Ten things I'm happy Apple is fixing in iOS 7
I love my iPhone, and have loved it since I ditched my Sony Ericsson 710a way back in 2008. But no device is perfect, and every year I look forward to Worldwide Developers Conference keynotes and the new iOS features that typically come with it. iOS 7—previewed at this year’s WWDC—brings fixes for quite a few of my long-term quibbles—here are the ten I’m most looking forward to.
No more digging around settings
As a general rule, I like keeping the automatic brightness control off, so as to save my battery life. Unfortunately, this means that my screen’s occasionally too bright (or too dim) for the environment. But until iOS 7, there’s been no easy way to change my brightness on the iPhone without diving into several Settings menus.
Control Center: Never dive into the Settings app to enable Bluetooth again.
Thank goodness, then, for Control Center. In addition to bringing easy on/off controls for Airplane mode, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Do Not Disturb, and screen rotation, there are big friendly sliders for both brightness and volume. Not only does this bring the iPhone ahead of the iOS 6’s paltry controls implementation, but it gives the end-user more control over basic settings (and eliminates one of the major reasons I ever thought about jailbreaking my device).
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