Does anyone dislike IOS 7 as much as I do?

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Does anyone dislike IOS 7 as much as I do?

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so I dislike IOS 7 and when Im due for new phone if Apple has not fixed the IOS I will move On

Thank you.

Thanks for all these posts. I thought I was an anomoly! I updated to 7.04, the latest from the 6 and I wish hadn't. My ipad (4th generation) seems totally useless. It freezes now, and the apps are not attractive in terms of what I think they call, "streamlined"? I miss the Notepad app the way it was in 6 and, yes, the battery discharges much faster. I feel like selling the IPad and going back to an Android. I have been an Apple person for over 20 years and always have liked the product, not the company. They are not really responsive to consumers. I certainly wish they would hear us. I have read about certain fixes, but I think it is Apple's responsibility to take care of this. I would like to be able to go back to IOS 6 and don't know how to do it. Thanks, folks, for having this forum. It is very helpful to hear that others are having the same challenges.

That's what you get when the company you deal witgh elects to loose faith with its supporters. I have elected to make certain every one I know is aways of the before (IOS 6) and after (IOS 7) "improvement" Apple perpetrated on it's faithful. Hopefully their sales will drop off to the point they get the message. BTW if you upgrade to the Maverick (the NEW iMAC IOS) you'lll see they've removed much of what Apple became an known for and remained the industery leader. It's almost as though they are taking lessons from Microsoft. Last time I was confronted with such lack luster, but efficient, firmware/software was on a manufacturing assembly line. If I'd wanted that lackluster interface I'd have bought a PC

alan-43 wrote:

Hopefully their sales will drop off to the point they get the message.

Oh yeah. Hold your breath till that happens.

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!

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.

Indeed, the 4 finger swipe up now makes no sense. The 5 finger pinch to close an app has gone from perfectly executed (ie. as your fingers met the app closed) to a clunky travesty of its former self - fingers meet, app not completely closed, app closes with an ugly clunk when fingers are removed from screen. Amateurish. IOS7 defenders may say these issues are mere aesthetics but isn't that what has always made Apple so fab - attention to small aesthetic details as well as functionality? PS. Enjoying my ipad 4 with IOS6!

Fortunately I couldn't update my iPad having an 'obsolete' iPad1 which is no longer supported, but I've recently bought an iPhone 5s and have got to live with iOS7, which as you say seems so unintuitive and a betrayal of the perfection that Steve Jobs left as his legacy. it's clinical, stripped down and lacking in humanity.

I live in the UK and one of the only saving graces in terms of functionality was the warm and human sounding Siri voice, which was great for giving turn by turn directions. iOS 7.1 was supposed to give a 'more natural sounding' voice but there was absolutely nothing wrong with the original one and this upgrade has replaced the excellent natural voice with a throwback to those early stabs at text to voice translation - it's awful!

Thanks, John, for letting us know about your experience. I wonder if Apple even reads this? I can't even find a way to voice my opinions to the company. I agree with you here, too, about the voice which has changed and I want IOS 6 back. I believe that the Apple organization has lost its creativity, its understanding of consumer wishes and they have become boring. My Ipad simply does not function the way it did in the beginning pre-IOS 7 and ti also gets hot now if I leave it on without working on anything. Nothing like that happened before. Sad company!

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

I completely agree this new OS is awful! I have an iPhone 4 and a third generation iPad but won't update. It looks like cheap Japanese anime just can't stand it. I was hoping iOS 8 would fix this but it doesn't sound like it from what I have read. Even Mac OS 11 might go this way well won't have to worry about upgrading anything from now on.

I agree, and what bothers me the most is that there seems to be no recourse to Apple itself. They will not respond to queries, even if you are fortunate enough to contact a person. It seems as though they simply do not care. And, I have used Apple products for the past 25 years. Love the product (until now), but strongly frustrated by the company and their lack of response to consumers. I cannot even use my IPad (4th generation) for more than a day without having to charge it (with this IOS 7) and I need to turn it off every time I use it because it overheats. Creative? Something is inherently wrong with the developers...too much technocracy and not enough "people" skills😕

Thank, you, deggie...I had not seen this and even with all the searches! Really appreciate it...very helpful:-)

I dislike it enough that I contemplated leaving all of my iOS devices (3 iphones 5(2),4(1) 2 iPad (3)) and finding something else. This force of a download and the endless asking to update. I am pretty upset. Really this is the first time I have really hated an OS. I work in IT security and the field for 15 years. I only know 2 out of more than 100 that like iOS 7. I have posted and send emails to support and feedback and I have not recieved one reply back. Sad to see Apple go this way, head in the sand. Change just to change is a bad idea. Please bring back iOS6 or let me upgrade my devices back to the latest patches that are for iOS6. I will not buy a new apple iOS devices untell this will happen.

Totally agree. I REFUSE to upgrade to Maverick after the IOS 7.0 piece of junk. I too have written Apple and posted my displeasure with their dumbdowning of their, once industry lead graphic interface. Like Microsoft, Apple has decided, unilatterally, what it's customer base wants and the under the guise of an update, tken over and upgraded to a NEW, less desireable, IOS. But, in Apple's defense, they are providing it FREE. If this this what free buys me I say NO thanks. Most of my friends, those in their mid 20's and beyond, feel pretty much as I do, but have succumbed to do little or nothing - a trajedy!