Yesterday Apple updated it’s IOS to 7. I didn’t download it on the first day because I was simply too busy. I installed IOS7 earlier this evening on both my iPad and my iPhone 5. It looks beautiful and apps load and work smoothly. The color scheme is cool. I love the new icons, especially the ones with lots of new colors on them. Those apps that have updated their look, look great on the new OS. It’s a really nice update to the OS. However, I have already discovered a few things that I do not like. Maybe they will be fixed in future updates.
Podcasts-In this update you can no longer listen to your podcasts through the music app. You must download the Podcast app to hear your podcasts. I really hate this because the Podcast app sucks big time. You have to jump through so many hoops to get your podcasts, listen to them, and then delete them. I really don’t like the Podcast app.
Email-There seems to be a glitch which I’m sure others are finding. When I started up the email app it brought down every single email that is still on all the email servers out there. I have 1176 messages. However, once I go in and read some and delete some, each mailbox individually says there are no new emails but the main mailbox still shows I have 1176 unread messages. That will need to be fixed because as obsessive as I am, I can not stand to see those little red circles telling me there are email messages to read. Ugh!
Security-I don’t have the new iPhone 5s with the new fingerprint recognition thing. I have the iPhone 5 with the basic security features. Maybe I’ve selected something wrong but on IOS7, I have to have a passcode now. I never had one before and I really don’t like swiping my phone and then having to put in a passcode. Maybe there’s somewhere to change that in settings but I haven’t found it.
Update: I found the setting in Settings where I can turn off passcode. Problem solved.
The new version of the Podcast app isn’t quite as bad as before. The trick is to set up “stations” (what a stupid name) so you can regulate what’s synced between your Apple devices. The idea, basically, is that Apple is moving away from having people sync through iTunes, as I’m used to (and probably lots of others are, too), to syncing through iCloud. Still, I think it’ll take a couple more versions before they START to get it right.
Wow! That is a lot of unread e-mails. Do they not exist or they are old e-mails you never opened? That would drive me crazy too. I updated to 7 and did not have that problem luckily. Hope all is going well otherwise.
The emails do not exist. It says there is email but when you go into the mailboxes there is no email there to read. It’s only showing up on that red dot on the main screen. It drives me crazy!