<p>Am really confused about all the replies here. Just got my notification that iOS7.0 is now available for my iPhone 4S, but not sure I want to make the switch. Hopefully people will keep sharing their opinions here so I can decide if I want to do it now or wait.</p>
<p>I like it on my phone, but my ipad3 is just a tiny bit draggy, so you are smart to wait.
However, doing away with the top & bottom bars, opens up the screen on the iphone & makes it feel bigger.
Its doable to reverse it, but it sounds a pain, plus I am really liking some of the app upgrades.
[How</a> to downgrade from iOS 7 to iOS 6 - iPad/iPhone - Macworld UK](<a href=“http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3469837&pagtype=allchandate]How”>http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3469837&pagtype=allchandate)</p>
<p>Patsmom. I downloaded an app called lockscreen. Logo is an angled smartphone with an orange message bubble. It allowed me to use any of my photos and insert a small font banner across the top with my “if found or ICE message” I’m happy. </p>
<p>I will chime in on not liking the new color scheme for the apps.</p>
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<p>if it were Jeopardy, the question might have been … What did Siri say to MS Surface in 2013.</p>
<p>Surface? The OS no one bought?</p>
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<p>Kajon, thanks for the tip. I’ll check out Lockscreen.</p>
<p>You can easily insert words on any picture you want to use as a lock screen background. A few apps that do this are “Photolettering” - which comes free with 6 free fonts and is from a type house - and “Over” and “Phonto”. All are free. </p>
<p>If you want more, like if you have a specific condition or need to convey, try something like the “Emergency Info Screen” app - $.99 - which creates a wallpaper “card” on which you can enter a bunch of detail about your condition issues.</p>
<p>Iron, it is a reference to the clever commercials pushing that failed MS Surface, which indeed features a horrendous OS. The Surface we bought for testing purposes has been gathering dust since February. Nobody cares to use it.</p>
<p>^^you turn off the iCloud photo sharing. It does get complicated to share phones and an iTunes ID on a family plan. When my daughter upgraded her iPhone, I started seeing her texts to her friends, who called the new look “sick” before I turned off her phone number on my phone and respected her privacy. </p>
<p>Let’s meet back in about a week, which is the amount of time neuroscientists say it takes to get used to a new look and feel. Meanwhile, the upgrades are setting records, and there is nowhere near the amount of complaining that came with ios6, and that wonderful map app. Interesting that now people are saying keep your hands off my ios6.</p>
<p>I love it! It’ll take some getting used to and I’m meager for that moment when using iOS7 is second nature.</p>
<p>“Wonderful maps” was pretty much the main issue with iOS6. It was easily fixed by installing Google maps app, which did it for me. I have not touched the “wonderful maps”'at all. The main look and the other functions of the operating system did not change that much. This upgrade is more like going from Win7 to Win8.</p>
<p>xiggi - I agree about Surface. IMO, Surface has great hardware, but the version of Windows makes it as useless as the iPad as a content-generating device.</p>
<p>Downloaded it today onto my iphone 5. I’m a creature if habit and can easily eat the same foods every day. It’s going to take me time to get used to all the “new stuff”. After I downloaded my first reaction was–I hate this!! What’s going on–didn’t lose anything–just an issue of getting comfortable with sething new.</p>
<p>Anyone know how to stop automatic update for I07? Until I have everything backed up and bugs are fixed, I am not interested in changing to new system.</p>
<p>You just turn automatic updates off. Nothing to fret over. I manually update my phone to iOS7.</p>
<p>Yet, it is currently downloading, although my automatic updates appear to be turned off. No pop up screen that asked if I wanted to download, either.</p>
<p>Weird, I’ve never had any software load without my selecting it.
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<p>I hadn’t, either. I have no idea why it started the process. </p>
<p>So it downloaded…but now a button appears to install it. I have no idea why it did this. I never even installed last update. My automatic download button was not set - I always do everything manually. </p>
<p>I now have time to get everything backed up and will hold off in installing.</p>
<p>My daughter just upgraded to ios 7 last night. She has an iPhone 5 that she purchased two months ago. She hates it! Her main complaint is that she can’t see all of her events for the day on the notification center. It only shows the calendar for a few hours. I hate that also, but being retired, it’s not as critical. Does anyone have a work around for this?</p>
<p>I assume you’re talking about the Calendar. That’s not a workaround but a feature: click the magnifying glass on top and that shows all the events entered, organized by day with the start and end times listed. Click “Done” and it takes you back to where you were, either in day, month or year view. </p>
<p>If you tilt the phone to landscape, it always shows you the week week (5 days) so you can use more than one view at a time by tilting the phone.</p>
<p>I downloaded iOS7 to my iphone 5 and I wish I didn’t. Didn’t lose anything, but it’s clear this isn’t going to be something I’ll figure out immediately. Maybe it’s just because I’m a creature of habit (I’d eat the same food everyday and it wouldn’t bother me), but this system is has been annoying from the first time I looked at it. Biggest annoyance so far–the system eats up your battery very quickly–does anyone know a fix for that?</p>