Does anyone dislike IOS 7 as much as I do?

Try using a dark background or wallpaper. I too found many of the stock backgrounds too light... I ended up going with a dark grey, which makes the icons pop. Also, decrease your screen brightness to about 50%, but leave it on Auto-Brightness. I've found the screen much more readable with all apps this way.

Otherwise, I like the update a lot.

I uploaded to my iPone and discovered how bad a move it was - expored only to find out there was no way of restoring 6.0.x; apparently by design. Then without thinking my iPad mini had the same OS got suckered in again. Apple, a company built on graphic excellnece, abandoned that excellence for a tinny/pastic graphic interface. Other than takeing up some computing space the old graphic/human interface, in my opinion, was excellent. I've done a lot of research No way of going back to IOS 6. My only hope now is enough folks will register their complalints, go to the Samsung Gallexy, and get Apples attention. If you know some way of undoing IOS 7 let me know as IOS 6.0 Humand/Computer interface by far exceeds IOS 7. Really bad news look at IOS 10.9 - it apprear the removal all that was Apple in the days of Steve Jobs is being whittled away in favor of of a tinny, plastic, industrial look. Times a changing. Let me know if you dicover a way of returning to IOS 6 and in the mean time be careful about uploading IOS 10.9 graphics are a changing and not for the better.

Well, on my iPhone, I used the darkest "Still" background (which isn't available on the iPad I just found out). On my iPad, I'm using a dark wallpaper that I got from an iPad internet forum. But you can use whatever you like. Just put it in your Photos.

Yes! I hate it.

I am a professional adult (41). I don't want my phone to look like candy. The new colors and look are extremely tacky and there is far too much white.

Is it too much to ask that we get some options regarding the look of our own phones? I would personally go back to the old look in a heartbeat.

Besides the horrid design:

1. Apple radio thusfar is pretty blah. Pandora is better and does not cause my phone to heat up and drain the battery. Raditaz has much better music. Oh, and why the heck can't I stream music I own in itunes match without first downloading on my phone??? (P.S., the look of it is rediculous. Things like stations are too big. If you are going to copy Pandora, at least copy the things that work.)

2. The calendar app is now unusable to me since the changes. I promptly got calenmob. (And why so much white!!!!)

3. Maps: still terrible.

4. Camera: swipe up on lock screen = camera. Great! Swipe down after picture = notification center?!? And Looks terrible.)

5. Buttons on all the apps are in different places and are not obvious.

I was the guinnea pig in my family for the new iOS. No one else wants it now and I am stuck with it. We were planning on buying 4 iphone 5S and a new laptop soon. Now, no way! Not unless things change dramatically. I am very afraid that this preschool look will also be carried over to the desktops. Geez, I hope not!!!

I have finally had enough of IOS7 today, apple makes it so you cant go back, IOS7 *** beyound belief my phone is about as slow as when I had a PDA with windows 6 . The only thing IOS7 has done is make me go out and buy a samsung galaxy phone today. Congratulations apple , not only am i not going to use an iphone anymore scratch the other 15 handsets my employees use and have been going crazy over the last couple of weeks with apps crashing and phones rebooting ......

I can live with ios7 on my iPhone 5. I don't like the look, hate the thin lines, find the calendar appalling compared to old ios6 version but I appreciate the new functionality - ie. hold to add appt on calendar and swipe to go back in safari.

But... I stupidly downloaded ios7 on my iPad 3 and it was so horrible in every way (clunky, unintuitive, ugly, boring, hard to use and completely joyless) that I purchased a second hand iPad 4 just to get iOS 6 back! Now writing this on my iPad 4 with iOS 6 and absolutely delighted I forked out £500 for it. I'm happy again. OK, I also have a faster machine (but iPad 3 was quick enough for me), double the memory (I bought a 128gb) and no cracked screen (but the crack was tiny in one corner so no real problem). I really did buy it to get my old iPad back - the other advantages were secondary.

If it hadn't been for ios7 I would have upgraded to the next iPad air in 2014 so Apple have lost a few hundred pounds from me. As if they care!

Also let Apple know what you think at http://apple.com/feedback/ipad.html.

iOS 6 vs iOS7. To me it's a no brainer. Actual buttons you have to push with a polished classy look compared to the most cheesy looking hyperlinks.

Message was edited by: proaudioguy Additionally iOS 6 is just plain prettier with the nice dark gray/ silver look. When I have the option I make all my skins look this way. Have for over a decade. I only wear black until something darker comes along. Hey, if they let us skin the OS the way we wanted, perhaps many of us would stop ********.

Andrew, this is exactly the way I feel about iOS 7 on my iPad 3. Clunky, sluggish and unintuitive. Even if iOS 6 was looking dated (and I often complained that it was), at least it made sense from a UI perspective. One of my favorite features seems to have been completely overlooked in the redesign - and that's the four finger swipe up to reveal the app switcher. In iOS 6, it was an elegant 'lift of the screen' to reveal the apps underneath - like raising a curtain. In iOS 7, the gesture has lost all meaning. . . . The open apps appear, but not in a way that makes sense with the hand movement at all.

This frustrates me a lot. Using my iPad no longer feels like a fluid, effortless experience - and before this update, I honestly used to think about how quick and natural it felt to jump from application to application. I was convinced that it was exactly the kind of careful design that makes Apple great.

I don't know if they rushed this version of the OS through, or if Jony Ive's stellar industrial design instincts simply don't translate to software. Maybe they just didn't give the iPad much thought, focusing more on the iPhone experience. Whatever the case, I can tell you this: I don't use my iPad nearly as much as I used to. Sad.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

All the adjustments in the world will not change that this iOS 7 is a poor design. I like the new features. I absolutely hate the new look. The thin lines suck! The "+" to add something (new calendar event, etc) should be distinctive. It's not. It just hard to see and hard to find. In sunlight, it's harder still.

This UI *****!

You know this whole line of complaints on the IOS7 has brought back a memory, of standing in line to buy the new Macintosh 128 when it came out and getting it home and struggling with new look shock. But then having the same thing at work when they installed the first Windows based machines. And when my Apple II went to the Apple II GS. I am happy I do not work any more and would have to suffer with Windows 7 change.

But look at it this way I remember a few co-workers that avoided Windows for quite a few years and keep running DOS wow they were always complaining and suffering from ability to do stuff. To those suffering any OS changes if you have seen as many as I have you will soon learn change is inevitable, resistance is futile, so the sooner you accept the faster you will forget. LOL.

My wife has had the same issue on her IPHONE with short battery life compared to my phone. But I close open tasks (app icons) and the new IOS7 has made that easier by slinging them to the top of the screen, compared to the old way of holding the x-out button down on the bottom row stuff. Check what apps are running in the background.

The big issue I found for Iphone relates to social networking use and there apps running in back ground.

I have over 150 apps on my iphone and so far 50% of the apps I have seen updates on. And so far have not had any fail to run.

Do you run Windows or OSX for your sync computer? Also have you connected the Iphone to your sync computer for a complete backup and app update.? Do you use WIFI at home of just stay on the cellular link some apps will not update via cellular. All of these affect updates to apps.

I have been in contact with Apple support.

They offer no solutions other than to test my phone for issues.

Found no issues.

(surprise)

Solved no problems.

Would not even acknowledge problems with the update.