look is the right approach.

The colors put me off at first but the look is slowly growing on me.

 

[Super56K]

It's running really well on my 4S. I enabled bold font and disabled parallax. I like the new color scheme overall, though the effect is subdued with a dull red lock screen image and black home screen. If it weren't for the issues I've been reading about I'd upgrade my iPad 3 too, but I'll be waiting on that to see if they're legitimate performance issues or just bugs.

 

[blairharrington]

Ability to swipe back and forth on Safari is a big deal on the iPad and something I've longed for. That change alone is worth the upgrade IMO. iOS 7 works well on my iPad Mini.

 

[Ottertail]

Funny ... larger icons for a TINY screen. That sure makes a lot of sense!

 

[Shadowknight]

I upgraded last night, and downgraded to 6 this afternoon. Aside from not liking the new look, I have issues with the Google/Microsoft "flat" look-it's harder for my brain to process what I'm seeing for some reason. Programs have been slower to open because they've added short animations when the program is launched, and the touch screen seemed less responsive, whether this is because of something with the software, or because they shrank the "touch" areas for some of the icons, I don't know, but I definetly had a harder time closing tabs in Safari after the upgrade due to the smaller close button on the individual tabs. Also, if they're going to change how you close programs (which is VERY important for a program at my workplace) they should have included a tutorial in the new OS on any major changes like that. Someone told me that they ripped off Android there, but if you've never used Android, how would you know, and why would you assume that's how it now works on Apple's competing products?*

*Important to me, as I am the unpaid tech-guy at my workplace, and people struggle with basic computer/device literacy as it is.

 

[lopri]

One of my favorites is the Control Center. Much needed feature, IMO. Hope they improve on it even further down the road.

 

[Ns1]

Yeah, iOS7 reminds me a lot of new google.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

The colors put me off at first but the look is slowly growing on me.

Opposite feeling here. But maybe I'm being heavily influenced by the iOS 7 hate around the web right now. Heh.

 

[TuxDave]

I have to say its pretty cool. Everyday I'm finding little things that they added that's interesting.

I'm not sure what's more impressive, the os refresh or all the apps that adopted the design style and refreshed everything just to make it match and look pretty.

 

[mosco]

The only thing that Safari is still missing is a "Open in Background Tab" button (on iPhone)

 

[Aikouka]

I saw plenty of photos of iOS 7 prior to using it, so I wasn't terribly surprised at some of the changes. Overall, I'm fine with most of it, but there are certainly some head scratchers. For example, why does the iPad only have 3 rows of 3 icons in folders? There's so much dead space. I think a lot of the apps look cleaner, which is certainly a nice change, and the flat look is actually strangely a refreshing change. I recall thinking, "this looks kind of nice," when I was sending a message to a friend.

 

[ultimatebob]

I heard that iOS 7 also deliberately breaks support of 3rd party Lightning charge cables.

Has anyone been able to confirm this?

 

[Eug]

I heard that iOS 7 also deliberately breaks support of 3rd party Lightning charge cables.

Has anyone been able to confirm this?

This was reported several times during the beta.

This also happened many times with even the 30-pin dock connector though, so it's not new. Buy an eBay cable, and it'd work fine, and then update the OS (eg. iOS 3.x), and the cable would cause an error message to pop up when you plugged it in.

However, it should be noted that for the 3rd party lightning charging cables, some people are reporting that even though they get an error message, it continues to charge just fine. YMMV.

 

[lopri]

The more I look at this the more I think they are ugly, and only reason they look OK at first glance is because they are so different from previous iOS'es. Its cartoonish-ness is way above and beyond even that of Touchwiz, and the choice of colors are very un-user-friendly. Bright pastel + neon colors with lots of bright whites and skinny fonts make it difficult to read and find what I need. Icons like Note/Reminder icons and Safari icons are too ugly. The dock separator (?) looks like something a 7 year old came up with.

I do like those transparent gradients, though, and downloaded a copy-cat Control Center on my Nexus 4.

 

[ControlD]

The more I look at this the more I think they are ugly, and only reason they look OK at first glance is because they are so different from previous iOS'es. Its cartoonish-ness is way above and beyond even that of Touchwiz, and the choice of colors are very un-user-friendly. Bright pastel + neon colors with lots of bright whites and skinny fonts make it difficult to read and find what I need. Icons like Note/Reminder icons and Safari icons are too ugly. The dock separator (?) looks like something a 7 year old came up with.

I do like those transparent gradients, though, and downloaded a copy-cat Control Center on my Nexus 4.

I agree with you. The whole thing looks like a bad Winterboard theme that would be deleted minutes after trying out. I can live with it for sure but iOS6 looked pretty darned good, and this looks quite the opposite.