We have had 7 years of an primarily white Mail application.
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Now you have even more reason to drop your overall brightness. Your have better battery life as well.
You must be the spinning champion in your district.
We have had 7 years of an primarily white Mail application.
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Now you have even more reason to drop your overall brightness. Your have better battery life as well.
You must be the spinning champion in your district.
I just reduced my screen brightness a little.
It is not that big of a deal to me.
No doubt that Apple would be "bending some noses" as 7 is a huge change after many years.
I suspect most will adapt! There is really little choice.
There are plenty of choices... Way too many in fact:
-Motorola Droid Moto X
-Nokia Lumina 1020
-HTC One
-Blackberry Z30
-Galaxy S4
I could go on for days, but these ones all represent the latest in technical innovations that give one an alternative if they are not happy with iOS7, or you could just go back to 6.0.4... LOL
All it does is turn off transparency. It'll help performance in some cases, but it isn't going to do anything about the white-out.
This is what I think the reason for the heavy white might be.
Displaying any color on the screen has no affect on battery life but the brightness level does have an affect on battery life. So by making the environment more white it makes it so you don't have to have brightness as high and there by saving more battery life. I know I have been a full brightness user since the first iOS but with iOS7 I had to turn down the brightness for the first time.
You must be the spinning champion in your district.
Hmm, I can't figure out a clear place to see what it does, do you have any examples?
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That makes sense. But it's not only the white, it's the white on white, or the almost white on white. It just makes it harder, at least for me, to differentiate different functional areas of an apps display. Something as simple as the phone dialer, for example, just becomes this huge white square at first glance, the old dialer was MUCH more functional in terms of visibility.
I just WISH we had some choice in the matter, simply a light and a dark theme is all I'm asking for. To be forced from fairly dark to a blinding white theme is just really bad IMO. Constantly adjusting brightness just isn't a valid answer IMO. What about the times I want the brightness, looking at pictures for example, or looking at a game, or something which isn't white on white? There is a certain lack of continuity that I'm surprised Apple would force on us.
My point is if you are going to use an iPhone, get used to iOS7 as there is NO choice.
A lot of this OS is determined by your wallpaper. If you can't see the rings around the dialer numbers then you need a darker wallpaper.
I agree. A choice of themes is desperately needed. I had to lower my brightness to not destroy my battery with all these white pixels.
. . . You can feel your eyes relax when you invert colors (set to triple-click home) in any low lighting situation . . .
Spinedoc77 is absolutely right. It's brutal on the eyes in many situations, even well lit ones because of the light grey on white eye strain.
Even iOS 6 suffered though. Maps app is bad as it has very thin road lines that are white, on an off-white background. In any lighting, it's an eye strain.
You can feel your eyes relax when you invert colors (set to triple-click home) in any low lighting situation.
Even if you think the all white looks good, there can be no denying that over time, your eyes will pay for it.
There is no reasonable excuse for not having a dark theme. Maps has an automatic night mode, using local time and ambient light... So they are capable of a day/night/auto implementation.
Apple treats their designs like high fashion... Looks great in the shows, but impractical (in this case harmful) in real life, where we all live.
The Messages App is way to white.
This is absolutely correct, I've challenged others on the forum to try this from the Accessibility settings.
There is no way people could reasonably argue against this fact.
You heard that first guys, you have NO choice but to accept iOS7 as it is, no feedback or changes allowed.
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Interesting, so the rings around the numbers are transparent? And that changes with the contrast option? Hmm I'll have to experiment. It is kind of stupid though to be forced into a dark background just to get dark rings, isn't it?
This is as half baked a solution as constantly adjusting the brightness is. The problem is that Apple's high contrast mode is half baked, EVERY single color gets inverted, so you can't look at graphics, webpages, etc, pretty much only text, otherwise it looks like a picture negative.
I can already see the "excusers" coming out of the woodwork, they come out whenever Apple does something dumb to offer a multitude of excuses and why we are dumb because we can't work around it.
This is as half baked a solution as constantly adjusting the brightness is . . .
Completely agreed. Not even battery but it blinds me with mostly bright white screen when I look the screen at night.
Also, what's up with those vector graphic looking icons in the menus? Pretty sure they're created by professionals but rather looks like programmer art, I'm a programmer myself. Either way, icons don't look premium, but rather temp.
This is as half baked a solution as constantly adjusting the brightness is. The problem is that Apple's high contrast mode is half baked, EVERY single color gets inverted, so you can't look at graphics, webpages, etc, pretty much only text, otherwise it looks like a picture negative.
I can already see the "excusers" coming out of the woodwork, they come out whenever Apple does something dumb to offer a multitude of excuses and why we are dumb because we can't work around it.