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.