iOS 7 GM/Public Release

miralize

Piliger wrote: »

No. Hold both buttons until the screen goes black and keep holding until the Apple logo appears again !

Well technically the display turns off before that, and then it goes black with the Apple logo..

Earthhorse

Herrick wrote: »

Anyone notice any app that has been updated has a little blue circle beside it's icon on the screen? The only way I have found to get rid of it is to go into the app and go out of it again.

A little annoying I must say.

Yeah, it's annoying alright. I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll just have to open and close them to get rid of it.

Creamy Goodness

Earthhorse wrote: »

Yeah, it's annoying alright. I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll just have to open and close them to get rid of it.

I use it as an indicator to delete apps I never use, it's a great new feature.

PGL

DubDJ wrote: »

Yeah, you remove the whole account by deleting it and then re-add it to the device and that has stopped the huge amount of unread emails showing.

I haven't tried this myself as I didn't have the problem, but I've seen people online saying this fixed it.

I deleted one of the accounts (I have 3 different email accounts on my iPhone, 2 of the 3 accounts are indicating unread emails) that was giving me bother. However when I re-added it I had the same problem. Do I need to delete all 3 accounts and start again?

Many thanks

PGL

patmac wrote: »

You probably have your mail inbox settings set to all just reselect it to whatever account you are using for mail.

I have 3 email accounts, so need to see all 3 in one combined inbox.....

DubDJ

PGL wrote: »

I deleted one of the accounts (I have 3 different email accounts on my iPhone, 2 of the 3 accounts are indicating unread emails) that was giving me bother. However when I re-added it I had the same problem. Do I need to delete all 3 accounts and start again?

Many thanks

Is the account you removed a Hotmail/Outlook account? If so another poster said he deleted it and re-added it as an Outlook account instead of 'Other' and that fixed the problem.

mad muffin

I'm noticing on my 5s that parallax can be a bit laggy. wallpaper will jerk sometimes when I wake the phone or exit an app.

Didn't think the 5s would be exhibiting such behaviour.

Wolverine359

DubDJ wrote: »

Is the account you removed a Hotmail/Outlook account? If so another poster said he deleted it and re-added it as an Outlook account instead of 'Other' and that fixed the problem.

Yep that was me , I had the same problem but once I set up the email (hotmail and live.com) in the Outlook option, the problem went away.

DubDJ

Update available. Bringing all devices to 7.0.2. Mainly fixes lock screen bug. Quick fix is good to see.

Muahahaha

Piliger wrote: »

Was playing it for an hour early this morning - perfect from both the lock screen volume and the control panel volume. Have you done a hard reset ?

Updating Spotify seems to have works for me, thank god as I'd be lost without it !

I have noticed about 10-15% less battery power which is slightly annoying. I have an app called Battery Doctor which is excellent at telling you what applications are using the most power and allows you to turn on/off power saving tricks, I might try getting into it a bit more.

Sad Professor

Is notification sync working for anyone?

smileyj1987

DubDJ wrote: »

Update available. Bringing all devices to 7.0.2. Mainly fixes lock screen bug. Quick fix is good to see.

It put my iphone into recovery mode it's no biggie though fixing it now . I will never use the inbuilt up date tool for my phone ever again .

Piliger

smileyj1987 wrote: »

It put my iphone into recovery mode it's no biggie though fixing it now . I will never use the inbuilt up date tool for my phone ever again .

Worked well for me in a couple of minutes and an about 5 minutes restart.

space2ground1

My iPhone started buzzing like mad a few mins ago and it seems to be stuck in a boot loop..

Its iOS7.. has this ever happened to anyone else? I need it for the morning so this is freaking me out a bit!

The Black Oil

Safari tends to quit when I open a boards thread containing Youtube clips. A few other hiccups. Have just installed the updated (iPad 2), so we'll see how things go.

Piliger

space2ground1 wrote: »

My iPhone started buzzing like mad a few mins ago and it seems to be stuck in a boot loop..

Its iOS7.. has this ever happened to anyone else? I need it for the morning so this is freaking me out a bit!

Did you do something that triggered this ? an app ?an update ? a restart ? what ?

space2ground1

Piliger wrote: »

Did you do something that triggered this ? an app ?an update ? a restart ? what ?

It was sitting on the arm of the couch charging for an hour when it started to buzz and restart. I have the apps set to auto update. I wonder if that was the problem.
I ended up having to do the forced firmware upgrade and eventually got back to where I could restore a week old backup. Frustrating.

Piliger

space2ground1 wrote: »

It was sitting on the arm of the couch charging for an hour when it started to buzz and restart. I have the apps set to auto update. I wonder if that was the problem.
I ended up having to do the forced firmware upgrade and eventually got back to where I could restore a week old backup. Frustrating.

Very strange. I agree that my first step would be to turn off auto update. Make sure you do daily or two day backups for the next few weeks just in case it happens again.

btw what do you actually mean by a boot loop ? When my iPhone updated to 7.0.2 it went dead for almost 5 minutes before it started up again.

space2ground1

By boot loop I mean I saw the apple logo, a flash of the lock screen and then the black screen with the tiny spiral, switched off for a split second, then back to the apple logo.

