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lkrupp Author

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Remember! You can't go back to iOS 6!

In an attempt to head off the usual outraged posts, please remember thay once you install iOS 7 you CANNOT go back to iOS 6 no matter what some techie tells you. If you plan to update your iPad to iOS 7 make sure you and your apps are ready for it. Make sure you understand the changes that iOS 7 brings to the table. This is no maintenance update. This is a major re-engineering with major changes in the look and feel. Some of your apps may need updating. Some devlopers may not be ready, most will.

Remember the bottom line! Once you go to iOS 7 you cannot downgrade to iOS 6 if you don't like it or if you have issues with some of your apps. You will not be able to take your iPad to the Apple store and ask them to downgrade you to iOS 6.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), iPad 2 iOS (6.1.3)

Posted on Sep 17, 2013 12:52 PM

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lkrupp Author

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Sep 20, 2013 1:09 PM in response to appleuser1322

"And I don't think the millions who are having issues..."

I can only specualte which orifice you pulled that number out of. Must be some new kind of math.

Sep 21, 2013 10:12 AM in response to Amamba

Amamba wrote:

- A new "control panel". Honestly, so what. My Android phone had this for years, and if my Apple didn't get it, it wouldn't be the end of the world. It's just a few controls, not like it's something revolutionary.

Oh my god. before the update eveyrbody was complaining about the control panel not being there. "Android has it.. why can't the iPhone" "I wiould be so convenient, Ill be switching to android if Apple doesn't give it to us" etc...

Now that is there then its no big deal and you want your old Os back that did not have it??? There's just no pleasing people.

Amamba wrote:

- The global search is now gone. If I need to find something on the web, I have to start browser first. Hello, Apple, it's 2013, not 1995.

Ohhh god its so inconvenient... I need to open a "browser" to search the "web", its unthinkable that I need a browser to search the web.

Seriously this is your complaint, this breaks iOS 7 for you?

C'mon, that's just nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking.

Personally I don't think I ever used the globla search to search the web directly, I woud always open the brwoser first and how is that more inconvenient than havng to swipe all the way to the left to start a search and then still having to wait for the Browser to open.

The design, personally I find it quite enjoyable.

The Font is very readable and no I don't have 20-20 vision, I wear glasses to read. But I can see it fine, if you need a thicker font rthere's always the Text sisize setting , and the bold tex setting you can work with to improve it.

At the end everybody has an opinion, but claiming Apple messed up because a few people don't like it completely dismisses the many many people who have had no issues with it and like the new design.

Sep 21, 2013 10:19 AM in response to lkrupp

On the plus side, the hysterical posts about how "ghastly", "horrifying", "cheap", "feminine" (my favorite) the interface is have at least crowded out the iOS 7 destroyed my battery life posts.

And all of those adjectives are from actual posts, by the way.

lkrupp Author

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Sep 21, 2013 11:21 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Meg St._Clair wrote:

On the plus side, the hysterical posts about how "ghastly", "horrifying", "cheap", "feminine" (my favorite) the interface is have at least crowded out the iOS 7 destroyed my battery life posts.

And all of those adjectives are from actual posts, by the way.

I'm amazed by it all quite frankly.

Sep 21, 2013 11:23 AM in response to lkrupp

I think I'm horrified.

Sep 21, 2013 12:13 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Meg St._Clair wrote:

On the plus side, the hysterical posts about how "ghastly", "horrifying", "cheap", "feminine" (my favorite) the interface is have at least crowded out the iOS 7 destroyed my battery life posts.

And all of those adjectives are from actual posts, by the way.

Yeah I still don;t understand what's sofemenine about it?

A little color on the Game center and Photos App icons and its suddenly femenine?

Sep 21, 2013 12:25 PM in response to Phil0124

Real men don't like color. They only dress in black, grey and navy blue. People might qestion their masculinity if they wore a pink shirt or showed their iPhone with iOS 7. Or so some of these posts would have you believe.

I'm also a bit miffed by the people who keep sayin that no one under 50 could possibly like this or read it. I'm over 50! I wear reading glasses! I like iOS 7!

Sep 21, 2013 12:56 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Hahaha... yeah its really strange.😉

Sep 21, 2013 1:28 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Meg St._Clair U.S.

Real men don't like color.

Im a guy and have a Pink Iphone, so what does that mean? 😕

😍

Sep 21, 2013 1:35 PM in response to PlotinusVeritas

PlotinusVeritas wrote:

Im a guy and have a Pink Iphone, so what does that mean? 😕

😍

Isn't there someting about speculation being a TOU violation? 😁

lkrupp Author

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Sep 22, 2013 5:48 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

If you want some more interesting comments just head over to the Apple TV section. Apparently more than a few have had the 6.0 update fail and a screen is popping up telling them to connect their Apple TV to iTunes for restoral. You should read all the whining and outrage at the fact that no micro USB cable was included in the Apple TV package. They are stting there crying, "What am I supposed to do? There was no cable in the box!" When told they can probably use the cable that came with their camera or get one at any convenience store or Walmart for a couple of dollars they fly into a rage. I had no idea some people were like this. They literally sit on their hands, cry like babies, throw a tantrum, and fully expect some one to do it for them.

It's never been this bad and I've been around for a long time. What has happened to our culture and society?

Sep 22, 2013 8:36 AM in response to lkrupp

lkrupp wrote:

They literally sit on their hands, cry like babies, throw a tantrum, and fully expect some one to do it for them.

The same thing with the change in the Calendar on the iPhone. Lots of people miss the view with the month at the top and the daily events at the bottom. I'm one of them. However, the lovely app Week Cal has exactly the same view (plus much better repeating options!). I'm sure that there are other calendar apps that do to. But people keep saying, "No! I don't want a third party app. I want Apple to change the calendar back!" When presented with a reasonable solution to the stated problem, people continue to complain. This leads me to believe a lot of this is just a severe case of resistance to change. No matter what solutions are proposed here, we can't address the underlying issue: some (very vocal) people want the new version if iOS to look exactly like the old one. Sigh....

Remember! You can't go back to iOS 6!