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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6189111" data-attributes="member: 8835">There's good, there's annoying with iOS7.  I have a 5, and I've had iThing since the 3g.I upgraded the evening it came out (well, it came out in the day, I upgraded after work, it was dark).The first problem was the new UI was so danged bright, I could barely read it (remember, it was dark in the house).  it wasn't just a function of the brightness knob, the UI relies on white background, with thin/light colored text for most everything.  This is shocking in a dark room.next is the lack of UI buttons.  It's just text on a white background, which MIGHT do something.  There's a reason the button was invented as  UI element.  It stands out, so I can see it to click on it.  trying to turn off my alarm this morning at 6:30 AM in the dark was excitingly difficult (I don't normally get up that early).  It was hard to see what to press with sleep blurry eyes.  in iOS6, this was clearly a swipey button, which even if I couldn't read, was obvious what to do.Plus they changed the dang sounds.  So now the marimba sound that I'm used to for timers and alarms is something different and quieter.  Which made it harder to realize what that strange noise was this morning that was trying to wake me up.The default background of white for the home screen was so glaring with the bright icons, I had to change my background (which had been standard black for 5 years) from the new White to something grey with holes in it.I also have to rethink what the icons mean for the main apps, since they all changed.  I always struggled to find the Photos icon so I can show people some pics of my dog.  Now I have no clue what the heck to click to find them.  I realize that it says "Photos" under the icon, but my brain snaps to objects before words, so the words don't come in for a few seconds when I am rushing to find something.Most of iOS7 was to reskin the appearance to remove the stink of the guy they fired who loved skeuomorphism.  While I suspect that guy went overboard on some of that, there were some solid reasons to make certain things look like their real world functional analogue.  the basic goal here seems to be to copy Microsoft Windows Mobile for style reference.Task manager is harder to kill apps.  I used to double-click the Home button, then hold my finger on an app until they squiggled, then clicked the X.  Kinda  lame, but it worked.  Now, you're supposed to drag and fling the app.  I can't get that to work.  So I have a zillions apps running since I upgraded last week, because I can't figure out the new behavior that would probably be easier, if I could do it right.Now for the good:They added Call Blocking.  Which means the brains in my phone which sees the phone number can hide calls from me, rather than paying AT&T to block numbers for me.  This means that I can totally block the collection agencies calling for the guy who had my # over five years ago when I got my 3g, since AT&T won't do anything about it unless I pay them to block their mistake of handing me a hot number that hadn't been out of commission long enough.  I was getting calls from the guy's sister the day after i got my phone as if he'd just changed numbers and didn't tell her.  90 day retirement for deactivated numbers my ass.the up-swipey quick access thing.  Now you can take a pic, turn on the flashlight, play some music, turn on the Do Not Disturb in fewer steps.  That's actually pretty handy.the down-swipey Status thing.  Now you can see the weather/temperature, day's events.  Though I'm also stuck wasting space on the stock market, which I could care less about.  Seeing FB status updates or top 5 new email titles would be handier.The auto-update of apps.  I'm always 20 updates behind when I opened my iPhone.  So the fact that it just does it is handy.  It's not like I was paying attention before to what App update was horribly broken that I should skip.  I was going to install them all anyway.  So now it deals with that automatically.  Nice.Overall, I like the functionality improvements.  I do not like the appearance changes.  I am not a fan of the style, and it actually causes me problems as I get older and can't read skinny text on white background on a small screen.If you have a 5 or newer device (basically anything in the current gen before the 5s came out), I'd upgrade.  You might as well get used to the new OS and your current hardware can handle it.  If you are on old gear (iPad 2, 4s, etc) then stay away, there's nothing to gain but pain.</blockquote>

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