I have an iPhone 4, did a factory reset, no apps, no 'restore' (just reloaded iCloud contact). Extremely slow, locks up for 10-20 seconds, typing lags and stutters, digitizer occasionally slow and non-responsive during unlocking. Again, stock phone, stock software, little or nothing running in the background.
I loved my 4 under ios 6, but it is clearly not ready for the current version of ios 7.
Why do you think Apple should ignore the bugs some are experiencing just because you're not?
I'm seeing lags, stuttering and sudden restarts on both my iPad 3 and iPhone 5.
Lag, stuttering, and repsprings (not "restarts") are definitely prevelant on all iOS 7 devices.
Even the expected behavior of the unlock animation needs addressing. Every time I unlock my 5S I am swiping before the animation finishes. It's waaay too slow.
Another bug seems to be with iBook. When one comes back to an active iBook session, the text of the book appears briefs, then blanks out, then about 3 to 5 seconds later the text reappears.
Lag, stuttering, and repsprings (not "restarts") are definitely prevelant on all iOS 7 devices.
iPhone 5 (2nd gen GSM model) and iPad Gen 3 here, with absolutely no issues.
Seriously, anyone who is spending their time documenting any problems they are experiencing on a forum needs to open a new tab and go to bugtracker.apple.com. Are people under the impression that Apple is checking forums to identify bugs?
Not seeing any of this. Why do you think Apple needs to deal with your personal issues that hardly anyone else sees? Try troubleshooting your hosed updated instead.
Wow. Who pissed in your Cherrios? You really think your experience is universal and everyone else's is just personal? WTF?
Many of these things are device specific. iOS7 works perfectly on my iPhone 5, but on my iPad 2 the zoom animations sometimes freeze right in the middle, especially when I do the five finger pinch to return to the home screen.
How about the other bugs: not being able to send e-mail to iCloud groups, not being able to delete an entire paragraph at once, botched by dictation, being able to stop the icons from zooming in, dare I say being able to revert to an IOS6 skin...
The zooming is controllable in the Accessibility section.
Really wish they'd fix the major iPhone 4 bug with FACETIME not working.
Any iPhone 4 owner hasn't had Facetime connect to any incoming or outgoing calls since the last iOS 6 update before iOS7 came out, and it was never fixed in iOS7. So all iPhone 4 owners have had to revert to the poor relation of Skype.
That is not a bug, that was a patent lawsuit that Apple lost. Funny that you speak for all iPhone 4 owners.
The zooming is controllable in the Accessibility section.
No it is not. You can only turn off the silly parallax background thing on the home screen (where the icons appear to move above the background image). There is no way to turn off the zooming animations.
My question is when is Apple going to finish the interface design and release THAT update. This design is so horrendous. Looks like a wireframe drawing. But hey, at least you can see through the Safari toolbar now. That's what iOS has been missing all along. FINALLY I can just barely see through my toolbars. It's about time.
Also so happy that buttons and labels finally look exactly the same so there's no way to know what's what. And also no way to know the size of any buttons since the entire interface is now just Helvetica (such a hideous font for an OS) floating in space. I always said iOS was way to intuitive and easy to use. I mean, 3 year olds used to be able to use iOS. What a disaster. You don't want 3 years old use iPads.
They really need a major bug fix release. Here I my experience:
On iPhone 4 I'm actually surprised that iOS 7 works as well as it does. There are performance glitches that is for sure.
On my iPad 3 iOS 7 is crapola. It has so many problems I don't think I could list them all. One issue is spurious keyboard retries, this when the finger isn't even close to the key in question. Often this is associated with the space bar. The second issue is that I get video issues Sometimes when the shift or numbers key is pressed. Third the responsiveness to a scroll up to reveal the task bar sucks. It is so slow that I often end up flick a task to quite by accident. Fourth in general I've noticed that screen taps don't always get translated to the right interface element or taps being missed completely. Fifth performance at times sucks which is strange because the iPhone isn't that bad.
I can understand to an extent that software isn't perfect but iOS 7 is far worst on my iPad 3 than on my much older iPhone 4. There are just too many glitches. Frankly I don't see all the glitches being addressed until a 7.1 release. Some of the fixes go beyond simple patches from what I can see.
If it wasn't for all of these obvious not ready for prime time issues I'd really like iOS 7.
