IOS7 is a disaster

Since upgrading my iPad is completely unstable.  Can I revert to IOS6?

Gracenpeter wrote:
Can I revert to IOS6?
Downgrading is not supported by Apple.
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  • IOS7 Disaster for Music Collectors

    I just installed iOS 7 on my iPhone and began playing around. I’m sure most of the reaction to it in the coming days will focus on the look and feel. But the first thing I noticed is that the Music app is an absolute disaster for people who like music. If your music collection consists of a dozen Greatest Hits albums you bought in college, you’ll probably be fine. Anyone else should stay as far away as possible.
    Here’s the first problem: The “Artist” and “Album” views display large thumbnails of album art, which means only four entries are visible per screen. OK, there’s a hint of a fifth if you look closely
    Like I said: Fine if you have a dozen or so albums in your collection. I have about 1,500 artists and 7,200 albums and over 100,000 songs. Scrolling through them just got much, much more difficult. Thanks, Apple!
    The second problem is worse. When you tap on an artist, the app takes you to all that artist’s albums (good) … but each album is expanded to show the songs it contains:
    So in order to scroll through an artist’s albums, you have to scroll past every song in every album. Again, not a problem for tiny music collections. But if you have several albums by a given artist, it quickly becomes annoying. It took me seven thumb-swipes to scroll through the 21 albums by Radiohead in my collection. The 500+ Pearl Jam albums? COMPLETELY UN-browsable.
    Speaking of which: It took a whopping 22 seconds from tapping on “Pearl Jam” to getting a list of Pearl Jam albums. That’s 22 seconds of the iPhone just sitting there, seemingly unresponsive. And that’s on an iPhone 5. Now, I have more than 500 Pearl Jam albums; that’s obviously not typical. But there’s a noticeable, if slight, lag when tapping on an artist with 15 or 20 albums. And, of course, the artists whose work you have the most of are the very artists you’re going to select most frequently, so those lags aren’t going to be an occasional thing. Not to mention I spent the better part of a YEAR organizing my music for itunes, and with a click of a button you change it all up.
    All of this adds up to a Music app that is absolutely horrible for people who like music. Just a terrible user experience.
    What’s really stunning about this is that a lot of people came to the Apple world via the iPod and iTunes. I’m one of them. And over the last few years, Apple has steadily been making the user experience more and more miserable for people who like music. iTunes is a bloated, glitchy, terrible trainwreck of a program that -- when it works at all -- seems to make it harder to do what you want with your music with each new update. Mobile device hard drive space has stagnated at a level too small to house large collections. And the Music app in iOS 7 is the clearest indication yet that Apple just does not give a **** about people who have more than a couple hundred songs in their library. Which is bizarre, given that selling music is a pretty big part of Apple’s business.
    It seems increasingly obvious than what will end up driving me away is the escalating awfulness of Apple’s music apps on both OS X and iOS.
    UPDATE: I’ve tried several third-party music apps looking for a replacement for Apple’s built-in app. Thanks to everyone who suggested alternatives in the comments and on Twitter … none of which were quite right. But I may have finally found something that will work: Audyssey.
    Audyssey is marketed primarily as providing “professional audio technologies to optimize your music for your headphones” -- you can tell the app what headphones you’re using, and it will optimize audio playback to fit them. I haven’t spent any time playing around with that feature, so I can’t comment on its efficacy. But as a way of browsing and playing my iPhone’s music library, it’s far better than Apple’s app. Browsing by artist displays 10 artists per screen, more than twice as many as you see in the Apple app:
    Browsing by Album shows 8 albums per screen, again more than twice as many as you get in the Apple app. Selecting an Artist containing 20-25 albums results in no noticeable lag. (There is about a 2-3 second lag when I select Bruce Springsteen, which is mildly irritating, but far better than the 22 seconds Apple’s own app requires to bring up a list of albums.) Most importantly: Once you select an artist, you get a list of albums by that artist -- and only the albums, not every song each album contains. This allows you to easily browse through artists for whom you may have large collections. Want to see what songs are on an album? Just tap the album name, and you’ll go to a new screen. Perfect. Simple. Exactly the way things should work.
    Audyssey gives you immediate access to all of the songs on your iPhone (including iTunes Match files that are stored in the cloud but not locally), with all the basic controls -- play/pause/repeat/shuffle/forward/back/etc. Album art & basic controls appear on your phone’s lock screen when appropriate. You have full access to your iTunes playlists. If there’s a way to add songs to playlists or create playlists within the app, I haven’t found it. That doesn’t bother me at all -- I rarely if ever create playlists on my mobile devices.
    The one flaw that I’ve encountered is that if a song is in the cloud but not stored on the device itself, Audyssey can stream the song -- but can’t do so in the background, so if you close the app while such a song is playing, it will pause. That’s annoying, but won’t affect you at all unless you use iTunes Match. And if you’re planning on listening to several songs that are stored in the iTunes Match cloud (a whole album or playlist, for example) you can always use the built-in Apple Music app to download the songs first, then play them in Audyssey. Or, of course, you could just play them in the Apple app -- Audyssey is fine as a music player, but then so is the Apple app. Where Audyssey really shines is in browsing your library. I’ve only been playing with it for a few minutes, so it may turn out to be buggy (its responsiveness even when browsing a pretty large library is a good sign on that front) or to have some drawback I haven’t yet encountered, but for now it will be my default music player.
    Another problem in the new IOS 7 music app: Once you select an artist, that artist’s albums are not sorted alphabetically. They’re sorted, as best as I can tell, by release date. So if you have, say, 20 Rolling Stones albums and want to listen to Some Girls, not only do you have to scroll through every song contained on every album that is listed before Some Girls before you get to the album you want, but you also can’t speed the process along by swiping as quickly as you can until you get to albums beginning with “S.”
    Instead, you have to remember that Some Girls came out in 1978, so it’s between It’s Only Rock n Roll (1974) and Emotional Rescue (1980). Unless of course you have something from Black and Blue (1976), which you probably don’t -- but, really, who can remember? So, yeah, Some Girls will be listed after It’s Only Rock n Roll, and 3-4 albums after Sticky Fingers (1971). Right where you’d expect it -- assuming, of course, that you happen to remember the chronology of album releases by every artist in your entire music library.
    Unless, that is, you don’t have release date included for every song and every album in your library (and who does?) in which case the album you’re looking for is … who the **** knows, really?
    Oh, and the whole chronological order thing only works if all your albums have release-date metadata (unlikely) and if the release date metadata reflects the album’s original release date For example: Let It Bleed was originally released in 1969, but on my phone the Music app lists it after Flashpoint (originally released in 1991) because my copy of Let It Bleed is apparently a re-issue from 2005. And Flashpoint is listed after Stripped, originally released in 1995, for similar reasons. And so on. As a result, the albums are listed in no real order whatsoever. You’re just going to have to scroll through the whole mess song by song.
    Don’t get me started on the Live shows that I spent months and months and months arranging so the appear in chrononlogical order AFTER the studio albums… now they are just thrown in between studio albums, and most of them are 25+ songs, so you scroll for literally 10 minutes or more trying to find an album… oh well, im at my destination, and I did not listen to any songs, Thanks Apple
    In short: This is a terrible app. Just awful.

