Hi Louise,
You might have seen Alan's suggestion to do a hard reset by holding power and home buttons for 10 seconds before doing an upgrade. This I guess will do it, but there is in my opinion no reason for this if a normal reboot by turning the phone on and off will typically be quite sufficient. Rob from the Today in iOS Podcast recommends to go into Settings, General, Reset and tap Reset Network Settings. This will also reboot the phone, but I usually don't like to use this method since it normally means you have to re-enter your Wi-Fi passwords and while that is not a big deal for my home network, I have Wi-Fi passwords in there from when I am travelling and I prefer not to loose all of these. Rob furthermore suggests to also clear your app switcher completely, I generally also turn Bluetooth off before an upgrade, then I clear my app switcher, do a backup to iCloud and/or iTunes. Once all that is done I turn my phone off for about 30 seconds or a minute, then turn it back on and proceed with the update. I never had an update go wrong since I bought my first iDevice 4 years ago and it's something to remember for when the first iOS 7 update comes out and any future updates. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Louise Redsull Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 4:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: First impressions of IOS 7 Hi List, So after reading lots of posts on here I finally took the plunge and updated. Unfortunately the update did not go very smoothly over the air resulting in a bricked IPhone. Thankfully updating ITunes followed by a restore solved this issue though I was wondering if this was a sign of things to come. Luckily I can say the update to IOS 7 has been a very positive experience so far on my IPhone 5. If anything I feel many of the features such as typing are faster on the IPhone and it actually seems snappier which was a surprise. I haven't had too many problems with screen sensitivity. I have to say the bug when selecting multiple email messages wehre it says selected on the next message when you flick right is a bit irritating though. I wasn't that excited by a lot of the new features announced for IOS 7 but have been surprised how much I like many of them. The new app switcher is lovely to use and siri is massively improved. I also think I might use dictation more now you can just tap with two fingers once in an edit field. I've had a bit of a play with the handwriting mode feature but need to learn more letters first. It'd be great if there was a tutorial or description somewhere of how to do different letters for people who have never really learnt handwriting. I'm looking forward to Itunes Radio coming to the UK as well as hopefully different siri voices. For anyone still toying with the idea of updating I can understand why you are hesitant. All I can suggest is to read other people's views and then make a decision. However, from my experience IOS 7 hasn't been as bad as I thought it might be and there are a lot of surprisingly useful features which I think will make using my IPhone an easier and more pleasant experience. Louise. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