Rinse and repeat!

Frank Lee Midere

Bet it tried to update to 7.0.2

As for the blue dot turn off auto update if this annoys you. It's a pretty neat feature. My feeling is if you are not going to launch the app very much so that that symbol annoys you you might as well not have the app

Earthhorse

I don't think the blue dot is related to auto update. I have auto update off and instead visit the AppStore to download updates. The blue dot still appears afterwards. You always have to open the app to make it go away. I want it to go away because it draws the eye as I'm browsing my apps. So I still have to open and close apps to make it disappear.

As for using it as a guide to delete apps I wouldn't find this useful. I have plenty of apps such as Weather, Calculator, The Times and Sunday Times, Shazam, GarageBand etc. which I would not use every day, week or even month. Frequency of use doesn't indicate a need to delete these for me.

Ironically, using it in this manner is encouraging users to delete apps that are being updated and maintained (and so which they may now find more useful) whilst keeping apps they haven't used in the same amount of time but which haven't been improved.

Frank Lee Midere

Earthhorse wrote: »

I don't think the blue dot is related to auto update. I have auto update off and instead visit the AppStore to download updates. The blue dot still appears afterwards. You always have to open the app to make it go away. I want it to go away because it draws the eye as I'm browsing my apps. So I still have to open and close apps to make it disappear.

As for using it as a guide to delete apps I wouldn't find this useful. I have plenty of apps such as Weather, Calculator, The Times and Sunday Times, Shazam, GarageBand etc. which I would not use every day, week or even month. Frequency of use doesn't indicate a need to delete these for me.

Ironically, using it in this manner is encouraging users to delete apps that are being updated and maintained (and so which they may now find more useful) whilst keeping apps they haven't used in the same amount of time but which haven't been improved.

Well only if you don't like the dot.

Earthhorse

I don't.

DubDJ

The blue dot beside app names shows which apps have been updated. So if you download a new update the blue dot will appear to indicate it has been updated. Or if auto-update is on you might miss out on such updates and not realise it's been updated. That's the reason it's there, mainly so you can still know which apps have changed.

I update all my apps though iTunes and sync them to my iPhone and iPad. Saves me downloading the same app twice and it doesn't mark apps with a dot when you do it that way.

murpho999

Regarding apps updating.

I'm finding that sometimes they update automatically and other times they don't, and just sit in App store waiting on me to hit update.
Any idea on this?

Also, notifications.

In the beta , I used to get traffic news (just under the weather). Mornings it would indicate traffic to my work and evenings it would tell me how long it would take to get home, very clever.

Since updating to full iOS7 it doesn't do it anymore, despite having work and home addresses set and everything enabled in location services. Any ideas?

Cee-Jay-Cee

murpho999 wrote: »

You don't have to go on Apple.com to see the latest upgrade.

My post is not as personal as yours so I don't see your point.

Don't really care if they like the upgrade or not but a lot of times people just don't like change and complain anyway. To say that iOS 7 as he or she said is simply not true in my opinion.

If I didn't like change I wouldn't have upgraded.

No I didn't know the graphics were going to be similar to those on Nokias 10 years ago, if I had known that I wouldn't have upgraded (actually upgraded is completely the wrong word, downgrade is more apt)

Another problem I have now is the phone loses 3G signal regularly. I've had the phone 28 months and it never happened before or would pick it up automatically if it was lost now I have to toggle airplane mode to get it to search fir a 3G signal.

Apple should have warned 4 owners that it's not advisable to change to ios7 as it's crap.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Anyone haven trouble re activating iMessage and face time after switching too ios7?

Frank Lee Midere

CJC999 wrote: »

If I didn't like change I wouldn't have upgraded.

No I didn't know the graphics were going to be similar to those on Nokias 10 years ago, if I had known that I wouldn't have upgraded (actually upgraded is completely the wrong word, downgrade is more apt)

Another problem I have now is the phone loses 3G signal regularly. I've had the phone 28 months and it never happened before or would pick it up automatically if it was lost now I have to toggle airplane mode to get it to search fir a 3G signal.

Apple should have warned 4 owners that it's not advisable to change to ios7 as it's crap.

You updated about a week after the release though? Surely worth a google.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

You updated about a week after the release though? Surely worth a google.

No I updated on the day of the release. It wasn't until a few days after that that I read tech threads (that were not available previously) on how rubbish it was and recommending 4 users NOT to upgrade something apple SHOULD have done themselves. I'm entitled to an upgrade so will be changing to android I think.

miralize

CJC999 wrote: »

No I updated on the day of the release. It wasn't until a few days after that that I read tech threads (that were not available previously) on how rubbish it was and recommending 4 users NOT to upgrade something apple SHOULD have done themselves. I'm entitled to an upgrade so will be changing to android I think.

iOS7 has been in the public sphere since June.

Herrick

MrMac84 wrote: »

Anyone haven trouble re activating iMessage and face time after switching too ios7?

Your not on 48 are you? Or on prepay and have no credit?

To activate it sends a text costing 25c, so if you don't have any credit it won't work. Had that problem myself.