    After upgrading since around 2002, and becoming paranoid after losing 65 songs, I went to great lengths to make sure that I had back-ups of all music, sometimes in two or three places.
    After a harddrive crash (which is NEVER a matter of IF, but ALWAYS a matter of WHEN), I recovered all music and imported it into iTunes 10.X.X. Then I bought an iPhone 5 and needed to upgrade to iTunes 11.X.X.
    What a freaking disaster. Mos of my 1486 songs were duplicated from 4-8 times.
    The reason I write all this is to say that MediaMonkey took days of work deduplicating my songs, and made it about 2 days.
    If you did not check out MediaMonkey, it might be worth a look, because it seemed to provide a nice front-end for iTunes collections, especially those which contained 100,000s of tunes. ALSO supports DNLA in case you have upper end audio equipment, and 10 common codecs are included for an additional 10 bucks when you buy the 30 dollar program.
    Just my 2 cents.
    BTW - I agree, that ever since iTunes 4.X.X, it seems that Apple designers are driven by making it painful for serious users to easily and effectively use iTunes. I am ready to move completely away from Apple and utilize Amazon Cloud which my music-minded son-in-law has been using almost since its inception - and he is pretty much an Apple fanboy - but one with hundreds of thousands of songs...
    Apple get your **** together - or we will vote with our feet (and dollars).

