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iOS 7 | Flatness Is a Good Thing
- Thread starter Talon
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Like all battery concerns - depends.
6 hours usage browsing via cellular? Not worried.
6 hours usage playback audio with screen off? Worried.
Seriously, battery usage is so widely variable depending on usage, area, settings it's nearly worthless to compare between users.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
FWIW, my iPhone 4 got terribly slow over the last six months before 7 came out. Erasing it gave it a new life, even with 7 installed. Now that I have a 5S, I am sure it would feel awful, but relative to itself, a clean install was a miracle.
There was absolutely nothing in the changelog to indicate that anything that would improve performance was included in 7.02, nor any perceptable change.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
My battery life is still in the toilet on my 4S after upgrading. Went from 40% left at the end of the day to 5-10% left doing the same basic activities.
It still gets me through the day, but just barely. Very disappointed with the battery life, and the new calendar app is terrible.
It still gets me through the day, but just barely. Very disappointed with the battery life, and the new calendar app is terrible.
My 4S has pretty similar drain to 6. Then again, I don't have background refresh, etc. enabled.
Diablohead
Member
Hopefully next year a bigger screen iPhone will also come with a much better battery for people like yourself who use the phone a lot when out and about.
My battery adventures on my 5 have been rather good, but I did come from old mobiles and the galaxy ace which had a terrible battery doing anything on that thing.
It's a bit mind-boggling that even the iPhone 4 got app background refresh (yet not parallax backgrounds) considering Apple has been claiming all these years that smartphones can't handle that feature.
I think the argument went that it was hazardous to battery life, no? Which it seems to be.
LightOfTruth
Member
Hey guys, my friend took my phone while I was working today and made it so that every time I type 'fuck', the iphone will automatically correct it to 'I like to fuck ducks'. Can someone tell me how to change it back to normal?
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Settings > General > Keyboard
Scroll down the bottom for the 'Shortcuts' section.
LightOfTruth
Member
Thank you for this fast response. He thought he was being funny.
It's not just the battery life, it also makes the phone lag. It's clearly not optimized for the iPhone 4. It's like Apple just said fuck it and rolled out the feature without any care at all.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
It does work in apps too. It's not 100% because different apps use different methods of advertising, but it's pretty good, far better than /not/ having it.
The Big Rig
Member
iOS7 is really feeling sluggish on my iPhone 4. I like the look of it, but it really isn't optimized for that low end. I kinda wish I just stuck with iOS6. At least that ran at 60fps.
Supermanisdead
Member
i have it. works fine. it actually supports all that weird layer scrolling stuff too. but i turned it off to save battery. didn't delete my music when i upgraded.
Buttonbasher
Member
I keep getting Twitter notifications from the Associated Press about probably important world things.
How do I turn this off?
How do I turn this off?
Maninthemirror
Banned
Its mostly because its an iphone 4. Its like 4.1.2 was for iphone 3G . Really sluggish tho built for iphone 4. Even if its supported you should know as an obvious fact that it would be sluggish. Iphone 4 is 3 years old which is today's tech world is ancient
The Faceless Master
Member
ColonelSkills
Member
Hi everyone,
I'm not normally an iPad user, but someone's asking me why their device can't access our OWA install.
Turns out it's because safari on the iPad is automatically adding www before the URL. (Our OWA install is accessed without it, only at <thirdlevel>.<secondlevel>.<first>)
I feel stupid as hell, but I honestly can't find out how to stop it from adding the www to the URL.
A lot of the googling I'm finding is for disabling the autocorrect in general, but not this. Anyone got a method of doing this so I can actually have the device go to the right location?
I'm asking in the iOS7 thread because it seems like this version of Safari is bad for it, the user didn't have this issue before.
I'm not normally an iPad user, but someone's asking me why their device can't access our OWA install.
Turns out it's because safari on the iPad is automatically adding www before the URL. (Our OWA install is accessed without it, only at <thirdlevel>.<secondlevel>.<first>)
I feel stupid as hell, but I honestly can't find out how to stop it from adding the www to the URL.
A lot of the googling I'm finding is for disabling the autocorrect in general, but not this. Anyone got a method of doing this so I can actually have the device go to the right location?
I'm asking in the iOS7 thread because it seems like this version of Safari is bad for it, the user didn't have this issue before.
