I thought that only applied to things you purchased with the card.
Here are some synonyms for opaque from thesaurus.com
blurred, cloudy, frosty, filmy, foggy, smoky
I’ve had iOS7 for about 12 hours now. The initial shock has worn off. I’ve figured out the few things that have changed and now I’m back to being a happy, satisfied Apple diehard.
ETA: iTunes Radio is da bomb.
All of those are closer synonyms to “translucent” than “opaque,” IMHO. I still remember learning “transparent, transluscent, opaque” in grammar school. Transparent was like a window: letting all light through. Translucent was like frosted glass or a sheet of wax paper: letting some light through. “Opaque” was a solid piece of cardboard paper, letting no light through.
I like the IOS7, and particularly the new camera, with the grid and easy switching between video, photo, and panorama. I don’t care for the new layout of recent apps, lying across the middle. I liked them better at the bottom (after pressing Home twice).
Now that you mention it, I remember being taught that, too. After checking out their definitions and synonyms though, I guess this is one of those times we realize English is a pretty complex and-- wait for it-- opaque language. 
But since this is an iOS 7 thread, let’s check out the official iOS 7 definition of opaque:
“not able to be seen through; not transparent: the windows were opaque with steam.”
To me, “windows opaque with steam” sounds like an apt description of Notification and Control Center.
The icons of recent apps are still at the bottom for me on an iOS 7 iPhone. Are they really not there for you? Their spacing and scrolling fluidity is a little different from iOS 6, though.
Cool! Thanks. That definitely would have taken me a while to stumble across.
The iOS7 graphics are uglier than a hat full of assholes, just like Windows 8. I realize functionality is more important than aesthetics, but what is the reason behind this trend? Do the simpler graphics result in a higher speed, or do the designers think that it’s more visually appealing? Because if the latter, it sure as shit isn’t.
Direct from their web site.
Windows opaque with steam cannot be seen through at all in this context. What you mean is translucent. Opaque can only mean not opaque if you are comparing translucent things. Eg, “that frosted window is more opaque than that frosted window.”
I have no idea why this “flat design” trend is happening, but I freaking love it. I hatehatehate all the 3D nonsense like beveled edges and shadows and crap like that. iOS 7 still kind of irritates me with its unnecessary transitions and magnification effects, but anything to simplify the design and make it more minimalist is fine by me.
In other words, different strokes and all that…
On an iPad, when you do the 4-finger-swipe-up gesture, which is the same as a double-click on home, you get thumbnails of the screens of the running apps, along with the app icon underneath. In addition, one of these is for the home screen. This initially flustered me when I hit Newsstand by mistake and could not get it to go away, because it became the home screen and did not respond to the close gesture (5-finger-squeeze). To exit Newsstand, one must click the home button, which some of us have almost totally gotten out of the habit of using. Obviously, the smaller iPhone screen will not be the same.
There was a fancy-ass word getting thrown about, “skeuomorphism”, which describes UI elements mimicking physical objects. Like the way the calendar app had a leather spine and bits of torn paper along the perf. It was ever so pretty, but Apple came to the conclusion that skeuomorphic design was distracting users with fancy-ass widgetry when the content was more important. Perhaps they went a bit too far in some cases (some text is not obviously an active button-like element) but the underlying point is valid. An object should present only enough visual clues to be readily distinguishable. It was not at all about graphic horsepower, the net result is basically the same as far as that goes, it was about making things look more computerlike, less lifelike.
Personally, I think the way they did the folders is a bit of an improvement, but some of the other things should be re-thought.
I will eventually get used to it, but why the hell would Apple make the screens/icons/graphics harder to read?
I had this problem with a yahoo account.
From the iOS 7 mail app, you can mark all as read
Edit at the top right of the inbox column, mark all in the lower left of the inbox column, select mark as read.
Missed this. They’re both POP3 accounts on the mail server from two different host providers. There does not appear to be a way to actually select every single message and mark as read. Only one page at a time. Realize that I have at least 50,000+ messages stores on my servers.
Anyhow, I did at least try marking a couple pages as “read”, but it did nothing to the count showing up on my iPhone, even when rechecking the mail, and after sending myself a message (just to make sure it does something to get data off the server.)
So, before deleting server messages, I had 39,000 unread. Then after deleting a couple pages, 39,000 unread. Then I sent myself a message. 39,001 unread. Now, back to 2.15 billion unread.
At any rate, I don’t see why I would have to go back and mark them unread on my server anyway, as everything had been working perfectly fine since my first generation iPhone.
Yeah, that’s the solution I tried. I have one account that has the bulk of the 2.14 billion or 39K unread messages, and when I edit and mark all as read, it clears it for a moment–until the iPhone checks back with the account and then it goes back to one of those two values.
For the other account, there’s 839 unread messages, and there’s no way to clear them. iPhone Mail doesn’t even give me the “Mark All as Read” option, just “Mark All as Unread,” so evidently, it thinks all the messages are read. So I tried marking all as read and then all as unread…no dice.
Have you tried deleting the account from your iPhone, and reinstalling it?
That’s an idea. The unread thing doesn’t actually bother me, I just find it amusing. I’ll see if reinstalling the account works later.
Huh. Neato.