New iOS 7 hurts my eyes. How do I switch it back?

If you hate, or simply dislike, the white space that has infiltrated IOS 7, and the new "tinny" look beware of loading Mustang on your MAC. Seems Apple has grown fond of the color white and elected to remove as much graphic overhead as they deem they can get away with. I down loaded the New Safari and learned first hand how fond Apple has grown for white space - fortunately I was able to restore my Mountain Lion version of Safari. Looked at Mustang on the NEW iMACs - it confirms my original statement, Apple is marching toward the white. If anyone knows of a way to restore, or reconfigure the background on the various 10.8 IOS to something other than light gray or white please feel free to share.

I believe you mean "Mavericks" (not Mustang) as the name of the new OS X operating system. Both names were used by Ford in automobile names...Mustang is in fact still being used. 😉

alan-43 wrote:

SergZak you are so correct I did mean Mavericks and not Mustang.

Mavericks looks almost the same as Mountain Lion. I've yet to find any noticeable differences. I was very disappointed. I was hoping it would look much more like iOS 7.

Meg St._Clair wrote:

I was hoping it would look much more like iOS 7.

Depending on your point of view, this could either be a good thing or a bad thing. 😉

Done. Thanks for the link. x

IOS 7 90% does absolutely no good if you can't stand to look at the darned thing anymore, because it hurts your eyes. I want my old ios back, with the better contrast, and 3D buttons I'm even willing to J**lbreak, no matter the risk, because I HATE my phone since this upgrade.

I used to use it for HOURS every day. I even wrote my resume on it. Now i can barely stand it long enough to check my email. Adjusting the contrast and using darker wallpaper doea a very minimal amount of good. Not much. Very unhappy customer.

I follwed Missionboy's advice and left a complaint with Apple. Maybe eventually they will listen.

Let Apple know what you think by calling 1-800-MY-IPHONE (1-800-694-7466) or sending a message at http://www.apple.com/feedback.

What is the big deal here, everyone!!

Just slide the brightness slider down until the screen feels better on your eyes.

I always felt from the beginning existence of the iPad, that its screen was always too bright for my eyes, anyhow!

Try setting the brightness below 50% to see if this better on everyone's eyes.

The advantage to doing this is that it will minimize eye strain, the iPad's battery will last longer,

the battery's overall life will last longer and the iPad's screen will last longer from the effects of image persistence over time.

Hey Michel,

Just about everyone who is in here has tried turning down the brightness and they are still having problems.

I am one of those people. I had the brightness very, very low. Way below 50%

It was such a problem for me that I actually went and bought a Nexus 5 last week. And it is AWESOME!

The 5" screen is fantastic. I don't know what I was thinking not going that way before.

Bill

My brightness is at about 30 percent, text enlerged, text boldened and wallpaper is almost black. All that white still causes eye strain. (And NO, I don't have bad eyes, OR color blindness)

Face it. There's WAY too much white, and everyone misses the shadows and highlights of the icons/buttons. Is it a bad thing, after all, to be COMFORTABLE with your electronics? Why the drastic changes? Why not a choice? Easy enough for Apple to implement, if it wants to. A cream color background or light grey to reduce eye strain. And the icons were definitely more visible with a shadow.

Sadly I don't use my iPad or my iPhone nearly as much as before... 😟

Not that it helps overall, but I accidentially activated "Private" in Safari and that gives me white on black in top and bottom.

Life stinks in my apple world, Somehow our password was changed, no one could get in so we had to wipe it and restore it. Now it has iOS 7 on it. I had "upgraded" my phone a while back not reading anything about it first. I did this back in September and have regretted it ever since. I hate my phone now. I went in and bolded the text, enlarged the text in what aps will work with that but the dialer, the calculator the texting and all the things i use so ofter are just hard to see. Especially the navigation. It is hard to tell the edge of the map from the white border. I liked it when the words looked like the green highway signs.

Now I am stuck with it on my ipad. We will be shopping for a new android tablet soon. I loved my android phone when I had it and just switched to iphone to give it a try. Like it at first but now it just plain stinks because it is so hard to see. And it looks like a kids toy because the icons look like cartoons.

Any way to at least have the classic icons back?

The problem was so bad for me I ended up getting a Nexus 7. I highly recommend it. For me, it is a much better device than my iPad Mini because of the screen and the fantastic keyboard options.

I am an Aspie and I like iOS7.... Now I want iOS8!

See, I really like it... I don't want to downgrade...

I hated iOS6 anyways, it looked bad and rough...

iOS7 is more "soft", I think of jumping on a bed and then lying down and going to sleep.....

I can't think of why people hate it. They think rough, I think soft...

iOS6 was functional and intuitive and which is why people like it, which iOS7 is not.

It appears that the update for updates sake mentality, was a bad idea... it looks so much like a Samsung product... I have iOS6.1.3 on my iPhone4 and 7 on my iPad2... and can only dream of having iOS6 back on the iPad.

I can't honestly switch hardware, since part of what I love about everything Apple-product is the build-quality-feel aspect, which is just such a cut-above the rest...

I agree that the icons in iOS7 really look like a cheap kids toy-thing, some of which are not intuitve at all (like Photo's, what exactly does that icon refer to anyways?), and using the new whited-out-everything in Safari is awful, probably the worst design-change we've ever seen, especially given that there is no real contrast to the menu-layers... which since making everything white makes the screen "look" bigger it seems that that was the idea, but, it removes the visual-functionality that was part of the original design and is what really gives most people a hard time (myself included).

Do I like iOS7? Nope...

I'm hoping that someone in the design team picks up on some of this chatter and either makes the change to reflect good-logic-design, or, adds functionality-options to provide the ability to custom-color some of the menu-layers. Just like Samsung and everyone else does...

Try Using Invert Colors :)

Settings-General-Accesability-Invert Colors-On

It Will Drive You a Little Crazy. But Come On, Its For Your Eyes Too !

:D

-Dharzxkhie