iOS7: A Short-Lived Experience

I installed iOS7 yesterday and spent the evening playing around with it on my iPhone 4. While I liked a lot of the new features and updated apps, I am NOT a fan of the new bright white color scheme in iMessage, Mail, etc. It is very harsh and hard on the eyes (and cannot be changed at this point). The white on green color combination (when returning to your call on the home screen) is barely readable. Pretty much every iPhone app has this bright white background. Turning down the brightness helps a bit, but isn't much of a solution.

The icons for the Apps on the Home Screen look cheesy to me. Everything was slower (as I had anticipated), since this OS was most likely designed for the faster iPhone 5, not the 4.

Fortunately I was able to "restore" my iPhone 4 back to IOS 6.1.3. This procedure is NOT for the faint of heart and took some online research to find out just how to do this (it not as easy as "restoring" it through iTunes).

While I think iOS7 will be very popular (and obviously will be the OS of choice for the 5C, 5S, and next year's iPhone 6), it still needs some work, and I am not ready to jump in.

A valuable lesson was learned: When a major OS is released, take some time to look at the new iOS on someone else's device before committing it to yours. You may not be able to go back.

In the event you want to restore your iPhone back to iOS6, here's the link I used:

http://jailbreakmeme.com/how-to-downgrade-ios-7-to-6-1-x-in-dfu-mode-tutorial/