Thursday 26 September 2013

iOS 7 some of what I like about it

The lock screen now looks great, and really awesomeness you can access the notification centre and control centre right from the lock screen.


Slide across and you get the much more attractive unlock keyboard;


The new home screen looks fantastic, it took a little while to get used to, but it actually looks a lot better than it used to look.


Swipe down from the top and you get the notification centre;


Swipe across to get Today view, which although doesn't give the graphic weather output, it actually gives something much more useful - that is a current weather forecast and outlook in text, which I actually use, whereas the old weather widget for me just looked pretty.

It's really good to have the calendar accessible via notification centre and the lock screen, fab. And you get a list of how many events you have tomorrow - would have been better if it listed what those events were but, it's still very good. Also would be good if you could swipe to get the whole of the day's calendar view, not just the next few hours.


Swipe up for the control centre, this is very good - gives you control of music player, airplay, and allows you to quickly turn on/off Airplane mode, Wifi, Bluetooth, Do not Disturb, and the orientation lock. You can also control the brightness, and quickly open the flashlight, clock, calculator and camera, friggin great!


And the icing on the cake is the new multitasking view, by double clicking the home button, which brings up a window of the apps, and allows you to swipe up to close, very Touchpad/WebOS inspired, and I really like it, and it is useful, and much more fun to swap to different apps this way.


And the notification banners that appear are now much more pretty, and integrated better. Overall I'm very happy with the new iOS 7.

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