It's Official: My Phone Is Making Me Mad ... And Sick

[ness]

Recently upgraded to iOS7 on my iPhone, and was really disappointed at all the changes. First thing I noticed was the low contrast and very thin fonts on everything. I went to settings and turned on a setting for larger fonts, but it only affected a few apps -- and the Apple ones (mail, calendar, etc.) all retained the little, skinny font. iTunes was changed and I had to fumble around to figure out how to get a song to play, then it kept repeating. Calendar doesn't have my preferred "list" view -- it now has a horrible white background with tiny, skinny red fonts. But the weird thing was I kept feeling kinda 'car sick' after using it. I searched around the web for ideas on what to do and I guess this is a very common set of complaints. Especially the sickness part.

I've always felt the thing was a little less intuitive than most Apple products, but I accepted that because it's also doing so much more. But, dang. It's really not usable for me like this.

Anybody else getting this?

[Jack Jones]

Ness....I just upgraded last night. There is a learning curve. Look up online on how to turn off the most annoying features. You can kill the parallax view. Also, on the calender, if you hold the search function you will find the list view there. It's still there. On messaging, to delete conversations, just hold on of the messages and then you can choose to delete some or all.

I spent some time looking up how to tweak to turn off battery draining issues and how to tweak annoying functions. Honestly, I like the design. It just took some time to learn.

[ness]

Yeah, I've got the parallax thing turned off. I think it's the zooming stuff that bothers most folks, me included. I did find a place to bold fonts and increase contrast and that helps in some places. The enlarge text thing was a joke -- in the apps where it worked the text would spill over the edges. Yeah -- forgot about the battery drain. I've got the automatic updates turned off now too.

I can accept a learning curve, but reserve the right to grumble if it's not as good as before. Can't do car sick though.

[Greasy B]

I got an upgrade yesterday and it's driving me crazy too. I guess younger folks are generally excited about new technology but to me it's just a pain.

[Gavin]

Ditto...what was broken with the old interface? Hopefully they come up with a way to select the old display in future updates..No wonder their stock is going nowhere. Arrogant Technologists...

[Flysmallie]

I switched the day that it was available. It's different but it will do. It's a cell phone which I totally despise anyway. This upgrade didn't change that at all.

[ColdWaterFshr]

I don't understand the need for the constant upgrades. I think I'll pass on this one.

[Flysmallie]

I don't understand the need for the constant upgrades.

$$$$$$$$

[ness]

Nobody else getting the vertigo from it? That's the real crappy part for me. Weird.

CWF -- don't do it! I wish I hadn't. I can't think of a single thing that's better for me, the way I use it.

I've been thinking about an iPad -- I sure won't do it until this stuff gets resolved now. I saw one article where the person said the iPad vertigo thing was even worse.

[fishinwrench]

WTH does it do that makes you lightheaded? Make sure it's the phone doing it and it's not just a coincidence. KnowhatImean?

How else can I put this?.....Ummm....Oh to hell with it, just say it Wrench !

Ness, Don't stroke out on us, Bro !!!