how do i uninstall IOS7

tigger5 wrote:

I can't speak for the OS itself, but the look, I am SOOOOOO happy I did not uypgrade...

Girlfreind did all her iPhones and iPads ...they now look like circus props for clowns.....

I guess I just don't get all this fuss about how it "looks". Do y'all just sit around gazing at your home screens or oggling your app icons? When I'm looking at my iPhone or my iPad, its only long enough to lauch an app and use it, or make a call, or start a track, or read a book, pdf file, work on a numbers spreadsheet, upload or download some other file. 99.999999% of the time I am not looking at the home screen nor looking at any app icons - I'm look at the content displayed in some app. Or a blank screen as I listen to something or talk on the phone.

Maybe it really is just me, but I could not care less about how it looks - all I care about is how it works, and how my app content looks as I work on things. My various apps' content looks just like it always did, and iOS 7 functions significantly better than iOS 6 did.

I wouldn't care if the home screen and icons were black and white only, or blazing pink beach balls, for all the time I actually see them.

I like the new look and just like the guy above me I never stare at my home screen anyway and half of the apple apps I put on the last screen anyway since I never use them

As for the bugs a lot of people just need to set it up as a new iPhone or iPad it should fix a lot of issues everyone is having with iOS 7

Michael Black said:

I wouldn't care if the home screen and icons were black and white only, or blazing pink beach balls, for all the time I actually see them.

So, you are saying Steve Jobs was an idiot all these years for having put so much importance in elegance en style?

How did you down grade to the 6? OS.

I don't like the keypad cuz I have blindness in one eye and its given me problems there. want my old black keypad back

It is nice that siri actually works better in 7 though.

Just imagine the kudos Apple could get here if they turned around and just said, we appreciate your feedback, here's an update that allows you to choose the appearance of your phones OS! Not, a full blown update or reversion back tomiOS6, just something that lets you choose the appearance. I reckon 90% or even 99% of people would be happy with that, and made up that Apple had listened. Didn't Microsoft do that with one version of windows? allowed you to use the same toolbar and desktop icons but on a newer build? Come on Apple. I know you won't reply on here, but I can't believe no one is reading all this.

Yes we should be able to pick and choose things we want from this, and not have to put up with what we don't like.

My family of 4 has between us 15+ Apple devices and have been a huge proponent of the companies products for many years. As an IT professional i totally get the need for release strategies but also know you have to have a fallback or contingency in the event that your product heaven forbid is not ready for prime time. Not providing those capabilities for devices that millions depend on every day would put most companies out of business. I suspect that Apple does have such a contingency but has to weigh the impact of executing it versus how that will be perceived. I suggest that giving those loyal Apple consumers the ability to easily rollback to IOS6 would in the long run be the most economical decision. Let those comfortable and not encountering problems remain on IOS7 as an extended Beta test!

glad i had the opportunity to revert back to iOS6 last friday. i really did try, but this all-white stuff is just giving headache, and it makes the retina display obsolete. i loved all those little details, guess so did millions of iOS users as they did purchased 100 millions of iOS devices with the look it had until last wednesday.
especially on my black iphone 5 the new look just doesnt work.

please Apple, consider a option to use a darker look and by god, do a overhaul to those amateurish stock apps icons. you wanted to get rid of any skeuomorphism. good. why does the newsstand still have all those ms paint style details? why does the video app icon still looks like a movie flap? that is all half baked. not talking the colors. no words for all those turqouis gradients, what is that.

How did you accomplish this?

Kobbe wrote:

Michael Black said:

I wouldn't care if the home screen and icons were black and white only, or blazing pink beach balls, for all the time I actually see them.

So, you are saying Steve Jobs was an idiot all these years for having put so much importance in elegance en style?

No, I never said any such thing - don't put your words in my mouth please.

I would actually praise the late Mr. Jobs for his attention to detail and making sure that things actually do work better with each iteration of design, just as I mentioned that iOS 7 does over iOS 6, in my opinion. Just as I feel each new version of OS X has steadily and significanlty built on the function and effectiveness of the previous version.

"Style" and "Elegance" are matters of opinion and taste, and hence are highly subjective.

Michael Black wrote:

"Style" and "Elegance" are matters of opinion and taste, and hence are highly subjective.

Exactly! "I don't like it" ≢ "It's bad".

Kobbe wrote:

Michael Black said:

I wouldn't care if the home screen and icons were black and white only, or blazing pink beach balls, for all the time I actually see them.

So, you are saying Steve Jobs was an idiot all these years for having put so much importance in elegance en style?

Jobs cared about elegance & style when it contributed to the functionality of the device.

And nothing that Michael said even REMOTELY implied that he had anything negative to say about Jobs.

That's like saying if someone says "I don't like orange juice", then that means that they are insulting the entire State of Florida.

Huh? What?

Get out of here with that nonsense...

It's called a strawman, and it's the way people who do not have a coherent argument try to bait someone into defending a position they haven't taken.

I have never in my life witnessed a situation like this iOS 7. Consumers voluntarily upgraded to something, that with a little research would have revealed whether it suited their taste. Then when it was too late, they take extreme positions against Apple, and its policies.

I for one like the upgrade, and like the appearance.

We lost a little functionality in audiobooks, and in video titles. But my expectation is that Apple will fix that with an update.

hot_spur wrote:

I have never in my life witnessed a situation like this iOS 7.

It happens every time there's a major update. With iOS 6, it was over Maps. People were actually saying that Apple would cause people to die because of bad directions.

True enough. This go-round I'm just puzzled as about the complaints of the design. Its not like screen shots even animation haven't been out there for weeks. And not just on Apple's website.

Sometimes I think people (at least some) just thrive on complaining and unnecessary drama.