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There's a private mode in the bottom left of a new window, apparently, I overheard some people talking about it in a cafe.
@bikebouy the address window doubling as the search window has been in Chrome and Mac Safari for a while, it was iOS which was lagging
Battery does [i]appear[/i] to be running down more quickly but I think the reality is we are playing with all the phone features so keeping the screen on longer and some apps are having to reload data after the upgrade
Jesus, just updated the wife's iPhone, took 3 hours to download the update, now it can't even recognise the home wifi, and I've had to update that dismal shitehawkery that is iTunes.
By the way, slight security flaw you should all be aware of.
Basically by default you can access Siri and/or Control Center from Lock Screen.
Which is terribly convenient, but does mean that if someone nicks your phone they can easily switch on Airplane Mode, without having to unlock the phone, thus effectively disabling "Find My iPhone".
If that's a worry you might want to change those defaults!
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I like it. Was quite unsure at first but having spent the day using it I have got used to it pretty quickly.
Likewise. It took me a while to find out one or two little differences that irked me at first, like deleting emails is a swipe to the left gives a trash option, and the upward flick on open app windows had me flummoxed, but it love it now, it's so much easier to navigate between open apps.
I dislike the grey folder background, I'd love an option to set the background colour from a colour wheel, to give something that gives a more pleasing affect on different wallpaper.
The pad has pale blue, which I much prefer.
I haven't played with the music or camera apps yet, so I'll find out their little idiosyncrasies later.
Still, this is v1.0; I'm sure there will be lots of updates over the next few months.
By the way, slight security flaw you should all be aware of.
Basically by default you can access Siri and/or Control Center from Lock Screen.Which is terribly convenient, but does mean that if someone nicks your phone they can easily switch on Airplane Mode, without having to unlock the phone, thus effectively disabling "Find My iPhone".
If that's a worry you might want to change those defaults!
Settings, Control Centre Access On Lock Screen fixes that
Just had a look at the photos app on the pad, and it's much better for scanning through loads of photos, I've got around 5000 on mine, and having them properly organised by date with clear demarcation looks so much better.
Also had a look at the music app, which I mainly use on my iPhone 4, as there's no music on the pad, and because of the armoured case I have on the iP5, I can't use my Shure phones. The layout is much nicer looking, and I like the little cover art pics on the left when scrolling up and down.
Just noticed something while looking at Safari on the 4; the vertical scrolling function when searching through open pages is rather nifty, like a Rolodex, but then when I got to the bottom, it carried on, and showed a list of the open pages on my iP5 and my pad, via iCloud! That's spooky.
Really bizarre that Apple have spent so long with beautiful and clear icons, and now replaced them with this load of incoherent toss.
Oh second vulnerability found with the Control Center on the lock screen. This one lets someone access your app switcher without unlocking the phone.
TUAW.COM Sounds like it is a good plan to turn Control Center off on the lock screen.
Settings, Control Centre Access On Lock Screen fixes that
They can still use Siri to activate Airplane Mode from the Lock Screen so you'd need to switch that off too.
I have an old ipad 1 running Ios 5.xxx. If I upgrade to 7 is my old ipad going to die under the strain??
Still, this is v1.0
Err... 7.0? 😉
Overall it seems ok, but I'm a bit underwhelmed. Basically they've just about caught up with the features on the Galaxy S3, which has been out for over a year. It is an improvement on iOS 6, but nothing more than a few display updates really. I'm sure I'll get used to the generally brighter, whiter screen and mildly irritating animations soon!
Oh, the change in safari to only show the server name instead of the full address is annoying too, I've no idea which page of the stw forum I'm looking at now!
[quote=dazzlingboy ]I have an old ipad 1 running Ios 5.xxx. If I upgrade to 7 is my old ipad going to die under the strain??
iPad 1st Gen is officially obsolete & won't run ios7 🙁 5.1.1 is as far as they'll go.
They can still use Siri to activate Airplane Mode from the Lock Screen so you'd need to switch that off too.
Good shout, sorted
I really dig it, despite not being a big fan of the looks...
Only bug i've found so far is that the music controls don't work when the screen is locked... 🙄
PS. Sent using my phone as a personal hotspot to see if it works...
I like it, it took a while to find the right wallpaper to make the best use of the transparency of the folder windows, once that was sorted, it looks really nice. The animations don't bother me - I quite like them 😉
One bug I've found- when I open newsstand - I can't cllose it, or return to the home screen, I have to switch off my ipad !
iBooks is still skewmorphic, which really stands out.
How do I make the text go bold? It's quite hard to read on my mini.
Bah , played with my mates iphone 5 really liked the control centre.
Only to find after upgrading that control centre doesnt exist on the 4 🙁
Oh well.
