There are still data limits on mobile data. A colleague and I just tethered to each others phones to get around it.I have unlimited data on my work phone, why can't i update it through 3g
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iOS 7 | Flatness Is a Good Thing
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FlashFlooder
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Thanks for the tip, anyway.
I think I could get used to using Calendar this way if it weren't for the pointless and incredibly slow scrolling animation to show events when flipping between individual days.
Mr. Wonderful
Member
Ran into this problem with my parents' 8GB iPhone 4's, which have like what, 6GB usable space? Pretty awful. Should have had them just do it through iTunes.
My experience with iOS7 on a 5th generation iPod touch hasn't been as positive as I was hoping it'd be.
Most actions feel a bit sluggish, the parallax effect on the homescreen is barely noticeable, and I've had both the notification center and the control center simply refuse to appear at least a couple of times. Can't really comment on the battery life yet, though.
The UI does look fresh, but I hate the way it clashes with the apps that haven't been (or won't be) updated. Also, I wonder how long it'll take until we all become bored of it. I've been using iOS non-stop since version 2 and, while it sure wasn't the most stylish UI ever, I never thought it looked bad nor was I really tired of its appearance. iOS7 feels like something that will get old a lot faster than the previous versions, I think.
Most actions feel a bit sluggish, the parallax effect on the homescreen is barely noticeable, and I've had both the notification center and the control center simply refuse to appear at least a couple of times. Can't really comment on the battery life yet, though.
The UI does look fresh, but I hate the way it clashes with the apps that haven't been (or won't be) updated. Also, I wonder how long it'll take until we all become bored of it. I've been using iOS non-stop since version 2 and, while it sure wasn't the most stylish UI ever, I never thought it looked bad nor was I really tired of its appearance. iOS7 feels like something that will get old a lot faster than the previous versions, I think.
What device are you using? I just played around with it on my 5, and it doesn't seem laggy to me.
My girlfriend updated, she works for Pepsi and it seems to be okay for her. Even the app works, and they warned her it may not.
Maninthemirror
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How to improve battery life on iOS 7
1. Turn off background app refresh
2. Turn off equalizer in Sound settings
3. Turn off automatic App updates
4. Turn off push for email. Tell email to fetch manually or automatically at 15 or 30 or 60 minute intervals
5. Turn on limit Ad tracking
6. Turn off location services for apps which you dont need to access location
7. Turn off automatic brightness and lower it to acceptable levels
8. Turn off the Parralax affect
9. Turn off siri if you dont use it or dont dictate
10. Disable apps from using notifications if you don't need notifications from them
11. Turn off lte when not needed and when in a wifi environment
12. Turn off Bluetooth
1. Turn off background app refresh
2. Turn off equalizer in Sound settings
3. Turn off automatic App updates
4. Turn off push for email. Tell email to fetch manually or automatically at 15 or 30 or 60 minute intervals
5. Turn on limit Ad tracking
6. Turn off location services for apps which you dont need to access location
7. Turn off automatic brightness and lower it to acceptable levels
8. Turn off the Parralax affect
9. Turn off siri if you dont use it or dont dictate
10. Disable apps from using notifications if you don't need notifications from them
11. Turn off lte when not needed and when in a wifi environment
12. Turn off Bluetooth
I would think so too, but I think it's more for any hands free consideration.
You need to hold the home button to get Siri up though so it's not really completely hand free.
Aka how to turn your phone into a dumb phone.
Not necessarily. In your car or with headphones you wouldn't need to touch the phone.
Not all functions would come into play for all situations, but I am glad to see that stuff cover more and more areas.
I'd imagine it would come into play in any future wearable tech as well.
So they should leave the function out? The more Siri can do the better.
FlashFlooder
Member
I'm on a 5 as well. The problem shows when, say, you have appointments on two consecutive days. The first day is a meeting at 8AM, the second day is a hot date at 9PM.
If you're looking at the first meeting in day view and switch to the next day, there is a 1 second delay before the hourly view starts scrolling down to show the event at 9PM. So if I'm sitting on today's date and I want to flip through the next 3-4 days to check for events, I have to make sure I stop and wait on each day because there is a delay that makes it seem like there are no events until it starts scrolling.
Hope that makes sense.
The_Inquisitor
Member
Did I just read Apple released an extension for windows that allows tab sync with chrome and Firefox? Wow.
chickdigger802
Banned
I guess you might as well have the feature. I'll never use it but there's no harm in having it.
