Anyone else hate Apple's new IOS7?

mishele · Sep 20, 2013

Two 14 year old girls were jumping up and down and screaming when their download finished at my house. Then I heard a lot of...OMGs and giggling. I guess they liked it.

Tailgunner · Sep 20, 2013

mishele said:
Two 14 year old girls were jumping up and down and screaming when their download finished at my house. Then I heard a lot of...OMGs and giggling. I guess they liked it.

That seems to be Apple's target market...10-18 year old kids. I'm a 40 year old adult, I don't need colorful phones and cartoony icons.

Dinardy · Sep 20, 2013

I enjoyed the update. Many functional upgrades on top of a much more aesthetically pleasing lock screen.

rexbobcat · Sep 20, 2013

I haven't upgraded yet because it seems like they made some things more complicated or it takes longer to do certain things. idk. I'm probably not going to upgrade until I absolutely have to.

manaheim · Sep 20, 2013

On my Android device I felt the launcher UI was a little lacking.

So I downloaded a new one and replaced it.

Novel concept.

I've seen IOS7. If I was still on my iphone, I'd be on a rampage about now.

Derrel · Sep 20, 2013

Tailgunner said:
I'm a 40 year old adult, I don't need colorful phones and cartoony icons.

You ought to buy a subscription to The New York Times. AKA "the Old Gray Lady".

Urban Dictionary: Old Gray Lady

Light Guru · Sep 20, 2013

rexbobcat said:
I haven't upgraded yet because it seems like they made some things more complicated or it takes longer to do certain things. idk. I'm probably not going to upgrade until I absolutely have to.

It's just the opposite. Things are easier and faster to do.

rexbobcat · Sep 21, 2013

Light Guru said:
It's just the opposite. Things are easier and faster to do.

Meh, maybe it depends on the features. My friend was showing me as it seemed like the some things were changes for no particular reason such as the notifications.

And his text messages were white text on top of neon green speech bubbles. I'm sure that can be changed, but why is a design choice that terrible the default? :/

Tiller · Sep 21, 2013

I like the new quick menu. I really like that the menu includes both the flashlight and calculator, which I use often. I like the new Siri functionality, although I rarely use it. And I also love the fact that apps update themselves.

But I just don't like the aesthetics. If we could keep the old look with the new functionality, that would be preferable IMO.

Light Guru · Sep 21, 2013

rexbobcat said:
Light Guru said:

It's just the opposite. Things are easier and faster to do.

Click to expand...

Meh, maybe it depends on the features. My friend was showing me as it seemed like the some things were changes for no particular reason such as the notifications.

What do you mean the notifications changed for no reason? Notification center used to be just cluttered with everything. Now with the 3 sections today, everything and missed its a lot less cluttered. Also the addition of the current weather to notification center is really quite nice.

Steve5D · Sep 23, 2013

I downloaded the update last night.

The only thing I couldn't figure out is how to turn off apps running in the background. While having lunch at my favorite coffee spot today, I asked one of the employees if she had the new OS. She got me dialed in on it.

The only other thing I really notice is that it seems to take an extremely long time to charge.

Other than that, it's six of one, half dozen of the other as far as I'm concerned...

ronlane · Sep 23, 2013

rexbobcat said:
Because it was time for a change and after window 8 and it's phone compatible os, they couldn't screw it up any worse than Microsoft. lol

JacaRanda · Sep 23, 2013

manaheim said:
On my Android device I felt the launcher UI was a little lacking.

So I downloaded a new one and replaced it.

Novel concept.

I've seen IOS7. If I was still on my iphone, I'd be on a rampage about now.

Isn't it nice to have 1000's of choices!

I currently have Apex, Go Launcher EX and TouchWiz. I like to tinker.

Steve5D · Sep 23, 2013

rexbobcat said:
And his text messages were white text on top of neon green speech bubbles. I'm sure that can be changed, but why is a design choice that terrible the default? :/

I haven't changed any settings, and my text "bubbles" are white for incoming and blue for outgoing...

Light Guru · Sep 23, 2013

Steve5D said:
rexbobcat said:

And his text messages were white text on top of neon green speech bubbles. I'm sure that can be changed, but why is a design choice that terrible the default? :/

Click to expand...

I haven't changed any settings, and my text "bubbles" are white for incoming and blue for outgoing...

You get blue for outgoing if the person you are sending to has iMessage linked to their phone number. It will be green if it is being sent as a regular txt message and not using iMessage. iOS 6 was the same blur for iMessage green for regular txt.