Friday, July 26, 2013

iOS 7 Bugs / Missing Features / Issues / UX - Part 2

Beta 3 has been out for nearly 3 weeks now. I didn't write about beta 2, not that anyone is actually reading this, but even for my own sanity, I never got around to it. There are still quite a few bugs (as is expected with betas), so here is a small list of the ones that are still bugging me.


  • Camera Focus - The camera still won't focus up close. This one is a real pain for me, as it affects every day use. Even simple shots 2-3 feet away sometimes won't focus.
  • Some apps become unusable - This may be an app issue, and maybe not an iOS issue, but some apps' buttons eventually stop working, and I have to restart the app in order to make it work properly.
  • Apps with custom dialog boxes may not work properly - I've had apps lock up on me once their custom dialog boxes appear, as there's no way to close the popup and it renders the app useless. I know this because our app is one of them. Doh!
  • Notification banner gets in the way! - This was an issue with iOS 6 as well, but there really needs to be a close X button on the notification banners. If I'm getting navigation, if I'm on the phone, or if I simply need to access to the top level navigation in an app, my new message banners get in the way with no way to close them.
  • Parallax really isn't that cool. I don't even notice it anymore. Not a game changer as some fanbois are claiming.
  • When you close an app that was opened from within a folder, you're still in that folder. I really don't like this. There are times I want to quickly get somewhere else, and this feels like an extra step.lo

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