Changing these things made all the diffrence for me.
1. Settings/General/Accessibility/Bold Text (turn on)
2. Wallpaper & Brightness - Brightness set to 50% and Wallpaper/Stills/Choose last one (dark gray with a snake skin look)
I haven't any of the issues listed either. But when making a major update I do the following.
1. Settings/Storage & Backup/Backup Now. Backup EVERYTHING to iCloud/iTunes Match. Make sure it shows the backup was completed on the day and time you did it.
2. Settings/General/Reset/Erase All Content and Settings. This restores your phone to factory settings.
3. Upon booting up it will ask you to choose an iCloud device. Choose the device and backup you just created and it will add back all your apps, settings and content.
A couple of things I noticed after the 7.02 update on my AT&T iPhone 5: 1 The "reverse zoom" of icons back to the home screen stutters. 2 Remote for Apple TV crashes, reopen works fine until the phone sleeps, crashes... 3 Messages sitting there without sending issue. I haven't tried the network reset "fix" yet.
All minor compared to what came with iOS 7. Apple will fix all of the issues.
Another thing that needs to be fixed in iOS7: in the Phone app, above the keypad to dial the numbers: put an outline around the area where the numbers appear on the screen, it is just white now. Unless you know this from iOS 6, it's not intuitive that you can paste some thing there, like a phone number.
This entire color scheme is terrible in iOS7. I never thought I'd say something like this about Apple's iOS. Bring Steve Jobs back. Let Jony Ive work on hardware, not software also.
I'm annoyed that I get iTunes Radio ads even though I'm a subscriber unless Match is turned on on the device. Why should that matter? I'm still a paid subscriber (which was how ad-free usage was promoted) regardless of whether it's active at any given time. I don't want to use Match on my iPhone all the time like I do on my iPad, but still want the benefit of being a subscriber when I use Radio on the iPhone. I hope it's a bug but I fear it's a feature.
2 Remote for Apple TV crashes, reopen works fine until the phone sleeps, crashes...
I've seen this crashing behavior with some other apps also, but agree that it is very frequent with Remote. But Remote has not been updated yet, so maybe this can be fixed by an app update vs an iOS update?
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Extremely slow, locks up for 10-20 seconds, typing lags and stutters, digitizer occasionally slow and non-responsive during unlocking. Again, stock phone, stock software, little or nothing running in the background.
I loved my 4 under ios 6, but it is clearly not ready for the current version of ios 7.
Lag, stuttering, and repsprings (not "restarts") are definitely prevelant on all iOS 7 devices.
Even the expected behavior of the unlock animation needs addressing. Every time I unlock my 5S I am swiping before the animation finishes. It's waaay too slow.
Lag, stuttering, and repsprings (not "restarts") are definitely prevelant on all iOS 7 devices.
iPhone 5 (2nd gen GSM model) and iPad Gen 3 here, with absolutely no issues.
Seriously, anyone who is spending their time documenting any problems they are experiencing on a forum needs to open a new tab and go to bugtracker.apple.com. Are people under the impression that Apple is checking forums to identify bugs?
Not seeing any of this. Why do you think Apple needs to deal with your personal issues that hardly anyone else sees? Try troubleshooting your hosed updated instead.
Wow. Who pissed in your Cherrios? You really think your experience is universal and everyone else's is just personal? WTF?Many of these things are device specific. iOS7 works perfectly on my iPhone 5, but on my iPad 2 the zoom animations sometimes freeze right in the middle, especially when I do the five finger pinch to return to the home screen.
I think some people are over reacting just a tad don't you think.
You mean iOS or Obamacare? ;-)How about the other bugs: not being able to send e-mail to iCloud groups, not being able to delete an entire paragraph at once, botched by dictation, being able to stop the icons from zooming in, dare I say being able to revert to an IOS6 skin...
The zooming is controllable in the Accessibility section.
Really wish they'd fix the major iPhone 4 bug with FACETIME not working.
Any iPhone 4 owner hasn't had Facetime connect to any incoming or outgoing calls since the last iOS 6 update before iOS7 came out, and it was never fixed in iOS7. So all iPhone 4 owners have had to revert to the poor relation of Skype.
That is not a bug, that was a patent lawsuit that Apple lost. Funny that you speak for all iPhone 4 owners.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/08/30/apples-facetime-workarounds-for-virnetx-patent-suit-causing-complaints-costs-24m-per-month
The zooming is controllable in the Accessibility section.
