iOS 7 – Preview on iPhone 4

The preview of iOS 7 on my iPhone 4

First thing first. Once I powered up my iPhone 4 the first thing I saw was the complete re-designed home screen. It had gone a considerable change. Especially the button which said slide to unlock comes with a layer to slide. The notification center sees a major re-haul. The control centre gives some quick option to switch on or off the airplane, wifi, sleep; the torch light comes to a rescue in control centre

           

 

The home screen has major icons re designed. With a variant shade of color and luminosity the icons looks more rich and more sharp. The major change brought by iOS7 is the way it has provided the option to group the apps. The group now opens as a window in the same frame and the visibility and accessibility is much better. Also the size limit of 12 is no longer valid.

                    

 

The additional screen which was the leftmost screen to search has now been removed and you can search on any of the home screen by just sliding it down. This is one of the most intuitive feature of iOS7. 

 

 

The calendar apps get a major re design considerations and is now more engaging and helpful. Sliding down a date on a month view opens the day view.

                                      

 

Some of the native apps gets a major design changes. The collections in photos is an interesting ways to group. Notes App looks much cleaner and actually excites me to use it again and again. The clock app is more crisp and useful. The weather app now actually looks like a more professional and neater.

   

 

The Phone app has also undergone a major aesthetic changes. The looks and feel is layered. The ‘Recent’, ‘Contact’, ‘Keypad’ and ‘Contact Details’ has a lighter theme now.

 

 

Finally, the widely spoke multi tasking feature helps us to switch between applications with more ease and also helps to get rid of applications which are not being used. This is a real icing on the cake. Multitasking first appeared in iOS 4, but at the time it was limited: Only certain types of apps could run in the background, using Apple-approved frameworks for tasks such as audio, location, and uploading. In iOS 7, Apple has loosened the restrictions for multitasking and added a whole new user interface for switching between apps.That new interface is the most visible indication of the new multitasking system’s presence. Instead of relying on a bar of app icons, you double-click your device’s Home button to zoom out into a card-based interface, which shows you the app screens themselves (as they were when you last viewed them); tap any screen or the app icon below it to go to that app. You can quickly scroll over either the icons or the app screens to view your recent apps.

Not only does this make it easy to pick out which app you’re looking for, but it means you can quickly refer to a piece of information in one app without actually bringing that app to the foreground. You can also now force-quit an app by just flicking the card up and off the screen. And the multitasking interface works in both portrait and landscape orientations on all iOS devices.

All apps can also now take advantage of multitasking to keep updated in the background. Apple has worked to optimize the practice so it won’t deplete your device’s battery life—the system will look for factors like network connection strength, time of day, and push notifications to figure out when it should update apps. And it may refresh your frequently accessed apps—social networking programs, for example—more often.

Well,after the iOS 7 update my old iPhone 4 looks like a new device. Well I also got a new casemate matt screen guard just to make it look ‘physically’ new too. :)