What iOS 7 Means To Me
Sep. 20th, 2013 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfish(Not that anyone asked.)
0) Upgrading went smoothly on my 4S. Had some minor connectivity problems with trying to download the required iTunes update, but those went away when I tried again a few hours later.
1) Control Center. I feel like I have been waiting nearly five years for this. Things you do semifrequently-- Do Not Disturb, use the LED camera flash as a flashlight, timer, calculator, enable or disable wi-fi or Airplane Mode-- are no longer buried in settings, but are instead accessible with a quick swipe up from the bottom of the screen, even when the phone is locked. Result: Settings app no longer takes up space on my first home screen.
2) I still can't delete useless system apps (Stocks wtf?), but folders are no longer artificially limited to twelve items, so I can dump more junk into a single folder. (Also, Newsstand can now be placed in a folder. ABOUT TIME.) All the apps that are accessible from Control Center are now on the second page of my Rarely Used folder.
3) I can't get to the Music (formerly iPod) app by double-tapping the Home button and swiping left anymore. Instead it's been poorly integrated into Control Center. If there's no music playing I have to hit Play, wait for it to start playing a random song, and then tap the song title to open the Music app. Result: the Music app must now take up space on my dock. I wouldn't mind except that its deep red app icon looks awful next to the subdued blue Mail and the vibrant green Phone and Messages.
4) Also, Music seems to forget what it was playing five minutes ago even more often now than it used to.
5) Speaking of broken workflows, deleting items from a list now requires a right-to-left swipe. Previously either left-to-right or right-to-left would enable a Delete button. Annoying.
6) Everything just feels a bit less responsive than I'm used to. Not sure if that's actually the case, or if I'm missing tap/swipe targets due to the thin-line appearance updates, and thus it'll get better as I get used to it.
7) The appearance updates themselves are a wash. For the OS itself: I like the thinner system font and I don't mind the new 'flatter' look in general. In specific apps: I don't care for Mail's spartan lines and I don't like the changes to Maps or Safari. Edit: and Calendar is a big pile of DO NOT WANT. Ugh.
8) I am one of the last holdouts against the combo search/URL box, and am irritated that they've finally forced me to start using it in Safari.
9) Okay, that parallax effect where the icons appear to be floating above the background is actually pretty neat.
10) In another month I will not care about any of this. After three months I will take it all for granted.
0) Upgrading went smoothly on my 4S. Had some minor connectivity problems with trying to download the required iTunes update, but those went away when I tried again a few hours later.
1) Control Center. I feel like I have been waiting nearly five years for this. Things you do semifrequently-- Do Not Disturb, use the LED camera flash as a flashlight, timer, calculator, enable or disable wi-fi or Airplane Mode-- are no longer buried in settings, but are instead accessible with a quick swipe up from the bottom of the screen, even when the phone is locked. Result: Settings app no longer takes up space on my first home screen.
2) I still can't delete useless system apps (Stocks wtf?), but folders are no longer artificially limited to twelve items, so I can dump more junk into a single folder. (Also, Newsstand can now be placed in a folder. ABOUT TIME.) All the apps that are accessible from Control Center are now on the second page of my Rarely Used folder.
3) I can't get to the Music (formerly iPod) app by double-tapping the Home button and swiping left anymore. Instead it's been poorly integrated into Control Center. If there's no music playing I have to hit Play, wait for it to start playing a random song, and then tap the song title to open the Music app. Result: the Music app must now take up space on my dock. I wouldn't mind except that its deep red app icon looks awful next to the subdued blue Mail and the vibrant green Phone and Messages.
4) Also, Music seems to forget what it was playing five minutes ago even more often now than it used to.
5) Speaking of broken workflows, deleting items from a list now requires a right-to-left swipe. Previously either left-to-right or right-to-left would enable a Delete button. Annoying.
6) Everything just feels a bit less responsive than I'm used to. Not sure if that's actually the case, or if I'm missing tap/swipe targets due to the thin-line appearance updates, and thus it'll get better as I get used to it.
7) The appearance updates themselves are a wash. For the OS itself: I like the thinner system font and I don't mind the new 'flatter' look in general. In specific apps: I don't care for Mail's spartan lines and I don't like the changes to Maps or Safari. Edit: and Calendar is a big pile of DO NOT WANT. Ugh.
8) I am one of the last holdouts against the combo search/URL box, and am irritated that they've finally forced me to start using it in Safari.
9) Okay, that parallax effect where the icons appear to be floating above the background is actually pretty neat.
10) In another month I will not care about any of this. After three months I will take it all for granted.
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