…and the phone still says “Preparing updates.” Not even a restart yet.
It’s always like that when they release a new one. It’ll be a little better tonight and tomorrow, and back to normal in a couple days. I guess it just doesn’t make economic sense to buy the server capacity for what’s a very rare load level.
I got maybe 5% into downloading and then the phone quit it, claiming unspecified “problems” with downloading.
Download was very slow (but I’m on a 3Mb/s connection at the moment). Took about 6 tries to get the update verification done. That’s certainly a symptom of the servers being massively overloaded.
Currently doing the installation reboot. I notice that the update progress bar is distinctly thinner than previously. I’m on a 4S–hope the hardware can handle at least some of the new features.
Major software updates are almost like getting new hardware for me. I’m all nerd-tingly.
Mine took quite a while but finally finished; the “Preparing Updates” part took forever.
And it looks like ass.
It looks like they went to a bunch of 10 year old girls and had them design the icons and the text message skin.
It’s as tho my little computer-phone turned into a child’s toy.
Honestly, I think I’ll pass on this one entirely. I’ve watched Apple’s promo videos and read through their web pages and don’t see a single thing I will want. Had I known what a train wreck Maps and the Notification Center were, I’d probably have passed on ios6 too.
I don’t suppose there’s a way to disable the top-swipe for the Notification Center and the new bottom-swipe for the Control Center? The former is a constant irritant in ios6 and there’s absolutely no way I’ll put up with duplicating that at the bottom of the screen.
It’s either due to or the cause of the apocalypse.
Why did skeuomorphism suddenly become a bad thing? I just learned what it meant, and now it’s anathema for some reason.
No you can’t disable it and it is worse than you may know. Now there are multiple swipes from every direction, and some apps are using swipes as well. For instance, swiping from the bottom right corner up on any page, even the locked home page, gives you the camera. Swiping up from the rest of the bottom gives you a control center, but no labels on anything so you have to figure it out by context of which buttons are clustered together. Swiping down from top still gives you Notifications, except when you swipe from one of the corners (left top I think), which gives you the Search feature.
In Safari, you can now swipe left and right to do Back and Forward pages.
Oh, and it all looks like a fucking child designed everything. Or like it was designed to be used solely by a child. Bright colors, icons that don’t resemble much because they are too simple (the new Youtube icon is a red square with a triangle pointing to the right (a “play” button), for instance.
And the new text message window is similarly cartoonish with bright lime green bubbles for your text.
In fact, all the new colors on icons are unbelievably bright, not-quite-pastel colors. And no, you can’t change them or use “classic” icons or anything. I’ll give Microsoft credit for doing that, at least, when they went and [del]fucked up[/del]changed their icons years ago: at least they let you select the older look that everyone was used to.
iOS 7 seems to have a lot of good new features, but the aesthetics are shite.
If you download through iTunes, it’s a different and much faster server. Took me 6 minutes @ 1:30 pm which was probably the peak.
I like the OS, if for no other reason than it will auto-update apps now.
How to fix some of the annoying parts.
I’m installing right now. My favorite items include “smarter” Siri, and getting rid of the skeuomorphism (which I’ve hated for years).
It looks like they’ve discovered 16bit graphics.
“Verifying”…
/headdesk
I’m just disappointed my Ipod generation 4 has finally been cut off. Oh, well.
I attempted to download this soon after it was available (10am Pacific). It jumped to “2 hours remaining” but after half an hour or so failed with a generic error. Trying again took about 30 minutes to complete successfully.
I don’t mind how it looks but the slow animations everywhere are annoying. A common use case is for me to press the power or home button and see the time instantly. Now that slowly fades from black. Seriously? Why?!
I don’t think it is a terrible idea if it is used to provide subtle clues to usage. But that may not be as necessary these days now that these sort of apps have been around forever.
Also, Apple have in my opinion gone completely overboard with it for some apps. Their podcast app, for example, was ridiculous. I think its better now, but previously common functionality was hidden by this huge reel-to-reel tape animation!
I’m not getting the negativity over the look at all. I think iOS 7 generally looks wonderful. So much cleaner and with less clutter - you can actually focus on the content rather than “Oooh look, shiny!” Apps that haven’t been updated, like the wood-grain iBooks, look prehistoric by comparison.
It’s far from perfect, of course - apps seem to be slower to open thanks to the fancier animation, and the dock should be more translucent, instead of a big grey block taking up a large portion of the screen. And it would be good to be able to customise the Control Centre and Notification Centre. Also why is the clock icon now live but the weather one still isn’t?
I do like the little touches like the fact that the stack of tabs in Safari tilt slightly as you move the phone, letting you see more of the text on them. The lock screen looks gorgeous, but it’s a shame they scrapped the panoramic wallpaper feature. Yes it’s pointless, but it was a fun idea.
PS dracoi, there is an option to disable the Control Centre in all apps (i.e. it only works on the lock/home screens).
I find myself looking at my phone, wondering where all my apps went.
Well, I mean, I know where they went. They weren’t updated for iOS7 - or were but on a totally different “feed” as a new app - so they weren’t transferred. Still, it’s a little disconcerting to see so many empty spaces and wondering what didn’t transfer. Yes, in theory if I don’t know, I won’t miss it. But it took me a couple minutes to figure out my podcasts app was gone and then remember the name. Fortunately it had all my data and everything.
Oh this one’s fun. Bioware didn’t update the game authenticator app for the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG PC game. I downloaded it but it crashes every time I launch, which means I can’t play the game until they fix it. :smack:
Really? I don’t think I’m missing a single app, and I’m sure many of them haven’t updated recently. AIUI all apps will be transferred to the new OS even if they haven’t been updated. Whether they work properly or not is another matter, as you have found!
iOS 7 breaks Breakout Boost, this cannot stand! Plus, I hate the look of it. I’m really sorry I updated.