iOS 7 First Impressions

[Kaido]

I don't have much of a delay for the wallpaper loading on my iPad 2. However, that may be due to the size of the pix on there.

The animation delay really bugs me, like when closing an app and it does the zoom thing. It's fast enough that I can't move my finger to hit another icon before it finishes, but it just visually bugs me, like the boingy SMS bubbles.

My lock screen is extremely slow to startup. Sometimes it doesn't turn on up to a couple seconds after I press the home button. I just pressed it now...1 second delay, then 1 second to fade from black to the lockscreen, instead of just turning "on" instantly. Probably the most annoying thing so far.

I mean, it's all first-world problem kind of stuff, but I feel like they're taking design cues from Android with the animation, and a lot of stuff feels unfinished like the too-bright white interface, lack of borders in some stuff like Calendar & Alarms, that sort of thing. Just stuff that makes it harder to use instead of instantly intuitive. It's a step backwards to me, especially after being on an iPhone since the first model. I have habits, dangit! :biggrin:

 

[Kaido]

One annoying habit change example: Send a photo via SMS or Email

1. Open Photos
2. Tap on a photo to view fullscreen
3. Tap the weird blue outline box with the up arrow to initiate the send routine
4. Now displays in horizontal-scroll format, instead of letting you zoom out to see all of the other pictures
5. Now move your finger from the lower left side to the upper right side and click the very tiny "Next" text
6. Now move back to the bottom to select Message, Mail, etc.
7. Now wait 2 to 6 seconds for it to send to Messages

Why such a long delay in cross-app sending? (Photo to SMS) Why the weird non-ergonomic workflow? Why the tiny text buttons & weird outline icons? Why did they add an extra step (Next button)? In iOS 6, I just hit the little send icon, a menu popped up right near my finger, I tapped the Text Message icon, and it threw it over instantly. No thinking required, no fiddling around moving my finger back & forth & back or trying to hit the small Text button. It especially annoys me that there's not a nice big button to press, they added a step (the "Next" text button) and made it tiny.

Apple, I have adult-sized fingers. Please fix this.

 

[TheThirdMan]

I realised you can quit 3 apps at a time in the multi-tasking view, Just put a finger on each of the 3 apps viewable and swipe up and all 3 quit.

The most annoying thing for me is the calendar app- i can't see at a glance appointments for each day in month view as i could before. The months just all flow from one to the other so there's no space at the bottom for them to put the appointments. Now to see what I have a on a day i have to go into day view and then wait for it to scroll to my first appointment or do it myself.

 

[Ns1]

are the music controls from the lock screen fucked for anyone else?

they don't fucking respond on my phone.

my music controls are basically worthless except through the main music app, while unlocked.


i had to use SIRI today to stop music. it was sad.

iPhone4s

 

[smackababy]

The most annoying thing for me is weather. I don't want to read it. Give me a number and a picture please!

 

[alkemyst]

The most annoying thing for me is weather. I don't want to read it. Give me a number and a picture please!

??? mine shows the temp and an image of the conditions. In thunderstorms it actually lightnings.

I can then see a 5 day forecast below it.

 

[smackababy]

??? mine shows the temp and an image of the conditions. In thunderstorms it actually lightnings.

I can then see a 5 day forecast below it.

I don't mean in the weather app. When you slide down the notification center. Mine has the text "Sunny today. It's currently 48 degrees (symbol not text); the high will be 70 degrees."

And that seems strange because it was 65 this morning, so I don't think it is currently 48; haven't been outside since around 9AM though, so I suppose it could have dropped.

 

[alkemyst]

I don't mean in the weather app. When you slide down the notification center. Mine has the text "Sunny today. It's currently 48 degrees (symbol not text); the high will be 70 degrees."

And that seems strange because it was 65 this morning, so I don't think it is currently 48; haven't been outside since around 9AM though, so I suppose it could have dropped.

that screen is designed for much more than just weather. The elements/look/feel are common through out it.

 

[Tyranicus]

7. Now wait 2 to 6 seconds for it to send to Messages

Why such a long delay in cross-app sending?

There is no discernible delay for me when I do this on my iPhone 5.

 

[Oyeve]

I get no weather. Everything is set correctly.

 

[Childs]

Heh...when you install the dot release, the gears in the Settings icon rotate while downloading.

 

[Kaido]

There is no discernible delay for me when I do this on my iPhone 5.

Planned obsolescence 🙁

 

[bearxor]

One annoying habit change example: Send a photo via SMS or Email

1. Open Photos
2. Tap on a photo to view fullscreen
3. Tap the weird blue outline box with the up arrow to initiate the send routine
4. Now displays in horizontal-scroll format, instead of letting you zoom out to see all of the other pictures
5. Now move your finger from the lower left side to the upper right side and click the very tiny "Next" text
6. Now move back to the bottom to select Message, Mail, etc.
7. Now wait 2 to 6 seconds for it to send to Messages

Why such a long delay in cross-app sending? (Photo to SMS) Why the weird non-ergonomic workflow? Why the tiny text buttons & weird outline icons? Why did they add an extra step (Next button)? In iOS 6, I just hit the little send icon, a menu popped up right near my finger, I tapped the Text Message icon, and it threw it over instantly. No thinking required, no fiddling around moving my finger back & forth & back or trying to hit the small Text button. It especially annoys me that there's not a nice big button to press, they added a step (the "Next" text button) and made it tiny.

