iOS 7

[gmcunni]

daughter came home today from school with dead battery. went from 100% when she left in the AM to 0% before school ended. she wants to downgrade

 

[Edd]

Interesting piece on the new direction : http://www.wired.com/design/2013/09/how-ios-7-paves-the-way-for-a-golden-age-of-apps/

The short version is...pre-iOS 7, Apple and the 3rd party developers spent a lot of energy making apps resemble real world items graphically. Think of the microphone that was previously in the voice memo app. The changes push things toward a fully digital feel.

I'm enjoying it quite a bit now but I'm not feeling iMessage at all. If I could change the look of it I would right away.

 

[wa-loaf]

daughter came home today from school with dead battery. went from 100% when she left in the AM to 0% before school ended. she wants to downgrade

I think it allows a lot more apps to run in the background now. If you double click the home button a scroll of all your recent apps pops up. Flick them up with your finger fully shut them down. Also turn off bluetooth and wifi if she's not using it at all, easy to do with the new control panel. Bluetooth does a number on my battery (even before iOS7). I'd say my battery life is about the same though.

 

[gmcunni]

we went thru a bunch of settings last night, she's smart enough to know to google "ios 7 battery" and she'd made changes before i even looked. hopefully it helps... besides listening to her complain she has a valid excuse about not being able to contact us late in the day for ride home from (whatever) cuz her phone died.

 

[o3jeff]

My battery is a little worse with the update, but make it thru the day with plenty left so I'm not too worried.

 

[drjeff]

All I know is that since the update went through last week, my 4 employees who have iPhone's, have been complaining a bunch about how the changes have made things "more difficult" for them to use their phones as they used to. My assistant even calls her post iOS7 7 updated iPhone4 her "iDroid" now :lol:

 

[MadMadWorld]

daughter came home today from school with dead battery. went from 100% when she left in the AM to 0% before school ended. she wants to downgrade

Try changing the location settings. I found that after the update a lot of applications turn location settings back on. If she is inside a large building and the phone keeps trying to find a satellite signal it will kill the battery in an hour or two. You also may want to check to see if the screen lock is set to something ridiculously high (it should be kept around a minute or less). Also, make sure auto-brightness is on.

 

[MadMadWorld]

All I know is that since the update went through last week, my 4 employees who have iPhone's, have been complaining a bunch about how the changes have made things "more difficult" for them to use their phones as they used to. My assistant even calls her post iOS7 7 updated iPhone4 her "iDroid" now :lol:

Employees will always complain about phones, computers, whatever they can blame on why they're not working!

 

[drjeff]

Employees will always complain about phones, computers, whatever they can blame on why they're not working!

Tell me about it! :lol:

The amount of complaining about difficulties posting to their Facebook page, or quickly finding one of the 50 pictures of their "weekend festivities" on the new picture gallery display set up, or even trying to stream so funky youtube video the last few days as been annoying! Then again it's not that much different than when say an update goes through on my patient scheduling and billing software where essentially the biggest change that they encounter is that the start screen went from green to say blue

 

[ScottySkis]

All I know is that since the update went through last week, my 4 employees who have iPhone's, have been complaining a bunch about how the changes have made things "more difficult" for them to use their phones as they used to. My assistant even calls her post iOS7 7 updated iPhone4 her "iDroid" now :lol:

I love my Droid.