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 So here's the deal: the regular iPhone thread is being inundated with iOS 7 chat and it's getting derailed constantly for people who want to talk about current iPhone products. In the past we've simply put a kibosh on all beta chat, but we're going to try something different this time. This thread is for discussing the new features and changes coming in iOS 7. If you're not familiar with what's coming, I highly recommend you go to Apple's webpage dedicated to iOS 7. Look at the pictures, and especially view all the videos as you get a much better idea of the changes in iOS 7 when you see them in motion. What's the story? iOS 7 was announced at WWDC 2013 just a few days ago. It will be released to the general public in the Fall for the iPhone 4, 4S, 5, 5S (?), the iPad Mini, iPad 2, and iPad with Retina Display. What's new?     There are a ton of changes and additions coming in iOS 7, although the most noteworthy are Control Center, Notification Center, and the multitasking interface. You'll also see a new Camera app, iTunes Radio, AirDrop, new Photos organization, new Weather app, and a new Safari interface. Minor changes include a live Clock icon, per-app cellular data management, infinite folders, Newsstand in a folder, automatic app updates, day/night mode in Maps, and more robust Reminders. I really can't list everything though, so be sure to check out Apple's website. What's the deal with the beta? iOS 7 is currently in beta on the iPhone and iPad for registered, paying iOS developers. It's meant to test app compatibility, as well as provide access to bug reporters who actually know what the hell they're talking about (in theory). That said, enthusiasts often manage to get their UDIDs registered as a developer device through one channel or another and install it on their everyday iPhones. This generally isn't recommended as features and app compatibility are often broken, and listening to people bitch over and over again about a beta operating system gets tedious. Accipiter sums it up: Accipiter posted:This is beta software. It sucks rear end. It's SUPPOSED to suck rear end. It's buggy as poo poo. It isn't for public consumption and it isn't meant to install so you can brag to your douchebag friends that you're running it. It's for developers.
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I hope I'm not the only one to complain about this: Call Features Hard to See in Certain Lighting Conditions ------------------------ Summary: When muting a call in the phone interface it is extremely hard to see if that functionality is enabled/disabled when outdoors or low brightness settings on the iPhone. Steps to Reproduce: Initialize a call. Mute call.. or press Speaker phone. Expected Results: Distinct and easy to see (in common situations) notification if the phone is muted and/or on speaker phone. Previously there was a large blue tile placed behind the Mute/Speaker buttons that made it extremely easy to know that feature was invoked. Actual Results: Dark grey highlight around the word "mute" which is set upon a black background. Regression: iOS/iPhone/ANY Compatible model Notes: I'm not asking to get the blue highlight back, I understand the UI is different. I'm asking for it to be very obvious when the phone is being muted so my coworkers can't hear me calling them idiots because I thought my phone was on mute after a brief glance.
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Jun 12, 2013 21:14
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I'm already past half a dozen reports, from gripes to bugs. I bet the QA guys are contemplating suicide, rather than returning to Cupertino.
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Jun 12, 2013 21:19
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ultramiraculous posted:I'm already past half a dozen reports, from gripes to bugs. I bet the QA guys are contemplating suicide, rather than returning to Cupertino. Yeah I submitted some other things but I can't do anything other than UI stuff now that I reverted my device back and can't give them logs.
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Jun 12, 2013 21:30
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Can this be a screenshot-heavy thread? I'm not installing the beta because I only have my main iPhone and no other iOS devices, and I'm not about dealing with bugs for the next few months, but I'd really like to see all the neat new features of iOS7 and how you guys have them set up. I've already seen several of them but I'm not tired of seeing 'em  Also, I saw earlier that in-camera filters are only available on iPhone 5 and current-gen iPod Touch. That's kinda lame. But my contract is up in September so I'm going to upgrade to a 5S anyway (whenever it comes out) and I guess that won't be an issue for me for very long, if at all.
