Barry Reynolds is a Sales Associate in our Manchester, NH location. Check out his review of iOS 7!
I have had iOS 7 since it was first announced and delivered through developers a couple of months ago. I had a developer license so I proceeded to put it on my iPhone 5 and go through the many stages of the developing process with Apple. It was rough at times but it was great to see how much iOS 7 changed over time and how much I grew to love it.
At times I remember the battery life got horrible in beta 1 and 2, in which I saw many people I knew with the beta go back to iOS 6 but I stayed put and carried a cord with me. I wrote my problems and concerns through the developer kit as I went through the betas and was glad to see that Apple fixed or improved most, if not all my concerns, as well as other developers. With iOS 7 out now I can firmly say that my battery life has greatly improved and has been for a month or so now.
There are so many features that are welcome to me as a iOS user but there are some that particularly stand out to me. Control center is of course a welcome addition as well as being able to swipe down for search anywhere on the home screen. Swiping to close windows and apps is another outstanding feature and it is seamless and fast on my iPhone 5.
iOS has always been kind of weird about telling you when a message was sent or received. It would tell you sometimes when they came in or were sent, but only if it’s the first one that has come through in a while in a given thread. If you sent a bunch of messages around 12:45, for example, you’d normally only get that first 12:45 timestamp.
With iOS 7, you can reveal the timestamp for each and every message. Just grab one of the speech bubbles in a thread and swipe to the left. Now you can win any argument about who said what, when. With auto-update all of your apps also update in the back ground even if your not currently on the phone, today I woke up to the new Facebook app, for instance, and it looked really pretty.
Overall, I enjoy the new iOS 7 as much as I enjoyed the development cycle that Apple provided. You might have people tell you it just took what other devices already had, in which somewhat it does but in my mind it makes them better and simpler. Its nice to see the phone that got the smartphone revolution started has a great iOS to be proud of.