iOS 7 Review

Barks said:
I just noticed if you tilt the phone the background moves as well. It's very subtle but a neat addition!
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I think it's rubbish. I much would have preferred to have a wide-screen wallpaper that scrolls slightly as you move between home pages. But I'm aware that would be a copy of Windows Phone 8. Maybe I should get one of those now. :p
 
Robbo said:
People would have complained no matter what they did.

I really like iOS 7, but it does need work in a few areas. Absolutely no reason to think they won't get it polished up to a higher standard.
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Pretty much this.

My biggest issue is that notifications popping down (i.e. FB chat etc..) whilst trying to do other stuff that requires you to use the top of the screen, is stopped by the notifications. Apart from that I'm enjoying it, and haven't noticed any speed issues either really (iPad 2)

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Raymond Lin said:
7.0.1 would fix a lot of the little things I think, at least there isn't any major bugs I can find.
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Like anyone making calls from your pin locked iphone for example? ;)

I got used to the fact each new IOS drain more battery, but I'm still surprised that the "snitch connection" that's present in all IOS's since I joined ranks of iPhone users and is the main culprit of battery drain (I recon the phone would easily last 4-5 days on a single charge if they stopped it) didn't fire back at them yet. In the days when everyone is so upset about NSA story and all, it's amazing this hasn't resurfaced and Apple doesn't get flogging for it.

For those that don't know what I'm talking about - it's about the infamous "push connections" that's always active on your iphone, even if you disable all possible services. Especially particularly nasty, persistent connection that refuses to switch from 3G stack. The "push" connections on iphone are basically your phone constantly reporting "back to mothership" about where you are and what your phone is doing. Before you start measuring tin foil hat in the mirror, let me assure you most of them are innocent and stuff you signed up for. Find My Phone. Siri. Services like that. As you can see from screenshot below, iphone also connects back to other motherships.

Some of them are aggregator servers used for localised adverts in your apps and backups methods to reach Apple, etc. Others are slightly less obvious. IP addresses never resolve to any obvious aggregator names like amazonaws or akamai technologies. Ranges have no owner. Geo locations traceback can be downright odd. But they're not the focus of this post.

The issue is the persistent apple-push connection that is always active and refuses to jump to WiFi stack once Wifi is connected. Which means that on Apple phones switching WiFi on doesn't disable 3G/2G data, it just moves all additional connections to WiFi radio, but the mobile data connection never sleeps, causing battery drain. This is also the reason some people reported data charges in foreign countries even though the only thing they used was hotel's WiFi. It's not a bug, that "snitch" connection remains on data stack on purpose.
And every time new IOS is released, it's always screwed the same way - "snitch" connection is slightly broken and goes into partisan supersurvivalist mode. If it can't transfer whatever it needs to transfer it becomes super aggressive, almost never goes idle, almost never sleeps, polling data every few seconds. And it's very, very set on self preservation. If you disable your 3G, this is the first thing that jumps to 2G or starts searching for alternative ways to reconnect. Which means battery drain.

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Those with battery issues, are you sure that you aren't just using your phone or iPad more because of the updates, and it just appears like the battery life is lessened. I've noticed no difference at all, except that the first charge after installing it was incredibly slow.

Anyway, I really like the new OS. Looks great, feels great, functions superbly. I coudn't be happier! I'm finding that the new features are very easy to get to grips with and feel pretty natural to use.
 
V0n, I don't care about battery drain because I don't have such an issue so it's fine :p

And no one is making calls from my locked phone because I don't lent my phone out and I just tried it, can't make calls when locked...

So there's no problem here.
 
I did a restore on the iPad 2 in dfu mode and battery is now ok.

Still don't like the look of ios7 on the pad but I guess there is nothing I can do about that now.
 
The GF is having a bit of a battery issue with iOS7 on her '4. Dont really know why, havent had time to check it out yet, but she said it's definitely worse than it was on iOS 6
 
I like the theme changes, makes a big difference to me as I've been using iOS since version 1 and got bored with it. But if it's not broke why try fix it? I'm sure is not everyone's cup of tea, who knows they may start offering theme packs in the apps store.

I much before the keyboard layout change, so the keys are laid out in a qwerty fashion rather than a block.

The battery life seems the same to me on all 4 of my devices.

What I don't like is iCloud not syncing correctly at the moment, I had to disable the float icons as they made me have motion sickness, I tend to use the bottom of my device screen to scroll, so control centre now keeps appearing and finally; lock screen seems to be very buggy depending on the app.

I expect the issues to be resolved at some point, the fact that auto update is finally here saves me a lot of work at work pushing and updating apps; is worth the update alone.
 
Is it just me that finds common things more difficult than before?

Reducing brightness takes longer, as does changing apps. Two things which I do a lot.

It's ****ing annoying.
 
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