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Whoa, huge, huge improvement in battery life on iOS 7.

At 74% after 15 hours of more frequent use than typical, including a bunch of GPS. It had been going down to ~40% by afternoon on a work day w/ far less use.

dark art, battery life

Had just come onto the thread to see if anyone else had noticed a huge improvement in battery life.

i think i have. used it for hours today, only burned off 1/3 of the battery (iphone 5).

Mine's quite a bit worse now on my 4s I think. Down to 49% and I've only been up a couple of hours. Always bad when I'm using 3G heavily, I think.

used all day and barely got below 50% yesterday. nice

it is a mystery

5S scheduled for tues delivery so I guess I won't be spending much time getting to the bottom of it

my phone was having trouble charging and yesterday i used a toothpick to dig out some lint from the connector. now it charges like a charm. so that's another big improvement.

that's good, the q-tip that came with ios6 never worked properly

tings dat r bodderin me:

cannot set snooze on alarms!!! what??! idgi who decided that all ppl snooze for 9 minutes all of the time!!
cannot save custom timers!!!
cannot use any other app as an effective alarm or timer bcz of silent mode/background
cmon weather app icon just show me the number of degrees for the temperature it is outside w/ like a lil logo or something telling me if it's sun or rain or w/e

also plz to advice--does it make any diff ordering this from apple.com or ordering this from att.com?

yeah they really really shouldve taken the opportunity to make the weather icon live

I like iOS7 overall, but one thing that bugs me on the iPad is using the gesture to get to the multi-tasking feels weird because you four finger swipe up, but then the screen goes to the side.

yeah thats bad

(have not installed on my ipad yet)

(have not turned my ipad on in months)

I updated on my 4 (I know, living on the edge, but I'm upgrading to a 5c or s soon anyway) and have had mixed results. Battery life seems down, but the battery is on it's last legs anyway. Performance is mixed, some things like opening apps seem a bit slower, but once in apps, seem a bit faster.

I feel like I've waited my whole life to be able to adjust screen brightness without going into settings.

what color r u getting

Only real complaints I have are that when you open a folder you can only see the first 9 apps. I'd be happier w/ smaller icons and one more row of them.

Also, the tabs icon on Safari no longer tells you how many you have open.

And I can't find weather, but that's my problem I guess.

(have not turned my ipad on in months)

― lag∞n, Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:09 AM

why not? you don't use it for reading or anything?

My iPad will remain woefully underused until some jb comes out for either 6.1.3/4 or 7.0. Gonna just be a Netflix machine until then.

Ooh the clock icon is live. That's nice.

And I can't find weather, but that's my problem I guess.

there's a handful of apps the ipad never had; iirc weather is one of them

ipad doesn't support siri now, does it? because installing 7.0 asked me to configure siri, which I did.

iPad's supported Siri since 6 iirc

I don't know what color to get. Slate Grey if I get a 5s, white or yellow if I get a C. I have to say, they're pretty strange colors.

why not? you don't use it for reading or anything?

naw i stared reading ebooks on my iphone and... I like it, or at least its caused me to read books cause its in the flow of dicking around on my phone

I did sketch out a website on a piece of paper that was supported on the back of my ipad the other day

~flow~ is not to be underestimated

I did sketch out a website on a piece of paper that was supported on the back of my ipad the other day

― lag∞n, Monday, 23 September 2013 08:47 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the ipad 1 doesn't support this

naw i stared reading ebooks on my iphone and... I like it, or at least its caused me to read books cause its in the flow of dicking around on my phone

I've contemplated this. It seems like a frightening step somehow. Like my book reading is still this sanctified thing if I'm doing it on a separate device from my phone. I guess I feel like when reading extended prose on my nook I am less likely to click over every 2 minutes to check other shit...

So I have Notification Center sort set to Manual ... and iMessage above Gmail in the list ... but still seems like it's sorted chronologically (if an email comes in after a text message, the email gets shown on top.) Pitchfork time imo.

Cook's sophomore iPad: 4.9

5S arrived today. Hadn't realised just how slow my 3gs had become!

naw i stared reading ebooks on my iphone and... I like it, or at least its caused me to read books cause its in the flow of dicking around on my phone

― lag∞n, Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:45 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I started doing this too because it's a good way to (1) read on the train without having to remember to bring anything and (2) read in bed without bothering the lady and the baby with light

4S screen is just slightly too small to be enjoyable to read on though, so looking forward to eventual upgrade.

ya all the page flipping is a lil annoying

is there a twitter client that strips out promoted tweets? i feel like there's been an steady and inexorable encroachment of them, it's getting to me

couldn't take the feeling I was reading a board book of lanark so I never got into reading on the iphone, maybe I should try again on the 5

is there a twitter client that strips out promoted tweets? i feel like there's been an steady and inexorable encroachment of them, it's getting to me

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, September 23, 2013 9:23 AM (1 hour ago)

expect them to get more prevalent once they go public.

Not sure how I feel about the sentences in Notifications. "Tomorrow looks busy. You have 7 events scheduled and the first starts at 9:00 a.m." and the weather in sentences where a strip of icons/temps could fit.

I like the sentences, for now. It's calming.

So the podcasts I subscribe to in iTunes are just totally separate now from the ones I subscribe to in the Podcasts app on my phone? I have to subscribe to everything twice?

Podcast subscriptions are supposed to sync via iCloud - and they kinda do. The problem is that Apple is attempting to promote some mysterious "convenient" way to listen to podcasts without actually saying what that way is. Meanwhile, each iTunes/Podcasts app updates makes it worse. Searching support.apple.com on "iTunes podcasts" leads to the cries of the anguished.

guys just stop liking podcasts

what are podcasts, is that like talk radio for nerds or something

mentioned upthread, but the app Downcast solves a lot of this, worth a try

I know... Probably going to switch everything over to Downcast, but am still baffled at the UI intentions at some of the lower-levels - and not just on podcasts, but everywhere. I have no doubt (I want to believe?) that Apple will sort this out in 7.0.x, 7.x and onward, but despite the overall improvement (I'm using this on an iPhone 4) there are spots that feel unfinished.

http://www.youtube.com/user/peestandingup/videos

apple history, now available at peestandingup

xxp never fear, marco is here

I respect you too much to put up an email solicitation box or fake queue.

feels good man

he looks out for ua