Other han that it seems to be ok but i could have lived without it if i knew the control centre wasnt there
Seems I can play music held in the cloud without downloading the track/album... *likes
I'd second the function to change the toolbar colors from pale grey too..
Only to find after upgrading that control centre doesnt exist on the 4
It does. It actually, IMHO, looks better on the 4. As it has a uniform grey background, rather than the pastel gradient on the newer models.
My iPhone 4:
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Newer iPhones:
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Folder backgrounds and the control centre backgrounds are translucent, so they will show through the colour of your desktop. So if you don't like the colour of the folders you can fix it that way.
I do wish you could change it independently though, my previous nice beach scene that I had as my homescreen wallpaper gave a horrid american tan folder background.
Other than that, I like it, and the appearance had grown on me.
Yes once I'd figured out that the folders changed according to the wall paper _ I managed to get it looking really godd! initially I had a nearly black wall paper - which gave a dull looking grey folder.
e no likey on iPhone 4S, slower ang laggy
Same on the ipad2
Are you on O2, or a piggy back service like GiffGaff, Rusty?
That number is a special number used by Apple to activate/de-activate some stuff like Facetime and iMessage. Usually comes in silently, and non-chargeable, but sometimes can cause issues with non-official carrier plans. I am pretty sure GiffGaff have zero-rated the number, so won't charge for it.
Hi Jamie,
on O2, not a piggy back service. Just had a third text.
On the bright side, we all know Rusty Macs mobile number now 😀
New 5S out today..
Yey!!
on O2, not a piggy back service. Just had a third text.
I would give O2 a shout. You shouldn't be getting charged for them, but would't hurt to double check. The number is definitely Facetime related, though.
Cheers Jamie, I will pop into the O2 shop at lunchtime and get them to check.
GrahamS - yup that's my number call me all you want 😉 (it's not and I do not know how much you would get charged for it so probably best not to)
Safari seems much faster now, too?!
Safari on my iPad mini definitely seems a lot faster at rendering pages. It used to pause for a second on the BBC News page, now it displays almost instantly.
Rusty Mac,
I think he meant the number in the text message.
We should all phone both numbers randomly throughout the day, just for a laugh.
Not sure why some people feel they have battery life issues? My i5 has been going for 38 hours with 2 of those use as a personal hotspot uploading and downloading data, much playing of the new UI, organising photo's, and hor long stint of Real Racing on the throne and general FB, texts and calls - ie a "heavier" day than usual, and its showing 9% now?
fantastic, didn't even notice that.
off to delete image now
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fantastic, didn't even notice that.off to delete image now
might be worth asking the mods to delete it from jfletch's post above too, as it's too old for him to edit it.
have done, reported the post and deleted the image on my Flickr account but it still appears on my screen.
dunno what to do now.
Your browser may be storing a local copy of it in its cache. If you delete and clear browsing history and local cache, it should be gone after that.
All gone now thank you very much mods.
Really bizarre that Apple have spent so long with beautiful and clear icons, and now replaced them with this load of incoherent toss.
Yep, I think the new icons look pretty ugly.
I do not like it 🙁
I do not like it 🙁
And it made me double post.
I like it appart from the icons.
Some of the newly deisgned apps look lovely and the thin fonts and borders bring out the best in the retina screen. But some of the icons look like they were designed by a child. Some are great though.
Calendar, voice memos, even photos are all nice.
But the messages, camera and settings icons all make me want to stick little bits of tape over the sceen where they appear. Blurgghhh.
Oh, and Safari, whats with the compass icon. Makes no sense and is fugly.
Oh, and Safari, whats with the compass icon. Makes no sense and is fugly.
Hasn't Safari always been a compass? e.g. in 2010:
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http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/04/apple-files-trademark-for-safari-icon.html
Completely agree it makes no sense though!
But then does a burning fox make any sense either? 😀
I think it's great other than the fact it's ugly and siri has caught a cold (on my ipad mini anyway, others sound fine)
Still not going to spunk £550 on an iphone though, not a chance. Even worse on contract, the one plan on 3 works out to cost £700odd over 2 years. Mental.
But then does a burning fox make any sense either?
No but at least its just a abstract company name and the icon matches. I'd be quite happy with a picture of an elephant or giraffe to represent the word "Safari" or some icon to represent the internet.
But the compass is and always has been ugly and out of place. The place for it on my phone is the folder where apple's stock apps a hidden from sign, nestled up with maps and stocks.
I'm sure some marketroid somewhere would explain that the brand language of "Safari" creates a mental image of adventure through uncharted territory, exciting and possibly even dangerous, and your browser is the compass that helps you navigate through that adventure safely.
Or some such bollocks.
But yeah - it's a crap icon. Could be worse though:
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But at least microsoft have kept updating it
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It may conjur images of a shit browser but at least its not a shit icon in its self.
This just looks like they dicovered how to apply a gradient in MS paint and went with it.
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