iOS 7

[Gary]

I don't think parallax works on the 4S. 

I think you may be right there Simon. I'm sure once you find you way round and get used to it you will be fine and it is an improvement on iOS6 I think. Last night I was unsure but now I really like it. in fact looking at my freinds phone with iOS 6 still on it makes the older OS look very dated already. Another reason to stick with the new OS is there are security patches and that silly crash with Unicode is now gone too.

[Gary]

Joking aside, I do, Gary, and it's something I mean to get around to.  What I would have preferred is an option to have white on black, as that would have added definition and contrast.  The 'Invert Colours' option in Accessibly is good for text, but not for icons.  It even inverted my home screen wallpaper!

Contrast and bold text help some peeps, but glasses do help alot if your eyesight is not so good. I was amazed at how bad my eyes were when I got them, the screen never looked so clear and I was missing a ton of detail. The longer you leave it the worse they get too. 

[Simon]

I like the swipe to go back function in Safari.  I do hate the icons, though, and that grey background to the folders and to the bottom row of icons is just horrible with my wallpaper.  And I don't see why I should change my wallpaper!!

[psp83]

Hmm, My iPhone 4 is already on charge, it was 100% at 8:30am and I've hardly used it 

Turned of all the features like background app updates etc, basically mines back to iOS 6 features with an iOS 7 look.

Guess I will have to wait 3 months for Apple to release an update to "fix" battery drain.

[Simon]

I see Siri is that same useless piece of junk it always was, and will only work if you're within an inch of a mast. 

[zappaDPJ]

I had my first iOS7 disaster earlier on today. My alarm went off, I didn't recognise it, couldn't find snooze, mistakenly switched it off and overslept by some margin

I was pretty convinced that I wasn't going to like the upgrade to such an extent, I'd already researched my next phone, the HTC One. As it is I'm now very tempted to upgrade my ageing iPhone 4 to the new model Something very weird, since the update I've hammered my phone and it's sitting at 87% battery left. I'm a bit worried about that because everyone else seems to be having battery issues.

I like it, it's a huge change and there's a bit of a learning curve but I think in general it is an improvement and I really didn't think I'd be saying that.

[Simon]

I've just found something that could be rather useful.  In the Compass app, on page 2, is a spirt level. 

[Glenn]

The bottle is half full.

[Simon]

Not quite.  For every silver lining there's a black cloud.  If you close the Music app, it won't resume your playlist from where you left off.  Which is a bloody nuisance. 

[Simon]

What they seem to have done is, taken all the things that were easy on iOS6, and made them more difficult.  You can't even resume your music playing from the Lock screen any more, not without going into the Control Centre.  And the Call button has disappeared from the top of a list of text messages, so if you want to call on response to a message, you have to click Contacts then call.   Everything that was one click away, is now two or three. 

[lozcart]

Generally I like what I've seen today, my mobile signal even appears stronger.

It did take me a little time to suss out how to delete a text message, its not as easy as before, now you have to press and hold the message and select "more", I guess its all a learning curve.

[Simon]

I don't know if this is a bug but when I swipe right to go back on web pages, the page I go back to seems to zoom up the text size.  I've only noticed it on the wap site here, though. 

[Gary]

Generally I like what I've seen today, my mobile signal even appears stronger.

It did take me a little time to suss out how to delete a text message, its not as easy as before, now you have to press and hold the message and select "more", I guess its all a learning curve.

You can swipe left to delete a text message, go left shows all text chats left again will delete individual conversations 

[Gary]

I don't know if this is a bug but when I swipe right to go back on web pages, the page I go back to seems to zoom up the text size.  I've only noticed it on the wap site here, though. 

I noticed that on the web, Simon. Bound to be bugs. I imagine 7.0.1 will not be far behind.

[Gary]

What they seem to have done is, taken all the things that were easy on iOS6, and made them more difficult.  You can't even resume your music playing from the Lock screen any more, not without going into the Control Centre.  And the Call button has disappeared from the top of a list of text messages, so if you want to call on response to a message, you have to click Contacts then call.   Everything that was one click away, is now two or three. 

How do you mean resume music playing, in the lock screen is play and pause as before  not sure what you mean. I can pause what I'm playing the lock screen comes on and I can still access it as i could in iOS6. Also you can call from within a text chat still its in the top corner click on contact and call or facetime etc.

[Simon]

I'll give you the call from within a text thing.   I didn't spot that, and indeed, it does save you scrolling up to the top of a long thread, so that's better.  Also better is the incoming call screen, which gives options to reject, etc, even from sleep mode, which iOS6 didn't do.  I don't have any Pause / Play buttons on my Lock screen though.  I have to swipe up into Control Centre to access them. 

[Technical Ben]

And now half of my music hasn't synced back onto the phone.   

Your doing well. I thought I'd upset someone at work. But then, when commenting on a "cool iPhone background" I got the reply, "Oh, that's not my phone, it's [the contractors], mine is dead after trying to update to iOS7!"
I'm just glad to know it was not me that put them in a foul mood.
Apparently they lost everything. 

[zappaDPJ]

I also like the notification centre listing all my Tapatalk alerts, did it do that before? I'll kick myself if it did because it's something I've always wanted to be able to do.

[Steve]

Perhaps notifications weren't turned on Zap or it could be a recent App update.

[Steve]

Our Uni student has downloaded iOS 7 and thinks it's absolutely fantastic.

[Simon]

I know I've been slagging it off, and I will give it a couple of days to see if I can tolerate it, but, seriously, is there anything that's genuinely improved with this, that couldn't have been done by updating the perfectly workable iOS6?  I guess people would have moaned that it would have been the same old same old, but at least it looked like an iPhone then, and not like something from Fisher Price. 

[psp83]

.......... not like something from Fisher Price. 

And you liked Windows XP   

[Simon]

I had a custom theme on Windows XP, so no comparison, Paul. 

[Gary]

I'll give you the call from within a text thing.   I didn't spot that, and indeed, it does save you scrolling up to the top of a long thread, so that's better.  Also better is the incoming call screen, which gives options to reject, etc, even from sleep mode, which iOS6 didn't do.  I don't have any Pause / Play buttons on my Lock screen though.  I have to swipe up into Control Centre to access them. 

I do, maybe its because I have a bigger screen by a whole one row but I tried it twice, and it works every time Simon.  I think its a big improvement, its clean it does a whole bunch of new things hell Siri can now say Vitezslava Urbanova (friend)  properly after I taught it. iOS 7 will plot (if you allow it) your journeys and give you estimated times based on traffic conditions because it knows you go to work every day at a certain time. Its a good update. Change is change and its always odd but I like it that's just me. I think you maybe don't like change so much, just guessing after the Windows 7 thread Nothing wrong with that though, but iOS needed changing I think. Take a look at an iOS6 phone now and its so dark gloomy and looking, its quite a surprise I found. Anyway just ordered my iPhone 5s 64GB 7-10 days so lots of time to play. 

[Simon]

Is anyone else finding it difficult to edit text messages, because the cursor won't go where you want it to?