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To wish I hadn't upgraded my iPad to iOS 7?

88 replies

TylerHopkins · 21/09/2013 23:48

I fecking hate it!

I know with most things it takes time to get used to a new look but I really think they've messed up this time. I don't think it adds anything. It's just so....flat.

I want iOS 6 back. ...Sad

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Faverolles · 21/09/2013 23:52

I'm getting used to it, but the swipe up thing to get to the brightness controls (instead of double clicking the home button) isn't very responsive and is irritating me.
I also don't like the way the wallpaper moves when the iPad moves - unnecessary and annoying.

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JadziasSnacks · 21/09/2013 23:56

YANBU, I'm regretting upgrading too. Really do not like it.

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TylerHopkins · 21/09/2013 23:56

I hate the look of calendar too. Arghhhh!

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TylerHopkins · 21/09/2013 23:57

There's no way back either Sad

In future I will take a peek at someone else's upgrade before I do it.

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HomicidalPsychoJungleCat · 22/09/2013 00:00

Thanks for the warning, will stick with 6!

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Allthequeenshorses · 22/09/2013 00:06

Never again, hate it. But I can only blame myself. I didn't even know what I was doing, sleep deprived over work, clicked update, here we are. I then came on here, and Facebook, and realised my error. Wish I had not done it.

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TylerHopkins · 22/09/2013 00:12

Looking on t'internet it seems to be getting more bad reviews than good. I hope they listen to their customers and take it back to how it was.

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Grumpywino · 22/09/2013 00:24

I like it, iOS needed a refresh.

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TheRunawayTrain · 22/09/2013 00:46

Thanks for the warning. Will stick with this back, until something with better reviews comes along!

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ThedementedPenguin · 22/09/2013 00:47

I like it. For the most part it's way better than the iOS 6.

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olidusUrsus · 22/09/2013 04:33

Bleurgh, it's awful. Too android-y! I'm sticking with 6 for as long as I can.

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glastocat · 22/09/2013 05:02

I love it, especially the auto app updates.

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Isetan · 22/09/2013 05:49

Ok the new look calendar takes some getting used to (I wish I could have month view as a default ) and the keyboard for typing notes and mail are a pain ( I preferred white on black) but generally I like it. OS6 looks so outdated now and I only upgraded 24 hours ago.

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friday16 · 22/09/2013 06:02

I also don't like the way the wallpaper moves when the iPad moves

You can turn that off (I have on my phone):

Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion

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friday16 · 22/09/2013 06:32

I hope they listen to their customers and take it back to how it was.

If Apple "listened to their customers", they would be Blackberry. Focus groups of existing customers are almost always wrong, and it's very rare for a new release of anything, especially one which changes user interface elements, to be welcomed by the existing customer base, who are inherently conservative. Innovation always results in people shouting that they liked it the way it was, thank you, but there's endless history of that simply being wrong.

Steve Ballmer (Microsoft's CEO) signed his long-term death warrant when he uttered the immortal lines "There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance." and "“$500, fully subsidized, with a plan! That is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers, because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine.”"

Ballmer's certainly not an idiot, and his view on phone UI was very common at the time. Even today, there's a small but vociferous minority who bang on about Blackberries being "more professional" and "about business" and so on: it's reasonable to assume, however, that a company that in twelve months will have reduced its workforce by two thirds is not in good health. Its share price today is about 4% of its share price five years ago: holding on to its existing markets and customers and trying to keep them happy has destroyed 96% of the company's value. Why would Apple want to emulate that?

The iPhone 5S and 5C ship with iOS7 and won't run anything prior to that: they're shipping in vast volume and flying out of the shops. The original iOS look and feel was getting pretty long in the tooth, so if a tiny minority of existing customers (ie, people who have already paid) either don't upgrade or, an even tinier minority, go elsewhere, that's just the price of doing business.

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CanadianJohn · 22/09/2013 06:38

The Daily Telegraph has an article on how to disable some of the new features.

www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/iphone/10320848/iOS-7-how-to-disable-the-most-annoying-new-features.html

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Jaynebxl · 22/09/2013 06:43

I haven't been upgraded. .. do I need to do something manually? Assuming that I want to upgrade!

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janeyjampot · 22/09/2013 06:50


Really interesting comment. Thank you.
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itwasarubythatshewore · 22/09/2013 08:05

Friday16 Thanks for the reduce motion tip. I only noticed that movement this morning.

I hated the new look and had remorse for about 30 minutes (and I did phone and iPad at the same time), but I've got over it Smile

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pinkoneblueone · 22/09/2013 08:25

I won't be offered the upgrade cos I have an iPhone 3GS so I 'think' it's iPhones way of making ppl upgrade if they want the new update,

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Jinty64 · 22/09/2013 08:28

My ds's keep telling me to upgrade. Perhaps I'll ignore them!

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gastrognome · 22/09/2013 09:36

Very insightful, friday16, thank you!

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NannyMcphee12 · 22/09/2013 10:49

If your not upgrading be careful as the update also updates your anti virus software that's built into your phone

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friday16 · 22/09/2013 11:37

There is no "antivirus" software in iOS. Whatever makes you think there is? Applications are checked, to some extent, when put into the app store and are digitally signed. The phone won't run software that is not signed (excluding jail breaking, developer certificates and some other situations I think we can ignore in general). That's not affected by running older iOS releases.

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PresidentServalan · 22/09/2013 11:38

YABU - it's awesome!

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