Apple iPhone and related items (cont.)

[sim667]

In fact the calendar is now almost impossible for me to read properly because it's muted all the calendar colours and made everything really white

fucking genius apple, well done, for those of us with reading issues this is JUST what I didn't need

e2a - the new evernote looks really fucking shit too - jesus christ

Have you tried going into Settings>General>Accessibility and toggling the "increase contrast" slider. I think it increases the contrast for people who have difficulty reading muted colours on the white background.

 

[sim667]

And while I'm at it, while folders are now multi paged, each page is smaller, and I organised my folders on the basis that everything in them would be visible when opened, not that I'd have to swipe again to get to them. If you see what I mean. Anyway, cunts.

You could only fit so many icons on the screen at a time though.... lets say you've got fifty icons in a folder..... how would they possibly display all of those on just one screen without making it into a list, which people would then say is too fiddly to tap on properly

 

[aqua]

Have you tried going into Settings>General>Accessibility and toggling the "increase contrast" slider. I think it increases the contrast for people who have difficulty reading muted colours on the white background.

Yep tried it and makes no real descernible difference. I normally love updates but this one is just fucking shit.

Can someone recommend me a new calendar app please because I genuinely can't use this one now

 

[FridgeMagnet]

You could only fit so many icons on the screen at a time though.... lets say you've got fifty icons in a folder..... how would they possibly display all of those on just one screen without making it into a list, which people would then say is too fiddly to tap on properly

You can fit more than 9 icons on a screen. Or at least you used to be able to. Now all my folders go onto two pages.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

You can fit more than 9 icons on a screen. Or at least you used to be able to. Now all my folders go onto two pages.

Yeah, this is annoying.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

AND why can't I pinch out of newstand anymore?

I think this is a bug as every other app seems to work fine with that.

 

[Winot]

Yep tried it and makes no real descernible difference. I normally love updates but this one is just fucking shit.

Can someone recommend me a new calendar app please because I genuinely can't use this one now

UtiliTap Week Calendar.

Is it my imagination or has one of the views disappeared from iCal? Anyway, agree it's even worse than before.

I'll reserve judgement on the design for a few weeks. Like Control Centre. Don't like transitions - feel queasy.

 

[Callum91]

All the transition animations have certainly slowed the feel of the phone down for me (iPhone 5). Gestures on the iPad 3 also feel sluggish and somewhat buggy. I still find having to physically double press a button to close apps/switch between them is very annoying, it needs a gesture of some sort. I never used it in the old versions of iOS and I'm not going to use it now, so much easier to just press the home button and launch the app you want again from the home screen. Unless I'm missing some sort of trick? The Palm Pre had it right with the whole gesture area below the touchscreen, pressing buttons is so much like hard work

 

[elbows]

All the transition animations have certainly slowed the feel of the phone down for me (iPhone 5). Gestures on the iPad 3 also feel sluggish and somewhat buggy. I still find having to physically double press a button to close apps/switch between them is very annoying, it needs a gesture of some sort. I never used it in the old versions of iOS and I'm not going to use it now, so much easier to just press the home button and launch the app you want again from the home screen. Unless I'm missing some sort of trick? The Palm Pre had it right with the whole gesture area below the touchscreen, pressing buttons is so much like hard work

You can, on the iPad at least. Go into settings and make sure you have 'Multitasking Gestures' switched on. It tells you what gestures are then available to close an app, switch between apps, bring up the task manager.

 

[elbows]

The grey background for icon folders looks crap - it is borderless and also too light and obtrusive, in contrast to icons for apps which were designed with dark backgrounds in mind.

Is that on a device which doesn't support the translucent background/colours stuff? Because on my iPad it isn't grey, its based on whatever my wallpaper is set to. Granted this does not eliminate all of your criticisms, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

 

[aqua]

Is that on a device which doesn't support the translucent background/colours stuff? Because on my iPad it isn't grey, its based on whatever my wallpaper is set to. Granted this does not eliminate all of your criticisms, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

I have the retina display ipad and yes it coordinates it's shitty background to the wallpaper but it's still shit

 

[elbows]

Personally I love the new look, with only a couple of exceptions.

Yes there is a too much white in places on the iPad, although turning down the brightness should be good for battery. I think they should have thought more about this aspect of the design though.

The most stupid colour combination I've seen so far is in the note app. email addresses, phone numbers etc put into a note are shown using that orangey yellow colour, which on a white background is absolutely stupid.