Where can I turn off zooming? (that is, the icons flying in after I unlock my phone)
Where can I turn off zooming? (that is, the icons flying in after I unlock my phone)
Not all the way "off", though I haven't tried it, but anyway:
Settings: General: Accessibility: Reduce Motion... "Reduce the motion of the user interface, including the parallax effect of icons and alerts".
Might be a start. Whole bunch of interface tweaking available within that section Larger Type, Bold text, Increase contrast...
Oh and yeah and "zoom" for those settings is magnification
The zooming is controllable in the Accessibility section.
No it is not. You can only turn off the silly parallax background thing on the home screen (where the icons appear to move above the background image). There is no way to turn off the zooming animations.
My question is when is Apple going to finish the interface design and release THAT update. This design is so horrendous. Looks like a wireframe drawing. But hey, at least you can see through the Safari toolbar now. That's what iOS has been missing all along. FINALLY I can just barely see through my toolbars. It's about time.
Also so happy that buttons and labels finally look exactly the same so there's no way to know what's what. And also no way to know the size of any buttons since the entire interface is now just Helvetica (such a hideous font for an OS) floating in space. I always said iOS was way to intuitive and easy to use. I mean, 3 year olds used to be able to use iOS. What a disaster. You don't want 3 years old use iPads.
On iPhone 4 I'm actually surprised that iOS 7 works as well as it does. There are performance glitches that is for sure.
On my iPad 3 iOS 7 is crapola. It has so many problems I don't think I could list them all. One issue is spurious keyboard retries, this when the finger isn't even close to the key in question. Often this is associated with the space bar. The second issue is that I get video issues Sometimes when the shift or numbers key is pressed. Third the responsiveness to a scroll up to reveal the task bar sucks. It is so slow that I often end up flick a task to quite by accident. Fourth in general I've noticed that screen taps don't always get translated to the right interface element or taps being missed completely. Fifth performance at times sucks which is strange because the iPhone isn't that bad.
I can understand to an extent that software isn't perfect but iOS 7 is far worst on my iPad 3 than on my much older iPhone 4. There are just too many glitches. Frankly I don't see all the glitches being addressed until a 7.1 release. Some of the fixes go beyond simple patches from what I can see.
If it wasn't for all of these obvious not ready for prime time issues I'd really like iOS 7.
Changing these things made all the diffrence for me.
1. Settings/General/Accessibility/Bold Text (turn on)
2. Wallpaper & Brightness - Brightness set to 50% and Wallpaper/Stills/Choose last one (dark gray with a snake skin look)
I haven't any of the issues listed either. But when making a major update I do the following.
1. Settings/Storage & Backup/Backup Now. Backup EVERYTHING to iCloud/iTunes Match. Make sure it shows the backup was completed on the day and time you did it.
2. Settings/General/Reset/Erase All Content and Settings. This restores your phone to factory settings.
3. Upon booting up it will ask you to choose an iCloud device. Choose the device and backup you just created and it will add back all your apps, settings and content.
1 The "reverse zoom" of icons back to the home screen stutters.
2 Remote for Apple TV crashes, reopen works fine until the phone sleeps, crashes...
3 Messages sitting there without sending issue. I haven't tried the network reset "fix" yet.
All minor compared to what came with iOS 7.
Apple will fix all of the issues.
Another thing that needs to be fixed in iOS7: in the Phone app, above the keypad to dial the numbers: put an outline around the area where the numbers appear on the screen, it is just white now. Unless you know this from iOS 6, it's not intuitive that you can paste some thing there, like a phone number.
This entire color scheme is terrible in iOS7. I never thought I'd say something like this about Apple's iOS. Bring Steve Jobs back. Let Jony Ive work on hardware, not software also.
Not all the way "off", though I haven't tried it, but anyway:
Settings: General: Accessibility: Reduce Motion... "Reduce the motion of the user interface, including the parallax effect of icons and alerts".
Might be a start. Whole bunch of interface tweaking available within that section Larger Type, Bold text, Increase contrast...
Oh and yeah and "zoom" for those settings is magnification
thanks, but that does not stop the icons from flying in. I've already tried all known tricks to reduce motion, increase contrast, etc.