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iOS 7 | Flatness Is a Good Thing
- Thread starter Talon
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Who else walked out of an Apple Store today with a brand new iPhone 5? Just got my replacement for a half-dead sleep button. Also exchanged a Lightning cable that completely fried and a 30-pin to Lightning adapter that had one burnt pin, so it only worked when inserted the one way.
I guess this isn't surprising now that I think about it, but it had iOS 6, which caused my backup to not be available for restore. Momentary panic.
Updating now from the GM I had saved thankfully.
I guess this isn't surprising now that I think about it, but it had iOS 6, which caused my backup to not be available for restore. Momentary panic.
Updating now from the GM I had saved thankfully.
I did that last Saturday, feels good man, brofist.
Anybody know if there is an easy way to separate videos from my photos? In iOS6 I was able to select my videos by going into the camera app, accessing the camera roll and selecting the video tab. Unfortunately they have removed that feature.
Edit: There is a video album, under Albums. Duh!
Edit: There is a video album, under Albums. Duh!
Yeah, it's sweet!
all my apps didn't sync for w/e reason but grats on being the select few who can still get a 5. "PEACE" I think is how it's done
I have an iPad 3 with iOS 7, and you sir, are a liar.
Robot Pants
Member
Ok so now out of nowhere the Bluetooth controls on my car stereo won't control the phone when I play music. What the fuck.
Anyone have this happen?
Anyone have this happen?
They seem to have changed the text input in Japanese. My phone adds unnecessary A and O in front of words when I don't press them. It has become quite annoying to write because I have to delete a lot of text. I checked the text input settings and no automatic word correction/capitalization or other are on.
I can manage with this but it's annoying and strange when it happens out of the blue on some words.
I can manage with this but it's annoying and strange when it happens out of the blue on some words.
nope.
but you test it out by creating a new US itunes account and logging into it. not something I wanted to do on my phone (pain in the butt to lose itunes match access) but I did it on the ipad and it works ok.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Turn off bluetooth, turn off parallax effects, turn off dynamic backgrounds, turn off background app refresh.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Background app refresh?
Still drains battery. Was on Facebook this morning before I got up and was only on it for about 5 minutes when my battery depleted from 6% - 1%.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Question that may not necessarily be about iOS7, but is annoying me. Is there a way to stop music from auto-playing as soon as I plug my phone into the USB port in my car? Every morning I plug it in and music just starts playing. Also it will sometimes auto-play right in the middle of apps, like when I'm listening to ESPN radio on one of the radio apps my music will just start playing out of nowhere every minute or so. Very annoying.
Cheers!
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
Banned
My phone (iphone 5) now shuts off when ~20-23% of battery life is remaining. ios7 is killing my phone and I turned off all the things mentioned. This is ridiculous.
Great thanks.
AlphaTwo00
Member
How much is background app refresh really eating and what is it really do. The others seems obvious.
Edit: oh god damn, that's why my location has been on non-stop.
ElectricBlue187
Member
The only thing that bothers me about iOS7 is how you have to tap the clock at the top of the screen twice to make safari to scroll to the top of the thread. It used to be easier and now it's annoying and sometimes my big ass thumbs accidentally open the address bar instead. I also wish the rainmeter-esque Today pulldown gave me actual calendar events and times instead of a vague message. I like pretty much everything else they changed.
And I am just now learning it from this post, very cool! Love the swipe aways in iOS7 instead of hitting the tiny X.
Macho Madness
Member
Weird that it stopped showing hourly.
BruiserBear
Banned
I'm noticing a lot of bugs. Small ones, like hearing the chime of a new email, but not seeing a notification pop up on the lock screen, even though the settings say it should.
Random iTunes question: Can I stream any music I've purchased to my phone? I don't want to download the songs, due to space concerns. I'm just wondering if it's possible to stream all purchased songs like I can with my Rdio app.
Random iTunes question: Can I stream any music I've purchased to my phone? I don't want to download the songs, due to space concerns. I'm just wondering if it's possible to stream all purchased songs like I can with my Rdio app.
Macho Madness
Member
Tried that. Didn't work. The fix was to turn off and on location services for Weather.
Yes you can. The songs should just show up in your Music app. You just tap on the song title to stream it.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Noe of that is going to help. When I had battery drain with beta 1, I tried all that and none of it helped. The only thing that helped was doing a Reset Network Settings. Still even after, battery drain is simply larger under ios7 as evidenced by Anandtech's objective measurements.
PalaceBrother
Member
Is there any way to change the view when you select "Artists" in the music app? The default view with the thumbnail is annoying when you have thousands of artists in your collection.
BruiserBear
Banned
I've done that, but it seems to be downloading the song to my phone in the process. When I go look at files on my phone, the music app grows by several MB in the process.
Neuromancer
Member
How do you shut down apps that are running?
.Multitasking My favorite part of the update. Theres a whole new multi-tasking view that is still accessed by double-tapping the home button. You have a screenshot of the app and the app icon moving on separate bands. You can scroll through them at either the screenshot (slower) or the app icon (faster).
Want to delete an app from running? Just swipe up on the app, and it'll go flying off into the ether.
Going forward, iOS 7 will provide more multitasking features for third-party developers. What this means is that applications will learn your behavior and run in the background on a select basis. Use case: Twitter would update the feed in the background without it having to load when you launch the application.
Maninthemirror
Banned
Double tap home button, brings up multitasking menu, then any app you want to shut down, swipe up
Neuromancer
Member
Got it, thanks!
Note, of course, that not all the apps there are actually running. iOS is very good at managing running apps without your intervention.
Maninthemirror
Banned
Closing apps is especially helpful if you insist on keeping background app refresh on
BruiserBear
Banned
Those apps using GPS shouldn't continue using the GPS in the background unless you're actively using them.
Actually, some can. Reminders (which uses geofences, actuallynot quite the same thing) and Waze both can.
Splash Wave
Member
Is anyone else having problems controlling their music from Control Center/Lock Screen? The controls are always there, but pressing play/pause and skipping tracks doesn't work at all.
Depends on the third-party application. There's a known bug with Downcast that they're working on. Rdio appears to work fine for me.
Yeah, for anyone who uses Downcast here's their current list of issues that they are aware of.:
http://support.downcastapp.com/customer/portal/articles/663516-known-issues
Splash Wave
Member
Neither the iPod nor Instacast work for me, which is incredibly annoying.
RedNumberFive
Banned
Why is it that I'm able to copy and paste an image source into everything but the GAF mobile thread reply area?
Did you try restarting the phone?
Valkyr Junkie
Member
The 3rd-gens have always been comparatively underpowered due to the 4x increase in resolution, but only a 2x increase in processing power over previous gen iPads.