  • Web based Google translate crashes iOS7

    Every time I attempt to open google translate via safari since upgrading to ios7,  safari crashes.
    Does this happen for others.
    This is a disaster ias it is one of my mist frequent Ly visited web pages.  (The ap is too inferior to the web based version for me to want to use it  instead of  the web page .   Safari should work with all web pages on the ipad.

    SarahWW wrote:
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  • HT5595 iPhone 4S + screen motion in iOS7 = migraines. Help!!!

    I upgraded my 4S to iOS7 and I can't get rid of the animation--there's no "reduce motion" option under "Accessibility" for 4S iPhones. People seem to be saying that there's no way to downgrade.
    I suffer from migraines & the animation on the upgraded phone is absolute catnip to the Migraine Monster. I can't use my phone at all now. Help me! Do I need to abandon iPhones altogether? Please advise!

    I thought I had a 4s, but I just looked up the model number--alas, it is a 4. You are correct. So apparently I don't have the parallax view. But it doesn't matter! The operating system is still a disaster for me--the zooming in and out of icons is giving me migraines. It's a nightmare to think that if I had a later phone, the parallax animation would make matters even worse.
    Thanks for the clarification.
    I rue the day I upgraded. There's no way to downgrade, right? Am I left with no alternative but to switch hardware?
    I did send a feedback form to Apple, by the way.

  • TS5180 No sound sound from speaker recently upgraded to iOS7.0.2

    No sound sound from speaker recently upgraded to iOS7.0.2

    I have this problem too, .
    I upgraded my iPhone4 today. Immediately my phone is defunct, and I cannot find any workaround listed anywhere online for the phone, only for the iPad2.
    Reset All Settings as per iPad2 advice had no effect except to make me have to re-enter all my settings again.
    The volume bar is greyed out in Music settings, and has no visible point on the bar where the volume is defaulted to.
    The greyed out bar doesn;t change when the volume buttons are pressed.
    However, sometimes the ringer volume logo pops up and changes when I do this, but not always.
    However when I call the phone, the ringer is always at full volume, as it was immeditely prior to upgrade.
    When I press either up or down volume button the ringer silences completely, immediately, and cannot be resurrected by any manouvers.
    Only another call will make the ringer sound.
    When I answer the call, the phone is mute though the mute button is not highlighted.
    Toggling the mute makes no difference.
    Selecting Speaker mode makes no difference - it is mute.
    Selecting either up or down volume buttons has no effect.
    Using the Jack output is silent.
    I cannot hear music, youtube videos, BBC news clips, or any alerts.
    Vibrate is still working.
    Trying not to get angry again with another Apple "UPGRADE" disaster - but frankly - I can't even make or receive a phone call - is this fixable???
    PLease does anyone know how to dothis?
    BTW, being iPhone 4, of course the Home button doesn;t work, so anything involving the Home button must be able to work with the Accessibility Home Button software.
    Desperately: How do I downgrade to previous iOS 6 last version?
    Grim.
    Akilia.

  • HT4972 update iphone4 to ios7.1 problem

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    Hello StanislawaE,
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  • HT1414 anyone noticing a decline in battery life after downloading ios7????

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