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Running flawlessly on my iPhone 4S and iPad 2. I was an early adopter, started with the original iPhone running iOS 1, before it was even CALLED iOS :p Reason I mention this is to point out that I’ve had every iteration of iOS since it first released and whilst iOS 7 is not without its flaws (I like Apple kit, but I’m no fanboy!), it just feels so much cleaner and easier to use than previous releases.
As some have pointed out, there are certain features that will eat your battery life faster, it’s up to you to enable or disable according to your own priorities. You can disable background refresh on a per-app basis, so if there are one or two critical apps you use frequently, you can have them kept up-to-date at all times, but disable all the others to reduce resource consumption. The parallax effect is cool and all, but after the first 10 seconds or so, you don’t really notice it. And given that it doesn’t actually ADD anything, disabling it is no big deal.
I have to disagree with a previous poster regarding skeuomorphisms though. It always rather annoyed me that modern digital devices seemed to always try to look like other non-digital physical items, to create a sense of familiarity. Fake page edges on the address book, binding marks, paper grain on the notepad… Does any of this actually ADD anything? No. In fact it DETRACTS. It makes the screen more visually complex and actually serves to obscure information. I genuinely love the much cleaner look of iOS 7. There are still some odd decorative elements that serve no real purpose, but by and large the interface is FUNCTIONAL first and foremost.
So yeah, turn off the fake parallax silliness, turn off background refresh on apps you don’t critically need, and Siri if you don’t use it. I don’t, as I also keep my 3G turned off unless I actually need it, that’s one many people overlook. 3G eats battery faster, but do you always NEED the faster connection speed? Of course not! 90% of the time, I have no need for 3G, so leave it off and gain back some battery life!
Summary: iOS 7 is not flawless, but it is certainly functional. Some people are scared at first by the lack of analog familiarity in the interface, but once you realise that it’s not actually necessary, everything looks so much cleaner. Is it worth the upgrade right now? Well that’s up to you, but personally I’d recommend it.
Little-mentioned feature: Blocking. You can now BLOCK numbers on your phone, if someone has been bothering you. They won’t even know it, either. Text messages will send as normal, but your phone will ignore them, and calls will go straight to voicemail. They can leave a message, but it will show on your phone as being from a blocked number, so you can delete it without listening.
Running flawlessly on my iPhone 4S and iPad 2. I was an early adopter, started with the original iPhone running iOS 1, before it was even CALLED iOS :p Reason I mention this is to point out that I’ve had every iteration of iOS since it first released and whilst iOS 7 is not without its flaws (I like Apple kit, but I’m no fanboy!), it just feels so much cleaner and easier to use than previous releases.
As some have pointed out, there are certain features that will eat your battery life faster, it’s up to you to enable or disable according to your own priorities. You can disable background refresh on a per-app basis, so if there are one or two critical apps you use frequently, you can have them kept up-to-date at all times, but disable all the others to reduce resource consumption. The parallax effect is cool and all, but after the first 10 seconds or so, you don’t really notice it. And given that it doesn’t actually ADD anything, disabling it is no big deal.
I have to disagree with a previous poster regarding skeuomorphisms though. It always rather annoyed me that modern digital devices seemed to always try to look like other non-digital physical items, to create a sense of familiarity. Fake page edges on the address book, binding marks, paper grain on the notepad… Does any of this actually ADD anything? No. In fact it DETRACTS. It makes the screen more visually complex and actually serves to obscure information. I genuinely love the much cleaner look of iOS 7. There are still some odd decorative elements that serve no real purpose, but by and large the interface is FUNCTIONAL first and foremost.
So yeah, turn off the fake parallax silliness, turn off background refresh on apps you don’t critically need, and Siri if you don’t use it. I don’t, as I also keep my 3G turned off unless I actually need it, that’s one many people overlook. 3G eats battery faster, but do you always NEED the faster connection speed? Of course not! 90% of the time, I have no need for 3G, so leave it off and gain back some battery life!
Summary: iOS 7 is not flawless, but it is certainly functional. Some people are scared at first by the lack of analog familiarity in the interface, but once you realise that it’s not actually necessary, everything looks so much cleaner. Is it worth the upgrade right now? Well that’s up to you, but personally I’d recommend it.
Little-mentioned feature: Blocking. You can now BLOCK numbers on your phone, if someone has been bothering you. They won’t even know it, either. Text messages will send as normal, but your phone will ignore them, and calls will go straight to voicemail. They can leave a message, but it will show on your phone as being from a blocked number, so you can delete it without listening.
I’m a fan. There’s nothing so different that you can’t quickly figure it out and it feels kinda like I have a new phone.
I’d definitely wait for the first patch release before switching over. Apple had a hard deadline since it had to ship out with the new iPhones, and as people have noticed, bugs didn’t get fixed and features had to be cut. No different than any major release from any other company, except that Apple usually doesn’t shoot for the moon. Their releases are usually very small in scope.
Even if you don’t upgrade, all the app developers are redesigning their apps so that it looks similar to iOS 7, in accordance with Apple guidelines. It’s a mixed bag since Apple hasn’t pinned down the design yet as you can see in their own apps.
Also in my experience, upgrading iOS sometimes leaves backgrounded apps in a screwed up state, so after you upgrade you should force-close all apps. Rebooting does not do this.
I am amazed you can do anything without 3G. For me it’s the difference between “I can look this up” and “it will take me 5 minutes to look this up, why bother.” LTE is a different matter, since enabling it actually increases battery life since the antenna doesn’t have to be on as long.
You could do this in other versions by assigning these numbers to a “BLOCKED” contact with a silent ringer.Turning off all background updates made a big difference in battery usage for me today. We’ll see how it goes.
I just found something cool:) In settings>general>accessibility>>–> Invert colors:D
Makes a black and white wallpaper/screensaver go negative, as well as show all apps in all kinds of funky colors.
I’m gonna guess it did this before and I didn’t realize it:p
I took a screenshot on the iPhone and when I looked at it in the iPad’s photo album it was normal. I had to take a pic of the ipad with the iphone to show it:)I’ve been running ios7 for a few weeks now and like some of the changes. One annoyance is that they changed the direction to swipe to delete. Not a big deal, but I have to retrain my thumb. 🙂 A lot of the eye candy is useless and I turned that off fairly quickly.
I do like AirDrop but I wish it worked with the Mac/Windows desktops.
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