iOS7 - Thoughts?

[Dave Gray]

I have seen very mixed review of the changes, ranging from people loving it to hating it.  How do you feel?

I really like the visual style of the flat icons.  As you can tell from this site, I don't like a bunch of flashy crap.  I like simple, easy to navigate and read.  So, this is simpler and I like that.

I do not like the volume icon that pops up when you change volume with buttons.  It is too large and intrusive and blocks the screen when you are watching a video.

Also, my Facebook App simply doesn't open.  Not sure if that's just a bug that will be fixed or what.

Most of the other little tweaks, I find to be helpful improvements, but not game-changing.

[Brian Fein]

I hate it, it sucks.

I have heard of some people who got their phone wiped clean from updating.  Pretty risky, if you ask me.

[Dave Gray]

I'm having a separate issue from ioS7, but my apple ID is causing me issue.  Whenever my wife logs in to her ID on a shared device, it causes problems on my phone, making me re-set my password.  It's pretty annoying.  I'm tempted to have the devices "stop talking" entirely, just because there's issues with the sharing.

[Buddhagirl]

I'm not sure if I like it visually. Something just seems off. That might be because I just don't like things to look different. Otherwise I've had no problems. All my apps seem to be working and I've not really noticed anything.

[Landshark]

I hate it, it sucks.

I have heard of some people who got their phone wiped clean from updating.  Pretty risky, if you ask me.

I feel the same way about the new firmware upgrade for my Galaxy tab.  It just made things more complicated.

[Sunstroke]

My initial response was "what the fuck did you do to my phone?" After I played around a little bit and got a feel for some of the changes, it's not that bad at all.

[mecadonzilla]

I fucking hate it.  It's as if they took everything I knew and loved about my phone and threw it away.  They even went so far as to make playing a podcast a pain in the ass endeavor.  Don't even get me started on how ugly the aesthetics are.  You can really tell Steve Jobs is gone.

I'm sure there are advantages, but outside of Safari and the camera, they really don't affect anything I do with the phone.  I have nothing but anger regarding my phone now.  I'm going to give myself some time to cool off and try to be zen about this, but I'm already looking into downgrading back to iOS6.  I'd just restore it from iTunes, but because I had to download a new version of iTunes on my home computer just to use the iPod on the phone, it automatically backed itself up with the new OS. 

[Dave Gray]

I love the aesthetic. 

[Tenshot13]

I love everything about the new update.

[MaineDolFan]

I enjoy it.  I also like that they finally added a block caller / text feature, something Android has had forever.  It has a steep learning curve, but it's good so far. 

[TonyB0D]

I HATE IT.  i'm never using my ipad again and i'm not updating my phone