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Jun 12, 2013 21:31
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Can this be a screenshot-heavy thread? I'm not installing the beta because I only have my main iPhone and no other iOS devices, and I'm not about dealing with bugs for the next few months, but I'd really like to see all the neat new features of iOS7 and how you guys have them set up. I've already seen several of them but I'm not tired of seeing 'em http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/11/ios-7-beta-tidbits-per-app-cellular-data-usage-live-clock-icon-panoramic-wallpaper-and-more/
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Jun 12, 2013 21:32
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https://vine.co/v/bl5TqTxjOun
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Jun 12, 2013 21:34
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 Wait, is the wallpaper itself animated? Or is it stationary but moves when you move the phone? Either way, that's really cool! I saw that Gizmodo posted a GIF showing that you can swipe to unlock from anywhere on the lock screen, not just the bar at the bottom. That's amazing haha
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Jun 12, 2013 21:36
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:
The wallpaper moves when you move your phone. You can tilt your phone slightly and your wallpaper on your homescreen and lockscreen will subtlety move. It's pretty cool.
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Jun 12, 2013 21:38
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:The wallpaper moves when you move your phone. You can tilt your phone slightly and your wallpaper on your homescreen and lockscreen will subtlety move. It's pretty cool. It's way more unsubtle with panorama wallpapers. It's actually basically unusably nauseating for the home screen, but it's fine for the lock screen.
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Jun 12, 2013 21:40
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:The wallpaper moves when you move your phone. You can tilt your phone slightly and your wallpaper on your homescreen and lockscreen will subtlety move. It's pretty cool. That's awesome! Is it a stock wallpaper? And do all wallpapers do that or only certain ones?
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Jun 12, 2013 21:41
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The Next Web has some behind-the-scenes details about iOS 7's design. http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/06/12/why-does-the-design-of-ios-7-look-so-different/ To summarize: In order to get some new blood into the mix, the marketing and communications team was put in charge of designing the icons and everything is still very much work-in-progress. Some of the on-stage demos were already using newer builds than what was released to developers.
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Jun 12, 2013 21:42
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:That's awesome! Is it a stock wallpaper? And do all wallpapers do that or only certain ones? Standard size images just do the slight tilting parallax effect.
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Jun 12, 2013 21:44
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Diabolik900 posted:Some of the on-stage demos were already using newer builds than what was released to developers.
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Jun 12, 2013 21:45
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:For any panorama photos that you've taken, when set as a wallpaper they will do that that panning thing. Neat! I've actually never taken more than one or two panoramas with my iPhone but I guess I'll have to start 
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Jun 12, 2013 21:51
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I'm pretty sure the same thing was happening last year. In sessions you'd see subtle differences in the version of Mountain Lion the presenters were using. I'd have to guess that they get a working seed before WWDC and then just keep going. It's not like we're getting nightlies or anything.
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Jun 12, 2013 21:52
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Does the Calendar app have the "time to leave" feature where it takes into account of travel time? Does it automatically search and fill in addressss like in the OS X demo?
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Jun 12, 2013 21:55
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:For any panorama photos that you've taken, when set as a wallpaper they will do that that panning thing. Does the 5 have better gyro whatevers inside? THis isn't working at all on my 4s 
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Jun 12, 2013 22:00
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Sockser posted:Does the 5 have better gyro whatevers inside? THis isn't working at all on my 4s Not sure how you're doing it, but I found that the effect only works if you set the wallpaper via Settings -> Brightness & Wallpapers, not via the Photos app and assigning it there.
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Jun 12, 2013 22:08
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Diabolik900 posted:The Next Web has some behind-the-scenes details about iOS 7's design. Hmm, that's interesting. Sets me a little at ease knowing that there will probably be a few graphical passes as well.
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Jun 12, 2013 22:08
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aaronp posted:Not sure how you're doing it, but I found that the effect only works if you set the wallpaper via Settings -> Brightness & Wallpapers, not via the Photos app and assigning it there. No matter what, I just get a little bit of tilt action on it.
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Jun 12, 2013 22:14
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Yeah the depth in demo videos looked HUGE, but I don't see more than 2mm of shift or so.
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Jun 12, 2013 22:29
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The photo also has to be in the "Panoramics" section of photos. If it's in Camera Roll, it won't work. I took one pic and it wasn't working, so I went back and took a wider one - it then showed up in the Panoramics section, and the crazy spinning background works.
