I thought I’d hate it… but I kinda like it. Swipe forwards/backwards on Safari and some apps (other apps, you need to get on this) is really, really good.
Looks wise… meh. My wife hasn’t updated yet, so she’s still on iOS6, and I kinda like iOS 7 better now.
I like it. The old apps do look dated, and the shiny glassy buttons are out of style and flat is in. I can understand the dislike of the colors and visual effects and hope that Apple is kind enough to add a toggle for those.
But it seems odd to watch two opposing forces in UI-land: The Macintosh OS X apps and interface has been losing color for the past year or two while the iOS interface is taking on color in cartoonish proportions.
Maybe it’s the law of conservation of color: they are trying to remove all of the bright garish buttons and widgets from Macintosh screens and it all overflows into iPhones and iPads.
That’s exactly what it looks like! Like they polled people who regularly use the phrase, “OMG!!!”
I’m running 7 on my iPad 3, as there’s nothing important on it and I don’t care if I have to restore it, overall it’s okay, I still hate the simplistic Playskool look to the icons, and whoever redesigned Notepad should be beaten severely with a SCSI cable and terminator block, I mean, yellow on white?, the calendar app is also poorly visually designed
My 4S is not going to be updated to 7, as I use it more than the iPad, and I’ll just keep using the 4S until it dies, hopefully by then, the current iOS will have been de-playskooled
Yeah, but if she upgrades to iOS 7, then finds she also really hates Android, she’d have burned *both *bridges.
I rather like it, although the zooming makes me feel a bit queezy. And flat, bold graphics and light fonts are definitely ‘in’ in Graphicworld. Glass buttons are really old school.
I hated the new OS. For a week or so. Just a heads-up; I’ll hate iOS8 as well.
As far as I can tell, you can actually downgrade back to iOS 6–it just requires you to back up your entire phone before you make the jump. At least, that’s what I get out of this article.
If my sister hadn’t already upgraded, I probably could have tested this for you. Anyone else try this method?
You are correct, and this is one of the reasons I and my wife switched to Android.
My wife was an iPod/iPad/iPhone fangirl there for a while, but Apple’s mobile devices’ inefficiencies (and deficiencies) really stand out once you try out a different platform.
We can connect our Android devices to any number of computers and not have to worry about our apps and files being deleted when we sync, which happened to my wife with our iPad when she connected it to a different computer. iTunes asked her if she wanted to sync, she clicked yes, and POOF everything was gone. Yes, yes, I’m sure iTunes prompted her that the iPad was authorized on a different computer, but she either didn’t see it, or doesn’t recall seeing it. Either way, we don’t have to deal with that nonsense with an Android tablet or phone, thank goodness.
And to repeat, transferring files by simply connecting and dragging from one folder on our Android devices to another folder on the computer (and vice versa) is quick, painless, and intuitive. No iTunes equivalent and no need for one, and no need for Dropbox if you don’t like iTunes. No middleware whatsoever.
And don’t get me started about not being able to change a battery on Apple mobile devices, which will become necessary at some point in the devices lifecycle, and when it does, the only option is to take the device to the Apple store or send it in for repair. Not only can we change batteries on our Android devices, we have extra batteries and swap them when the charge on the one in use gets low, which is invaluable when away on vacation.
I’ve got a jailbroken iPhone 4s and I’m still on iOS 6. I was due for an upgrade 3 months ago and waited for the 5s to come out. I wasn’t impressed enough to update my phone much less update the iOS for free. Frankly, the stuff I can do with my jailbroken 4s far exceed any innovations on the 5s/iOS7 including the gimmicky fingerprint scanner.
The biggest part though, is that I have a couple “Classic” iPods that have the old connector and I like the fact that I can swap the phone and the Ipod chargers back and forth. Maybe when they get around to updating the iPods with the new cable I’ll be interested.
Really, what is the point of an iPod anymore when you can have the music you listen to on your phone, regardless whether it is an Apple or Android?
Do people still carry their entire music library with them? My wife listens to Pandora or IHeartRadio most of the time these days and less to anything directly from her music library anymore.
I’ve got a 160 GB Classic iPod that I’ve carefully culled my favorite songs on. I love to put it on random and focus on the road. Or listen to whatever song I want on a long plane ride. I don’t wanna sound all hipster, but I do have a lot of songs that aren’t available all that widely. Finally, it also has all 500+ episodes of This American Life which I’m listening to in order.
Well, you got me there; I love This American Life, so that is probably worth it. 
Although I would probably load it all on a sim card on my phone.
Why not just stay on your current version of iOS?
I have a 4S and I am simply not upgrading to iOS 7.
At some point some apps will stop working, but I will deal with that when it occurs, and hopefully by then iOS will mature a bit more and I can upgrade.
If you make a backup of your phone before you upgrade, can’t you just restore it from the backup if you hate the new iOS? 
No, you can’t. The backup in iTunes stores everything but the OS.
I believe there are some options for a full backup if you jailbreak the phone.
I was not aware of that. That’s silly. But good to know for the future.
I use my iPod Mini at the gym because it’s basically a little block of metal and is not going to break. And if it does then, well, I’m only out an iPod Mini and not a phone!
There were ways to revert back to previous versions of the iOS, but they have to be developed by 3rd parties. When I upgraded my 3G to iOS 4.0, it was a nightmare on battery and processing speed. There were solutions online to get it back to 3.1.3. I know just enough about computers to get myself in trouble, but I was able to finesse my way through it.
I don’t even have a music library anymore. I have about 30 misc. songs on my phone I collected for one reason or another, but don’t listen to them. And a few boxes of CDs somewhere in my house. I also use Pandora when i want to listen to music. Surprisingly, I’m really losing my interest in music as I age. It all seems so meaningless…maybe I’m depressed.