iOS 7 Expectations & Wants

Swarfega · 11 Jun 2013 at 14:32

Ok. No rush anyway.
Shame the biggest highlight in 7 is the UI. Was really hoping to see then open up the OS for items like keyboards. Would love to have SwiftKey on an iPhone.

squerble · 11 Jun 2013 at 14:34

If you download the .ipsw and just do an upgrade rather than a restore, it apparently works without any UDID registration but performance is reportedly a bit naff.

joelk2 · 11 Jun 2013 at 14:39

squerble said:
If you download the .ipsw and just do an upgrade rather than a restore, it apparently works without any UDID registration but performance is reportedly a bit naff.

i used the upgrade option.

i need to do a full restore and test things then.

demonix · 11 Jun 2013 at 14:42

From all the information I've seen, I'll have to upgrade to a fifth generation iPod touch as the forth generation iPod touch isn't supported (which is strange since the iPhone 4 is).

whiskycycle · 12 Jun 2013 at 09:56

Swarfega said:
Sorry what's this?

A keyboard like Swype or Swiftkey on Android, where you trace each word letter by letter without taking your greasy digit from the screen, rather than jab each individual letter to complete a word.

GTA767 · 12 Jun 2013 at 20:34

can someone test battery life?

iphone 5 ios7 usage

on ios 6 am getting about day standby and maxs 6 hours usage with games

JonB · 12 Jun 2013 at 20:46

They couldn't even get an iPad beta ready in time. Can't help but think we'll see lots of tweaks and changes to the style before the final release in 3 months or so.

Robbo · 12 Jun 2013 at 21:06

GTA767 said:
can someone test battery life?

iphone 5 ios7 usage

on ios 6 am getting about day standby and maxs 6 hours usage with games

The iPhone 5 battery life is definitely worse on iOS 7, the phone is running warmer than usual.

If battery life is of high importance I wouldn't risk it for now.

Morfik · 13 Jun 2013 at 14:07

It would make sense for battery life to fall on iOS7 with the new multi-tasking but if I had a penny for everytime there's an update and people complain of slowdown and battery life...

whiskycycle · 13 Jun 2013 at 14:33

Morfik said:
It would make sense for battery life to fall on iOS7 with the new multi-tasking but if I had a penny for everytime there's an update and people complain of slowdown and battery life...

It certainly does kill battery life.... third charge today already!

Left home on 100%, listened to 50 minute album on way to work, 55% on arrival at work.

Charged up to 85% before nipping out for lunch, listened to half of Tron:Legacy OST on walk to/from tuck shop, plus about 10 minutes browsing.... 34% when I got back to the office.

I expected it to be like this to be honest, but I've dropped back to 6.1.4 for now as daily driver.... will chuck it straight on the iPad mini once they get it released on the dev portal for that.

Still annoyed about lack of trace keyboard though. Grrr....

Tunney · 13 Jun 2013 at 15:32

GTA767 said:
can someone test battery life?

iphone 5 ios7 usage

on ios 6 am getting about day standby and maxs 6 hours usage with games

There's absolutely no point testing battery life right now. It's a beta. It's not finished and it's not optimised.