Herrick

CJC999 wrote: »

If I didn't like change I wouldn't have upgraded.

No I didn't know the graphics were going to be similar to those on Nokias 10 years ago, if I had known that I wouldn't have upgraded (actually upgraded is completely the wrong word, downgrade is more apt)

Another problem I have now is the phone loses 3G signal regularly. I've had the phone 28 months and it never happened before or would pick it up automatically if it was lost now I have to toggle airplane mode to get it to search fir a 3G signal.

Apple should have warned 4 owners that it's not advisable to change to ios7 as it's crap.

Sorry to hear your 4 isn't working.

Out of interest, have you tried wiping the phone and setting it up as a new one? No backups or anything completely fresh?

My 4s was useless in iOS 7 and it corrected after I did so, I've also heard of people with a 4 that worked properly after doing it.

dinjo99

Apologies if already answered.
Updated my iPad mini with ios7 today.
Tried to update my apps but can't because it tells me I am in the us store and that I must go to the Irish store

Tried restarting but same issue.
Any advice please.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Herrick wrote: »

Your not on 48 are you? Or on prepay and have no credit?

To activate it sends a text costing 25c, so if you don't have any credit it won't work. Had that problem myself.

How do I get them too send the text I've topped up by 2 euro now about 15 mins ago

Zapp Brannigan

dinjo99 wrote: »

Apologies if already answered.
Updated my iPad mini with ios7 today.
Tried to update my apps but can't because it tells me I am in the us store and that I must go to the Irish store

Tried restarting but same issue.
Any advice please.

Try going to the bottom of the featured tab in the app store. Tap on where it says your Apple ID and that should force it to reconnect to the Irish store.

dinjo99

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

Try going to the bottom of the featured tab in the app store. Tap on where it says your Apple ID and that should force it to reconnect to the Irish store.

Perfect, thanks

Herrick

MrMac84 wrote: »

How do I get them too send the text I've topped up by 2 euro now about 15 mins ago

Turn off both iMessage and FaceTime and then turn them on again and see if it works now.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Herrick wrote: »

Turn off both iMessage and FaceTime and then turn them on again and see if it works now.

Nope just says waiting for activation

Ninap

Just watched my first ad on itunes radio (on tv, with audio through my stereo) via apple tv (US itunes account)... can see myself listening to a lot of music via this

Herrick

Quick question about Safari. If you tap on the address bar and want to scroll back along to the start of the address how do you do it? All I can seem to do is press the back button but it deletes everything as I go back along. Is there a way cause I've never managed to find it.

PADRAIC.M

Press and hold on address bar and drag to start?!

DubDJ

Herrick wrote: »

Quick question about Safari. If you tap on the address bar and want to scroll back along to the start of the address how do you do it? All I can seem to do is press the back button but it deletes everything as I go back along. Is there a way cause I've never managed to find it.

Just tap anywhere in the middle of the text. That should let you just scrub through the words and pick what you want to delete.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Now seems it can take 24 hours for iMessage too activate

Herrick

DubDJ wrote: »

Just tap anywhere in the middle of the text. That should let you just scrub through the words and pick what you want to delete.

I never realised that if you press and hold and move your finger it actually scrolls with it, you learn something every day.

DubDJ

MrMac84 wrote: »

Now seems it can take 24 hours for iMessage too activate

Have you tried a hard rest (Holding the power and home buttons until the devices powers off and releasing it when the Apple logo appears)?

This has fixed iMessage and Facetime activation problems for me in the past.

hufpc8w3adnk65

DubDJ wrote: »

Have you tried a hard rest (Holding the power and home buttons until the devices powers off and releasing it when the Apple logo appears)?

This has fixed iMessage and Facetime activation problems for me in the past.

I have but it still says waiting for activation.. I think a hard reset is the answer too everything wrong with an iPhone ha ha

DubDJ

MrMac84 wrote: »

I have but it still says waiting for activation.. I think a hard reset is the answer too everything wrong with an iPhone ha ha

Usually is alright, same with a computer too.

Herrick

Has anyone noticed that when using Safari you can no longer scroll through the images in Google like before?

If I click on an image it opens only that picture and you get a view full size or go to website option. To view another image you have to go back to the image search.

kaerobe

Ninap wrote: »

Just watched my first ad on itunes radio (on tv, with audio through my stereo) via apple tv (US itunes account)... can see myself listening to a lot of music via this

Me too. Very fluid and great mix of music on the apple tv. I am considering getting a us itunes match account and reuploading all my music again (painfully). My apple tv is set to US account anyway for hulu and netflix. would be nice to have adless itunes radio and all my music in the cloud.

culabula

Captain Morgan wrote: »

This post has been deleted.

Bet it isn't. I too bought 5 Lightning cables as recommended on this very forum. While in Italy recently and in my absence from the room, the cable overheated at both ends causing overheating and thus melting. The hard plastic detached itself from the charger end, slid back down the cable and melted itself into it. When I came back to find this dangerous state of affairs, I'd say we were just 30 mins away from a fire.

Chucked all the rest of them in the bin.