Apple, I have adult-sized fingers. Please fix this.

The workflow does need to change from the photos app if you want to send more than one image. You should hit the select button, select the photos you want, then hit the share button and choose message.

On the iPhone 4S it does take about 4-6 seconds for it to throw them over to the text app.

 

[TheStu]

One annoying habit change example: Send a photo via SMS or Email

1. Open Photos
2. Tap on a photo to view fullscreen
3. Tap the weird blue outline box with the up arrow to initiate the send routine
4. Now displays in horizontal-scroll format, instead of letting you zoom out to see all of the other pictures
5. Now move your finger from the lower left side to the upper right side and click the very tiny "Next" text
6. Now move back to the bottom to select Message, Mail, etc.
7. Now wait 2 to 6 seconds for it to send to Messages

Why such a long delay in cross-app sending? (Photo to SMS) Why the weird non-ergonomic workflow? Why the tiny text buttons & weird outline icons? Why did they add an extra step (Next button)? In iOS 6, I just hit the little send icon, a menu popped up right near my finger, I tapped the Text Message icon, and it threw it over instantly. No thinking required, no fiddling around moving my finger back & forth & back or trying to hit the small Text button. It especially annoys me that there's not a nice big button to press, they added a step (the "Next" text button) and made it tiny.

Apple, I have adult-sized fingers. Please fix this.

I don't have a 'next button', so this is the process for me:
1: Open Photos
2: Select Photo
3: Press Share button
4: Tap the Messages icon
5: Messages opens

 

[smackababy]

I don't have a 'next button', so this is the process for me:
1: Open Photos
2: Select Photo
3: Press Share button
4: Tap the Messages icon
5: Messages opens

This is my flow as well, and it isn't very slow on my 5. There is a some noticeable lag, but just a stutter or two.

 

[Kaido]

I don't have a 'next button', so this is the process for me:
1: Open Photos
2: Select Photo
3: Press Share button
4: Tap the Messages icon
5: Messages opens

Yeah, you're in the gallery view. If you want to select an individual picture, it looks like this:

http://imgur.com/HSisjIm

Typically I just send one picture, so I go fullscreen & flip through until I find the one that I want, then send that. It's just a little ridiculous how they went from easy to (1) added steps, (2) tiny text button, (3) opposite corner to opposite corner to middle finger workflow. Not that it's a huge deal in the overall scheme of life, but they took something that has worked for the past 5 years and made it worse 😛

 

[bearxor]

If I'm sending one picture I almost always do that from the messages app itself.

 

[Kaido]

If I'm sending one picture I almost always do that from the messages app itself.

Ah, I'm the opposite - Photos > Select Pic > Send as SMS > Select User Contact > Send.

 

[smackababy]

If I'm sending one picture I almost always do that from the messages app itself.

90% of the time I am going to send a picture, I am going to take it right then, so I do it from the message app and select "Take picture". I almost never view my gallery.

 

[bearxor]

90% of the time I am going to send a picture, I am going to take it right then, so I do it from the message app and select "Take picture". I almost never view my gallery.

The problem with doing that it that it doesn't save a copy of the image to your gallery. You can only pull the low resolution version you MMS'd at that point.

 

[smackababy]

The problem with doing that it that it doesn't save a copy of the image to your gallery. You can only pull the low resolution version you MMS'd at that point.

Every picture I've taken is in my Camera Roll. I don't know what quality they are, but I don't use my iPhone as a real camera alternative anyway. I have a DSLR that is much, much better than any iPhone and I have film cameras I wouldn't trade for anything digital.

 

[Shephard]

Why is it when I sync photos from my computer I cannot rename the folder it puts on the iPhone?

I can make a new folder on the iPhone and move the photos, but then I have doubles. Because it will not let me delete pictures in the folder I synced.

 

[Eug]

As usual, it's Apple's way or the highway. 😛

 

[Rakehellion]

Why is it when I sync photos from my computer I cannot rename the folder it puts on the iPhone?

I can make a new folder on the iPhone and move the photos, but then I have doubles. Because it will not let me delete pictures in the folder I synced.

Synced folders are exactly as they are on the computer. You can't change them on the phone.

 

[mmntech]

We were just given an iPhone 4 to test our app on. Has iOS 7 on it. Thing runs slowwww. There's quite a bit of lag if you tap the home button to quit an app. Everything else is just very sluggish. Brings back bad memories of trying to run iOS 4 on my 3G.

I do like the quick settings menu. It doesn't quite replace BossPrefs but it's a start. Had to hunt around for the search menu a bit. It's in a weird place. Find myself bringing up notifications instead if you don't have your finger in the right place. Don't know why they didn't just leave that were it was. As for the changes to the GUI, I do actually like the look of it, and the multitasking is A LOT better than previous versions.

My big beef with Apple is they do push out iOS updates to older phones that can't quite handle them. A little more than a subtle nudge to get you to buy a new device, by pretty much breaking your old one. I'd rather just not get the update.

I'll probably put iOS 7 on my 4S and iPad 3 if/when the jailbreak comes out. Think I mentioned it before but I do use a few legit jailbreak apps. Especially on my iPad.