Na:
Posted: 2013-09-22 @ 4:50pm PT
The really useful was the map, ios7 no longer has the voice navigation. Although it is nice having voice navigation for walking but why drop the voice navigation for use in driving?
maz:
Posted: 2013-09-22 @ 3:24pm PT
I hated it at first but it grows on you and now I think it is so much better. I have only upgraded my ipad mini and am yet to do my phone as it is an iphone 4. I am going to upgrade that tonight and hope it doesnt slow it down and I end up back on here complaining with the rest of you.
Mary:
Posted: 2013-09-22 @ 1:25pm PT
I am very unhappy with the update. The music is much more complicated and the entire LOOK of the new icons and interface is like a PC – a total dumbing down – who’s doing this? I am so sorry I didn’t think twice before doing this.
BLA:
Posted: 2013-09-22 @ 8:00am PT
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it! DO NOT NOT like the new operating system. By the sounds of the “NO, NO, NO” coming from my son upstairs he doesn’t like it either. Messages have been deleted, lagging, safari start up page, blah. Finally got everything the way I wanted and now I will have to start over. I’m too old for this BS.
George Wedding:
Posted: 2013-09-22 @ 5:53am PT
Initially, I had some slight lagging issues on my iPhone 4 after installing iOS 7 on the first day. But these receded after all the background software updates completed (and this took several hours because Apple’s servers were slammed). iOS does tax the iPhone 4 somewhat, but any slowdown is barely noticeable and I feel it is worth the upgrade. In my view, the old hardware performed much better than I expected.
That said, I did this upgrade even while planning to purchase an iPhone 5S, which I already have done.
As for iOS 7′s “light and airy” aesthetics and design issues, overall, I feel the use of color is too “girly”. Also, I hate some of the nonsensical App icons and the limited background color options — the background Wallpapers are too vivid and distracting, and there simply aren’t Wallpaper options for conservative business users. It is a big mistake for the Wallpaper software to eliminate the one or two Wallpapers ported over from iOS 6 (these inexplicably disappear forever if you try out a new Wallpaper. This also happened with iOS 6). The low-contrast typography/background issues can be addressed in Settings>General>Accessibility, where contrast can be enhanced, Bold type selected, and Dynamic Type used to enlarge Fonts. (Once Fonts are enlarged with Dynamic Type, I do wish it could be turned off for select Apps, but not others).
K.K:
Posted: 2013-09-22 @ 3:53am PT
Hello guys… well am confused! Should I update my iphone to ios 7? and if i dont’ like it, can I go back to my ios 6.1.4?
Kelly:
Posted: 2013-09-21 @ 11:47pm PT
I don’t usually post on comments, but felt I must. There have been a number of my Facebook friends that really don’t like it either. I agree strongly with Jeff and have had the same lag problems as a couple others have mentioned in the comments here. The colors are irritating and have had the screen freeze after trying to get out of a folder and go to another. I also miss the feature to search the whole iPad. If I could I would go back to the iOS6.
RPG:
Posted: 2013-09-21 @ 10:19pm PT
@unknown: Yeah, you might as well. There are a lot of cool new features and basically it always makes sense to be up-to-date with the latest and greatest.
unknown:
Posted: 2013-09-21 @ 10:17pm PT
should i update? i cant make up my mind
CKS:
Posted: 2013-09-21 @ 7:23pm PT
Similar problem as Annette. The keyboard lag time to strokes is a problem. Very difficult to send text messages.
Brittany:
Posted: 2013-09-21 @ 7:07pm PT
It tells me that I need to connect to wi-fi network, i turn on my wifi and still not downloading..at all! Help!!
Diane:
Posted: 2013-09-21 @ 6:22pm PT
I too don’t like the white and gray backgrounds, it hurts the eyes.
Jo:
Posted: 2013-09-21 @ 4:38pm PT
I agree with you Jeff about the grey/beige band and background. It just looks muddy and boring and lacks crispness.
But worse than this is the fact that I seem to have lost all my documents that had been saved in my Pages app. This is disastrous!
Annette Vidler:
Posted: 2013-09-21 @ 4:24pm PT
Downloaded on Friday night and have HUGE “lagging” issues! Texting and Emailing is a nightmare! Type in the text and wait 20 seconds to actually see it! Seems to be something wrong with keyboard. I’m not sure what I can do?
Jeff Perren:
Posted: 2013-09-21 @ 12:45pm PT
I suppose tastes will differ but I found the new look simply horrible.
Far from just being a matter of esthetics, the replacement of fully colored icons with mostly white and splashes of color make apps harder to distinguish.
Notes, for example, are very hard to distinguish from Reminders. The camera icon is downright dull compared to the ios 6 version.
That same problem continues inside apps, too. Email simply is harder to read because of the new theme. And the menu options on Safari and others stand out less because of the new style.
The Home screen is dreadful now that the menu tray at the bottom has this big band of gray. The folders that encompass multiple apps look unfinished and dull (until you enlarge them fullscreen, when they are not quite as bad).
Don’t care for it at all on the iPad. My wife plans to leave her iPhone 5 at ios 6 for as long as possible now.
I can’t see any advantage to the new OS. Even the new swipe methods are not that much easier than the old tap ones.
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