 

[aqua]

Personally I love the new look, with only a couple of exceptions.

Yes there is a too much white in places on the iPad, although turning down the brightness should be good for battery. I think they should have thought more about this aspect of the design though.

The most stupid colour combination I've seen so far is in the note app. email addresses, phone numbers etc are shown using that orangey yellow colour, which on a white background is absolutely stupid.

It's the colouring for me too mainly - too white, which for someone with dyslexia is just fucking dumb

 

[Kanda]

Quite like it. Quicker than iOS 6.x on my iPhone 4S

 

[elbows]

Not sure if everyone is aware of this feature so thought I would mention it:

Swipe right from the very left edge of the screen to go back, and left from the right edge of the screen to go forwards. Especially handy in Safari.

 

[sim667]

You can fit more than 9 icons on a screen. Or at least you used to be able to. Now all my folders go onto two pages.

Ive got folders with 30 apps in now though. Where as before I'd have to have folders with the same name, but call them "reference 1", "reference 2" etc.... Now i can just have one big reference folder.

 

[sim667]

Yep tried it and makes no real descernible difference. I normally love updates but this one is just fucking shit.

Can someone recommend me a new calendar app please because I genuinely can't use this one now

What about inverting colours in accessibility?

 

[xenon]

3 GB. FFS.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Ive got folders with 30 apps in now though. Where as before I'd have to have folders with the same name, but call them "reference 1", "reference 2" etc.... Now i can just have one big reference folder.

Oh, it's better to have multi-page folders rather than non-multi-page folders, certainly, but they could have done it while keeping the page size the same.

It's a small thing compared to the damn zooming though - I think that will be the bit that persistently annoys me.

 

[Winot]

Ooh - I like the switch between pages on Safari. And private browsing easily accessible for those - ahem - private needs.

 

[sim667]

Oh, it's better to have multi-page folders rather than non-multi-page folders, certainly, but they could have done it while keeping the page size the same.

It's a small thing compared to the damn zooming though - I think that will be the bit that persistently annoys me.

Oh I see.. Still think its pennicity (sp?) though.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

All the transition animations have certainly slowed the feel of the phone down for me (iPhone 5). Gestures on the iPad 3 also feel sluggish and somewhat buggy. I still find having to physically double press a button to close apps/switch between them is very annoying, it needs a gesture of some sort. I never used it in the old versions of iOS and I'm not going to use it now, so much easier to just press the home button and launch the app you want again from the home screen. Unless I'm missing some sort of trick? The Palm Pre had it right with the whole gesture area below the touchscreen, pressing buttons is so much like hard work

I know what you mean but haven't been able to work out if it's actually slower or I'm just paying so much attention to everything because it's all new and slightly novel.

 

[Sunray]

I am really liking this update, all the moaning on here had me a bit worried.

This has made it far more usable and got rid of some real annoyances for me. The wifi switch was one of them.

Lots and lots of really great updates. Like the rip off of the card system from Palm, though they didn't need to, I've thought of a better and faster system.

The photo app is great.

My only annoyance is the clock on the lock screen, I have a very light photo on my lock screen so a drop shadow or something to highlight it would have been nice.

 

[Bungle73]

Have you noticed the new Clock app icon shows the actual time?

I don't know why they didn't add a Location Services switch to the Control Centre, as it something that I switch on an off all the time, and doing through Settings is a right pita.

 

[Sunray]

Have you noticed the new Clock app icon shows the actual time?

I don't know why they didn't add a Location Services switch to the Control Centre, as it something that I switch on an off all the time, and doing through Settings is a right pita.

Put it into feedback on the apple site. I have got everything I have suggested, including the iPhone which I suggested they make in 2005. If you don't tell them they won't know.

 

[Callum91]

Surprised mobile data isn't in control centre either. Rather have that over Bluetooth/lock orientation.

 

[Sunray]

Surprised mobile data isn't in control centre either. Rather have that over Bluetooth/lock orientation.

Apart from when I land in another country (and return) I never need to touch that setting? What are you doing you need an easily accessible switch for it.

 

[Callum91]

Apart from when I land in another country (and return) I never need to touch that setting? What are you doing you need an easily accessible switch for it.

Turning 3/4G on/off? Something I imagine most people do quite a few times a day.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Well, no. Can't remember the last time I turned 3G off (apart from when going to another country, as mentioned above). Why would you? Wifi, sure.

 

[Callum91]

I don't see the point having it turned on if I'm not using it, so it remains off until needed.