Apple iOS 7 review: Eye of the beholder

17 September 2013
Depending on where you come from, the iOS 7 may be the bigger, and better, piece of news than the new iPhone duo. Certainly true if you have the iPhone 5 and you intend on holding on to it, unfazed by what looks like a dilemma between a marginal upgrade...

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  • 22 Sep 2013

Anonymous, 21 Sep 2013iOS7 is NOT a disaster. Have you read the reviews? Have you... moreI have read the reviews but the sites who write the reviews are part of the market they have to keep the market alive because if they kill the sales with negative reviews they will die also. so dont take the reviews too seriously make your own tes by using it..like me. Sorry but I am absolutely unhappy with iphone.
Why in 21.century we dont have an usb connection and file transfer. Its easy it should be our choice to transfer like a flash memory or through itunes. They should give us the choices. Actually ı Wanted to sell the iphone but I have bought applicaions with total cost of 500 usd I guess and you can sell the phone but they dont allow you to sell the apps. which şs stranhe because I have bought them they should be mine like any other program. Because they dont allow to sell them you cant get rid of iphone too. Thats their strategy. Or you have accept the loss of 500 bucks.

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    • deviant
    • 9x6
    • 22 Sep 2013

    Anonymous, 21 Sep 2013iOS7 is NOT a disaster. Have you read the reviews? Have you... moreYes of course, I have an iphone 4s. Unfortunately for me ios 7 is much worse than ios 6 and there is nothing new thats usable exept the control center. Where is the normal file transfering? and why apple is still making our lifes harder while we are paying 1000 ussd for aphone.. and the looks of ios 7 is much worse than 6.. To me it is just absolutely simplified visual version of ios 6. To add a pro opinion my wife is a graphic designer and an absolute appple fan with 2 macbook pros, 1 imac , 1 ipad and 1 iphone but this time even she is disapointed and unhappy stating that they were choosing apple products for the design but now the originality and design has failed.. sorry but my own opinion is that ios 7 is a disaster like windows vista. Ah and for the first time iphone has lag..

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      • AnonD-162998
      • PRN
      • 22 Sep 2013

      love ios 7, its amazing, nice interface. color combination also very good. yesterday i install the ios 7 and today have found that there is no dedicated key for discard incoming call. can help any one? if there is no discard key pls. update ios 7 for this matter pls.

      abu shahid

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        • The_Gooze!
        • n5p
        • 21 Sep 2013

        Updated my ipad 4 and the photo editing is screwed up. Can't fit full pic on home or lock screen. Appears to be a bug as have read lots of people have the same issue.
        Icons look very flat and losing the edging spoils the look imo.

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          • K7g
          • 21 Sep 2013

          Already installed the iOS7 in my iPad2 (which I really love and find no reason upgrading yet). However, could not use my resident Notes application. When I open it, it automatically closes. Hope Apple fixes this problem.

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            • AnonD-175233
            • Yd6
            • 21 Sep 2013

            iOS 7 is laggy on my iPad 3,especially the buttons and setting wallpaper. Apple should not have decreased the performance of my iPad with this update in an attempt to get me to buy a faster iPad. As soon as I find it feasible, I'm dumping this POS and getting a Nexus 10, or I'll revert to iOS 6.1.3 and fill my iPad up to the brim with content so that the auto update of iOS never happens.

              Anonymous, 21 Sep 2013iOS7 is NOT a disaster. Have you read the reviews? Have you... moreI really like iOS 7. I must say, the flattened design can very rarely be a bit more confusing than the old one, but overall the OS works really well and the new features and fresh colours really bring iPhone back to life. It's remained the easy to use OS it has always been, but has a unique look & feel to it.

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                • Akashi
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                • 21 Sep 2013

                ALLBLUES, 20 Sep 2013What really annoys me is the fact that many people keep bas... moresame here

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                  • Akashi
                  • uuh
                  • 21 Sep 2013

                  Android Man, 20 Sep 2013well having had a go on ios7. i can say. the section where ... morei am using a third party charger and a data cable for my iphone 4 and there is no problem at all

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                    • Anonymous
                    • dQH
                    • 21 Sep 2013

                    Android Man, 20 Sep 2013well having had a go on ios7. i can say. the section where ... moreYes, you're an Android fanboy who hates Apple. Why bother typing anything other than your name?

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                      • Anonymous
                      • dQH
                      • 21 Sep 2013

                      4s user, 20 Sep 2013Is there a "Project Butter" for iOS? Hurry, coz ... more"watch the hands on demo"

                      Soooooo, you have not actually used it?

                      Jog on Troll.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • dQH
                        • 21 Sep 2013

                        Deviant, 20 Sep 2013iOS 7 is a disaster, the same thing like Windows Vista. Slo... moreiOS7 is NOT a disaster. Have you read the reviews? Have you actually used it?

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                          • t7X
                          • 21 Sep 2013

                          I love the iOS7 update but my battery drains faster and I miss the tap to post and tap to tweet in iOS6.. I hope they can take it back to iOS7..
                          #JustSaying

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                            • AnonD-150352
                            • tVX
                            • 21 Sep 2013

                            On my ipad mini seem to be okay with ios7...not ok with ip5....feel lag and drained a little bit battery life...in other words ios7 still buggy and not smooth as usual...little bit frustrated now...hope apple will fix this problem in very short time....

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                              • Anonymous
                              • tVm
                              • 21 Sep 2013

                              ALLBLUES, 20 Sep 2013What really annoys me is the fact that many people keep bas... moreJust show them this article. BGR: iPhone 5s SLAUGHTERS quad-core rivals in performance tests despite dual-core CPU and just 1GB of RAM

                              http://bgr.com/2013/09/19/iphone-5s-benchmarks-performance-tests/

                              It's no light and easy thing when a tech site chooses to use the word SLAUGHTER in hits headline lol

                                Android Man, 20 Sep 2013well having had a go on ios7. i can say. the section where ... moreI use non-Apple cables and whilst the phone gives a warning message, they still work. Just so you know, Apple officially sell Belkin products on their website...

                                Let's face it - all OS's share certain traits and features, but Android simply doesn't work as nicely as iOS does.

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                                  • Android Man
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                                  • 20 Sep 2013

                                  well having had a go on ios7. i can say. the section where you kill programs is a blatent rip of android. so overall all the hype. is just a joke.

                                  not to mention ios7 only supports apple certified leads. so no 3rd party charger's or leads will work.

                                  And then there's Iphone 5c the cheaper iphone. ha ha who are apple kidding. £469. hardly cheap. well £50 cheaper than iphone 5.

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                                    • AnonD-185832
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                                    • 20 Sep 2013

                                    ALLBLUES, 20 Sep 2013What really annoys me is the fact that many people keep bas... moreI agreeeeeeeee. my iPhone every time no freeze so cool i like it

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                                      • upa
                                      • 20 Sep 2013

                                      After updating ios 7 for my iphone 4
                                      while double click the power buttoncall will decline in phone lock mode,,But same call is not appearing in lock screen..pls. Help ...

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                                        • Rakesh
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                                        • 20 Sep 2013

                                        AnonD-188168, 19 Sep 2013i suggest to apple that we should be able to choice the ski... moredude am in ur same stance u can downgrade ur ios back to 6.1.3 it s possible jus chkout d videos on youtube by searchin "how to downgrade ios 7 to 6.1.3"