iOS 7 observations
- new ‘slide anywhere to unlock’ is error prone. I have accidentally unlocked my phone quite a few times (i.e. when screen lights up for a notification)
- weather app was supposed to show live temperatures and weather conditions. Otherwise there’s no point for it being in the “Background app refresh” submenu.
- you can’t turn on flashlight in Camera app
- quick preview of last photo when swiping to the right? Gone! That’s video mode now. And if you were AirPlaying music when swiping that’s paused now.
- the back button. Oh, man, the back button. Controls and buttons now blend with titles and names in the top bar. What a mess.
- the signal strength bubbles may save vertical space but ends up eating up the horizontal room so that any carrier that’s not AT&T will display poorly.
- in a shadow-less environment the on/off buttons have one
- calendars are missing the little dot that marks days with appointments or events
- animations slow stuff down at least from their long transitions
- Safari’s nav bar auto-hides on scroll and is a pain to bring back
- is my iMessage sending? Did it go through? Did I hit the right key? Oh, every time I hit space in Safari’s search/nav bar it mistakingly adds a “.com”.
- white backgrounds and Helvetica Neue Light everywhere make my eyes bleed. Illegible everything.
- the contacts list..
- the dial pad, the in-call controls, the answer and close screens. The “Slide to power off” screen. The invisible “speaker mode ON”. Why?
- the battery icon. The battery graphic when locked and you plug in the iPhone. The space between battery percentage and %. Why?
- the new swipe to delete. The (i) instead of the old >.
- the all blue settings icons and all-blue text everywhere. Take Mail.app, where menus are blue, icons are blue, email addresses and links are blue.
