Monday, July 8, 2013

iOS 7 Beta 3 seeded to devs

As predicted last month on our Facebook page, Apple today released iOS 7 Beta 3. I'll have a video on it later this week (and since I missed beta 2 I'll show changes for both). Look past the fold for a full change log as we discover them...


New in Beta 3

  • Faster and more reliable than previous releases (of course) 
  • Minor UI changes in Notification Center 
  • Minor UI changes in Music app 
  • Minor UI changes in Weather app 
  • Larger status bar on Lock screen 
  • Calendar app now shows scheduled events on monthly view 
  • New search bar, animations in Mail app 
  • Folders now appear more transparent 
  • New icon animations when downloading an app 
  • New font in Settings app 
  • New font and font color in Messages app 
  • Minor UI tweaks in Safari (new keyboard for unibar search) 
  • You can now use apps while they’re updating 
  • Lock screen now shows clock while playing a song 
  • Tweaked UI for wallpaper chooser. 
  • New silent control in iPad Control Center 
  • New app icon loading UI for download apps 
  • New animation when compressing video to be shared 
  • .com key in Safari’s unibar keyboard is finally gone
  • New Top Charts icon in the App Store
  • Boot up no longer shows spinning wheel
  • Now Playing track now displayed fully in Music app
  • You can now pinch-to-zoom in Music app while in landscape mode
  • Now remembers app placement on the springboard, so now if you delete and reinstall an app it will be placed in the same folder or location on the springboard that it was in prior to deleting the app
  • Per app settings for background refresh now honored
  • Dictionary is functional (laggy however)
  • Rating of a song in Music.App now changeable
  • Cool new animation when going to spotlight search
  • Parallax, Translucency, Transparency, and Dynamic wallpapers have been disabled for iPhone 4 in Beta 3.
  • New font on 'slide to power off'.
  • On iPad, now non- optimized apps (only iPhone/iPod) are rendered to be displayed almost full screen (less grainy), only one view, no 1x and 2x zoom on lower right hand corner.
  • Swipe down on notifications to open Notification Center.
  • Tapping on items in Today View (NC) opens their corresponding apps.
  • New playlists icon in Music.app

If you find anything let us know via email, or post to our Facebook wall!


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