iOS 7 First Impressions

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Anyone clever enough to find and download iOS 7 Golden Master yet? What do you guys think?

I did and am currently running it on my iPhone 4S. I really like the amount of visual changes they employed in this one, it looks a LOT better in my opinion. iTunes Radio is really cool, very similar to Pandora but I think the music choices are better so far, really cool that it's "built in". Listened to it in my car on the way to work today and didn't have to skip a single song.

Here are some screenshots:







 
I had it on my 4s. Loved it overall. Did run slowly and my phone crashed ALL the time. It was beta so they will have that fixed! I took it off ,y phone because of the crashing. But I can't wait to get it on my 5s when I get it!
 
This is the first time I've used it. Supposedly the "GM" version is the same as the final release, so I haven't noticed any hanging up or crashes whatsoever, it has been super smooth so far. It's going to be really tempting for me to get a 5S too.
 
I'm pretty sure there were 3 different beta versions. I had the second. Maybe you have thirds and its fixed. Maybe it was just my phone!
 
There were definitely several beta versions. The version I have (Golden Master) was released this week and is supposedly the same as the "final release" and was intended for the developers.
 
When will it be available to download? I've been waiting for this for a while!
 
Sweet good to know! Will it just pop up as a new download or do you need to manually do it?
 
I really like it. Multitasking is so much faster and easier now, I love the color schemes and how everything works. It's mainly minor and aesthetic upgrades but I think it's great.

My only complaint is I wish my messages would show up in the default "Today" menu in the drop down, instead of having me need to select the "All" tab in the drop down menu. Minor inconvenience, nothing more.

I love everything else.


@Bradyy91 doesn't like how much white there is, the new calendar and other things though.
 
As a developer I've had it since B1, I put it on my old development iPhone 4 and it ran significantly slower than 6 did on it for a while there. The betas progressively got better with speed though. They also went through and disabled extra features on the older devices to compensate for the power difference.

Never really got into the iTunes Radio thing, still using Google Music (if only there was an official app) and it is fantastic for your own library.

The new search is pretty awesome. They took away the far left page and made it so you can pull down on any page to activate the search bar. Control center is super nice. Carbon copy of a jailbreak app, but whatever, that's how Apple does it.

Trying to justify the full unlocked price of a 5S for myself. Can't seem to do it. I just want to develop something that uses that fingerprint scanner. Opens up so many windows for jailbreak tweaks.
 
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I'm a fan of all the white that they employed, I think it looks really simple yet classy. I too use Google Music since I'm coming to an iPhone from a past of Android phones, but I'm trying to get back into iTunes/iTunes radio. I'm still figuring out cool little things like the dynamic wallpapers and such.
 
I'm super excited for this!! I'tll be like a brand new phone ( I have an iphone5). Does anyone know if you will be able to update over the air with wifi, or do you need to connect to a laptop and do it through Itunes?
 
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