Simply typing out the URL including the "https://" before it should stop Safari from wanting to add "www.". It does on my end for my corporate webmail, I just checked.
E.g. bookmark/write out "https://yourwebmail.domain.com" instead of "yourwebmail.domain.com".
ColonelSkills
Member
Anyone having their phone shut off with ~15-20% battery left? Mine is doing it consistently every single time for the last two weeks, even set a new record yesterday with a shutoff at 22%.
I've tried everything. Full charge overnight, trickle charges, sporadic charges, etc. I have no idea what else to do. I have a 5 so of course my warranty just ended like a month and a half ago, but I think I'm still going to take it into the Apple Store.
It seems like it must be software related though... do you guys think I should try a full restore first?
I've tried everything. Full charge overnight, trickle charges, sporadic charges, etc. I have no idea what else to do. I have a 5 so of course my warranty just ended like a month and a half ago, but I think I'm still going to take it into the Apple Store.
It seems like it must be software related though... do you guys think I should try a full restore first?
Got the Shakes
Member
Mine did it on iOS 6, and after doing a full wipe and iOS 7 install, it's continued to do it. I have AppleCare so I'm going to be taking it in soon to see if there is an actual hardware problem and see if they'll swap it out.
Have you let it drain completely and leave it off for a good while like say an hour or two before charging?
Don't Laugh
Banned
who knew YouTube used so much data. that's after 2 days
4g is so awesome
neoism
Member
Don't Laugh
Banned
does streaming quality affect battery life? for example, will 720p YouTube vid consume more battery than 360p?
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Good. Hopefully this means more are coming soon too. That iBooks icon is mocking me. Even the OS X iBooks icon looks better.New icons surface for iPhoto and Garageband
For some reason, iPhoto makes me think of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Also, the contrast between the iPhoto icon with an actual photo on it and the Photos icon with an abstract flower is weird.
I wonder how they'll replace all the Skeuomorphism in the app though. The entire app is skeuomorphic.
New icons surface for iPhoto and Garageband
I like them, feels very "80's" in a way.
Has anyone figured out how to get iTunes to stop transferring apps and updates as part of an iPhone sync? It seems kind of pointless to me.
I think it was a double tap? It's been awhile since I used it.
Don't Laugh
Banned
everything sucks on 3G. can't believe i waited so long to get a 4g phone. it's faster than my wifi
There's a simple checkbox that says something along the lines of "sync apps."
Don't Laugh
Banned
is there a way to disable my 5 prompting me to sync with iTunes?
Yup, with the iPhone attached navigate to the apps tab and deselect the top option.
What does it say specifically? I've never had an iPhone prompt me to sync when plugging it in.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
New icons surface for iPhoto and Garageband
I... don't know what to think.
trudderham
Member
I quite like them, although they don't quite scream "photo editor" or "music creation tool".
Anyway I put a brief comparison together showing the old and new logos together:
http://iosguides.net/redesigned-iphoto-garageband-icons-leak/
teruterubozu
Member
iphoto and garageband should be free for iphones. $5 each. Ouch.
Macho Madness
Member
They are with new phones.
Oh god....how stupid of me. That's it. Thanks!
Where? It's not in the iTunes device view (cf. Music, Movies, etc. that have a "Sync X" checkbox on top.)
Hang on, let me try plugging it in and re-check. Doesn't show a checkbox over Wi-Fi.
EDIT: Yeah. This is what I have. No checkbox. Music, the next tab over, has "Sync Music." 99% sure "Sync Apps" was indeed an option before with iOS 6/pre-11.1.
Where? It's not in the iTunes device view (cf. Music, Movies, etc. that have a "Sync X" checkbox on top.)
Hang on, let me try plugging it in and re-check. Doesn't show a checkbox over Wi-Fi.
EDIT: Yeah. This is what I have. No checkbox. Music, the next tab over, has "Sync Music." 99% sure "Sync Apps" was indeed an option before with iOS 6/pre-11.1.
I found this, might help:
http://www.148apps.com/news/synchronize-manually-install-apps-itunes-11/
Also you will have a 'new app sync' checkbox on that apps page (scroll down) and you can also turn off automatic downloads in settings on your phone/ipad.