How Apple’s servers are coping with the traffic they must be dealing with right now is anyones guess but that’s not stopped them releasing iOS 7.03 which deals with that iMessage bug and some new features.
Having problems with iMessage being stuck sending a message and not reverting to text messages, fed up of having to reboot your phone to that messages will arrive at their destination? There’s good news this morning as Apple have promised to fix the bug in iOS 7.0.3
For most Apple’s Touch ID is more a convenient way of accessing your iPhone without the need for entering a password, a password system that had issues at times. now Chaos Computer Club – a Germany-based group of computer hackers – claims to have fooled Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint technology
Adding a new level of “feeling” to iOS 7 is the parallax effect. In a nutshell, parallax gives the appearance that your home screen icons are floating above your wallpaper. If you fancy some “parallax ready” wall papers or fancy creating your own, read on.
After a week of running the iOS 7 Gm you soon forget about iOS 6 that until you look for spot light. Remember how you swiped to the left past the home screen to get to spot light? iOS 7 has changed the spotlight location.
Spotlight is a handy way to search for anything on your iOS device. To get access to it simple swipe down on any home screen page in the middle of the screen to bring up iOS 7’s spotlight
iPad’s never had a system integrated Alarm clock since the iPad 1. The iPhone and iPod has an alarm clock but why not the iPad a question that’s left mystified many people including myself why Apple never included an alarm clock on the iPad.
Daft as it might seem but the inclusion of an Alarm Clock for iPads is quite a big thing. Most might see the iPad as a 3rd screen, a device for taking to bed or leaving on the side table so it would make sense it would have an alarm feature before now right?
Sure there are plenty of Alarm apps out there on the app store but where the iOS 7 kills them stone dead is that it’s system integrated meaning you don’t have to leave your iPad unlocked or, even worse, have the app running in the foreground and let it dim the screen.
iOS 7 Alarms
Quite simply the view is gorgeous taking a timelines and calendar approach to the whole time and alarm process.
Snoozing with iOS seven alarms
The ultimate dilemma approaches.
Here’s where I’m most torn about this News feature. On the iPhone you have to hit an exact area to silence the alarm when it goes off. On the iPad you simply have to touch anywhere on the screen Making it less of a mental challenge in the mornings so that’s probably going to lead to me laying in just a little bit to longer than I should should do.
My only concern overall is how is it going to look one or two years down the line? Sure it looks like a big brother called departure know that how long till the design style becomes old and stood ?
The iOS 7 GM is compatible with the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPad (third and fourth generations), iPad mini and iPod touch (fourth and fifth generations) models, and the OS download files are now available on Apple’s developer portal.
It’s been about 2 weeks since the release of beta 5, so Apple seems to be pushing things out early. Maybe to coincide with the rumours of this being the last release before GM release on September 10.
Apple today released the fifth beta of iOS 7, which brings a number of improvements, changes, and bug fixes to the operating system, including newly redesigned Settings icons and a Control Center option that allows the feature to be disabled within apps.
iOS 7 beta 5 also offers a slew of minor interface tweaks and improvements that continue to make iOS 7 feel both faster and more polished. Our forum members have noted multiple enhancements that have been bundled into the release:
Settings – The icons in the Settings menu have seen a complete design, going from standard blue icons to a variety of square icons in various colors.
Control Center – Control Center’s settings now allow the function to be turned off while in apps, preventing Control Center from being accessed from the bottom of the screen while playing games or otherwise using apps.
Power Off – The slider bar that displays when the iPhone is being powered off has been slightly altered.
Twitter – The Twitter icon has been redesigned. Rather than a white bird on a blue background, it now depicts a blue bird on a white background.
Notifications – Banner notifications can now be pulled down to access additional information.
Phone – The icons that are displayed while a user is in a call have been slightly altered with the addition of circles around the icons. They also appear to be larger.
Accessibility Options – There are now On/Off toggle options under the Accessibility menu.
Boot Screen – When installing iOS 7 beta 5, many iPhone 5 users noted that the color of the boot screen matched their devices, with a white screen used for white phones and a black screen used for black phones. This differentiation appears to be limited to the iPhone 5 at this point in time as iPad owners and older iPhone users have not noticed the change.
Messages – In iOS 7 beta 4, Apple changed Messages to default to displaying the first name and last initial of a contact in a conversation. With beta 5, only the first name is displayed by default, though other options can be selected in the Mail settings menu (which is linked to Messages). To access the feature, go to Settings / Mail Contacts and Calendars / Short Name (under Contacts).
Additional features in iOS 7 beta 5 will be added here as they are discovered. Apple is likely to continue pushing regular updates for iOS 7, bringing minor performance boosts and changes ahead of the operating system’s public release, which is expected to come in the fall.
iOS 7 has reaches fever pitch levels and apps themselves stating more people have signed up for a developer account just to get a hold of BETA software. The change log of what’s fixed and iOS 7 outstanding issues has just come to light.
As is always the case with a new iOS release from apple, some devices get left behind in terms of features. Here’s out list of devices that support iOS 7 and what features you’ll have access to.
Compatible iOS 7 Devices.
From the keynote and now Apple’s own website we know the following devices are compatible.
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
iPhone 5
iPad 2
3rd generation iPad with Retina
4th generation iPad with Retina
iPad Mini
5th generation iPod touch
And, of course, any new devices announced at the next press event. Alas if your device isn’t listed above then you’re out of luck (legitimately anyways)
Just because your device is compatible that doesn’t mean you can get access to all the new iOS 7 features.
Here’s the full rundown on those new iOS 7 features we know about (so far) and what devices are supported.
AirDrop
iPhone 5
4th generation iPad with Retina
iPad mini
5th generation iPod touch
Swipe and panoramic photo
iPhone 4S
iPhone 5
5th generation iPod touch
Square photos and video formats
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
iPhone 5
3rd generation iPad with Retina
4th generation iPad with Retina
iPad mini
5th generation iPod touch
Live Camera filters
iPhone 5
5th generation iPod touch
Filters in Photos app
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
iPhone 5
3rd generation iPad with Retina
4th generation iPad with Retina
iPad mini
5th generation iPod touch
Keep in mind that Apple can choose compatibility in the future and whilst iOS 7 is in beta mode these things may change