iOS7 is live — can be downloaded OTA now

Originally Posted by dmacmart

What I like:
* Flashlight and calculator available from the lock screen
* Camera and music controls more easily accessed from the lock screen

I'm sure there must be features that I haven't read about or encountered yet because this was supposed to be such a major update. As expected with such a limited usage (less than 15 minutes) my don't like list is much longer.

What I don't like:
* I really miss swipe to delete
* The grouped apps (forget what they're called - folders?) now only show 9 per screen, and have a second screen where required. I had organized mine to show a screenful and now have to reorganize to not have to swipe for a second screen
* The text on the icons was illegible on my light-coloured background. I changed my background to all black for now.
* Text is generally lighter-weight and less readable (e.g. in the mail app). If anyone over 40 tested this product, wasn't their opinion listened to?
* Zooming of the apps whenever you return to the home screen
* The grey background on the folders

Yes, it is difficult to read light colored, thin text. This is especially annoying when the light colored, thin text has replaced easy to see UI buttons. Really stupid move by Ive, and no doubt he is at least 40. At 55 I'm having trouble quickly finding these text-only UI buttons. Apple should at least use a different, bolded font for text-only UI buttons to make them pop. I think Ive wanted them to blend in, but that makes for a terrible UI.

[afv011]

Originally Posted by David Munch

Several million people are trying to download the updates at the same time, and people expect the downloads to be instant? Wow, talk about loosing touch with reality...

Personally, don't like the flat icons, and the new dock - Otherwise, very happy with iOS7.

You might not be that happy when you see your new battery life, especially if you have a 5:

Originally Posted by afv011

You might not be that happy when you see your new battery life, especially if you have a 5:

You should probably reference where you got this. If it is true then my iPhone 5 on iOS 7 fears are legit! I suspected a hit to battery, but not that huge of a hit. Strange how it has a much larger hit on iPhone 5 than any other device. I'm glad I decided to wait on my 5. I'm letting some friends test it out on their 5s first!

[elcreative]

Originally Posted by jswinden

You should probably reference where you got this. If it is true then my iPhone 5 on iOS 7 fears are legit! I suspected a hit to battery, but not that huge of a hit. Strange how it has a much larger hit on iPhone 5 than any other device. I'm glad I decided to wait on my 5. I'm letting some friends test it out on their 5s first!

Judging by the icon at the bottom right (it says ars), it's probably from arstechnica...

[holymadness]

I was wondering when the trolls would show up.

The hit to battery life is real (I'm experiencing it now), but is hopefully due to a bug that'll be patched. In any case, I call shenanigans on that graph. There is no way he got 661 minutes (11 hours) of battery life on 6.1.X, so the drop-off is less drastic than it would appear. 444 minutes is 7.4 hours, whereas I used to get around 8 hours of battery life before the device shut down, on average.

For those struggling with the new system font weight, go to Settings > General > Accessibility and turn 'Bold Text' on. It restores it to the same weight and thickness as iOS 6.

Originally Posted by holymadness

I was wondering when the trolls would show up.

The hit to battery life is real (I'm experiencing it now), but is hopefully due to a bug that'll be patched. In any case, I call shenanigans on that graph. There is no way he got 661 minutes (11 hours) of battery life on 6.1.X, so the drop-off is less drastic than it would appear. 444 minutes is 7.4 hours, whereas I used to get around 8 hours of battery life before the device shut down, on average.

For those struggling with the new system font weight, go to Settings > Accessibility and turn 'Bold Text' on. It restores it to the same weight and thickness as iOS 6.

Just FYI, watch the usage of the "Troll" word because the moderators don't like it, even if it is true.

Yes, 11 hours seems way too much. I never tried surfing all day on my iPhone 5, but I seriously doubt it would get that long of battery life.

The bold text helps a lot, but the lack of UI buttons is still making the UI harder to read and use.

[dmacmart]

Originally Posted by holymadness

For those struggling with the new system font weight, go to Settings > Accessibility and turn 'Bold Text' on. It restores it to the same weight and thickness as iOS 6.

Thank you! Hope I'm not considered a troll ...
It's Settings > General > Accessibility in case anyone else is looking for it. It's so much better.

[holymadness]

Not at all. You have actually used iOS 7 and are giving your impressions. That's helpful.

Regarding missing swipe to delete: if you mean swiping emails to delete them, try swiping in the opposite direction (from right to left).

[AnemicOak]

Unless I'm missing something you can no longer search the internet, just the phone itself) from the home screen?

[MeSue]

Got it on both my devices now. For the most part I like it. So far my biggest dislike is the wasted space in folders view. But glad you can add more items to folders.

A lot of my settings were reset after update, and my time was off on the iPad.

So far, can't tell a difference in battery drain or performance on my iPad 3. My iPhone 4S (bought used) has always had pathetic battery life, so it will be interesting to see if it gets much worse.

[dmacmart]

Originally Posted by holymadness

Not at all. You have actually used iOS 7 and are giving your impressions. That's helpful.

Regarding missing swipe to delete: if you mean swiping emails to delete them, try swiping in the opposite direction (from right to left).

Yes! I didn't even see that Reply etc. were missing. (what does that say about my emails, that I need to delete them but not reply to them ...)

I do like the new iOS way of closing opened apps. Actually I don't think they are still open as such, isn't it merely a list of recently opened apps? At any rate it is quicker and easier to close (or delete them from the list). I do wish you could close them all at one time though. I'll have to check to see if that is possible.

[afv011]

Originally Posted by elcreative

Judging by the icon at the bottom right (it says ars), it's probably from arstechnica...

It is, but for those who want to read the whole thing, it's here: source

[afv011]

Originally Posted by holymadness

I was wondering when the trolls would show up.

Originally Posted by holymadness

The hit to battery life is real ...

I'm confused, you agree that I am telling the truth about a shortcoming on ios7, yet you call me a troll?

[David Munch]

Originally Posted by afv011

You might not be that happy when you see your new battery life, especially if you have a 5:

Oh, I am still very happy. My 4S is actually holding out longer compared iOS6. (After testing iOS7 a whole day...)

But nevermind that - iOS releases always use more juice with the 1.0 releases, which gets improved over the course of the minor updates.