Do you mean bookmark sync? That was added.
chickdigger802
Banned
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/18/4741412/the-best-hidden-features-in-ios-7
hmmm been using beta for a while and didn't know some of these like timestamp for messages (well until someone posted here about it). the compass bubble level is pretty neat lol.
my office desk isn't level. now i can't work properly
hmmm been using beta for a while and didn't know some of these like timestamp for messages (well until someone posted here about it). the compass bubble level is pretty neat lol.
my office desk isn't level. now i can't work properly
minor effort
Banned
Come on, Apple.
Let us use iTunes Radio as an alarm. That would be perfect. Thanks.
Let us use iTunes Radio as an alarm. That would be perfect. Thanks.
Macho Madness
Member
Yes, they did. It's just for bookmarks though. http://www.tuaw.com/2013/09/18/apple-releases-chrome-and-firefox-extensions-for-windows-for-icl/
It all worked for me. Been running GM since it was available. Exchange, Calendar, Contacts all still the same.
Soulscribe
Member
Any recommendations for speeding up iOS 7 performance for the 4S? Some apps are really slow. And I have like 3 Gigs of free space on here. Maybe it just needs to settle in? lol
Noisepurge
Member
so not any bluetooth controller works? they have to be licenced models? that sucks :E
iFootball
Member
I updated mine last night and no issues so far; all accounts are set, email is there, etc.... and I'm on an "old" iPhone 4
The_Inquisitor
Member
Bah sorry I was groggy. Yes that's what I meant. It's very nice. Tabs would be a miracle.
Ok guys, I upgraded to iOS 7 on my 4S yesterday. Everything's going fine... but Messages just freaked me out. I was texting my girlfriend, and I used a pet name I have for her... and when I next got a message from her, her full name as shown in my contacts had been replaced with the pet name. Hasn't changing in my actual contacts app as far as I can tell. What the hell.
AFAIK, no way to change it. I hope they tweak animation speeds in an update - make them 50 or even 100% faster.
You might have a bug where a program transitioned your audio to its settings but then never transitioned back to your phones settings. Try turning off the program that could have caused it, mute/unmute your phone or just do a reset. It happened to me a lot using beta7.
So the battery life test. For some reason, on my 5 running iOS 6, just leaving the phone unplugged over night would see about 20-25% reduction in charge. I'd have the phone at 90+% and in the morning it'd be down to 75%.
I turned off background app refresh and the phone was at about 99% when I unplugged it last night to test. This morning it was only down to 95%. That's a big improvement.
I turned off background app refresh and the phone was at about 99% when I unplugged it last night to test. This morning it was only down to 95%. That's a big improvement.
Thanks. I hope they do as well I like that there are transition animations, but not in exchange for slower transitions.
The fade in and out on sleep/wake is annoying as well and could be sped up.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Is there anyway to put an album on repeat without going into the track list for that album and selecting a different song? Mine only shows repeat artist and repeat song, which is pretty annoying.
I am not sure what you mean. I go to the Albums tab, select the album and the track list shows up. I pick any songs and it starts paying. On the player at the bottom left is a Repeat button, selecting it allows you to choose Repeat Song or Repeat Album.
JetBlackPanda
Member
If I turn off background App refresh can people still track me with find friends? can I still setup a geofence to remind me when I get home etc?
I can tell them apart fine.
I'm trying to think of a situation where you could need to search for a www. term and... Nope, nothing. If you did NEED to you could always leave out the 'dot' though....
Going by that logic every browser with a unibar is bad. And that's... Most browsers on all systems these days isn't it?
FlashFlooder
Member
you can set it on a per-app basis
Valkyr Junkie
Member
That should be covered under location services instead of the new app refresh system, as far as I know.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Ah, I should mention that I'm searching by artist. It just seems weird that if you're sorting by artist you have to go through extra trouble to put an album on repeat when it's very likely that people have a lot of albums for particular artists.
Haven't really had a problem with tabs. I actually like the whole layout.
Out of curiosity, why would you need the www?
Most browsers have the unified bar and it was overdue in Safari IMO.
Stock browser is the best so far
Either way, just noticed that many of my apps don't work anymore on ios7, they keep crashing :/ sigh
Checking to see if a site is legit. Search for what others think about a certain site. A shopping site for example.
Firefox is the only good browser then.
hmm. I don't really see why that would change anything much, but I guess maybe there are more specific examples.
If anything, it would seem a little less efficient. Searching 'www.whateverstore.com' i would think would be a little too open ended in results as opposed to 'whateverstore reviews', for example.
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
Firefox has been pretty good to me. Betterthan Han Chrome lately...
On the phone? Safari and nothing else.
On the phone? Safari and nothing else.
I would assume you tap the very bottom of the screen, like on the phones.