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Jun 12, 2013 22:34
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Has the beta for iPad not been released yet? I'm really curious to see how this looks on an iPad.
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Jun 12, 2013 23:04
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Disappointing Pie posted:Has the beta for iPad not been released yet? I'm really curious to see how this looks on an iPad. It has not yet, and I am very interested as well.
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Jun 12, 2013 23:06
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Maybe it's just the 4S, but I'm really disliking the longer animations between apps and pages. Feels really sluggish and goofy. Does anyone know how to turn off the parallax effect? James Polk fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Jun 12, 2013 |
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Jun 12, 2013 23:38
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I just heard 64 by MellowHype on iTunes radio and it definitely wasn't the censored version.
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Jun 12, 2013 23:54
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It's a minor thing, but I'm not a fan of the new "Shift" highlight on the keyboard. There are two colour schemes for the new keyboard that I've seen:  The one on the left I can deal with - when you tap the Shift key, the colour changes drastically and it's in high contrast to the rest of the keyboard so it's clear that Shift is active. The one on the right, however, is different - the change in colour is very subtle by comparison and it just doesn't feel anywhere near as intuitive. I guess the problem would be solved by going the WP8 route and having the keycaps change case, but Apple seem reticent to do that for some reason.
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Jun 13, 2013 00:20
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GazChap posted:It's a minor thing, but I'm not a fan of the new "Shift" highlight on the keyboard. Really? The one on the right looks even more obviously in shift mode to me. Weird. Also please please apple never ever change case on the key labels. That's super jarring and irritating to me. I tried it with a JB app and it was terrible.
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Jun 13, 2013 00:25
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GazChap posted:It's a minor thing, but I'm not a fan of the new "Shift" highlight on the keyboard. Yes. This is a lot like the defect/enhancement I opened for the Mute button. Incredibly hard to tell what's going on. I actually considered opening a bug on this too.
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Jun 13, 2013 00:31
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My guess on the iPad being held up probably has something to do with not only scaling up the UI, but also how dependent the UI seems to be on the gyro, especially on the homescreen. iPads don't move about as much as a phone, so the whole, magically moving wallpaper thing is likely wasted on the big iPad screen. They're probably working on translating that motion from the phone in a manner than won't immediately give you motion sickness on that bigger screen. As an aside, it should be quite obvious by now that those rumors of iOS barely making the cut-off to be shown in working condition at WWDC were 100% true, and there is likely to be a metric fuckton of changes between the first beta, and the GM. A good example is the missing Voice Memos app, that is magically present at all the presentations at WWDC. They didn't kill the app. It just wasn't ready to go with the first beta.
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Jun 13, 2013 00:37
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Diabolik900 posted:The Next Web has some behind-the-scenes details about iOS 7's design. Promising, definitely gives hope to some tweaks graphically can be coming.
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Jun 13, 2013 01:54
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GazChap posted:It's a minor thing, but I'm not a fan of the new "Shift" highlight on the keyboard. Given the blue accents throughout the UI they really should just highlight the shift key in blue somehow when it's engaged like they do now in iOS 6.
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Jun 13, 2013 02:36
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I miss spotlight search
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Jun 13, 2013 03:08
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Has anyone noticed that if you plug in a non-approved Apple device into the iPhone it comes up with a message saying the device isn't approved and may not work correctly?
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Jun 13, 2013 03:13
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:I miss spotlight search It's still there?
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Jun 13, 2013 03:15
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:I miss spotlight search Pull down from the middle of the screen.
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Jun 13, 2013 03:25
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Jealous Cow posted:Pull down from the middle of the screen. Oh my God. I love it there! Also this is the coolest thing no one knows about : http://www.businessinsider.com/ios-7-panoramic-wallpaper-2013-6
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Jun 13, 2013 04:19
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I really, really hope that the Safari icon is only a placeholder, and that it's a sick joke Apple is playing on fanboys. Also, what's the deal with FaceTime audio? I haven't seen much about it.
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Jun 13, 2013 04:29
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AmbassadorTaxicab posted:Also, what's the deal with FaceTime audio? I haven't seen much about it.
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